In 1990, Zapata Offshore sold 12 of its drilling rigs to Arethusa Offshore, which a few years later merged with Diamond Offshore. Still struggling with debt by 1993, Zapata signed a deal with Norex America to raise more than $100 million through a loan and stock sale. .
HRG Group, Inc., formerly Harbinger Group Inc. and Zapata Corporation, was a based in , having originated from an company started by a group including future U.S. president .
By 1994, the company had come under Glazer's control, after a . Glazer became chairman of Zapata, replacing Ronald Lassiter, and. .
The company traced its origins to Zapata Petroleum Corporation, founded in 1953 by future U.S. President , along with his business partners John Overbey, .
Zapata sought to acquire a controlling interest in the in 1969, but was outbid by 's AMK Corp. Robert Gow's father, Ralph Gow, was on United.
[pdf] Surface drilling rigs are hydraulic drill rigs typically designed for small to medium-scale quarries and small-sized open pit mines, suitable for rock drilling applications where rock hardness exceeds F10 in aggregate quarrying, civil engineering, road construction, open pit mining, hydropower plant construction and other blasthole drilling projects.
[pdf] • : The said it was monitoring events in Vietnam closely, and urged restraint from all parties. Secretary of State , who is also a former , said the United States is "deeply concerned" that China has placed an oil rig in an area of the South China Sea also claimed by Vietnam, adding that the move was "provocative" and "aggressive".
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