Afraid to dismantle India's system of oil subsidies, the government dithered for over a year before finally embarking on the sale.
In early December, Kazakhstan and three companies Chevron, Mobil and Shell agreed to study the feasibility of creating a unified system of oil and gas pipelines from western Kazakhstan to Turkey.
Our community-based food system in Milwaukee is not dependent in the same way as the industrial system on oil prices, and we are able to feed healthy food to rich and poor alike.
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Associated with LOOP are Clovelly Dome, a 40-million-barrel salt cavern storage facility, and the Capline pipeline, which is the largest pipeline system delivering crude oil from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest.
It also urges a review of the system for damages for oil spills to ensure that the "polluter pays" principle is upheld.
The likeliest explanation is that new sanctions, designed to cut off Iran from the global financial system and bedevil its oil exports, are doing serious damage to its shipping business.
Value can be created therefore by building a delivery system which can deliver oil elsewhere: which is part of what Keystone XL is about, delivering the Albertan oil to the Gulf Cost, not just to Cushing.
We work with manufacturers in a variety of ways to ensure the smooth operation of a system here that provides oil and gas products to American consumers, but I don't think it was anything more specific than that.
Oil and Gas UK - the offshore industry body - said oil transported through the Brent pipeline system represented 10% of the UK's North Sea oil production.
As a result both Russia and the regime's patronage system remain heavily dependent on oil and gas.
Last month's leak led to a pipeline system servicing up to 27 oil fields being shut down.
Moving out of the laboratory and onto the water, with a working oil-collection system, is the next step.
That underscores the likelihood that with dwindling access to the global financial system, and an EU oil embargo looming, Iran will turn oil into its currency.
This oil-swapping system is hard to stop.
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The new "multilateration" monitoring system is a joint initiative by Oil and Gas UK and National Air Traffic Services Ltd (Nats).
If anyone were to ever doubt the creativity unleashed by the free enterprise system, look to the US oil and gas industry.
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If the capture vessels had to leave in the teeth of a hurricane, there would be a system for injecting dispersants into any oil that spilled out of the risers.
Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.
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The land rovers are powered by cooking oil, and the sewage system uses bacteria to do the dirty work.
The plan says that "each party shall maintain a national system for responding promptly and effectively to oil pollution incidents" without requiring any clear details on the number of ships or personnel that would be needed to cope with a spillage.
The big oil and gas firms account for more than half of the Russian Trading System stock index, which is the reason why the Russian trade is so highly correlated to oil futures.
The whole system is tailored to the continuation of high oil revenues.
Big Oil's manipulation of the system is preventing competition in the fuels marketplace, an activity that should be anathema in any free, competitive market.
One of these realities is the energy system -- hydrocarbons in general, and oil and gas in particular -- that undergirds our modern way of life.
Unfortunately, cable and oil services are part of the later system perhaps, the next issue to be addressed by civic organizations like Occupy Wall Street.
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Yet the UN has no monitoring system in place on the ground to prevent illicit oil exports going out, or suspect imports coming in.
Just days after the American election, the Canadian prime minister proposed a continental cap-and-trade system to control carbon emissions something the oil industry in Canada adamantly opposed.
In the early 1980s, Japan was able to repair the damage inflicted on its finances by the previous decade's two oil shocks without fundamental reform to its system of public finances.
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"The sanctions will force a choice between buying Iranian oil or engaging in the US financial system, the largest in the world, " said Brian Katulis of the Center for American Progress.
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"The agreement is a great step forward for the protection of the Arctic from an oil spill because it sets up a system for the states to co-operate in practice, " he said.
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