The sheets are then soaked in oil, which penetrates the rubber and creates oil-filled cavities around each of the balls, allowing them to rotate freely.
Page turning was slow and was accompanied by a distracting flash of black as the microspheres dived down into their oil-filled nodules before forming new text.
He manned one of the oil-filled trenches that were burned to obscure the Baghdad skies in an attempt to hinder the Iraqi capital's bombing by coalition warplanes.
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Dr Schulton said that the demands of the tourist industry - fearing television pictures of oil-filled beaches - meant that "sound" planning in environmental terms was not carried out.
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Some received bottles shaped like oil derricks, filled with black crude purportedly from "their" wells.
Mr Putin has been lucky to enjoy an oil boom that filled up state coffers and fanned economic growth.
Trenches have reportedly been dug around Iraqi cities and filled with oil, which, when set ablaze, could confuse laser-guided munitions.
We washed and filled a pan with oil and waited as it heated, fingering the slotted spoon with its scarred plastic handle.
"One of the engineers ran up covered in oil, running through the dining room and smoke filled the dining room and everybody was evacuated and given life jackets, " she said.
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When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged directly to the people of Alaska.
These days my pack is filled with a small container of olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper and fresh fruit rather than packets of dehydrated beans and rice or bags of quick-cooking oatmeal flavored with desiccated strawberries.
The 1, 700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project -- which would extend current oil pipeline networks from Alberta, Canada's bitumen-filled ground, all the way across the United States to the Gulf of Mexico -- exposed partisan and regional divisions within Congress during Obama's first term.
For their calculations, the two assumed that where there was a gap between demand and conventional supply it would be filled with synthetic fuels, first with tar-sands oil and later with oil from coal and shale. (According to high-end estimates, coal and oil shale could together yield some ten trillion barrels of unconventional crude.) They then calculated what the impact would be on global carbon-dioxide levels.
While the headlines are filled with talk of solar, wind and ethanol, the oil and gas industry is quietly gambling billions of dollars that natural gas and its controversial liquefied counterpart will replace oil and coal in the energy economy of the future.
Fracking of oil and natural gas has created, directly and indirectly, more than a million high-paying jobs and has filled entire states, such as North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania, with boom towns, while repairing their public finances.
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