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Syriam and had
He even ignored the fact that the English Company's ship, the Arcot, had opportunistically sold arms to the Hanthawaddy forces, and fired on his troops in 1755 during the battle of Syriam.
) By the eve of the First Anglo-Burmese War, Yangon had replaced Syriam ( Thanlyin ) as the chief port city of the kingdom.

Syriam and surrounding
The Portuguese were in control of Thanlyin ( Syriam ) and the surrounding area from 1599 to 1613.

Syriam and from
When the color inclines to a violet tint, the stone is often called Syriam garnet, a name said to be taken from Syriam, an ancient town of Pegu ( now part of Myanmar ).
Thanlyin (, or ;, ; formerly, Syriam ) is a major port city of Myanmar, located across Bago River from the city of Yangon.

Syriam and .
At the end of 1924, he was promoted to Assistant District Superintendent and posted to Syriam, closer to Rangoon.
French involvement started in 1729 when it built a shipyard in the city of Syriam.
Orwell served in a number of locations in Burma ; having spent a year of police training in Mandalay and Maymyo, his postings included Myaungmya, Twante, Syriam, Insein-( north of Rangoon, site of the colony's most secure prison, and now present-day Burma's most notorious jail ),-Moulmein and Kathar.
They also describe their territory of including, in varying points of time, the regions of Ava, the Irrawaddy Delta, the port town of Thanlyin ( Syriam ) and parts of eastern Bengal.
But the advance came to a sudden halt at the French-defended main port city of Syriam ( Thanlyin ), which repelled several Konbaung charges.
) Moreover, while Alaungpaya was merciless in his sacks of Syriam and Pegu where the moats " ran red with gore ", he reappointed Mon governors elsewhere who submitted.
In 1979 a pipeline was completed between Syriam and the Mann oilfield.
The community was established in Syriam ( now known as Thanlyin ) on the outskirts of modern-day Yangon.
Alongside Pegu and later Syriam, it was one of the most important ports in Burma till the eighteenth century.

had and refinery
Strikes by producers at harvest time in 1991 forced the closure of the Choluteca refinery for a short time but had little effect on the depressed long-term outlook for the industry.
" On June 24, 2008, Governor Charlie Crist announced that the State of Florida had arranged to buy for $ 1. 75 billion the company's, including the refinery in Clewiston.
The refinery has had several owners since the 1970s-Exxon sold the refinery to Quantum Resources Management LLC March 2004.
The area selected to house the sugar refinery had several key features:
In the early 20th century the plantation at Reserve had the largest sugar refinery in the United States.
When the news broke that northwest Ohio had oil, Standard Oil of Cleveland decided to build a refinery in Lima.
Previously William Hagee had been a refinery worker at the Humble Oil Refinery in Baytown, Texas.
In a locally-published book, " Picnic Point Pathways ", author Sandy Sandborg says that the decision was probably influenced by the environmental battle that Richfield Oil Company had with its planned refinery development at Kayak Point, north of Everett, during the 1960s.
Since coming of age, Michael had assumed financial independence and his assets included the largest sugar refinery in the country, capital amounting to millions of roubles, a collection of motor vehicles, and country estates at Otrovo in Russian Poland and Brasovo near Orel.
In 1994 Sunoco acquired the Philadelphia Chevron Oil refinery consolidating operations with its own adjacent which it had acquired with Atlantic.
By 1911 APOC had run a pipeline from the find to a refinery at Abadan.
In March 1999, Koch Petroleum Group acknowledged that it had negligently dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of aviation fuel into wetlands from its refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, and that it had illegally dumped a million gallons of high-ammonia wastewater onto the ground and into the Mississippi River.
The Lago refinery was located on the east end of the island and on the west end Royal Dutch Shell had a small refinery, the Eagle Refinery which closed soon after World War II.
They included Mozzafar Baghai, head of the worker-based Toilers party ; Hussein Makki, who had helped lead the takeover of the Abadan refinery and was at one point considered Mosadegh's heir apparent ; and most outspokenly Ayatollah Kashani, who damned Mosaddegh with the " vitriol he had once reserved for the British ".
The pollution created by the refinery has also had adverse health effects on the residents of Richmond, including relatively high rates of respiratory diseases and cancer when compared to the state and national averages, and the health issues related to emergency spills.
It was reported the refinery had lost $ 1 million per day since the beginning of the year.
Over the years the Mint had used different processes to recover and sell the silver often found in unrefined gold, but, in 2006, the Mint opened a new, state-of-the-art silver refinery that finally allowed it to refine silver.
In the early 20th century, Trzebinia had oil refinery, power plant, and cement mill.
In 1965 the industrial platform Buzău South was inaugurated, on 318 ha of land, in the area where the Saturn refinery previously had existed, before being blown up during World War II.

had and Burmah
In it, he was informed that the King had knighted him as Sir Topaz, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah.
), by finding for the Dawsons and favouring the Westminster rule, had wrongly limited the Ramsay Principle ( as it had been expressed by Lord Diplock in a case called IRC v. Burmah Oil Co. Ltd .).
In this case, the Burmah Oil group had suffered a genuine loss on the sale of an investment.
The judges were quite clear that they would have found in favour of Burmah Oil, and against the IRC, had it not been for the decision in the Ramsay case, some months before.

had and Oil
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
The following week, Ross McCollum, president of the National Oil Company, wrote an open letter to Dabney House stating that in light of their actions he had decided not to donate one million dollars to Caltech.
In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.
An intended drinking water well at Oil Springs, Ontario found oil in 1858, a year before the Drake well, but it had not been drilled for oil.
Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.
Oil production had reached a level of 560, 000 m³ ( 3. 5 million barrels ) per day, and oil revenues were 21 billion in 1979 and 27 G $ in 1980.
By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.
The fact that rebates had been given was not contested ; what was at issue was whether Standard Oil knew the railroad's posted rates, and if it had a duty to enquire if it did not.
In 1935, Socony Vacuum Oil opened the huge Mammoth Oil Port on Staten Island which had a capacity of handling a quarter of million gallons of petroleum products a year and could transship oil from ocean going tankers and river barges
* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US $ 10. 53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
Oil had been discovered there by Standard Oil Company in the 1920s, and people wondered whether an immense pool of oil was lying beneath the entire area.
The family had become quite wealthy by the time Trudeau was in his teens, as his father sold his prosperous gas station business to Imperial Oil.
Henry Rogers was a self-made man, who had risen from a modest working-class family to become a principal of Standard Oil, and had become one of the richest men in the United States.
In the 1970s, Hollings joined with fellow senators Kennedy and Henry M. Jackson in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.
Carl Bildt joined the Board of Directors of Lundin Oil AB in 2000, after serious concerns had surfaced that the oil industry was exacerbating the war in Sudan.
Lundin Oil was the lead operator of a consortium that worked in an area that had become the centre stage of Sudan's civil war.
Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the legendary Mellon family fortune ; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The acquired company had previously bought a half interest in the American Oil Company, which marketed half of PAT's oil in the United States.
Bolivia invaded in July 1932 and, despite its legitimate claim to what historically had been its territory, its government's ties to Standard Oil of New Jersey ( with whom the Argentine government was in dispute over its alleged pirating of oil in Salta Province ) led Buenos Aires to withhold diplomatic efforts until, in June 1935, a cease-fire was signed.
This was a name that had previously been used as a nickname for the Edmonton Oil Kings in the 1950s and 1960s.

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