eastern

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Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and TotalEnergies are looking closely at new drilling prospects in Africa, South America and the eastern Mediterranean that could refill their reserves for the next decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

In the month of March, rainfall was broadly below average in eastern and south-east England, April has started even drier.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Their work focuses on sedimentary rocks from the Appalachian basin in the eastern United States.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

The roughly 1,000-mile-long pipeline began operations in 1950, connecting oilfields of eastern Saudi Arabia to the port of Sidon in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

More than a thousand years before Christ, near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great city very rich and powerful, second to none on earth.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton