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                    [Title] => Frontier Oil ups stake in SC 69
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Frontier Oil Corp. (FOC), an Australia-listed exploration company, has raised its stake and assumed operations of Service Contract (SC) 69, a move that would further strengthen its position in the upstream oil sector in the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804708 [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 844454 [Title] => Frontier Oil firms up $50-million IPO plans [Summary] =>

Upstream petroleum firm Frontier Oil Corp. (FOC) said it is finalizing plans to raise up to $50 million through an initial public offering (IPO) at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539221 [AuthorName] => Neil Jerome Morales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 821627 [Title] => Frontier Oil eyes $50M from IPO [Summary] =>

Upstream petroleum firm Frontier Oil Corp. (FOC) said it is planning to raise as much as $50 million in the local bourse through an initial public offering (IPO).

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1538806 [AuthorName] => Neil Jerome C. Morales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 754320 [Title] => Gov't, private sector cooperate to control banana disease [Summary] =>

The government and the private sector have joined hands to control a plant disease that has been threatening to devastate the local banana industry.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 432238 [Title] => Plant disease can wipe out local banana industry [Summary] =>

A plant disease that can wipe out the country’s banana industry is here. It is named Panama wilt, also known as Fusarium wilt of banana.

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Since the Philippines accounts for most of the seafarers worldwide, a substantial number of them often wind up onboard FOC ships, or those registered in a country other than the country of ownership where registration fees are cheap, taxes are low (or none at all), and restrictions on the employment of cheap labor are lax.
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The shift, others say, comes even as the shipping industry remains fraught with health and safety risks. Medical studies show evidence of an increased risk of mortality among seafarers, with ordinary crew members having higher mortality than officers.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653036 [AuthorName] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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