Hope comes from Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, Marathon's biggest and most lucrative upstream venture.
The majority are found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, west Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola.
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He traveled through and measured over 1200 miles of a chlorophyll bloom along the Equatorial Pacific.
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The report focuses on five countries - Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan and Nauru.
ExxonMobil also inherited an image problem in Equatorial Guinea, where Mobil obtained concessions in the mid-1990s.
Russia, Kazakhstan, Angola, Chad and Equatorial Guinea have plenty of oil, but good luck getting it.
The rest are from countries as far afield as the US and Equatorial Guinea.
This vast attrition will track with the loss of most coral reefs and equatorial belt forests.
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In Equatorial Guinea it quietly negotiated official American support while keeping its own corporate head down.
SIVs come from a sub-species that lives mainly in Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
Yet as temperatures warmed during the past century, malaria became virtually unheard of outside of equatorial regions.
Angola is just one of several promising but politically unstable--and often violent--regions like Kazakhstan and Equatorial Guinea.
Mr Yayi has been out of the country, visiting Equatorial Guinea for an international summit in February.
Triton's Ceiba-1 well off Equatorial Guinea came in a gusher, flowing more than 12, 000 barrels a day.
Mann is being held at the notorious Black Beach prison in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
Curiosity landed in Mars' equatorial Gale Crater in August, and has driven eastwards almost 500m since then.
Some countries praised for their breakneck economic growth, such as Angola and Equatorial Guinea, are oil-sodden kleptocracies.
"Every energy company doing business in Equatorial Guinea is being investigated, " says Janet Clark, Marathon's chief financial officer.
But up here the sun shines on the glacier, and fresh snow glistens in the intense, equatorial light.
Congo's has a catanga cross (a large copper cross), while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells.
Equatorial glaciers will melt and river-flows fall, even as demand for water rises.
In Equatorial Guinea, controversy has arisen over payments by oil companies into an account in a private US bank.
The rocket lit up a clear equatorial night sky and was visible from the ground for over six minutes.
The editor of news magazine Africa Confidential, Patrick Smith, described the judicial system in Equatorial Guinea as "ad hoc".
Onions from Spain, grapes from the Mediterranean and citrus from the equatorial regions.
The clause was invoked most memorably for Eric "the Eel" Moussambani, a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, in the 2000 Olympics.
Some analysts had suggested that Mann was released because he posed a security risk, but Equatorial Guinea's ambassador rejected this.
Curiosity's discovery at its landing site in the equatorial Gale Crater provides the first real ground truth for those observations.
The corruption watchdog Transparency International has put Equatorial Guinea in the top 12 of its list of most corrupt states.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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