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Summer is nearly year-round in Southeast Texas so it should be no surprise that the free stuff to see and do in the sprawling metropolitan area of the nation's fourth-biggest city focuses on the outdoors.

Two Houston men think they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time when they were kidnapped overnight Wednesday while on vacation in Egypt, KPRC-TV Click2Houston reports on its website .

"The addition of CE Franklin to NOV's Canadian distribution operations will broaden our product offering and customer base, while strengthening our combined abilities to serve all of our customers," Pete Miller , National Oilwell Varco's CEO, said in a statement.

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Dyna-Drill Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Houston-based oilfield services giant Schlumberger Ltd.

Chesapeake Energy plans to sell more than 500,000 acres of leases and reduce director compensation to help eliminate debt - and pay back the $4 billion loan the company received from Goldman Sachs.

Summer is nearly year-round in Southeast Texas so it should be no surprise that the free stuff to see and do in the sprawling metropolitan area of America's fourth-biggest city focuses on the outdoors.

Summer is nearly year-round in Southeast Texas so it should be no surprise that the free stuff to see and do in the sprawling metropolitan area of the nation's fourth-biggest city focuses on the outdoors.

's stock had its "neutral" rating reiterated by Zacks in a note issued to investors on Friday.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the financial terms, which were not disclosed when the deal was announced last month , appear in Houston-based National Oilwell's quarterly financial report filed with securities regulators on May 8. The Wilson deal is National Oilwell's second significant acquisition so far this year, and the price is similar ... (more)

Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner named Miguel Galuccio, a former Schlumberger Ltd.

Schlumberger has estimated at least 200 new deepwater fields will come on line in the next four years.