Cuba's Deepwater Oil Exploration Could Be a Game Changer

<p style="text-align: justify;">People who follow the oil industry are closing watching a pair of news items, both involving drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico.Earlier this week, the Obama administration said Noble Energy (NBL) could restart drilling operations at its Santiago well in the Gulf. The announcement will make Noble the first company to resume drilling in the region since last April's BP (BP) Deepwater Horizon disaster -- and the first since the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf was lifted last October. Read More

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Che's motorcycle companion dies at 88

<p style="text-align: justify;">Argentine scientist and writer Alberto Granado Romero, whose travels with Ernesto Che Guevara through South America were documented in the book and film "The Motorcycle Diaries," died in his sleep Saturday in Havana. He was 88.In December 1951, Granado, then 30, joined Guevara on a nine-month journey up the western coast of South America aboard Granado's motorcycle, "La Poderosa." At the end of their trip, in Venezuela, Guevara returned to Argentina and Granado remained in Caracas. Read More

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