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...Lorries laden with sand and gravel speed down highways, pick-up trucks haul trailers carrying shining new diggers and SUVs cart diesel engines and coils of piping....
...But the oil sands output has been growing as oil prices have risen and as new export capacity is planned, including a pipeline to Canada’s west coast, making it easier to get the crude to market....
...Latterly an unlikely hotspot for creatives and their modernist black holiday villas, it’s so exposed and seemingly arid that it could almost pass for New Mexico....
...After college, Villar quit an accounting job to become a full-time entrepreneur, supplying seafood to restaurants as well as selling gravel and sand, which introduced him to real estate, the sector that...
...In countries with warmer climates, rammed earth (a mixture of aggregates such as gravel, sand, silt and clay pushed into formwork to create walls) is also a focus of experimentation....
...“China only procures sand and gravel locally for construction projects,” said Nasir Sohrabi, president of Gwadar’s Rural Community Development Council....
...There’s also, rather weirdly, an outpost of Estiatorio Milos, New York City’s preferred power-lunching Greek taverna (admittedly delicious, particularly the seafood, bought beachside each day from local...
...So at Renishaw they are planted into half gravel, half sand with very little soil. Last year Kesteven never got round to watering those in the Yuccary....
...The Gulf of Mexico coast of the US was “the largest heavy oil refining centre in the world”, Ms Forrest said, because refineries there were configured to make more products from heavy crude....
...Today it is the Permian Basin of west Texas and eastern New Mexico....
...● Vanguard has poached a senior sales executive from BlackRock ahead of the opening of a new office in Mexico....
...Ken Fisher, founder, chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Fisher Investments, a Woodside, California-based firm with $89bn under management, says he has been cutting exposure to the big US...
...With more than 1m customers, Ring has raised more than $200m in venture capital funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Draper Fisher Jurvetson....
...“We’re off to a great start for our new fiscal year,” said chief executive Rob Sands. “Excellent execution during the Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day holidays led to significant share gains.”...
...Where else can we stand barefoot, on a mixture of sand and fine gravel, as we address the deep-rooted dilemmas of human migration?...
...The company has roughly doubled its EUR per well in the Delaware basin of Texas and New Mexico over the past year. —————– Oil must-reads ● Oil companies prepare to ramp up investment again ● Junk energy...
...New York-based Hess said it would cut spending by 40 per cent this year, following a 29 per cent cut in 2015....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a Santa Clara Pueblo vase from New Mexico....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letters in response to this column: We are no sans-culottes — but we’re thinking of voting for The Donald / From Jon and Elsa Sands A Trump-Clinton contest and a new party system /...
...“Doing new research, making new discoveries, is an incredible thing to do.”...
...New projects in Canada’s oil sands need an average Brent crude price of more than $100 per barrel to break even, according to Rystad Energy, a consultancy — well above levels eyed by forecasters and futures...
...But new transport routes such as rail tank cars and the Flanagan pipeline, which delivers more Canadian crude to the US Gulf of Mexico coast, had narrowed the spread....
...Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure into rocks deep underground to open up tiny fissures, allowing oil and gas to flow more freely...
...“We will see changes in the Gulf of Mexico region, with Canadian heavy oil pushing out crude from Mexico and Venezuela,” she said....
...And there is a senior role doing just that in Mexico City....
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