Upstream activities include oil and natural gas exploration, field development and production.

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This includes oil and NGL exploration, field development and production.

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Most of its efforts are concentrated in the South Pars gas field where it holds high percentages in various exploration and development projects.

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But we are willing to build a great partnership in the field of energy, either what refers to the exploration of the pre-salt deep oil reserves, as also the explorations of renewable sources of energies and clean energy that could guarantee for all mankind and for the humanity and for Brazil and for the U.S. a better improvement of its development in a sustained way.

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In the late 1990s Benz Energy, a Vancouver-exchange-listed exploration company, stumbled while developing the Oakvale gas field in Mississippi but stayed alive by selling assets to Prime Natural Resources.

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"We think that the future may be sooner than some of us are considering, " Robert Hunter, president of ASRC Energy Services, which led the first major field study in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay with BP Alaska Exploration and the Department of Energy, told Petroleum News.

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My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.

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"What we have is a world class oil field sitting below a world class city, " said John Martini, manager of governmental affairs for Plains Exploration and Production Co.

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