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PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - French nuclear group Areva plans to cut 15 percent of its wage bill to save 300 million euros ($337 million) a year within three years amid worsening sales prospects for its reactors, union sources briefed by the new management team said.

* Glencore, Mick Davis among the potential buyers-sources (Recasts with comments on potential exit from coal)

PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The management of French nuclear group Areva plans to cut 15 percent of its wage bill and thereby save 300 million euros ($337 million) a year as the prospects for sales of its reactors worsen, according to union sources briefed by the new team.

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Contract driller Rowan Cos Plc reported a quarterly loss compared with a profit a year earlier, as it wrote down the value of 12 of its oldest jack-up rigs by $438.4 million.

* No threat to gas for Europe -Ukraine official (Adds Naftogaz quotes, background)

(Repeats with no changes to text) - Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own. -

Platts and Bentek analyze recent trends in US coal production, the role of geography energy production costs, and the theoretical coal-to-gas switching potential.

(Fri, 27 Feb 2015) On February 18, an explosion and fire occurred at ExxonMobil's refinery in Torrance, California. The Torrance refinery, the third-largest refinery in Southern California, has about 20% of the region's fluid catalytic cracking capacity and is an important source of gasoline and distillate fuel oil supply for Southern California.

(Fri, 27 Feb 2015) Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas Production Report) for Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, other states and Lower 48 states. Alaska data are from the state of Alaska and included to obtain a U.S. total.

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