Mr Wang raised capital from relatives and friends to drill that first well, which produced 60 barrels of crude a day.
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The Pegasus pipeline can carry 90, 000 barrels of crude a day.
In time they buried some 380, 000 miles of pipelines throughout the United States, which now handle 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 20 million barrels of crude a day, removing a crucial variable from the supply chain and stabilizing markets.
Bakken crude is a sweet, light crude that typically has a gravity of 40 to 42 degrees, ideal for most U.S. refineries.
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Diffrient, now 75, happened to have a crude prototype for a new office chair.
They trained rhesus monkeys on a task that was, in a crude sense, a monkey IQ test.
It had a crude prototype of a digital camera as early as 1975 and in the mid-1990s helped Apple develop its QuickTake 100 digital camera.
Behind the bland faade of a nondescript office park, a visitor is using a joystick to point at a crude graphic of a spring rendered on the screen of an ordinary PC.
The cost of a barrel of North Sea Brent crude hit a record before pulling back Thursday when priced in euros and British pounds, two currencies that have been weakening of late.
Ecuador exports a heavy sour crude called Napo and a medium-heavy, medium-sour crude called Oriente that is produced in the northeast of the country.
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Because, says Chellaney, that test was done with a crude fission device detonated without a warhead.
He held out a crude, lumpy cigar: a Pelo de Oro ("Golden Hair").
Oil giants BP Amoco and Shell also fell sharply, carving 19 points from the FTSE 100 as a dip in crude prices sparked a bout of profit-taking.
BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.
Instead it will generate steam to extract crude from a Chevron oil field.
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Earlier in the year, a margin hike in crude also caused a sharp drop.
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda spent his early career at an oil company when crude was a dollar a barrel.
Thus crude gets a lower price there than it does if delivered elsewhere.
She had a crude face with small eyes and a large, downturned mouth, but she did not look unkind.
More than 4 million barrels of crude oil a day are shipped through the canal or an adjacent pipeline.
Over the next four weeks crude developed a broad trading range as the Spyder Trust ( SPY) completed its top.
The plan: extract 1.5 million gallons of green crude oil a year from patented pond scum fed a diet of carbon dioxide and sunlight.
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In December 2012, German police discovered a crude improvised explosive device placed in a bag on a platform at the main railway station in Bonn.
China consumed 4, 772 barrels of crude oil a day in the year 2000, and this figure grew to 8, 625 in 2009, an increase of nearly 81%.
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Semgroup handles more than 500, 000 barrels of crude oil a day in the U.S., operates two pipeline systems and has 6.7 million barrels of oil storage capacity.
We note that in 2000, China consumed 4, 772 barrels of crude oil a day and this figure increased to 8, 625 in 2009, an increase of nearly 81%.
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The solar steam is being injected into wells to make it easier to extract heavy crude from a 120-year-old oil field in the Central Valley town of Coalinga.
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Pemex produces about 3.2 million barrels of crude oil a day, of which 2.7 million barrels a day comes from the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf.
BP's Forties pipeline from the North Sea, which comes ashore at Grangemouth, carries about 700, 000 barrels of crude oil a day between a quarter and a fifth of Britain's offshore production.
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