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Firms move into West African frontier plays.(article reviews oil exploration in Ghana, Mauritania)(Brief Article)
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Oil companies are showing ever more interest in West Africa's frontier countries. There is now a cluster of plans to invest more than $100 million to explore and develop in long neglected Ghana, while another oil find deep offshore Mauritania last month has further encouraged explorers, headed by Australia's Woodside. The two countries have yielded three discoveries since 2000, which have yet to be proven in commercial quantities. Woodside, with Australia's Fusion Oil & Gas and Italy's Agip, discovered oil drilling Mauritania's wildcat Chinguetti well in 2001, and struck oil ...
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Crossing the rift; resources, routes, settlement patterns and interaction in the Wadi Arabah.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9781842172094 Crossing the rift; resources, routes, settlement patterns and interaction in the Wadi Arabah. Ed. by Piotr Bienkowski and Katharina Galor. Oxbow Books 2006 258 pages $90.00 Hardcover Levant supplementary series; v...
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The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West Central Jordan.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...followed by The Southern Ghors and Northeast Arabah Archaeological Survey (Sheffield: J...kilometers from the eastern rim of the Wadi Arabah to the Desert Highway. The survey teams...magnesium in the Faynan area of the Wadi Arabah, bitumen and salt from the Dead Sea area...
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Project file: recording in the Rift; GIS aids historic research into one of the middle east's most important but poorly-documented border regions.
Magazine article from: GEO: connexion
; ...For more than 45,000 years, the Wadi Arabah--a northerly extension of the Great...comprehensive overview of how the Wadi Arabah developed, both geologically and environmentally...represent sites within the actual Wadi Arabah, and on 'routes' leading into the Wadi...
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The Ancient Metallurgy of Copper. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Mining Magazine
; ...peninsula subtitled Researches in the Arabah 1959-1984. Volume 1, entitled The...detail the early smelting technology of the Arabah from its primitive beginnings in the fifth...ancient copper smelting techniques of the Arabah by Dr. John Merkel. Third is the theoretical...
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 "The Star (Amman, Jordan)")
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For the Record : Local news and events.
Newspaper article from: The Star (Amman, Jordan)
; ...the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. King tours Wadi Arabah *His Majesty King Abdullah II called on Sunday for drawing up a comprehensive strategy for Wadi Arabah to improve the living standard of citizens and contribute to establishing...
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Monks, Martyrs, Soldiers and Saracens: Papers on the Near East in Late Antiquity (1962-1993).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...to a lesser extent) the settled territory east of the Wadi Arabah. The book is in general attractively produced, with a number...and Mampsis, and the contrast these places make with the Wadi Arabah and with the area to its east, where no such development took...
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The path to peace. (agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to end a conflict)
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy
; ...multilaterals, London talks, Washington Declaration, Wadi al 'Arabah, Casablanca, military-to-military talks - that the novel...The post-Gulf war successes of Madrid, Oslo, Wadi al 'Arabah, et al., were made possible by the historic confluence of...
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ISRAEL: IDF FORCES ARREST 9 WANTED PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK.(Israel Defense Forces)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...2003 IDF Spokesperson). Last night (October 12, 2003), IDF forces arrested five wanted Palestinians in the village of Arabah (west of Jenin), and a wanted Islamic Jihad operative in Nablus. In addition, IDF forces arrested a Hamas operative and...
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Early Bronze Age metallurgy: a newly discovered copper manufactory in southern Jordan.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...within village settlements found primarily in Israel's northern Negev desert far away from the source areas of copper in the Arabah valley and Sinai Peninsula (Levy & Shalev 1989). Chalcolithic metallurgy was linked to the emergence of the first chiefdom...
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Portal to Petra
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...became a center for spice traders, artisans, and urbane sophisticates 2,300 years ago. Towering high above the Wadi al-'Arabah, a seasonal streambed that runs between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of 'Aqabah, in southwestern Jordan, majestic cliffs strike...
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