Still more newly discovered microbes that live in oil or natural gas wells might increase the efficiency of existing drilling and mining.
Craig Venter (famed for his work on decoding the human genome) are collaborating on a study of naturally occurring organisms that live in oil, natural gas, coal and other underground hydrocarbon formations.
People are exposed to that risk not just as consumers but also as homeowners (if they live in an oil town or a cold spot) and as workers (if they build oil rigs or design suvs).
No one will forget the live camera feed of oil spewing out into the ocean.
And just think about this: Sometime down the line, you could potentially live in a converted oil silo as your primary residence and keep a waterfront vacation property at a retrofitted oil rig.
They range in age from 40 to 91, hail from diverse industries such as fashion and oil, and live in five different countries.
After his parents' divorce, he moved from Evansville, Indiana to Houma to live with his father during the oil boom in the early 1980s.
The way we live our lives would dramatically change if oil-based energy becomes economically out of reach.
The chief of staff, Yousef Mangoush, organized a more professional border guard unit to patrol there as well as a separate unit to guard critical infrastructure facilities like oil fields and barracks where foreign oil company employees work and live.
The oil and gas industry has to live with that uncertainty all the time.
To date, approximately 500 live turtles have been rescued during the Gulf oil spill, and more than 450 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil.
The town outside the oilfields, Deadhorse, started because of oil, and you don't live there unless you have something to do with the industry, whether it's repair work or cooking for the workers or running the small amount of tourism that takes the trek north.
What will it take for us to realise that the doom-mongers and peak-oil theorists are wrong, and that we live in an era of energy abundance?
That said, if you play your cards right, you could end up like one former oil company executive and his wife, who live in a guest cottage on a 3, 500-acre Litchfield County, Conn.
I've been around long enough to live through three of these recessions, in the '70s when oil prices spiked, then the other one, I think, in the early '90s.
And as we live in the most economically advanced country in the world, wherever oil is discovered, a lot of it ends up in the U.S. as a reward for our productivity.
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All these birds can live decades and take years to mature, so adult birds killed by oil this year will mean populations reduced for years to come.
Some live in quickly developing economies like India and Indonesia, some sit on vast oil wealth and some are newly middle-class Americans and Europeans.
Live video taken by robots at the well site appeared Thursday to show more oil being released than in prior days, but authorities said they didn't know whether the flow actually had increased.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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Auctions are also happening in Lagos, where oil and banking have made a few very rich, though most people still live in grinding poverty.
Mr Chavez was first elected in 1998, and re-elected in 2000 with 60%, promising to use oil revenues to improve conditions for the 80% of 24 million population who live in poverty.
De Margerie singled out Brazil, criticizing its new policies on offshore oil concessions, where he says Petrobras aims to partner up with other oil companies based solely on how little return on capital they are willing to live with.
"A lot of the people who live around the lake are fisherman, they have no skills at all to work in an oil industry, " he says.
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For years before Deepwater Horizon the oil industry planned on the basis that the blowout preventers on top of wells would live up to their name.
Oil has become a problem for indigenous communities such as the U'Wa, who live in the eastern provinces of Arauca, Casanare, Santander, Norte de Santander and Boyaca.
Akerele says that although the reality in Nigeria is that most people live in poverty, the rise of sectors such as telecommunications and the diversification of the Nigerian economy beyond oil and gas has created an emerging middle class with bigger spending power.
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Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.
Oil is one business where -- as it used to be said about marriage -- two can live as cheaply as one.
The Bank claims that exploiting oil resources is one of the few development options open to Chad, where 80% of the people live on less than a dollar a day, and 90% of the country is desert or semi-arid.
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