U.N. ISSUES REPORT ON NATURAL GAS CLAUSES The U.N. Centre on Transnational Corporations has issued a report containing guidelines and recommendations for negotiating natural gas clauses in agreements between transnational petroleum corporations and host countries. The U.N. said the report was aimed at promoting petroleum exploration in areas perceived as being gas prone. The 49-page report contains an in-depth examination of the problems of gas developoment and looks at different ways in which contractual terms might deal with the risks in gas development associated with pricing, marketing and volume.