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First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents ... oil discovery at the Cabaa Norte-1 well, 350 km North of Luanda, offshore Angola. ... ExxonMobil, Partners Strike Oil at Jetta Prospect Off Norway ... The Company notes that the following press release is being . .... Oil Exploration · North Sea ...
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UPDATE 1-Det norske makes North Sea find ... Norway has become the first European country to raise its interest rates since the global ... LN), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, said Monday OMV AG (OMV. ...
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Forties oilfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Forties oilfield is the largest oilfield in the UK sector of the North Sea, 110 miles east of Aberdeen. It was discovered in the 1960s and first produced in 1975 under ownership of BP. By the ti...
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In 1959 the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska and in 1965 it was the first company to strike oil in the North Sea. In 1978 BP acquired a controlling interest in Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio, a breakoff of the former Standard Oil that had been broken up after anti-trust litigation.
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BP remained a "crude oil" company until after World War 2, when it began looking for new sources of oil (notably in Nigeria) and establishing refineries in Europe. In 1965 it became the first company to strike oil in the North Sea.
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Secret plan to deprive independent Scotland of North Sea oil fields; ... The first is as a partner in OMV’s Tornado oil & gas prospect, ... Last month, the two firms said oil and gas had been located at Tornado. The discovery and sidetrack wells were drilled by operator OMV, the Austrian national oil and gas company.
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The refinery, owned by international chemical company Ineos, produces a tenth of Britain's petrol and diesel but also supplies vital steam to BP's Kinneil plant that starts to process the crude oil coming ashore from 70 North Sea fields. ... A spokeswoman for Unite the Union confirmed the 1200 workers would strike.
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