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

The property covered what are now the eastern end of Ireland Yard, the bottom of Burgon Street and parts of the late 19th-century buildings at 5 Burgon Street and 5 St Andrew's Hill.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Living in the eastern United States between 83 million and 76 million years ago, Deinosuchus schwimmeri was a school-bus-sized relative of modern alligators that preyed on dinosaurs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 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

Jay later claimed that the entire eastern seaboard was illuminated each evening by protesters burning him in effigy.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis