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.
Because Jamestown was built on traditional hunting grounds of the Algonkin Indians, trouble arose soon after their arrival. By the winter of 1607, only 38 out of the original 104 settlers were still alive. Food shortages were making unbearable situations even worse. Jamestown was on the brink of collapse until JOHN SMITH formulated plans to procure Indian corn and other foods via trade.