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Cuba has three producing offshore oil fields within 5 km of its north coast. [2] A 2004 partnership between Spanish oil company Repsol-YPF and Cuba's state oil company Cupet estimated Cuba's off-shore reserves to be able to ultimately produce between 4.6 and 9.3 billion barrels of crude oil. [3]
NGPL traces its history to the Continental Construction Corporation, which changed its name to the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America in December 1931. [1] Continental Construction was incorporated about May 1, 1930, in Delaware and in Texas [2] for the purpose of constructing a 24-inch natural gas pipline between the Amarillo, Texas, oil fields and Chicago, Illinois. [3]
In 1982, T. Boone Pickens, founder of Mesa Petroleum, offered to buy Cities Service Company.Citgo responded by offering to buy Mesa, [12] which was the first use of what became known as the Pac-Man take-over defense; i.e., a counter-tender offer initiated by a takeover target.
The modern Port of Chicago links inland canal and river systems in the Midwestern United States to the Great Lakes, giving the global shipping market access to the St. Lawrence Seaway and linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the Illinois Waterway and the Mississippi River.
Between the mid-1950s and 1994, Unocal leaked 18 million US gallons (68,000 m 3) of diluent—a petroleum derivative pumped into heavy oil fields to make the oil flow freely—under the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes and nearby ocean water, the largest oil spill in California's history. The pipelines had leaks in at least 90 places.
TC Energy was known as TransCanada before rebranding in 2019. The company was incorporated in 1951 by a Special Act of Parliament as Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Limited. [10] In 1954 N. Eldon Tanner, president of Merrill Petroleums and former Alberta legislator, became president of the company. [11]
Hegewisch (locally pronounced / ˈ h ɛ ɡ ˌ w ɪ ʃ / "heg-wish") is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's far south side.It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Riverdale and South Deering to the west, the East Side to the north, the village of Burnham to the south and the city of Hammond, Indiana to the east.
Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg.The multi-building complex on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop, opened between 1963 and 1967. [1]