Together with our exploration acreage adjacent to the Ekati and Diavik properties, this positions us from grass-roots exploration through development opportunities.
Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.
Meanwhile, Hecla said it has expanded pre-development and exploration programs at other properties.
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With a portfolio of 26 operating mines and advanced exploration and development projects, Toronto-based Barrick Corporation is the largest gold mining company in the world.
ChevronTexaco is buying Unocal at a prime time, considering that the riskiest stage of development in Azerbaijan--exploration--is over.
"The deal is perfectly aligned with CNOOC's long-term strategy of achieving growth through the exploration and development of offshore fields and achieving geographic diversification of the company's portfolio, " Fu said.
The answer to that question will only come from future exploration results from Nova, the maiden resource estimate, mine-development plans due to be released later in the year, and the all-important price of nickel.
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For example, a permanent partially-submerged sea exploration station, called the SeaOrbiter, is currently in development.
The experienced management of American Eagle Energy has extensive oil exploration, development and production expertise, focusing in recent years on exploiting oil-prone formations in the Northern Rockies and Bakken Resources.
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"The principal motivation and the primary competitive justification for BP-Amoco and Exxon-Mobil is to gain the necessary scale to undertake larger and riskier global exploration and development projects that become available, " says Philip K. Verleger Jr.
The Director-General of UNESCO reiterated the position of the World Heritage Committee regarding questions of oil exploration and development at World Heritage sites.
"Changing lease-sale schedules disrupts the certainty and consistency that industry needs for planning such investments for leasing and ensuing exploration and development, " Geoffrey Haddad, ConocoPhillips' manager of Alaska exploration wrote in a letter to the Interior Department dated May 3.
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