How Sir John Browne turned BP Amoco into the hottest prospect in the oil patch.
Drug abuse in the northern oil patch is more than four times the provincial average.
It sells solar installations and it recently added oil patch activities to its roster of companies.
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By all accounts Anschutz feels more comfortable where he started out long ago: in the oil patch.
Far from the oil patch, Kinder grew up in the land of Mark Twain, paper route and all.
Both Brumleys have spent much of their lives muck-deep in the oil patch.
Outside of the oil patch, the gurus also put in bids for shares of Escala Group, the newly-renamed Greg Manning Auctions.
The conflict in the Saudi oil patch sets up an alternative scenario.
David Sobotka, president of the operation, is a 45-year-old commodities trader who learned his craft at Lehman Brothers in New York instead of in the oil patch.
Though the scion of a political dynasty rooted in the Connecticut gentry, Bush grew up in the West Texas oil patch and came late to the family legacy.
And nowhere in the oil patch is technology as challenging as in the deep waters of the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere ( see diagram, pp. 46 7).
Dresser-Rand, the nation's largest maker of gas compressors and turbines for the oil patch, was languishing in the hands of Ingersoll-Rand, the industrial machinery giant that had little interest in hydrocarbons.
After years of unemployment rates above 8 percent and masses of workers dropping out of the labor market, a boom in the oil patch would add large numbers of desperately needed, high-paying jobs.
Extrapolate that problem to the Gulf's 4, 000 rigs (where 60% of oil and 40% of gas production remains off-line) and Katrina's impact will be felt on the American oil patch for many yearsto come.
Extrapolate that problem to the Gulf's 4, 000 rigs (where 60% of oil and 40% of gas production remains off-line) and Katrina's impact will be felt on the American oil patch for many years to come.
Residents of the Oil Patch are used to cyclical recessions, and the 1986 crash in oil prices was more dramatic than the recent slump not least because oil was the only way to make a living then.
Isaac ran the FDIC when the oil patch economy took down one bank after another, and he made the decision to take over Continental Illinois and run it when none of the offers to buy it were attractive.
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Dresser-Rand, the nation's largest maker of gas compressors and turbines for the oil patch, was languishing in the hands of Ingersoll-Rand (nyse: IR - news - people ), the industrial machinery giant that had little interest in hydrocarbons.
In the oil-patch, Heartland Select Value Fund favors Hess (HES), an independent oil and gas exploration and refining company, which it believes is way udnervalued.
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He admits it's a conflict to be selling coal to a partnership he controls, but he has installed an independent director, oil-patch veteran David Carmichael, to approve the price and terms.
For the individual investors still looking to add oil-patch stocks to their portfolios, Apache has the solid production and resilient earnings track record to justify the accumulation of its shares in 2012.
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But it is only two years since both countries sent warships to assert competing claims to an oil-rich patch of sea off Borneo.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he saw a patch of light oil sheen some three to four miles from Pensacola Beach on Thursday afternoon from a reconnaissance flight over the Florida Panhandle.
As industrial activities are likely to stay muted in the first quarter, real oil demand may hit a soft patch before picking up again in the second, Barclays analysts led by Sijin Cheng in Singapore wrote in an 11 page report dated Feb. 6.
Environmental experts say birds and animals are more likely to escape a burning patch of water than an oil slick, although toxic fumes could endanger wildlife.
First, though, he had to dive through a 40-foot vertical patch of murky, water-oil mixture that began 20 feet below the surface.
For example, in February, after militants killed 12 people in a dispute over a patch of land being surveyed for oil, the army launched a punitive raid on a town called Odioma, killing 16 people and destroying hundreds of homes.
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