The company overhauled many of Conroe's wells, and put in new fluid-handling gear--important considering that what was coming out of the ground averaged just 2% oil to 98% water.
He's talking about waves of creative destruction--where huge technological leaps lead to ripping out billions of dollars of old gear and replacing it with billions in new gear, which Matthews is ever ready to sell.
It backed out of a plan to buy networking-gear maker 3Com in 2007 when the deal faced opposition form a U.S. security panel.
Google certainly has pockets deep enough to trick out self-driving cars with any kind of pricey gear, but researchers at the University of Oxford have begun testing a solution that aims to keep things affordable.
But the constant game of cat-and-mouse had taken too much out of him to reply when Kirui shifted into high gear at the end.
Among the new measures proposed are the phasing out of bottom trawls, the heavy gear that scrapes material from the bottom of the sea - fish, coral and anything else in its way.
With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs.
Matsushita has also squeezed Sony out of the lucrative market for digital television-cameras and other studio gear.
I've met kids in Ohio, parents in Wisconsin, places Iowa where they're going out on the Internet to get the state-of-the-art body gear to send to their kids.
It was a clinical if uninspiring win for the in-form Londoners, who rarely looked like getting out of first gear.
It features two removable rear-seat bins in the floor that can hold a dozen 12-ounce cans plus ice or can stow gear out of sight for added security.
L.A. has sampled some 1970s-era high-tech toys like Soviet Su-27 jets, but most of the cool new Nintendo military gear is out of its price range or on forbidden export lists in the West.
Its dealerships are distinctively designed, looking and feeling more like woodsy lodges than showrooms, with plenty of amenities and a full inventory of value-added Land Rover gear and clothing on hand to ensure nobody walks out the door without making a purchase.
But OS X 10.8 makes it feel like a fresh idea all over again -- and the more Apple gear you own, the more you'll get out of it.
The companion app branches out from the earlier My Xbox Live app for Android and allows direct control of some console features from Google-powered gear.
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Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.
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