japan national corporation made an agreement with conoco phillips to carry out testing in northern alaska for next january. the two entities plan to dig a well 1,000 meters deep to study how much gas can be extracted. a considerable amount of methane hydrate reserves have been identified in seabeds off japan's coast. japan is hoping that the experiment with the u.s. firm will help it to find ways to efficiently extract these gas molecules and put the fuel to practical use. >>> japan's prime minister is visiting south korea and will meet his counterpart myung-bak on wednesday. >> translator: i want to have thorough discussions on future oriented japan/south korea ties including an economic partnership agreement. >> noda will likely urge south korea to resume negotiations for an agreement. it has been suspended for seven years. he will also discuss how the two countries and the united states can resolve north korea's nuclear program and its abduction issues. noda is expected to hand over a set of ancient korean books. they include archives of royal protocol from the dynasty that have been k

a couple hundred yards from this office and find a producing well conoco phillips is the largest producer in the san juan basin and when you look at the total between our workforce directly and indirectly supporting forest it's about a person the local population so we're a very large employer in the basin. industry has brought jobs and money to the key . but for gilbert are meant the price is much too high. this gate will be the gate to enter into my property the old company had me completely locked out for two and a half years the only way they would give me a key. is if i agreed to keep the gate locked at all times. on the street has the mentality that. it's all theirs and don't belong to nobody else. and that's what they tell us when they come out to drill here on our land it's ours. you're in our way. we just think the good neighbor program was something that was somewhat elementary and it's just respect because if you don't two things will happen first is the government will regulate and a lot of times regulate out of business and second is the mexico becomes an unfriendly business

phillips has probably another ten thousand to wells there where you will drill in the basin over the next forty years. to sharply increase drilling on gilbert r. mentions ranch is typical of what has happened to vast expanses of northern new mexico land. a satellite image shows the crisscrossing patterns of access roads and wells extending for hundreds of miles across some one county and north west new mexico. the land surface has been spotted up for bad that i can recognize it from the first time i saw at. the ranch lands of san juan county aren't the only areas inundated by drilling rigs . in the towns near gilbert are meant as land dura wells everywhere in neighborhoods and near schools. gas industry has been here for fifty plus years and we do drill in populated areas you can go out here a couple hundred yards from this office and find a pretty decent well conoco phillips is the largest producer in the san juan basin when you look at the total of twenty our workforce directly and indirectly supporting forest it's about eight percent the local population so we're a very large empl

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conoco phillips was up almost 2%. we saw shares of independent refiner valero shoot higher, rocketing up 15% on heavy volume. the trading was fueled by press reports valero may be a buyout target. after the bell, internet traffic-measuring firm akamai turned in profits one penny better than estimates. the firm's outlook was optimistic for the first time in several quarters. it has been a difficult year for akamai shareholders. through today's session, the stock has lost half its value since january. but after its upbeat forecast tonight, shares jumped $3 from today's closing price. if that buying holds, it would take the stock to its highest price since the july selloff. updating different kind of internet firm, amazon. volume more than tripled as shares fell almost 13%. disappointing earnings and outlook last night sent the stock below $200 per share for the first time since mid-august. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: arrogance has led to debt crisis in europe and the occupy wall street movement here in