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International environmentalists and lawmakers are looking nervously to West African oil-patch countries including Nigeria and Angola, where watchdog groups say a near epidemic of unaddressed spills is the result of either lax regulation, pipeline vandalization by groups seeking to divert oil for their own profits or an underprepared spill-response effort.

Oil Hearing to Cast Spotlight on West Africa Benoit Faucon 2011

Operating companies will likely be venture capitalists, risk takers and oil-patch independents, who may team with European groups that already have experience in offshore aquaculture and related industries.

Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms Susan Buchanan 2011

In Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, the four oil-patch states of the West South Central division, incomes rose 0.3% from 2007 to 2010.

Oil Patch Bucks Income Drop Brenda Cronin 2012

In this sun-scorched cattle country, prolonged drought and financial strain gave way to prosperity when the oil-patch leasing agents began pouring into town three years ago.

Oil-Drilling Boom Under Way Ryan Dezember 2011

For years, the energy giant has tried to promote guar among Texas farmers, pumping money into Texas Tech University research that yielded varieties suited for local growing conditions and oil-patch use.

Farmer Says: Hitch Your Wagons to Some 'Guar' Ryan Dezember 2011

The oil-patch titans are brawling over a congressional bill that would provide tax breaks to trucking companies for 18-wheelers that run on natural gas instead of oil.

Big Dogs of the Oil Patch Tangle Over Gas Subsidies Jeffrey Ball 2011

North Dakota, which is also experiencing an oil-patch boom, had a jobless rate of 3.5% in September, the lowest in the U.S., followed by Nebraska's 4.2% and South Dakota's 4.6%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Farmers Sense the End of Big Boom Scott Kilman 2011

Operating companies will likely be venture capitalists, risk takers and oil-patch independents, who may team with European groups that already have experience in offshore aquaculture and related industries.

Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms Susan Buchanan 2011

"Sure, some of the oil-patch drilling sites have a lot of mud this year and will need some time to dry out, but a lot of companies that do business in the Williston Basin are realizing that they are sitting on tons and tons of oil, more than they had expected."

Barreling Along Suzanne McGee 2011

Schlumberger added 3.82, or 10%, to 41.09 despite posting a drop in fourth-quarter profit and its chief executive warning that oil-patch business would slow even further this year.

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