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Mindful markets and civil society will complete it as inexorably as innovators and capitalists got America off whale-oil lamps in the 1850s.
Now news of the off-shore oil find has provided a bubble of optimism and a hope that some lengthy wish lists will be addressed.
Some of the more creative submissions so far include Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Khan Academy, Jang Song Thaek and OGX, the Brazilian off-shore oil and gas company.
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The city, like the rest of Brazil, is booming, not only due to the recent discovery of off-shore oil fields, but also because two huge global events are coming to Rio over the next few years.
Oil interests claim the Clinton administration is in fact planning to declare the Arctic Refuge as a national monument off-limits to oil development.
Yet earlier this month the Interior Department released a new five-year plan that puts most of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits for oil drilling.
Most of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf is off-limits to oil and gas exploration and production, even though there are upward of 100 billion barrels of oil and immense amounts of natural gas estimated to be there.
While the exact extent of Lithuania's exposure to such Soviet extortion cannot be determined with confidence, (3) evidently at least the Kremlin believes that a cut-off of oil from the Soviet Union would have a serious impact on the Lithuanian economy.
Elliott has said it wants Hess to boost shareholder value through various means, including a potential spin-off of the oil company's holdings in North Dakota's Bakken shale-oil field.
Gibbs sold off his second-rate oil and gas fields and renamed the company.
Many of the most promising areas for exploration, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, are in effect off-limits to Western oil firms.
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With existing fields declining, and Washington keeping new fields off-limits, Big Oil is bailing on Alaska or at least some of its historically prolific regions.
The idea of obtaining more energy from off-shore and Arctic oil and gas deposits and accelerating the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants will continue to receive at least presidential lip service.
The P-36 was located in an especially oil-rich area off the coast of Rio de Janiero, and was expected to produce 180, 000 barrels per day in the near future, making the explosion an even greater loss.
When it comes, we will not see a steep drop off in oil supply but a so-called "undulating plateau" with oil companies responding to rising prices by finding new and novel ways to wring more oil out of the ground.
And America, South Korea and Japan agreed jointly to cut off the supply of fuel-oil under a 1994 agreement until it does.
That all changed in 2004-2005, when transportation costs suddenly rocketed as oil prices blasted off to all-time highs.
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In commodity markets, oil futures edged higher, shrugging off a bigger-than-expected increase in U.S. oil inventories that highlighted the weak pace of demand in the world's biggest oil consumer.
The oil sell-off was a important catalyst for the jumps made by the major indexes on Tuesday.
Might their deaths be connected to the oil-drilling off the coast of Kazakhstan?
Extrapolate that problem to the Gulf's 4, 000 rigs (where 60% of oil and 40% of gas production remains off-line) and Katrina's impact will be felt on the American oil patch for many yearsto come.
Extrapolate that problem to the Gulf's 4, 000 rigs (where 60% of oil and 40% of gas production remains off-line) and Katrina's impact will be felt on the American oil patch for many years to come.
The second thing buoying MLPs is that there's a buyer's market for pipelines and other so-called midstream assets, which asset-cutting big oil companies and bankruptcy-mired Enron are selling off.
The series, "Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, " kicked off last July with a three-part narrative about the oil spill and the environmental impacts of a type of oil called diluted bitumen, or dilbit.
"Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters -- the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, " the report says.
And its threats--like the recent taunt by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to cut off oil shipments to the West if the U.S. attacks Iran--can rattle international markets.
And its threats--like the recent taunt by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to cut off oil shipments to the West if the U.S. attacks Iran--have the power to rattle international markets.
Gulf Restoration Network believes further steps must be taken immediately to ensure the safety of oil drilling in deep off-shore waters.
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