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The many individual oil and gas facilities were compacted into a single, state controlled company, The Cuba Oil Union (Spanish: Unión Cuba-Petróleo). Despite attempts at negotiation, no property was ever returned to the American companies and they have yet to receive any compensation from the Cuban government. [ 5 ]
The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]
The Cushing MarketLink pipeline phase started at Cushing, Oklahoma, where American-produced oil is added to the pipeline, then runs south 435 miles (700 km) to a delivery point near terminals in Nederland, Texas, to serve refineries in the Port Arthur, Texas, area. Keystone started pumping oil through this section in January 2014.
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]
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.
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]
U.S. oil producer Chevron used the term "Gulf of America" instead of Gulf of Mexico in its fourth-quarter press release on Friday, a sign of corporate America beginning to implement U.S. President ...
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.