This is just one example of Chevron venturing more aggressively into natural gas exploration.

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At present, British government policy specifically bars any public programmes connected with human spaceflight, and it has directed that any monies instead go towards the robotic exploration of space - for example in Earth observation and unmanned planetary probes.

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Today, obviously MLPs own a lot of them, but a lot of those assets are on, for an example, exploration and production balance sheets.

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Florida, for example, has traditionally resisted oil exploration in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, for fear of another devastating spill.

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For example, Tel Aviv-based Ratio Oil Exploration just two years ago employed a handful of employees and was worth less than a million dollars.

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