And we will ensure that individuals who apply for oil spill unemployment wages file a claim with the responsible parties for lost wages.

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Fereidun Fesharaki, Chairman of FACTS Global Energy, says "Gadhafi rules" still apply in the oil fields with international energy companies getting a maximum of 10% on production sharing agreements.

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Tom West, who represents Norse in the challenge to Dryden's zoning law, said he'll argue that the Frew Run case, which involved a gravel mine, doesn't apply because the state mining law is fundamentally different from the oil and gas statutes.

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They work, they invest, they put their heads to the task, they apply technology, and pretty soon they'll discover how to extract oil profitably from oil sand.

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That would apply not only to a huge number of geothermal sites, but also to many oil wells, which often bring up warm water from great depths along with their more valuable output.

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Turn to oil, and the details are more nuanced, but the same price risk fundamentals apply for Beijing.

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That means the state-owned oil companies and large companies operating in the region either need to find new fields and basins or apply new technology to get more out of established ones.

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