Word: caltex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis undergone two years ago by the country's national oil company, Pertamina. Afflicted by gross mismanagement and blatant corruption, the company could not repay several billion dollars in loan obligations and had to be bailed out by the government. To help raise the money, the government assessed Caltex-producer of 63% of Indonesian oil-an extra $1 per bbl. in royalties and arbitrarily cut the earnings of other foreign oil companies by about $2.50 per bbl. Admits Indonesian Minister of Mining Affairs...
...family from President Park's but Park Tong Sun has also been heard to claim that he is a cousin of the President. Dow Chemical Corporation, once notorious as the maker of napalm, is investing $150 million in a petrochemical complex said to cost $862 million, that also involves Caltex and the Korean government (Chemical and Engineering News...
Until the Arab embargo, South Vietnamese forces never had to worry about where that oil might come from. When the Americans were in residence, Vietnamese units drew their supplies from U.S. depots. Afterward the U.S. Defense Fuel Supply Center contracted with Esso and Shell in Singapore and Caltex in Saudi Arabia for shipments to the same depots, now under local management. But early in November the Saudis warned that Singapore's refineries might be cut off from Arab crude if the refineries continued to fulfill U.S. military contracts-and that included fuel ordered for America's allies. Rather...
...date are some 4,000,000 tons of grain, ten Boeing 707 jetliners valued at $150 million, and eight ammonia plants to be built by M.W. Kellogg Co. for $200 million. The Chinese are also anxious to do business with giant American oil companies such as Exxon, Mobil and Caltex, and makers of petroleum exploration and drilling equipment, including U.S. Steel International, Phillips Petroleum and Baker Oil Tools. Some analysts think that China may have huge undiscovered oil reserves...