The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

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The Du Pont chemical corporation and several insurance companies, banks, and credit-card firms are among those with corporate headquarters on or near Wilmington's Rodney Square. Unless they live there or quite nearby, most people would be hard-presse

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LOCOG begins Olympic Park handover to London Legacy Development Corporation LONDON, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- The London 2012 Organizing Committee has handed over most of the Olympic Park to the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). The programme o

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Saudi Arabia is signaling that it is going to boost its supply of oil on its own after failing to convince other oil producers to jointly agree to more production. Several news agencies reported Saturday that the Saudis could increase their oil produ

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Stranded Chinese sailors escorted home from Thailand after deadly attack Some of the stranded Chinese shipping crews have now returned home after being stranded in northern Thailand following the deadly attack on two Chinese merchant ships on the Mek

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NEW YORK, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose on Friday as supplies tended to be tight on new Iran sanctions and production problems in North Sea. There was news on Thursday saying that the Obama administration expanded sanctions on Iran, in an eff

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