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...“It is a huge turnaround from where we were at in the 1970s,” said Harold Hamm, chair of Continental Resources and a shale pioneer....
...West Texas Intermediate, the US crude benchmark, averaged about $80 a barrel during Biden’s first three years compared with $58/b in Trump’s....
...At new wells in the Permian, average oil production per drilling rig has increased to 1,319 b/d. A decade ago the figure was about 183 b/d....
...Alongside Continental Resources boss Harold Hamm, Hess transformed the state from producing fewer than 100,000 barrels of oil a day in the early 2000s to a peak of 1.5mn b/d in 2019....
...Van Rompaey is at Viva Lous and the Yakuza The trailblazing Belgian-Congolese singer and rapper Lous and the Yakuza – whose sound blends silky R&B with trap and Afrobeats – describes working with Ghesquière...
...But there were some nights we had to have a plan B.” Undaunted, Mendes has just embarked on rehearsing Butterworth’s newest play: the anticipated world premiere of The Hills of California....
...Production has recovered to just over 12mn barrels a day, down from the record high of 13mn b/d hit in 2019....
...Mirisch, then just 25, was cutting his teeth at Monogram-Allied, a studio that specialised in B-movies that could be shot quickly and on a shoestring budget....
...Recent releases include the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde for Netflix and the drama She Said on the fall of Harvey Weinstein....
...“Making money is art and working is art,” wrote Warhol in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again, a stream of consciousness on the contemporary world....
...Bunting stays in caravans, B&Bs, a decaying once-grand hotel and, in every iteration of chilly, mud-coloured water, she swims....
...Continental Resources, which shale pioneer Harold Hamm took private last year, is the US’s biggest private oil producer, pumping 280,000 b/d. It’s also a natural gas powerhouse....
...Goldman Sachs forecasts a demand leap this year of 2.7mn b/d, pushing oil prices back above $100 a barrel....
...Miranda GreenI also thought what was really interesting about your interview, George, was this sort of white heat of technology theme that Blair was developing, which was a Harold Wilson theme all those...
...Smart reads Plan B Rightwing tycoon Peter Thiel’s political donations have yet to spark the change he’d hoped for....
...Michael B Jordan stars in true story A Journal for Jordan — the title a coincidence — as Charles Monroe King, American soldier, fiancé and father....
...Moscow has weight to throw around in the oil market Russia is producing around 10mn barrels a day of crude, of which around 4.5mn b/d are exported, making it one of the world’s largest oil suppliers....
...This crossed a red line for cold war America as well, breaching the republic’s longstanding — and ultimately indefensible — Monroe Doctrine that walls off the whole western hemisphere as America’s sphere...
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...Another Oklahoma City-based shale driller, Continental Resources, led by Harold Hamm, said it would restrict output growth to a meagre 3 to 5 per cent this year....
...Some regimes are more elaborate than others: a “cleanse” can mean subsisting only on water spiked with lemon, grade B maple syrup and cayenne pepper for 12 days (Beyoncé actually did that....
...If oil prices fell to $40/b, these companies would lose $530bn in the next 10 years and nearly $1tn if oil fell to $30/b....
...Continental, owned by billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, a high-profile backer of former president Donald Trump, spent $3.25bn this month acquiring lands from Pioneer Natural Resources in the Permian basin,...
...The park was named after Daniel D Tompkins, who served as US vice-president under James Monroe and as governor of New York from 1807 until 1817....
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