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.
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Jamestown served as the Colony of Virginia's capital from 1616 to 1699. Between 1609 and 1610 approximately 80% of the colonists at Jamestown died from starvation and disease. Although Jamestown was the first successful permanent English settlement in the United States, it wasn't the first permanent settlement. The Spanish founded St. Augustine in Florida in 1565.