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The African Petroleum Producers' Organization (APPO), initially founded as the African Petroleum Producers' Association in Lagos, Nigeria, on January 27, 1987, was conceived as a collaborative platform for African oil-producing nations to address economic challenges, particularly those arising from oil price fluctuations.
Mack Gipson. Mack Gipson Jr. (September 15, 1931 – March 10, 1995) was an American geologist who became the first African-American man to obtain a Ph.D. in geology. The first African-American geologist to earn a PhD in the US was Marguerite Williams, who earned her degree in 1942. Gipson's career spanned decades in the petroleum industry as ...
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Virginia Petroleum and Convenience Marketers Association ( VPCMA) is a statewide trade association formed in 1948 providing advocacy, educational and networking services to its membership. Until 1999, the Association was known as the Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association. As the traditional jobber (wholesaler) evolved more into direct ...
The American Petroleum Institute was founded on 20 March 1919 and based in New York City. In 1959, at a symposium organized by the American Petroleum Institute and the Columbia Graduate School of Business for the centennial of the American oil industry, the physicist Edward Teller warned then of the danger of global climate change.
Offshore drilling for oil and gas on the Atlantic coast of the United States took place from 1947 to the early 1980s. Oil companies drilled five wells in Atlantic Florida state waters and 51 exploratory wells on federal leases on the outer continental shelf of the Atlantic coast. None of the wells were completed as producing wells.
Desidério da Graça Veríssimo e Costa (born April 4, 1934) is an Angolan politician who was Minister of Petroleum from 2002 to 2008. As Minister of Petroleum, Costa visited the China, Cuba, Venezuela, the United States and others, due to his country's expanding petroleum industry. He was the 2005-2006 chairman of the African Petroleum ...
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