Like Addax, Oryx will be focused on exploring for oil in west Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan.
FORBES: Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
In 2002, a lioness at Samburu National Park adopted a succession of baby oryx.
The Arabian oryx prefers dry, near-desert conditions and can survive without water for long periods.
The Arabian oryx extinct in the wild was successfully bred in captivity and reintroduced into an Oman reserve.
As I take a swig of water from my flask, a male oryx appears out of nowhere.
If the Oryx listing is successful, it could help his government, which faces elections in coming months.
Oryx Natural Resources is part of the Oryx Group, which has interests in banking, hotels and construction.
Like Addax was before it, Oryx is named after a noble African relative of the antelope with grand horns.
FORBES: Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
We apologise unreservedly to Mr Kamal Khalfan, Oryx Natural Resources and its directors.
Only 16 of the 145 reintroduction schemes so far attempted have succeeded, the Arabian oryx being the most successful.
Neither Oryx nor Mr Khalfan has any connection with Bin-Laden, the Al-Qaeda network or the American Embassy bombings in Africa.
It is now almost extinct, and another - the scimitar-horned oryx of the Sahara - is on the endangered list.
These horns can be used to lethal effect and the oryx has been known to use them to kill lions.
The key asset behind Oryx now is the Demir Dagh field in the Hawler block of the Kurdish region of Iraq.
FORBES: Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
In the story, we stated that frontmen for Osama Bin-Laden owned shares in an international mining company called Oryx Natural Resources.
Yet another striking success story is the return of the Arabian oryx.
FORBES: Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises, Part Four
I'm convinced the sense of accomplishment is no less intense than bagging a rare oryx would be for a big game hunter.
The hornbill cackles, and white Xs on the faces of oryx, with their three-foot long straight spike horns, can be glimpsed through the acacia branches.
The zoo continues to care for three adult oryx and one baby.
Oryx intends to list on 13 June as part of its takeover by Petra Diamonds, a mining group listed on the Alternative Investment Market.
Oryx live in herds of up to 60 and new-born calves are able to run with their parents and other adults immediately after birth.
The first re-introduction occurred in Oman in 1982, and was a success, demonstrating the ability of captive oryx to adapt to the harsh wild conditions.
FORBES: Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises, Part Four
Oryx, on the other hand, has no revenues at all.
FORBES: Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
It is the only place I know where you can dine out in the desert, underneath the stars while watching herds of wild oryx wander past.
He still is deeply invested in Africa, operating a fuel distribution network under the Oryx brand (but unaffiliated with the newly public company) as well as Addax Bioenergy, a biofuels operation in Sierra Leone.
FORBES: Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
No oil and gas is flowing yet, but if all goes well in Iraq, Oryx states in its prospectus that it could be handling as much as 300, 000 bpd of oil within five years.
FORBES: Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
Each morning, at dawn, Diethelm loads the visitors into a zebra-striped Land Rover and takes off to show them the amazing array of wildlife on the ranch: kudu, springbok, cheetah, oryx, hartebeest, warthog, giraffe, leopard and score more.
应用推荐