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Harvest Natural Resources Announces Lease Acquisition - Bay Exploration Area

July 9th, 2008

Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced the successful acquisition of significant additional leasehold covering its prospective Bay Exploration Area located near Galveston, Texas. This completes the lease acquisition phase in this area. Harvest and its partners now control a major position in the Bay prospective area containing 13 identified leads in the regionally prolific Frio and [...]

A harbor fixture for years, the huge drilling rig began to leak oil recently

October 12th, 2006

For 14 years the old, mobile offshore-drilling unit Zeus has sat rusting on the edge of the Freeport harbor channel, looming as a threat that could someday ooze oily goo into sensitive estuaries or, worse, topple over and close one of the busiest waterways in Texas.
“If that thing fell over it could shut down [...]