But the status of the Lukoil deal to develop the West Qurna two oil field is still unclear.
Russia's Lukoil is fighting to regain a Saddam-era contract to develop the enormous West Qurna field in southern Iraq.
The department store group is keen to develop sites in the north west of the UK, with the nearest currently over 100 miles away in Nottinghamshire.
And yet its leaders know that if they want to build up their country's fragile economy, they'll have to develop relations with the West - and that means restoring relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
We raised our profile by making donations to government programmes such as the Shanghai Expo, and the "Go West" programme to develop the interior of the country.
Tony Blair has urged the West to develop a coherent strategy across the Middle East as the Arab spring continues.
Someone had to open up the U.S. West, invent FM radio and develop the American digital television recorder market.
We have spent most of our time waiting and depending on the west to help develop Africa.
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Marine energy parks in the north of Scotland and south west England are to work together to develop the UK's wave and tidal industry.
Network Rail is currently in discussions with the West of England Partnership to develop the Greater Bristol Metro which will include Portishead.
The firm plans to use some of the smallpox proceeds to help develop its experimental vaccines for West Nile virus and dengue fever.
Along with the West, it suspects Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a claim Tehran denies.
Building reactors, such as the 1, 000 megawatt unit Egypt plans to develop west of Alexandria, is expensive, but subsequent operating costs are low and stable, and increasingly competitive as fossil-fuel prices rise.
As in Turkey, the West will be forced to do hard things like develop a policy of containing rather than engaging Egypt, and of identifying and cultivating forces in Egyptian society that are willing to embrace John Locke, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith over Hassan al-Banna and Qaradawi.
The first North America shale play, the Barnett Shale west of Fort Worth, took 19 years to develop into a broad commercial success.
This is the second deal between the two miners after they agreed in March to develop jointly an iron ore mine in West Africa.
In the West this has allowed for greater variety and stiffer competition, as companies far smaller than Microsoft develop more efficient software.
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