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Oil giants Shell and Eni knowingly participated in a vast bribery scheme for one of Africa's most valuable oil blocks which deprived Nigeria and its people of $ 1.1 billion, an exposé by Global Witness and Finance Uncovered reveals today.

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Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

Sources reported that an armed militia from Zintan, directly linked to the heavily armed Petroleum Facilities Guard, which was set up to protect the country's oil and gas infrastructure, has closed the El Feel and Hamada fields by blocking their respective pipelines.

How can it be that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — which, if built, will almost assuredly increase the GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would undermine Canada's climate change plan?

-LSB-...] During that same weekend I invited friends over for a hemp - themed BBQ to enjoy the nice spring weather and check out some of the hemp products that I had accumulated by then, which included Dr. Bronner's soaps, Hempz lotions, Merry Hempsters lip balm, hemp protein powder; hearts; and seed oil from Nutiva and Manitoba Harvest, a journal made of hemp paper from Green Field Paper Company, various shirts and other examples of hemp fiber, and of course my very own hempcrete blocks.

Once the skin is cool and dry again, don't use any type of oil - based product, which might block your sweat glands.

Avoiding occlusive ointments, including moisturizers, or oil based products on a child's skin, which can also block the sweat ducts.

The deal, which was signed by the immediate past minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison - Madueke, gave Atlantic Energy Limited a controlling 55 percent stake in the oil block.

As at the time, the company, which was barely a year old and had no history of producing a droplet of oil, was awarded controlling stakes in two lucrative oil blocks — OML 30 and 34 — for just over $ 50 million each.

He also revealed that at least five companies which have been awarded oil blocks have not moved to site.

Against this backdrop, EFCC had on January 26, got an order for the forfeiture of the oil block, OPL 245 by Shell and Eni, which is considered as the largest oil block in Nigeria.

She also said that the report that Italian prosecutors indicted her for sharing in the loot of the $ 1.3 billion OPL 245 oil block deal, which involved Malabu and the Joint Venture Multinational partners, ENI (AGIP) and Royal Dutch was false.

Treatments with sulfur, which draws oil out of blocked pores and inhibits breakouts, can also be worked into your regimen.

There's several other strategies for maximum benefit: Australia sells the best formulated tea tree oil products, dark bottles are most effective as they block sunlight, which can oxidise the valuable compounds.

Healthy fats provide the building blocks of sex hormones; so also emphasize foods like fish (wild caught), olive oil, coconut oil, nuts, and avocado, all of which also help balance blood sugar, heart health, and more.

Dietary fat is a source of cholesterol, a building block of testosterone, which is why we decided to top it off with feta cheese and extra virgin olive oil.

A failing head gasket might also be leaking oil out of the block, which could explain a large loss of oil without an equal gain in the coolant level.

Also, film of oil lining the channels in the block could reduce heat transfer or even block small channels, frothing can produce a foamy emulsion which could block small channels and possibly cause water pump cavitation, etc..

The block has a one - piece aluminum crankshaft carrier, which has ferrous - carbon inserts in the bearing caps for additional strength and incorporates a stiff, cast - aluminum oil pan.

The Corvette oil system is also enhanced by eight oil - spraying jets in the engine block, which reduce piston temperature for extreme output and long - term durability.

Key elements include: - Aluminium block with built - in reinforcements High - flow intake ports and high - speed, high - lift valvetrain to enable high engine speed and power Compact intake fuel surge tank to increase engine response Oil scavenge pump, to ensure stable oil supply in even in high G - force bends Liquid - cooled oil cooler for more efficient temperature control during high - load driving Weight - saving hollow camshafts, which carry oil to the cylinder heads D - 4S (Direct - injection 4 - stroke gasoline engine Superior version), combining direct and port injection Electrically - driven VVT - iE on intake, with mechanical inlet and hydraulic outlet valOil scavenge pump, to ensure stable oil supply in even in high G - force bends Liquid - cooled oil cooler for more efficient temperature control during high - load driving Weight - saving hollow camshafts, which carry oil to the cylinder heads D - 4S (Direct - injection 4 - stroke gasoline engine Superior version), combining direct and port injection Electrically - driven VVT - iE on intake, with mechanical inlet and hydraulic outlet valoil supply in even in high G - force bends Liquid - cooled oil cooler for more efficient temperature control during high - load driving Weight - saving hollow camshafts, which carry oil to the cylinder heads D - 4S (Direct - injection 4 - stroke gasoline engine Superior version), combining direct and port injection Electrically - driven VVT - iE on intake, with mechanical inlet and hydraulic outlet valoil cooler for more efficient temperature control during high - load driving Weight - saving hollow camshafts, which carry oil to the cylinder heads D - 4S (Direct - injection 4 - stroke gasoline engine Superior version), combining direct and port injection Electrically - driven VVT - iE on intake, with mechanical inlet and hydraulic outlet valoil to the cylinder heads D - 4S (Direct - injection 4 - stroke gasoline engine Superior version), combining direct and port injection Electrically - driven VVT - iE on intake, with mechanical inlet and hydraulic outlet valves

