Sub-Industry: Oil & Gas Services & Equip. Tuscany International Drilling Inc. provides oil field services. The Company provides contract oil field drilling, workover, and equipment rental services. Tuscany offers its products to oil and gas exploration and production companies in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil.
... near abandonment (1609â11) George Percy, governor of the Jamestown Colony during the Starving Time, engraving. In the autumn of 1609, after Smith left, Chief Powhatan began a campaign to starve the English out of Virginia. Thethe Starving Time, engraving.
By 1675, prosperous Virginia was one of the brightest jewels in the crown of England's growing overseas empire. But Virginia did not start out so profitably. In fact, the colony's first years were miserable, marked by economic disaster, devastating outbreaks of disease, and even starvation. Only 38 of the 105 settlers deposited in Jamestown in 1607 survived the first winter.