Given the ties the company its government have been forging with oil-rich states like Sudan, Iraq and Iran, American investors would, as a practical matter, be facilitating infusions of hard currency not only into the PRC's coffers, but into those of some of the world's most dangerous nations as well.
The oil-rich Caspian states, led by Azerbaijan, have been leasing out fields to foreign oil firms regardless of Russian bleating.
Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister, wants countries with big surpluses, such as China and the oil-rich Gulf states, to contribute more.
The oil-rich Gulf states broke off ties with Afghanistan's Taleban authorities for refusing to hand over Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington.
Lost amid the national distractions of a Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, the clock is running down on an immense sale of precision-guided munitions and other advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia and several of the smaller oil-rich Gulf States the Saudis dominate.
Officials in the oil-rich Arab states of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates view the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to their rule second only to the Shiite-led Islamic Republic of Iran because of the group's criticism of their traditional authoritarian rule.
As reported in this space last week, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt set the stage with his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Persian Gulf states.
High oil prices helped energy-rich states (Alaska, Oklahoma, New Mexico) raise revenues by more than 10%.
The strongman rules an oil-rich nation that exports 1.1 million barrels of oil to the United States per day, which amounts to 14 percent of our total oil imports.
Although his empire expands to Latin America, the United States and Europe, oil-rich Middle East countries so far have not been part of it.
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Ms. Mehta at Acadian likes the Gulf states and Kazakhstan, the oil- and mineral-rich central Asian republic, where the economy is growing quickly.
Certain resource rich Gulf States can, with the current high price of oil, afford to bathe the youth in financial largesse.
Red states Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota (and a few blue states like Ohio and Pennsylvania) are getting rich from oil and gas drilling.
Chavez, who has ruled oil-rich Venezuela since 1999, is a controversial figure with outspoken, antagonistic views toward the United States.
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