The first wildcatters in the Southeastern states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida began drilling around the turn of the century, but success eluded them. Except for a few insignificant shallow gas fields in northern Alabama, all early wells - more than two hundred of them by 1925 - proved to be dry. Huge riches from petroleum were being reaped in nearby Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. It appeared that the Mississippi River was a barrier, an underground dike which prevented the oil and gas fr...
Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins, 1888-1898
by Miss Agricultural Experiment Station
Keys to Understanding the Financial News (Barron's Business Keys)
by Nicholas G Apostolou and Professor Emeritus D Larry Crumbley
Understanding what you read in financial publications can be difficult and frustrating. This updated edition helps you cut through all the financial language and fully comprehend what you want or need to know. This guide contains all-new information and concentrates on details. Master the 46 concepts in this book and you will dramatically improve your understanding of financial news. The authors have made each concept easy-to-follow for nonexperts to grasp. However, even those experienced in the...
A Critical Analysis of Role of Print Media in the East Africa Community (Eac) Integration
by Thomas Muema and Consolata Mutisya
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company (Great Lakes Books)
by C. Roger Pellett
From 1888 to 1898, the American Steel Barge Company built and operated a fleet of forty-four barges and steamships on the Great Lakes and in international trade. These new ships were considered revolutionary by some and nautical curiosities by others. Built from what was then a high tech material (steel) and powered by state-of-the-art steam machinery, their creation in the remote north was a sign of industrial accomplishment. In Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company, C. Roger Pe...
Helping someone plan for retirement is a very personal process. Having retired over 1000 individuals, Sid Miramontes has learned quite a few things along the way. Some situations are similar for each person, but others are totally unique to each individual-the personal, the exceptional, the human side of retirement. Retirement: Your New Beginning provides education on commonly confused retirement concepts, helping simplify the process of retirement with client stories that will help the reader...
Report on the electricity policy review part III grid connections (Northern Ireland Assembly reports, 196/11-16)
Das Factoring als Finanzierungsform im gewerblichen Kundensegment der Banken
by Tim Stolle
Progress in Sustainable Aviation (Sustainable Aviation)
Progress in Sustainable Aviation looks at recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation, presenting readers with engineering solutions and methodologies for efficiency and cost savings, performance improvement, and emission reduction. Coverage includes alternative fuel types, propulsion technologies, and emission technologies used in different aerial vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, and passenger aircraft. Operational areas, such as the building of...
Harwich-Hoek Van Holland
by Miles Cowsill, Frank Haalmeijer, and John Hendy
The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050
by Rafael Cayuela Valencia
Discussing the technological supremacy of the chemical industry and how it will adopt a leading position to solve some of the largest global challenges humans have even seen, this book details how the industry will address climate change, aging populations, resource scarcity, globality, networks speed, pandemics, and massive growth and demand. Following a detailed introduction to some of the megatrends shaping our world over the forthcoming decades, the book goes on to provide several scenarios...
Global standard for food safety [Russian print version]
by British Retail Consortium
Life Insurance in Asia (Wiley Finance)
by Stephan Binder and Joseph Luc Ngai
The Asian life insurance industry is truly entering an inflection point. Coming off massive growth from the past several years, the industry has suffered greatly, along with the rest of the financial industry, in the 2008 financial crisis. Most life insurers across Asia have lost tremendous value in the wake of the crisis; a few are in significant distress. It is important not to lose sight of the longer-term outlook though: fueled by macroeconomic factors such as the emergence of the middle cla...