Executives of Freeport, a mining giant, said that the acquisition of Plains Exploration and Production and the McMoRan Exploration Company will create a natural resources conglomerate that more closely resembles diversified players like BHP Billiton.
Exxon Wins Approval for Celtic Exploration Deal | The blessing from the Canadian government is the final regulatory hurdle for Exxon Mobil's acquisition of Celtic Exploration for $2.64 billion, Celtic said.
Correction: November 1, 2000, Wednesday A headline in the Company News column of Business Day yesterday about the acquisition of Basin Exploration by the Stone Energy Corporation misstated the value of the deal.
Last year, the firm and Apollo Global Management led a $7.15 billion acquisition of the exploration and production unit of the El Paso Corporation and also paid $825 million for UTEX Industries, a maker of sealing products for oil-and-gas drilling.
Open daily 10am-5pm, admission free A cornucopia of curios, the Pitt Rivers museum exhibits one man's (Augustus Pitt Rivers) obsessive acquisitions over a lifetime of exploration and discovery.
While making and construction has as its heart the acquisition and exploration of powerful ideas, creating contexts and enacting activities where the learners encounter and take ownership of these ideas requires an epistemic commitment to knowledge as a constructed thing (rather than passed down or written onto the learner) and a disposition amenable to improvisation.
"The acquisition of Triton strengthens our exploration and production business, gives us access to long-life international reserves, substantially increases our production growth and provides significant exploration potential," said John Hess, chairman of Amerada Hess, in a statement.
On 8 April Shell's chief executive shocked the industry by announcing the acquisition of BG Group, the former exploration arm of British Gas, now one of the world's biggest gas producers.
Five of the six domains are structurally conserved in the mouse, which has allowed acquisition of functional data and exploration of epigenetic mechanisms.
