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.)
“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“Is a park any better than a coal mine? What’s a mountain got that a slag pile hasn’t? What would you rather have in your garden—an almond tree or an oil well?”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)