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unusual facts about oil exploration



Cochin Shipyard

The shipyard started offering ship repair services in 1982 and has undertaken upgrades and repairs for all types of ships including ships for the oil exploration industry as well as scheduled maintenance and life extension for ships of the Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard, UTL, Fisheries and Cochin Port Trust, SCI & ONGC.

PetroDar

PetroDar is currently (2008) engaged in oil exploration and production in blocks 3 and 7, which are oil concession areas located in the Melut Basin in Southern Sudan.

Radiolaria

The skeletons, or tests, of ancient radiolarians are used in geological dating, including for oil exploration and determination of ancient climates.


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Adolf H. Lundin

Between 1961 and 1966 he was responsible for oil exploration activities in the North Sea and Portugal for the Ax:son Johnson Group.

Alaska gubernatorial election, 1994

Both main candidates in the election were regarded as moderates and favored oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as well as cuts in the state budget.

Diamondback Airboats

Diamondback assembled engines for the world's largest airboat in 1994 for use on the Congo River and shipped more than 24 twin engine airboats went Russia for an oil exploration in the Caspian Sea.

Frack Off

In summer 2013 the organization was involved in the Balcombe drilling protest near Balcombe in the Weald Basin in Sussex where Cuadrilla was engaged in oil exploration.

Guayana Esequiba

On October 10, 2013, the Venezuelan Navy detained an oil exploration vessel conducting seafloor surveys on behalf of the government of Guyana.

Ingrid Washinawatok

Ingrid Washinawatok, along with Hawaiian activist Lahe’ena’e Gay and environmental activist Terence Freitas, were asked by the U'wa People of Arauca Department, Colombia, to help set up a school to protect their culture and language, and to help them to defend their lands against oil exploration by Occidental Petroleum.

Masjed Soleyman

Masjed Soleyman was inhabited by various clans of Bakhtiari tribes but oil exploration in this area attracted other people from other parts of Bakhtiari zones to this city for trade or jobs.

Mount Morgan Mine

Wealth from the Mount Morgan mine funded Persian oil exploration, establishing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which became BP in 1954.

Muscat and Oman

Iraq Petroleum, along with its operator of oil exploration, Petroleum Development Oman, was owned by European oil giants including Anglo-Iranian Oil's successor British Petroleum which encouraged the British government to extend their support to the Sultan.

Oil exploration had begun in the early 1920s by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

New Exploration Licensing Policy

India began its journey into Oil Exploration and Production just seven years after the famous ‘Drake Well’, which heralded the beginning of the Petroleum era, which was drilled in Titus Ville, Pennsylvania, USA (1859).

North Dakota Progressive Coalition

NDPeople.Org ran political attack ads against North Dakota House of Representatives Majority Leader Rick Berg over his support of tax breaks for oil exploration in the state during the 2006 election season.

Ogaden Basin

On April 24, 2007, members of the ONLF attacked and destroyed an oil exploration facility within the basin near Obala and Abole, killing approximately 65 Ethiopians and 9 Chinese nationals in the Abole raid.