Woodside chief operating officer Keith Spence said the terms of the deal with the Mauritanian government, which remain confidential, were "fair, reflecting the need to support and encourage an emerging oil province in deepwater West Africa".
Mr Taylor was working for US oil company Weatherford when he was abducted near the town of Yopal, capital of the oil-rich province of Casanare.
The man was a ferocious leader, having governed the lightly populated but oil-rich province of Santa Cruz for 12 years, first as Mayor of the major city, then as governor.
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His family have issued a brief statement calling for the return of Mr Taylor, who was abducted as he arrived for work near the town of Yopal, capital of the oil-rich province of Casanare.
Saturday's results showed Mr Maliki's State of Law coalition won crucial votes in Baghdad and the oil-rich Basra province.
Differences over the disputed oil-rich Kirkuk province have still not been settled, so it too has had to be left out.
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In the run-up to polling day, angry federalists in eastern Libya who want more power for the oil-rich coastal province of Cyrenaica (Barqa in Arabic) stormed several polling centres in Benghazi, the main city of the east, where the revolt against Qaddafi began a year and a half ago, and blockaded oil terminals.
Much of Angola's oil wealth lies in Cabinda province, where a decades-long separatist conflict simmers.
It says Keystone XL is "unlikely to have a substantial impact" on oil production in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Shell's other projects include a service station partnership with Sinopec in Jiangsu, and an oil shale development in Jilin Province.
As in other breakaway areas, many of Aceh's 4m people feel they are not seeing their fair share of the wealth flowing from the province's huge oil and gas fields.
Mr. Ye, who was born in Kunming, Yunnan province, and studied oil painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, knew he had to renovate his Dali house, but the question was what to touch and what not to touch and what Bai traditions to honor.
For 13 years they have been happy to give carte blanche to Ralph Klein, their rumpled, tough-talking premier, granting his Conservative government four whopping majorities as he led his province from hard times to oil-fired prosperity.
Canada has a large oil and gas industry, centred on the province of Alberta.
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In the province of Alberta are three major oil sands areas: the Athabasca (the largest), Peace River, and Cold Lake.
Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, owns a refinery in Qingdao province and has another, in Fujian, as a joint venture with Sinopec, a Chinese petroleum giant, and ExxonMobil, an American one.
Meanwhile, Iraq's autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has signed dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies, outside central government control.
The rebels may also press north-west into Bahr el-Ghazal province, the cradle of Sudan's oil deposits.
The oil is being exported from the Taq Taq field in the province of Irbil.
So his departure could hurt the chances of resolving the Arab-Kurdish dispute over land and oil in the border region around Kirkuk, a city and province which the Kurds say is theirs.
The story begins in 1992, when an army unit from Lanzhou in neighbouring Gansu province, drilling with state permission, made a decent oil find in Jingbian county.
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The convoy was heading from Baiji -- the site of Iraq's largest oil refinery -- to Ramadi, in Iraq's volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad, the police official said.
Still, the province is on the way to Central Asia, which does have oil.
The province estimates it needs 90, 000 immigrants over the next decade to fill jobs in industries like oil, potash mining and farming.
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