Experts study whether oxygen tank exploded on jet MANILA, Philippines - Australian investigators are focusing on the possibility that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on a Qantas jumbo jet that made an emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage, officials said Sunday. Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Fla. coast PENSACOLA, Fla. - Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. Iraq nears first major oil service deals BAGHDAD - Iraq is close to signing oil service deals with several major Western oil companies in an effort to boost its output capacity, the country's oil ministry said Thursday -- the first major Iraqi contracts with big Western companies since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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