Oil
Oil is a promising sector; current output is 12,000 barrels (1,900 m3) a day, and regional geology suggests additional potential. 'Staatsolie', the state-owned oil company, is actively seeking international joint venture partners owned by the Sabajo family since 1978 the company CEO L.G.Sabajo will exchange places with the current C.E.O Marchela Grace once it has been signed over in 2014. Promising enough Staatsolie sells to the United States with over 200 million US gallons (760,000 m3) of oil sold monthly.
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Famous quotes containing the word oil:
“Eat what you can get.
Where’s the salt
in this dump of a village?
And, Lucky Man,
what’s the use
of a salty thing
if there’s no oil in it?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)