Now it appears that some of that mineral wealth may exist in the form of oil.
And this despite sitting upon history's biggest free lunch in the form of oil wealth.
Dr. Urbina prescribes a prescription form of fish oil pills to help reduce triglycerides.
Finally, stocks can be in the form of crude oil of various grades, products or a mixture of the two.
Its abundant natural resources, in the form of crude oil and natural gas, position the country as a key energy supplier to Europe.
Italian pasta and Indian rice are sold alongside milk powder from Dubai and reminders of recent aid dependency in the form of cooking oil from the World Food Programme.
Amarin, which makes a new form of fish oil called Vascepa, could have marketing difficulties because doctors will draw comparisons between the niacin story and that for fish oil medicines, which showed benefit in early, open-label studies but have failed in more recent rigorous ones.
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China is pushing exploration of shale gas by encouraging domestic producers to form partnerships with foreign oil and gas companies.
Put those two trends together and we find that roughly the same amounts of energy are now delivered in the form of electricity and oil.
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You read that right: scientists have created bugs which are able to snack on woodchips or sugar cane and produce waste in the form of easily malleable oil.
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The Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets report says the listed companies analysed own 762 billion tonnes of CO2 in the form of coal, oil and gas.
High prices tend to encourage oil companies to go out and look for more oil, invest more heavily in exploration technologies, and those usually bear fruit in the form of massive volumes of new oil, which depresses the price.
We guess this squeaky wheel received its oil in the form of a giant cash payment.
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Sapphire Energy's answer is a form of "green crude oil" made from algae, which can be grown on non-agricultural land in shallow paddies full of undrinkable saline water.
BP's belief is that the oligarchs regret the way they frustrated last year's attempt by the British oil giant to form a joint venture with the Russian state-owned energy colossus, Rosneft, which could have involved Rosneft buying out the oligarchs.
Aron was Semgroup's biggest counterparty, trading both physical oil flowing through pipelines and paper oil, in the form of options and futures.
Russia's petro-giants, GAZPROM and LUKOIL, along with Venezuela's PDVSA, recently agreed to form what will be the largest oil consortium in the world.
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The government, keen to double production to over 800, 000 barrels per day, has pledged to allow cash-strapped Petroecuador, the state oil company, to form joint ventures with private-sector firms.
Changes in perception may be needed as JTC are now looking into heading downwards for spaces housing people -- rather than oil -- in the form of an underground science city.
Another rationalization under consideration: combining the oil and gas operation with PreussenElektra to form a single, integrated energy operation.
At a reduced flow, oil in the pipeline can freeze or form into a waxy buildup, raising the risk of interruptions and spills.
But Renard, 42, believes the oil-producing country can reproduce the form that saw them rub shoulders with the world's elite at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
But there is nothing to stop the oil companies from simply taking this in the form of higher prices themselves.
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A. moved to reduce surface ozone, a form of pollution caused, in part, by emissions from oil refineries.
For example, if Canadian jobs are being created to export oil to China while Canadians themselves consume some other form of energy, that's still a net increase in employment from tar sands.
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We are looking for affirmative solutions that will strengthen our nation by freeing us from our dependence on foreign oil, and spurring a wave of entrepreneurial growth in the form of alternate energy programs.
Urbanchuk did a study comparing a price hike for oil against the same price hike for corn, which in some form or another shows up in a lot of food.
Crude oil and precious metals stabilized last week, as they are trying to form short-term bottoms.
The remaining oil is treated with an alkali to remove free fatty acids (which form a soap).
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