John McCain touts offshore drilling as a solution to producing more oil, and recently held a press conference on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to make his point.
Given the amount of bad press the oil sands get, this could come as a shocker.
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Alaskans generally support Palin's program, and they like how she's tried to press the oil companies to share more of the wealth with the state.
Thus, the story about the drop in oil prices that the press yammered on about all day seemed more than a little silly by the time the closing bell rang at the corner of Broad and Wall.
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Yet Feng Xiaoyuan, Feng Bingxian and Wang Shijun, who had been on their way to becoming oil millionaires, continued to press their case.
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The deal for Mariner is even larger with 181M proven barrels of oil equivalent (47 percent are oil or other hydrocarbon liquids), but according to the press release there is the potential of 2B barrels of oil equivalent among their 50 deepwater prospects.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) said in a press release late Thursday that it has found the equivalent of 700 million barrels of oil in deep water Gulf of Mexico at the Keathley Canyon bloc it runs together with ExxonMobil (XOM) and Italian oil firm Eni.
Iran lashed back Wednesday, cutting off crude oil exports to Germany, state-run Press TV reported.
Along the way McCain might rethink his press-pandering opposition to ANWR oil exploration.
Much has been written about the many steps BP could have taken to prevent if not the oil spill at least the negative press and the reputational fallout.
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Now, to be fair, it was put together by a group with dot-org in its name, and it did a pretty impressive job of getting high-profile press for an arcane piece of oil-industry infrastructure.
Chevron was slammed in the press for the accident, though the oil sheen was cleaned off the surface of the Atlantic in less than two weeks and no oil washed up on the famed Rio de Janeiro beaches.
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The government denied claims it refused to press for compensation because of fears of jeopardising oil deals with Libya.
So, on June 8 Anderson sent a press release claiming an extension on leases for oil and gas acreage in Erath County, Tex.
Speaking at a press conference, Mr Cameron called the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a "catastrophe" and said it was in the interests of both countries that the company is successful.
While BP is on the receiving end of a deluge of bad press in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and with so much risk built into Europe right now, fellow U.S. supermajors whose valuations and yields have improved may be better plays right now.
In the press release, the company made no notice of rising oil prices, as consumers feel the pain at the pump.
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Just a short walk from the sea, Said has a breezy Mediterranean feel offering Greek-style salads with their hummus drenched in olive oil, which is made from the owner's own olive press.
Meanwhile, recent comments by Hayward, including the acknowledgment that the oil giant was not equipped with the proper tools to handle the disaster surrounding the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, have resulted in some bad press and increased the public's ire toward the company, leading BP to host a conference call with worried investors Friday.
Afterward, Algeria's military continued to clear mines planted by militants, the official Algerian Press Service reported, citing the country's state-owned oil and gas company.
We should not be thrown any red-herrings that we need not press-on toward a future that is far less dependent on oil, and indeed a better planned use of energy in all its forms.
Press reports say up to 8.3 billion barrels of undersea oil reserves could lie in the Falklands economic zone -- a radius of 320-kilometers around the islands, but despite successful drilling, this quantity is still speculative.
According to some press reports the attack at Abiteye in Delta State was carried out by oil thieves angry that the military Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta is succeeding in its effort to stop illegal oil bunkering in the area, thereby jeopardising the livelihood of local bandits who often masquerade as militants.
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Press reports have confused different sources of Iraq's illicit income during the oil-for-food years.
It issued a press release in January trumpeting new technology that cheaply upgrades the kind of heavy oil found in Venezuela and mined out of Canada's tar sands with rapid applications of heat using sand as the heat carrier.
While many oil stocks rallied on the news, President Obama dampened the mood Thursday afternoon when he held a press conference.
Daniel Becnel asked that the growing number of cases against oil companies BP, Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron be combined and heard in Louisiana, the Associated Press news agency reported.
So we will continue to press BP and draw on our best minds and resources to capture the rest of the oil until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely.
The rebels may also press north-west into Bahr el-Ghazal province, the cradle of Sudan's oil deposits.
The international press, as well as a recent report commissioned by the Canadian government, have concluded that oil development resources are being used for military purposes, including roads, airstrips and aircraft.
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