On the other hand neglecting the Maltipoo dog's bath often will cause the body oil of the dog to accumulate which can lead to hair tangles, bad odor and blocked skin pores.

Hairball chews do not contain lubricants, mineral oil or diuretics which can disrupt normal digestion, block nutrient absorption and dehydrate your cat.

Ten works on paper from 2010 are exhibited in the second room of the gallery in which Whitten experiments with dry pigment, graphite and oil stick, and creates grid - like compositions by transferring the structure of objects, such as a radiator, directly onto paper with a graphite block.

Other striking works include Present Tense, in which she uses tiny red glass beads pressed into blocks of olive - oil soap made in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the northern West Bank to trace the outline of Palestinian territories as defined by the Oslo Accord in 1993.

Other highlights from the collection include Mark Rothko's iconic yellow, red and pink block work Untitled from 1969, Pierre Bonnard's oil painting of his pet dachshund at his house in the Bay of Cannes, and a cast of Rodin's career - defining sculpture The Kiss, which Perry Bass purchased for his wife in celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary.

They are often designed to create environmental effects, as Christo and Jeanne - Claude's Iron Curtain, Wall of 240 Oil Barrels, Blocking Rue Visconti, Paris, June 1962 which was a poetic response to the Berlin Wall built in 1961.

Humidity plays havoc with oil paints which sink faster into the canvas, but he seems to have shrugged and let them go their way, appearing thinner and even patchy on the surface of some canvases, often leaving the weave visible and occasional gaps between blocks of colour.

In works on paper by French artist David Lefebvre, for instance, oil painted hard - edge bars or geometric shapes of color intervene in evenly modulated graphite drawings in which orders of what is real and what is stylized, what is natural and what is schematic, are subverted; blocked - out shapes come to signify lacunae in the field of vision.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

Global Witness wrote to the 47 companies which have been awarded oil and gas blocks in Myanmar in the last year inviting them to answer a series of questions about their ownership.

BHI's reports mirror ALEC's model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that the National Petroleum Reserve — Alaska, which encompasses about 23 million acres and is the largest single block of federally managed land in the U.S., holds 896 million barrels of oil and 53 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Court order mandates the return of oil block OPL245, for which Shell and Eni paid $ 1.1 billion to a company secretly owned by a former Nigerian oil minister.

In 2010, the Congolese government sold SOCO the right to explore for oil in an area known as Block V, about half of which extends into Virunga National Park.

Take your pick — oil shales in the US, Orinoco heavy from VZ, Madagascar, offshore Brazil — these all trump anything renewable on a cost basis today without a meaningful carbon price, and so with KXL blocked, that's what will fill the void, which is the point of my piece.

By blocking the construction of the proposed Keystone XL, which would have delivered roughly one million barrels of ethical Canadian oil to American markets every single day, the president prevented the potential displacement of existing oil imports from illiberal and undemocratic OPEC regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

About one - fifth of the junk — which includes everything from footballs and kayaks to Lego blocks and carrier bags — is thrown off ships or oil platforms.

Our first day in the jungle we flew into Block 16, Repsol, which is interesting because it's a foreign oil company.

Having been awarded two oil exploration blocks by the DRC's government in 2006, which were subsequently transferred to two companies registered in the BVI, Tullow brought both legal proceedings and a case before Paris» International Court of Arbitration.the DRC really would be one of the last places you want to get embroiled in a legal dispute

They talked about their own welcome ceremonies, and particularly the #StandingRock protests led by the Sioux people, with significant support from Indigenous communities internationally, which are aiming to block the construction of an oil pipeline near their land by the Texas - based company Energy Transfer Partners (which counts US President elect Donald Trump among its investors).