There were 16 questions about capitalization rate, sales commission, acreage and the like.
Dined at a restaurant for a few hours, only to return to our farmhouse set back from the street on some acreage, looking like it was about to float away.
Within a couple years he cleared $2 billion more selling acreage to the likes of Chevron, and another $1 billion dealing his Marcellus pipeline network to Penn-Virginia in 2012.
There will be no differentiation in the 14th onshore licensing round – where companies take the first steps in developing land for extraction – between acreage which looks like it has the best shale prospects and traditional oil and gas.
"This tiny acreage has become like a playground and retail gated community for them," Mr. Ross said, adding that one much anticipated development in Mayfair is the opening next year of the Beaumont, a boutique hotel being developed by Christopher Corbin and Jeremy King, the restaurateurs behind the Ivy, the Wolseley, J. Sheekey, Colbert and Le Caprice.
How does an arson investigator like you go about go about looking across this vast acreage -- that looks like the surface of the moon charred to pieces to the rest of us -- and figure out where the fire started and how it started?
Open acreage in rural counties like this one is quickly being eaten up, Ms. Craft said.
The planned substitution of ethanol for petrol encouraged corn planting, which took acreage away from crops like soyabeans and led to a surge in prices.
It is tempting to assume that expanding agricultural acreage and using new technology, like genetically engineered crops, will somehow save the day.
It lacks real purpose: all that empty acreage for such a game, like using a soup tureen in which to boil an egg.
