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Sep 4, 2001 · HOUSTON, Sept. 4 -- Devon Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City is acquiring Calgary-based Anderson Exploration Ltd. in a $4.6 billion deal that will give it the most North American oil and gas reserves...
The explorer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell (1868-1926). Ibn Battuta was an explorer from Morocco who travelled many thousands of miles across the Middle East, Asia and China. Gertrude Bell...
Sep 4, 2015 · J.C. Anderson, who sold Anderson Exploration to Devon Energy Corp. for $5.3 billion in 2001, remained humbled by the praise and accolades that came his way.
The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole on 14 December 1911, [n 1] which would prove to be five weeks ahead of the competitive British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition.
He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899.
Explorations. Charles John Andersson. In 1849 he departed for London, intending to sell his collection to raise money for travels around the world. In London he met with the explorer Francis Galton, with whom he organised an expedition to Southern Africa.
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Born in Nebraska and schooled in Texas, J.C. packed all the clichés along with him when he arrived in Alberta in the 1960s—the big heart, the big boots and the big dreams. He started Anderson Exploration with only $400,000 in cash and sold it for a whopping US$4.6 billion in 2001.
