Details of its announced production contract with a major U.S. manufacturer for an all-electric vehicle for the 2013 model year.
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The team is also under a follow-on production contract to deliver additional HEO payloads and the third and fourth GEO satellites, and associated ground modifications.
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Navistar said it might have an opportunity to bid on a production contract once the engineering phase is complete, but said it still thinks its Saratoga JLTV, based on existing commercial trucks, is a cost-effective solution.
Royal Dutch Shell said it has signed its first-ever production sharing contract for shale gas in China with state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
Shell signed the first production-sharing contract to explore, develop and produce shale gas in China.
Shell said on Tuesday that the company has received approval from the Chinese government for its first shale gas production-sharing contract in China.
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Under a production-sharing contract, an oil company would recoup its costs and then be entitled to a proportion of the oil extracted, instead of being paid a fixed fee for each barrel.
In 1996 Gandur made the salmon leap from the downstream activities of oil trading and marketing, which provide thin margins by moving huge volumes of other people's oil, into the upstream, which entails more risk and upfront investment but offers fatter returns. aog inked its first production-sharing contract with the oil minister of Ivory Coast to overhaul the abandoned offshore Espoir oilfield.
Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said the contract will boost production from 285, 000 barrels per day to 2, 325, 000 barrels per day.
The subject of offshoring food production, through large-scale contract farming arrangements between richer and poorer nations, is another topic awaiting further exploration.
As a result of the new contract, Ford will expand production of the Fusion, now built in Mexico, by adding a line at its plant in Flat Rock, Mich.
Solectron (nyse: SLR - news - people ), a contract manufacturer, has moved production of more complex products like high-end servers and set-top boxes from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years.
The contract manufacturer believes it unlikely that production would recommence at the main facility for the remainder of the December quarter.
In Q4 the firm inked a contract with Petronas to help boost production from mature wells in the Bayan field, off the coast of Malaysia.
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That sounds like a positive for investors, but the first contract was a short-lived production run for the war in Afghanistan that is already winding down, and Oshkosh bid so aggressively for the more substantial second contract that now it looks unlikely the company will break even on the 23, 000 trucks and trailers it must deliver.
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Contract talks are expected to be resolved before production resumes for next season.
Pre-Sal Petroleo would also run a new contract system that allows the state to implement production-sharing agreements that would direct more of the oil windfall to the state than to the oil companies whenever the price of oil goes up.
Smith's customers are U.S. manufacturers doing small and medium-size production runs, either for their own end products or as contract suppliers to other U.S. manufacturing firms.
The air force base did not have to provide any upfront payment on the ten-year contract, and will only make a fixed rate once energy production starts.
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Talented as he might be, Price is probably not worth the payout and his contract could be a an albatross for the team should his production fall off in the next few seasons.
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But when a company like Gap, which is just regaining its credibility with customers, says it cannot send quality-assurance teams to check up on its contract manufacturers in Asia, there is a danger that shabby production may undermine its nascent recovery.
Veolia began negotiating with Chinese bureaucrats in the early 1990s, winning its first contract in 1997, a 20-year deal to operate water production in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin.
For a century De Beers mines or those in contract to the company controlled 80% of the world's diamond production.
Esa is expected to sign a formal contract with Astrium (Bremen, Germany) in the coming days to lead the production of the service module.
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In 1979, he left NBC Universal where he spent eight years under contract creating and writing series such as the Rockford Files, to start his own independent production company.
As with other contract manufacturers, Pegatron's success is based largely on secrecy and tact as it juggles production of competing products from companies such as Apple, Microsoft Corp.
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The Screen Actors Guild is also negotiating a new contract, and an actors' walkout is also a possibility, threatening chaos to TV and film production.
They project that the failure to renew the wind production tax credit, which is set to expire on December 31, could cause the wind turbine market to contract by 80 percent, putting tens of thousands of jobs in jeopardy.
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