HOUSTON Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Triple White , Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- American exploration and production company Apache Corp. said Thursday it will cut its capital budget by more than 57 percent this year to cope with falling oil prices.
"We have planned our budget and operations in such a way that we can dynamically manage our activity levels and capital spending to respond quickly to material changes in commodity prices," John Christmann, Apache's chief executive officer and president, said in a statement.
The company reported a 4.8 billion dollars loss in the fourth quarter of 2014, the equivalent of a 12.78 dollars loss per share, compared with earnings of 174 million dollars Nike Air Vapormax Triple White , or 43 cents per share, during the fourth quarter of 2013.
On the same day, offshore driller Hercules Offshore said it has laid off 30 percent of its workforce since October last year because of the oil crunch.
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Earlier, Halliburton Co., one of the world's largest oil-field services companies, said it will cut 5 Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Off White ,000 to 6,500 works to adjust to the falling crude prices.
That brings the number of layoffs announced by the world's four biggest oil field services in recent weeks to over 30,000 around the world, tantamount to about 9.4 percent of their overall workforce, according to the Houston Business Journal.
FREETOWN, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A senior Sierra Leonean health official has commended China's "unprecedented" anti-Ebola efforts in Africa Nike Air Vapormax Off White , saying no strings attached to China's assistance.
Dr. Brima Kargbo, the Chief Medical Officer of the country's Ministry of Health, lauded the "humanitarian and unprecedented assistance" from China to Sierra Leone since the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
Kargbo said the medical experts and the materials from China have contributed "immensely in reversing the disastrous effect of the Ebola scourge".
China has carried out its largest overseas aid program in the health area since the Ebola outbreak, providing several rounds of humanitarian aid with a combined value of more than 120 million U. S. dollars and sending hundreds of medical workers to the African frontline.
Beijing has offered another 10 million dollars in cash to international organizations as part of the global collective efforts in subduing the fatal virus.
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Kargbo mentioned the prompt delivery of the Chinese mobile lab that contributed in no small measure in testing of blood samples, which considerably reduced the suspense or waiting time to get the results.
Moreover, Chinese medical teams decided to transform the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital built at Jui, some 30 km north of the capital Freetown, to a holding center and later to a treatment center where scores of Ebola patients were cared for and survived the disease.
He went further to say that Chinese aid to developing countries like Africa is "timely and in good quality".
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The project is now completed and equipped, ready for test "for all viral diseases as well as infectious diseases," said Kargbo.
According to him, the lab will serve as the first Center for Disease Control in the country that will serve not only Sierra Leone but the West African region.
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On post-Ebola, Dr. Kargbo looked forward to Chinese assistance especially in building the health care system in the country.
NAIROBI, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- World 10,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot says she will make another double attempt at this year's Rio Olympics games.
Cheruiyot achieved double glory in the South Korean city of Deagu back in 2011 winning 10,000m and 5,000m races but failed to repeat the same feat at the London Games in 2012 to settle for silver (5 Nike Air Vapormax White ,000m) and bronze (10,000m).
But speaking on Monday in Eldoret, Cheruiyot said she wants to prove her critics wrong in Rio and has started preparations to double up in the Olympics.
"I feel strong and focused on the task ahead, which is to double in the two races. I have the strength and stamina to weather the storm and win," she said.
In London Tirunesh Dibaba and Sally Kipyego (10,000m) and Meseret Defer (5 Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Black ,000m) denied her gold, but she believes in 2016 she will get her revenge and get the only medal missing in her illustrious career, an Olympic gold medal.
"I can do it," she said. "It is possible to win in Rio if all goes well in training and I get the support of my colleagues. But that is dependent on the coaches and Athletics Kenya agreeing to enter me in to events."
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However, the two events are well split with 10,000m final coming on first day (August 12) while 5,000m round one is four days la.