Chevron installed gear to trap the oil.

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Rather than negotiate, the north declares that it will use its new oil wealth to stock up on military gear and win a victory on the battlefield.

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Plastic barrels, fishing gear and nets, and one full barrel of used diesel oil were also among the items collected.

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Today the Big Oil consortium created to devise new deepwater oilwell containment gear announced that it has completed its new system and is ready to deploy it in the Gulf of Mexico.

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If they do strike oil, however, they might invest a bit more and put the drilling gear in place.

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In time, says Simmons, he envisions turbines spinning on hundreds of those gulf platforms, which would be outfitted with gear to make ammonia at sea and send it to shore through pipelines now used for oil and gas.

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The company overhauled many of Conroe's wells, and put in new fluid-handling gear--important considering that what was coming out of the ground averaged just 2% oil to 98% water.

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China also happens to be the source of much of this new military spending, as its neighbours gear up defence spending to keep Sino-ambitions in check and to protect assets, including oil fields, in disputed waters.

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