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...In 1897, twelve years before reaching the pole, Robert Peary kidnapped an Inuit family, including a young boy named Minik, and brought them to New York as living specimens....
...– including INEOS/Alaska). iii) Low Carbon buildout....
...His father was an oil lease broker, and young T Boone went straight to Phillips Petroleum after graduating from Oklahoma State University with a degree in geology....
...(FT) News round-up BP to sell Alaska operations to Hilcorp for $5.6bn (FT) Ineos acquires French Ligue 1 football club Nice (FT) Deutsche Bank revamps treasury unit to combat negative rates (FT) Owner...
...Wael Sawan, Royal Dutch Shell’s new head of exploration and production, told the Financial Times that when world oil production starts to decline, “we need to be able to be the last ones standing”....
...Soon Barbie monopolised the doll market, becoming a lifestyle brand for young girls. At its core, You Don’t Own Me is an exploration of a relatively dry topic: the intellectual property regime....
...Many of the levers available for responding to weak prices have already been pulled, according to Andy Brogan of Ernst & Young, the accounting firm....
...Maybe he could create a show about a once-hilarious film-maker who falls into rehashing the same story with mature actors romancing young starlets....
...The time will come when Eagle Ford and Bakken are in decline, as the North Sea and the North Slope of Alaska are today....
...The proposed Alaska LNG project has blue-chip backers in Exxon, ConocoPhillips and BP....
...There must have been some hollow laughs at BP this week when its old rival Royal Dutch Shell chose Ben van Beurden – a downstream guy more familiar with chemicals and liquefied natural gas than oil exploration...
...For example, BP had a lot of data about oil flow in Iran, which I took and reanalysed for Alaska....
...An exploration of what it means to be displaced – and what happens to the people left behind....
...wildcat strikes in the gold sector ended in failure. http://on.ft.com/R73ewz Miner’s death in Ghana sparks Beijing protest A crackdown in Ghana over illegal mining in the gold-rich nation has killed a young...
...Bob Dudley, BP’s chief executive, insisted that the transaction would not compromise the UK-based energy group’s exploration and production commitment to Canada....
...The failure of the proposed Arctic exploration alliance with Russian oil champion Rosneft earlier this year, which was supposed to deliver long-term growth for BP, has only added to the uncertainty....
...“Africa is a real microcosm of global activity,” says Jon Clark, UK oil and gas transactions leader for Ernst & Young. “We expect continued exploration activity in east Africa....
...Yahoo nabbed y.co.uk and Virgin has v.co.uk. BP will get bp.co.uk, the Football Association fa.co.uk, British Airways ba.co.uk, Burger King bk.co.uk, and Yo! Sushi yo.co.uk....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...In the UK, BP announced results on Wednesday and Shell is to report on Thursday....
...Shell is next year hoping to drill exploration wells in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea. Statoil, the Norwegian state-controlled group, already has a project in the Barents Sea....
...That is a 25-fold increase over its 1995 estimate of 151m barrels of oil and now represents the US’s biggest oilfield outside Alaska....
...Shares in BP have fallen by almost 50 per cent since the explosion at its Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico created the worst crude oil spill since the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989....
...After the Tiber discovery, Andy Inglis, BP’s head of exploration and production (E&P), talked about the company’s expertise in working in the most challenging of deep water fields....
...In the previous months, however, she had become dangerously implicated in her husband’s flirtation with the young princess Elizabeth....
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