They are industrial by nature, inspired by remnants of 20th century oil pumps left in Electra, Texas.
Australian Oil and Gas pumps oil in Libya, while logistics firm Korea Express is taking over a large-scale water project in the North African country.
Marisol Perez Tello and Veronika Mendoza visiting crude-permeated rivers in the area as well as the deteriorating oil pipeline that pumps crude to the Pacific coast.
By contrast, while the SPR holds substantial reserves, even a major release of 60 million barrels over six months would constitute less than 0.4% of the oil the world pumps over that timeframe.
Angola, sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil producer, pumps out more than 1.9 million barrels per day and boasts an expanding investment portfolio in its former colonial power, Portugal, and in other parts of Africa.
Every big oil company must invest massively to replace the oil and gas it pumps out.
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Like all major oil companies, ConocoPhillips faces the daunting task of replacing the oil and gas it pumps and sells each year, a task that is growing ever riskier and more expensive.
The key to the future, says Dudley will be Russia and the United States, the nation that pumps the most oil and the one that is enjoying the most growth of supply.
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Slothower believes that Fed will want to see crude oil drop in price before it pumps more money into the economy.
Still burdened by the legacy of the Soviet past, Russian oil companies have too many rickety refineries and antiquated pumps.
Its first action was to challenge oil companies to double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas stations within the decade.
Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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To get at the oil and gas trapped in shale, drillers use powerful hydraulic pumps to force water and chemicals through holes punched in the concrete-and-steel well casing.
At these depths, everything must be done with remote-control robots that install the blowout preventers, submersible pumps and other devices to manage the flow of oil and water on the ocean floor.
Lufkin manufactures pumps and lifts designed to help extract natural gas and oil from hard-to-reach reservoirs.
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The subsea power grid encompass pumps and compressors and large variable speed drives to transport the oil and gas from the wellhead to a processing facility.
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Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) pumps steam into the ground to liquefy the bitumen and stiff crude oil, making it thin enough to be pulled out of the ground.
At that point the fluid-dynamics equivalent of a titanic arm-wrestling match will get under way, with the surface vessels' pumps trying to push the mud down the well while the rising oil tries to push it out.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water mixed with fine sand and chemicals deep into oil and gas wells to crack gas-bearing rock.
Oil and gas companies use practically the same turbines to generate electricity or to provide mechanical drive for compressors and pumps.
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.
"This report will give only limited comfort to the UK's 35 million drivers who continue to pay near record prices at the pumps, but the OFT does identify the true cause of drivers' misery - the chancellor and crude oil prices, " said Prof Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation.
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