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...In March, he saw DeSantis speak at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country, a Las Vegas venue where Bigelow likes to dance the Texas two-step, and invited the governor for lunch....
...The New Shepard rocket, which took off from Blue Origin’s facility in west Texas on Monday morning, was not carrying any passengers....
...Blue Origin, by contrast, has opted for a more gritty space exploration aesthetic....
...The project is designed to offer 11-minute space missions to those who take a one-day training course in Texas....
...With the Texas-based company’s current market cap of approximately $25bn, the buybacks would represent approximately 10 per cent of Anadarko’s current outstanding common shares, according to the announcement...
...The decision saw the price of Brent crude, the international benchmark, leap 5.9 per cent yesterday, while West Texas Intermediate gained 5.3 per cent, handing the two benchmarks had their best one-day gains...
...Linn Energy, an embattled US oil exploration and production group, said on Wednesday it had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...Blue Origin, the space company of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, last November became the first company to recover a first-stage rocket when it landed a rocket back in Texas after a suborbital flight....
...The move comes hours after S&P downgraded Chesapeake Energy deeper into junk territory and took ratings actions on 45 energy exploration companies, writes Anna Nicolau in New York....
...Moody’s also placed Chevron’s Aa1 ratings on review for a downgrade and took ratings actions on six other US exploration and production companies....
...week, he took a major step towards that personal goal when his Blue Origin space company sent a capsule to the edge of outer space and successfully landed the rocket that carried it back on Earth, or West Texas...
...Its new projection is that both international benchmark Brent and US West Texas Intermediate crude will average $40 this year, $45 next year and $50 from 2018 onwards....
...Apollo invested $362m in Texas-based Athlon Energy in 2010, and received $2.6bn in total proceeds, a sevenfold return, when it sold the business to Canada’s Encana last year....
...They have to use existing rockets to achieve lift-off, says Tom Markusic, chief executive of Texas-based Firefly Space Systems....
...Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that investment globally in the exploration and development of oil and gasfields could fall by 20 per cent, or $28bn, by 2017 from last year....
...The Texas-based company and its affiliate LinnCo lowered the annual dividend to $1.25 a share, from the previous level of $2.90 per unit or share....
...April in Texas traditionally marks the start of the spring thunderstorm season....
...Mr Ratcliffe plans to spend $1bn on exploration. He also wants to give communities a cut of proceeds from production....
...Analysts at Credit Suisse say Shell’s performance in its upstream – or exploration and production – division is a “real worry”....
...Last summer, Warburg also announced an investment of $300m in Hawkwood Energy, a Denver oil and gas exploration company that was only set up last year....
...Texas-based Kosmos completed an initial public offering on May 11 and is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
...EO has nevertheless struggled to secure financing for its share in operating costs since oil production started in December, and an agreement with Kosmos that covered initial exploration costs expired....
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...The US private equity owners of Kosmos, the operator of Ghana’s large Jubilee oil field, are considering a potential initial public offering of the Texas-based oil exploration company, which would value...
...Its European portfolio includes Nycomed, the Swiss-based pharmaceutical group, as well as Hansa Hydrocarbons and Celtique, two UK-based oil and gas exploration companies....
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