Both have significant oil and mineral wealth, which has played an important role in facilitating their independence.
One theory is that both shares and oil have been rising in response to common factors: buoyant economic growth and profits, and low interest rates.
Meantime, crude oil prices traded both sides of unchanged Monday, but the oil bulls still have the overall near-term technical advantage, which is an underlying positive for the precious metals.
Ireland's Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte concedes that the take is much lower than in the UK, or Norway, both of which have much greater resources of oil and gas.
Both the oil cartel Opec and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have raised their forecasts for oil demand next year, but they say economic growth and hence demand for oil is set to remain relatively subdued in the developed world.
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric and U.K. oil company BP, both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
Both environmentalists and oil-and-coal industry lobbyists have said they would approve of an internal choice, such as Bob Perciasepe, currently the No. 2 EPA official.
Over the last two years McMoRan and Energy XXI, its exploration partner, have seen their shares surge and collapse with both oil and gas prices and also their success with the drill bit.
The emergence of unconventional oil and gas will have tremendous impacts on both the energy industry and the economy.
It is commonly understood that the fragile East European economies have been dealt a debilitating blow by both the increase in oil prices and the cutbacks in contracted Soviet deliveries.
Both Brumleys have spent much of their lives muck-deep in the oil patch.
ConocoPhillips, the Houston-based operator of the wells in the Penglai 19-3 field, says only 1, 500 barrels of oil had been released in the incidents and that both leaks have been brought under control.
And so, referendum optimists have been telling me since springtime, the bidding wars for both the oil and the export pathways would provide the new state with all the economic autonomy and prosperity it needed.
It is a common, if sad tale, that when oil prices get unpleasantly high, presidents of both political parties have on occasion (and perhaps more often than we know), appealed to Saudi Arabia to increase production.
Both the US and EU have since lobbied countries around the world to block Iranian oil imports.
This shortfall could have been handled with relative ease but for the fact that both government and private oil inventories were at all-time lows.
Cookies and motor oil don't appear to have much in common, but both are low-growth industries with basically interchangeable products, where strong brand names are key.
Many of the state's legendary fishing grounds have already reopened, but fears remain about the oil spill's effects both on species and on customers, who now fear that all Gulf fish are tainted.
China warned Washington this week not to get involved in South China Sea territorial disputes, loaded, of course, with oil and gas and have set China against the Philippines and Japan who both claim rights to the tiny energy rich islands in the sea.
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Both have an interest in the security of the Gulf but also in depending less on its oil.
But France and Russia have a list of oil contracts waiting to go ahead once sanctions are lifted, and both countries are among Iraq's biggest creditors.
Both of these efforts loan guarantees for agricultural and oil and gas equipment sales have little to do with impelling democratization or free market reforms.
Both of these efforts -- loan guarantees for agricultural and oil and gas equipment sales -- have little to do with impelling democratization or free market reforms.
Since the ruble tends to strengthen when the price of oil rises, because the Russian budget and economy are both so heavily dependent on energy exports, you would expect that a tripling in the price of oil would have significantly boosted the ruble.
Although Iran and Russia both want the main pipeline that will take Caspian oil to western markets to go through their own territory, they have come together hoping to resist American attempts to make sure it runs through neither (see article).
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) and U.K. oil company BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
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