While Shell is widely believed to control more territory worldwide, BP holds far more of the estimated future reserves in the Gulf.
The Territorial Army (TA) and other smaller units are expected to remain, although the MoD said an ongoing review was considering the future basing of reserves.
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Operators must keep huge reserves against future medical claims.
That had the effect of boosting AIG's premiums and also its reserves to pay future claims.
Little has been done to clean up the state budget deficit and create reserves for the future.
Regulators vow to force banks to disclose such promises more openly and increase their reserves against potential future losses from this activity.
The conflict is especially sharp with a traditional "income rule" trust, a popular format that allocates investment income (say, from bonds) to current heirs and reserves principal for future heirs.
As Expedia expands in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, it is considering new social media and mobile platforms as well as loyalty programs that could drain cash reserves in the future.
Taxes paid by the other two-fifths, he figures, could be recycled back into the Social Security system and would not only ease the current cash squeeze but also help build reserves for the future.
This lessens the chance that the company will get into a bind that will force it to cut back on exploration and acquisitions -- and leave it with too little oil and gas reserves to meet future debt service.
Looking to invest their extensive cash reserves into financing their future growth, deep-pocketed corporate acquirers have traditionally been the biggest buyers of PE assets.
With China's energy reserves insufficient to meet future demand at home, there are incentives for such expansionism even if some foreign oil companies are beginning suspect that the South China Sea's oil riches may be more fabled than real.
The ideal miner will produce at a low cost per ounce and will possess significant reserves to exploit in the future.
If estimates of undiscovered resources and future improvements in technology are included, reserves are likely to last well into the next century.
These papers may show whether a company's independent auditors considered its tax strategy risky enough to require that reserves be set aside for future IRS claims.
In Bolivia's case, Morales is exploiting the "indigenous cause" tapping into people's sensitivities while the real problem is the future of the country's gas reserves which need investment to keep up with production.
Besides saving money for the trust funds and helping to trim the overall budget deficit in the short run, a limit on future increases could also help build up reserves to soften the 21st century's demographic crunch.
EU. But he is not terribly keen on the more limited form of flexibility either, which reserves the right to opt out of future developments that Britain finds uncongenial.
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Previously there were reports that the United States and the U.K. had agreed on a coordinated oil release from the strategic reserves at an undetermined time in the future.
Professor HAYNE LELAND (Finance, University of California-Berkeley): It's a reflection of the fact that they either have recently achieved or are likely to achieve in the near future additional infusions of equity which basically provide additional reserves to back up their insurance.
In future, Shell will use external experts to verify its reserves annually a practice currently used by Russian and Chinese oil companies to boost their credibility.
The regulation boosted reserves that insurance companies are required to hold against future liabilities under life insurance obligations.
The snag is that a small revaluation is likely to increase expectations of another future appreciation, attracting yet more speculative capital and swelling foreign reserves further.
Even assuming robust domestic demand growth and limited future discoveries, Israel will enjoy a large supply buffer once current reserves are developed.
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So many people believe that the future of conservation in Kenya lies in this new breed of private reserves -- there are at least 15 such conservancies in north Kenya alone.
The truth is radically different: Unless the United States is able in the future to obtain additional plutonium (either through isotope separation of existing reserves or through new production) and to resume production of highly enriched uranium, this country will be unable to meet its currently projected military requirements.
's chief executive said last week that he expects to add new barrels of oil to its reserves from "several major deep-water projects" in future years.
This last trend, that of gold as an alternate monetary asset, will be furthered by nations seeking to diversify their reserves as a reaction to a falling dollar with an uncertain future ahead of it.
Central banks can lend their gold reserves to bullion dealers who then lend them to producers to hedge future sales, but this typically yields only 1-2%, well below market interest rates.
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