eastern

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On a sticky morning in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, Koustav Bagchi moves from door to door in a crisp white and red traditional attire, a fish in hand.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

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

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

He was on a pirate ship that raided ports up and down the eastern seaboard back in the early seventeen hundreds.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein