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BP starts up Na Kika Phase 3 in ultra-deepwater Gulf Of Mexico

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Na Kika Phase 3 is BP’s third new major upstream project to begin production so far in 2014, following the earlier start-ups of the Chirag Oil project in Azerbaijan and the Mars B project in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the past five years, BP has invested nearly $50 billion in the US—more than any other energy company, it says.

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Devon Energy and BP Enter Into $7.0B Property Sales Agreement and Oil Sands Joint Venture

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Devon Energy Corporation has entered into agreements to sell all of its assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and Azerbaijan to BP for $7.0 In Azerbaijan, acquisition of Devon’s 5.63% stake in the ACG development will increase BP’s operating interest in the fields to 39.77%. billion in cash.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. But he never expected it to be used in consumer products, which today is perhaps its biggest application, thanks to Japanese electronics companies. Research in Iran was nonexistent.” Vital Statistics Name Lotfi A. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb.