The oil pressure will force it up into the heart of the stack of valves.
The caisson could not simply be capped, because the oil pressure would blow its suction pile out of the sea floor.
Serious near-term technical damage was inflicted in the crude oil market Wednesday, to suggest still more downside price pressure for oil in the near term.
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It is powered by an engine which drives a hydraulic pump to send oil under high pressure around its plumbing in order to animate its limbs.
Oil producers added pressure in the market after Brent futures on Thursday recorded its lowest settlement price since December 2010 and WTI crude notched its lowest settlement since October 2011.
Peak Oil means that, on balance, fields around the world that are young and still under high gas pressure, thus expanding their oil output, are equaled by older declining fields with lower pressure, which are forced to let their output slip each year.
Two of six terminals are badly wrecked, and old oil reservoirs have lost pressure.
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Oil companies are under pressure to ensure stable supplies and meet rising emission standards.
Yet a falling oil price puts more pressure on Iran's economy at a stroke than have several years of international sanctions.
The well is gushing because of the pressure the oil is under in its reservoir 4, 300 metres below the sea bed.
Higher oil prices and inflationary fears hit the stock market hard on Tuesday, and even the big oil companies were under pressure.
Jassem Saadoun, a Kuwaiti economist, observes that in the past, higher oil revenues have reduced pressure on governments to push through badly-needed reforms.
As those methods mature , they become less costly (and, eventually, rather conventional), increasing supply and putting downward pressure on oil prices over time.
Those reports pressured the Euro currency and boosted the U.S. dollar index, while at the same time pressure crude oil and other commodity markets.
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Unite said the government should be putting pressure on oil companies.
The stock closed down fractionally despite the earnings beat most likely because of declines in the price of crude oil, which applied pressure to the entire sector.
We think the Senate can vote in the majority for energy proposals that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce the pressure on gas prices.
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Chevron's admission that a spill from a high-pressure Shetland oil well could leak at a higher rate than BP's Macondo well (1, 500 metres below the surface) didn't help.
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However, it is by no means clear if this is a desire to warn Iran diplomatically or a manoeuvre intended to strike the hardest bargain once the Iranian oil sector is under pressure.
An external shock in the shape of higher oil prices also adversely affected companies exposed to fuel costs during the early stages of 2011, as a crisis in Egypt put pressure on oil prices.
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The city is also host to the world's largest gas-stimulation project in development: 240 million cubic feet of Tengiz natural gas is injected daily into the reservoirs to loosen up oil and boost well pressure.
An EU embargo of Iranian crude would halt around 600, 000 barrels a day of imports, hitting Europe's refiners hard and further tightening markets and inventories, putting upward pressure on oil-futures prices, the International Energy Agency has said.
Expect future cars to help motorists garner maximum mileage by leveraging technology like the eco-tutoring systems found in many hybrids, wider use of tire-pressure, oil life and engine-tuning monitoring systems and more-sophisticated GPS guidance that can select less-congested routes.
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To be sure, the embargo "may cause upward pressure on oil prices in Europe in the short term as Iran's oil is diverted, but lower prices elsewhere, " Standard Chartered said, as China would likely take advantage by negotiating discounts.
Fears of a disruption now emanate from Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, in response to a European Union embargo on Tehran's oil as way to pressure it to give up its controversial nuclear program.
Profit-taking pressure, position evening and lower crude oil prices are putting some initial downside price pressure on the precious metals early Friday.
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They decline significantly from one year to the next because each barrel of oil taken from a reservoir reduces the pressure within the field, leaving less force available to push the next barrel of oil up the well.
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However, sharply higher crude oil prices did limit selling pressure in the precious yellow metal.
However, higher crude oil prices did limit selling pressure in the precious metals Thursday.
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Such a rare moment of transparency should put pressure on other oil firms to follow suit.
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