The Capsule Hotel, also in the Netherlands, has its guests sleep within bright-orange, 133-square-foot oil-rig survivor pods moored in the Hague.
It was not immediately known who owns the 154-foot oil barge.
Beset by scarce credit, falling asset prices and costly food, developed-country households are hardly well-equipped to foot the oil bill.
First, though, he had to dive through a 40-foot vertical patch of murky, water-oil mixture that began 20 feet below the surface.
Gliding across Prince William Sound by kayak, you can't imagine that the 986-foot Exxon Valdez ever spewed a drop of crude oil, let alone 11 million gallons.
But the lengthy delays that have characterized negotiations over other Kazak oil and gas deals (usually due to Russian foot-dragging) are unlikely in this case.
For nine months the ship Transocean Discoverer Spirit used 360-degree rotating propellers to hold itself steady in the 3, 500-foot-deep water as diamond-tipped bits cut the deepest oil well ever--6.5 miles down.
He recently finished a home for an oil executive that included a 1, 000-square-foot trophy room for the exotic animals he'd shot in Africa.
Twenty-three years ago, amid an oil crisis and a world economic slump, the territory still had one foot in poverty.
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Germans had to foot a higher import bill, the statistics office said, no doubt because of higher oil prices.
For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
That has allowed the Russians to place a foot in other countries of the continent, looking to expand its market for its military and oil industries, as evidences the Russian delegation that recently visited Argentina.
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