Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (“Sun Capital”), a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, announced the sale by an affiliate of its investment in Frontier ...
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has completed the mapping of possible CO 2 storage sites on the Norwegian shelf, and will publish an atlas of the southern part of the Barents Sea today. The atlas was prepared on request from the ...
BP today said that 2013 had been its most successful year for new field exploration for almost a decade.During the year,BP has participated in 15 completed wildcat exploration wells which have resulted in seven potentially commercial ...
The man-made fibre (MMF) makers are looking forward to an increase in consumption in the global textile and clothing industry at an annual growth rate of 3.3 percent by 2020. In an interview with fibre2fashion, Mr. Friedrich Weninger, ...
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Woodside advises that it has been awarded new exploration permits offshore New Zealand, as part of the New Zealand Government's 2013 Block Offer. Woodside has been awarded permit 55793 in the Taranaki Basin (covering an area of 2418 km) ...
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Greif Packaging, a subsidiary of global packaging firm Greif, plans to invest $45 million for upgrades to its semi-chemical medium machine in Amherst County mill in Riverville, Virginia. Work on the project will include technological ...
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Petrobras has acquired, alone or in partnership, 49 blocks, out of the 50 to which the company presented offers, in the 12th Bidding Round held today by the Brazilian National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP). Among the ...
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Following reports about U.S. surveillance worldwide, a United Nations panel has adopted a draft resolution on potential threats to human rights such as the right to privacy in the digital age. The draft resolution, approved without a ...
Statoil and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) have formed a partnership to explore how technologies and knowledge from the space and oil and gas industries can be relevant to one another. Statoil and NASA have ...
Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
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Twitter has implemented new security measures that should reduce eavesdropping on communications between its servers and users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead. The company has implemented “perfect ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, ...
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Research Frontiers Inc. and Brazilian architectural glass fabricator Mecanica de Vidros Industria E Comercio Ltda. (MDV Glass) have announced that MDV Glass has been licensed by Research Frontiers to offer SPD-Smart architectural products ...
An ordinary lock? No. When the red lights on, it means someone stays inside; when the green lights on, it means no one stays inside. It looks like a fashion earphone only, but it combines the function of earphone and speaker, can be used to ...
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Statoil is pleased to announce an exciting exploration programme in Norway also in 2014, building on the exploration successes of recent years. Statoil plans to drill 20-25 exploration wells on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in ...
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