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lecturer. Period. 1925–1938. Subject. Travel literature, adventure, exploration. Signature. Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history—36 cents in 1928. [1]
The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company is a state-owned company for electrical power generation, transmission and distribution in Egypt. [1] It was established in 2000 and works in the field of production, transmission and distribution of electricity in Egypt. [2] It supervises production stations, transmission networks, and electricity ...
Egypt has received United States foreign aid since 1979 (an average of $2.2 billion per year) and is the third-largest recipient of such funds from the United States following the Iraq war. Egypt's economy mainly relies on these sources of income: tourism, remittances from Egyptians working abroad and revenues from the Suez Canal.
After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries, KBR was created in 1998 when M.W. Kellogg merged with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root. In 2006, the company separated from Halliburton and completed an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
Zero Halliburton, stylized as ZERO Halliburton, is a manufacturer of hard-wearing travel cases and briefcases, mainly of aluminium. Founded in 1938, the company was sold in 2006 to ACE Co., a Japanese luggage manufacturer. Erle P. Halliburton, the American founder of Halliburton, had commissioned the aluminium case in 1938 from aircraft ...
Erle Palmer Halliburton. September 22, 1892. Henning, Tennessee. Died. October 13, 1957 (aged 65) Los Angeles, California. Known for. Founder of the Halliburton Company. Erle Palmer Halliburton was an American businessman specializing in oil field services.
Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil. The brand was formerly owned and operated by an oil and gas corporation of the same name ( Mobil Oil Corporation ), which itself merged with Exxon to form ExxonMobil in 1999. A direct descendant of Standard Oil, Mobil was originally known as the ...
National oil company. A national oil company ( NOC) is a petroleum company that is fully or partly owned by the government of a sovereign nation. [1] : 3 NOCs produce about half the world’s oil and gas. [2] [3]