Even today, Ershaghi says, there are active oil wells in some unlikely locations.
The only clear examples where prices were not lower six months after the initial price spike all predate an active crude oil futures market: the Arab oil embargo, Iranian Revolution, and Iran-Iraq wars.
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Shares in the main oil firms active in Alberta dipped only slightly following the announcement.
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Today, Chinese oil companies are active throughout Africa, Latin America, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, according to Dan.
Most big oil companies have active hydrogen and carbon-sequestration efforts under way.
Despite the public outcry over the BP oil spill earlier this year and an extraordinarily active lame-duck Congress within the last month, oil companies managed to wriggle free of some big tax hikes aimed at the industry.
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The populous nation, a member of the OPEC oil cartel, possesses vast oil resources and is active in regional affairs -- most notably in its newly democratic government's efforts to battle HIV and AIDS and its regional peacekeeping missions.
With improved transportation, the need for company towns largely disappeared, though communities built for oil rig workers are still active today.
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Oil companies are the most active in these U.S.-restricted markets.
And they must be really active in Argentina (despite its nationalized oil companies), where environment ties for dead last among the eight issues, and only 5.9 per cent of the respondents ranked it as the most important environmental problem. (Weirdly enough, it ranks absolute lowest in Israel).
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Nations Petroleum, the renamed company, is active in southern California, where it produces oil, and has explored for oil and gas in Brunei and Indonesia, without much success.
However, at the moment, he says the company doesn't have any oil in storage, and holds just 240 net acres in oil and gas leases in Missouri with no active drilling.
Individual wells can be active for decades, slowly pulling (or stripping) more oil and gas out of the ground.
It is thought that the breaking down of the fatty coconut oil by the enzymes turns it into acids which are active and effective against bacteria.
Founded in 1989, Chesapeake Energy has grown to become the second largest producer of natural gas and one of the most active drillers of new wells in the U.S. Chesapeake competes with other oil and gas producers like Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Anadarko, BP and Chevron.
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He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging both federal and state governments on issues such as the use of oil extracted from tar sands in Alberta, Canada.
Furthermore, included in the list of aid measures under active consideration by the European leaders is a scheme to assist the Soviet Union in extracting and selling oil and natural gas from the Soviet Union, using European expertise and equipment and providing royalty payments to the Soviets.
April, the private sector is -- again, BP is an active member of the private sector and is working in conjunction, as I understand it, with many different oil companies.
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