The Bureau of Reclamation said last week, however, that farmers could continue to receive subsidized federal water beyond the 960-acre limit by operating a consortium of units under a "farm management arrangement". The major requirement is that each farm be under separate legal ownership.
Over 25 years ago, Texaco Petroleum ("TexPet") operated a consortium along with an Ecuadorian state-owned company, Petroecuador.
Hunt Oil has a stake in the consortium operating the lines, which were built by an Argentine company.
For the city authorities and CityPass, the consortium operating the system, it will be a celebratory moment that at times seemed would never arrive.
However, six months ago most observers would have been shocked at the extent of the concessions wrung from the foreign consortium operating Sakhalin-2.
Stanford is a member of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Consortium, operating an innovative 9.2 meter-equivalent telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
Netcare will be operating within a consortium, that includes UK based FM and construction companies · New York Presbyterian Healthcare System - one of the most comprehensive university hospitals in the world, the New York Presbyterian Hospital has leading specialists in every field of medicine.
The row centred on how the consortium operating the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshi field, led by BP, would share profits with the government in what is known as a production sharing agreement (PSA).
The decision meant that about a quarter of all the heavy crude produced in Ecuador would not flow through the new pipeline, even though the consortium operating the line has been scrambling to increase the amount of oil flowing through it.
Ali al-Dabbagh, a government's spokesman, said that Shell and Mitsubishi's project involved the fields at Rumaila, West Qurna, and Zubair, which are operated by consortiums led by BP, Exxon, Lukoil of Russia and Eni of Italy.
