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• Eldorado Exploration Well Results

  - 2008-12-23

  Eldorado Exploration, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EDEX)announced today that the well Leka #1, drilled to the Trenton Dolomite at2340 Feet, in Sangamon County, Illinois, did not produce a commercialdiscovery of oil and gas. Although gas was found in the Albany Shale, theamount was not in sufficient quantities to complete. Due to budgetconstraints,...

• LUDERIN DARBONE

  - 2008-12-01

  Fiddle player and bandleader at the forefront of Cajun music The leader of the Hackberry Ramblers for more than six decades, Luderin Darbone was a fine fiddle player and, more importantly, one of the great innovators in Cajun music. Today, both the music...

• Research and Markets: Chad Telecoms Industry Urgently Needs to Upgrade Its Telecom Facilities and Other Infrastructure

  - 2008-11-11

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/82462c/chad_telecoms_ma) has announced the addition of the "Chad - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics" report to their offering. The recent discovery of oil is set to bring Chad some of the foreign investment it urgently needs to upgrade its telecom facilities and...

• BG's Brazilian oil discovery is three times larger than expected

  - 2008-09-12

  BG Group's most recent oil discovery in Brazil's Santos Basin is more than three times larger than expected, the company has revealed, and could contain between 3 and 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Yesterday's announcement of the results of preliminary drilling at the Iara well, just...

• Commentary: DVD Reviews: There Will Be Blood, Mama's Boy

  - 2008-08-08

  There Will Be Blood Back in the late 1890s and early 1900s, the world of oil and those in it didn't have the greatest reps. Weren't the nicest folks in the world, at least in There Will Be Blood. Daniel Plainview,...

• CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD

  - 2008-08-02

  NIGERIA IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST OIL PRODUCERS. BUT THE SCRAMBLE FOR RICHES HAS BROUGHT RUIN TO THE REGION AND ITS PEOPLE This should be paradise. A land of plenty. The finest schools and hospitals, gleaming infrastructure that shames the West, a place where wealth...

• Lillie Davenport: Pioneer Mother

  - 2008-08-01

  Lillie Davenport: Pioneer Mother Mary Lou Midkiff Oleo Publishing 2000 Stanolind Ave., Midland, Texas 79705-8657 Stephanie Barko publicity P. O. Box 82516, Austin Texas 78708-2516 9780976395515, $29.95 www.oleopublishing.com www.authorsassistant.com Lillie Davenport: Pioneer Mother is the true-life...

• Education in the Empty Quarter: How Have We Fared?

  - 2008-07-01

  Abstract Garreau (1981) used the Arabic term Rub 'al Khali, or Empty Quarter, to label the Intermountain West portion of the United States. In Saudi Arabia, the Empty Quarter is a large, dry, and relatively unpopulated area with a wealth of energy resources not unlike the Intermountain West. Garreau...

• Primary Petroleum's Highview 16-5 Well Commences Production Testing and Extends 3D Seismic Program in Montana

  - 2008-06-09

  Primary Petroleum Corporation (TSX VENTURE: PIE)(PINK SHEETS: PETEF) ("Primary" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its Highview 16-5 discovery well has commenced production testing which is expected to last approximately 30 to 40 days. The Company has entered into a sales contract whereby it receives WTI minus $10...

• The power of influence: America's early triumphs negotiating oil contracts in the Mideast prove that sometimes second is best

  - 2008-06-02

  ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, at a remote spot in the Persian mountains, the earth suddenly started to rumble and, as men shouted with jubilation and trepidation, a stinking black torrent burst through the ground. After several years of seemingly fruitless work, a maverick British explorer, George Reynolds, had pioneered the...

• London explorer strikes oil in western Uganda

  - 2008-05-15

  NAIROBI AFP — London-based Tullow Oil Plc on Friday announced the discovery of oil reserves in western Uganda, boosting hopes for the energy-starved east African nation. The London-based explorer said the discovery at Taitai in the Butiaba region, near the Uganda-Congo border, indicated that the area could be...

• Hyperdynamics' Kourouma Named Vice President of African Affairs

  - 2008-05-13

  New Responsibility to Expand West African Opportunities HOUSTON -- Hyperdynamics Corporation (AMEX:HDY) announced today that after in-depth business planning sessions in recent weeks, a management decision was made to enhance the objectives of Mr. Famourou Kourouma as the Vice President of African Affairs, expanding his responsibility to the...

• Vangold Successfully Completes First Phase Rwanda Work Program

  - 2008-04-18

  Vangold Resources Ltd. ("Vangold") (TSX-V: VAN) announces that it has received a report, Oil Slicks / Seeps Survey inLake Kivu, which completes the first phase work program in Rwanda. Thereport, prepared by Paterson Grant & Watson of London, England, wasreviewed in a meeting with Azim Nathoo, Vangold's Business DevelopmentManager,...

• Cambodian oil production to start in 2011: energy official

  - 2008-03-25

  PHNOM PENH AFP — Cambodia expects to begin oil production in 2011, a senior energy official said Wednesday amid warnings that new-found petroleum reserves did not guarantee instant prosperity for the impoverished country. "If there is no delay, we are planning the first oil production for around 2011,"...

• Get The Edge With Canadas Energy Industry PEST Framework Analysis.

  - 2008-03-07

  M2 PRESSWIRE-7 March 2008-Research and Markets: Get The Edge With Canadas Energy Industry PEST Framework AnalysisC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07032008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85208) has announced the addition of "Canada's Energy Industry - PEST Framework ...

• Get the Edge With Canada's Energy Industry PEST Framework Analysis

  - 2008-03-07

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85207) has announced the addition of "Canada's Energy Industry - PEST Framework Analysis" to their offering. The energy industry in Canada has made significant contributions to the Canadian economy in terms of exploration activity and capital investment. This is especially true in...

• THE GOLDEN ZONE THEORY

  - 2008-03-01

  A group of Norwegian researchers at the University of Stavanger has developed a new theory important for future oil and gas exploration. The golden-zone theory could become a key concept for new discoveries in the oil and gas industry. The so-called golden zone refers to an underground zone where temperatures...

• Forest Gate Resources Inc. Corporate News: Discovery of Oil at Ferrybank, Alberta - Four Nevis Wells Begin Producing Natural Gas.

  - 2008-02-13

  M2 PRESSWIRE-13 February 2008-Bellwether Market Watch: Forest Gate Resources Inc. Corporate News: Discovery of Oil at Ferrybank, Alberta - Four Nevis Wells Begin Producing Natural GasC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13022008 Today Bellwether Report has identified Forest Gate Resources Inc....

• Political reforms for access and equity: women's education in the United Arab Emirates, from 1938 to the present

  - 2008-01-01

  Women's education has evolved substantially since the discovery of oil in the Gulf region and the subsequent formation of the United Arab Emirates UAE from seven Gulf states in 1971. After that date, influential social trends and key political decisions have enabled women to participate in and contribute to society....

• A History of Modern Libya

  - 2007-12-01

  A History of Modern Libya, by Dirk Vandewalle. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 246 pages. £14.99 ($30.40). Dirk Vandewalle has a reputation as a distinguished scholar of Libya, and this book burnishes it. Professor Vandewalle covers the history of Libya from its first mention by Herodotus to Muammar al-Qadhafi's efforts...

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