De Margerie says that what he likes about Fort Hills is Petro-Canada's vast oil sands experience.
The question was further complicated when at just about the same time Suncor took over Petro-Canada.
Iran, mired in deficits, is in no position to help, compared to the still-flush Arab petro-monarchies.
Venezuela is moving from a relatively diverse economy into an Arab-like oil petro-tyrannical welfare state.
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Petro-Canada's chief Ron A. Brenneman declined to comment on Total's potential involvement in the Fort Hills project.
Russia is in part resurgent and Putin is feeling powerful because of petro-dollars, as Senator McCain mentioned.
Meanwhile, European businessmen were downstairs in the hotel lobby, plotting ways to profit off bountiful Libyan petro-dollars.
He hopes his recent Arabian tour will bring in billions of petro-dollars in investment and thus much-needed jobs.
High oil prices give petro-economies the wherewithal to counter discontent by dispensing largesse.
The petro-crisis has already prompted capital flight, contributing to a 12% decline in the bourse so far this year.
Then, too, petro-dollars and Western support were weak tools for fending off trouble.
The petro-pessimists' most forceful argument is that the Persian Gulf, officially home to most of the world's oil reserves, is overrated.
It's a situation that's difficult to understand considering Venezuela is a petro-state with the largest proven reserves of oil on the planet.
Gonzales also denounced that the fact that there are petro-dollars circulating in the market does not mean that the economy is strong.
Petro-addiction is in large measure an obsession with the automobile and mobility.
His passing will be a setback to the leftist and "anti-imperialist" causes that he sponsored at home and abroad using Venezuela's vast petro-wealth.
And we should all go along with the propaganda war that has been perpetrated by the petro-funded Islamist organizations and their media supporters.
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The other companies Lacey referred to include Opti Canada, Royal Dutch Shell and the Forest Hills project conducted by Petro-Canada, UTS, and Teck Cominco.
If it becomes a petro-currency, many factories will be forced to close unless the needlessly high costs of doing business in Brazil are slashed.
Brooklyn teenager Chanel Petro-Nixon left her family home at 6:30 p.m. on Father's Day 2006, to walk to an Applebee's restaurant a few blocks away.
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That, in time, would lead to lower domestic output, higher prices and greater reliance on those foreign petro-dictators, who are not Mr Obama's favourites either.
Instead of bringing the region together, petro-rivalry could drive it apart.
No longer would the petro-wealth of Arabia be used to advance Islamist fanaticism and terror - or to maintain a decadent royal family in corrupt opulence.
The petro-giants own the oil, but they rely on service companies like Weatherford to drill for it, study it and build wells and pumps to extract it.
The price of oil rises on fear and conflict, so petro-states can raise the cost virtually at will by provoking crises and conflicts -- usually with the United States.
Foreign governments may object to their banks, petro-chemical companies and power companies being seized, so we would need to develop arrangements with like-minded governments in North Korea, Cuba, etc.
Chavez was fascinated from the outset by these petro-tyrannies, their tightly controlled populations, and the fact that the world's dependence on oil enabled them "to get away with murder".
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