Attempts to diversify the Saudi economy beyond oil, gas and petrochemicals have not gone far.
Maybe it's the amount of money allegedly squandered, with little added to the investments Brunei needs for a future beyond oil and gas.
The prime minister urged the wealthy oil-producing Gulf nations to invest more in areas such as carbon capture and storage, as a way of diversifying beyond oil.
Algae can be fed from waste-streams of CO2 from fossil-fuel power stations as a carbon elimination strategy and can also decontaminate groundwater, so there is a potential mix of environmental solutions in aid of a common goal of fuel beyond oil.
Akerele says that although the reality in Nigeria is that most people live in poverty, the rise of sectors such as telecommunications and the diversification of the Nigerian economy beyond oil and gas has created an emerging middle class with bigger spending power.
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" Or as peak oil expert Richard Heinberg argues, we are moving beyond peak oil and into "peak everything.
Such a counterproductive measure would have negative effects beyond our oil and gas industry.
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Consequences of such a high stakes move would ripple beyond the oil and gas sector as energy prices increase across the board.
If the indexed funds were indeed pushing the price of oil beyond the level justified by supply and demand, then they would be having trouble selling their futures contracts at such high prices before they matured.
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If supplies are disrupted or demand accelerates beyond Saudi Arabia's ability to increase supply, the price of oil could rise well beyond anything considered realistic today.
Here is the real question to ask if one suspects that speculators are driving the price of oil for current delivery above and beyond the market clearing price: Where is all the extra oil going?
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Dear oil is the reason for today's pricey petrol, and the global oil market is beyond the government's control.
When strong northeasterly winds picked up, the oil was dispersed beyond any hope of containment and wreaked havoc on the pristine ecosystem.
Beyond the boom in unconventional oil in the U.S., Bain points out the increase in Iraqi and African production and, most importantly, the high levels of Saudi output.
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Without it, the demand for crude oil would have risen beyond the current demand figures, thus driving up on prices as well as straining broader geopolitical relations.
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Golden, then a staff geologist and now head of deepwater exploration for BP, came up with a theory that massive oil deposits lay just beyond the Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico, in waters 300 meters deep or more.
Oil gave him power far beyond the confines of his dilapidated state.
And beyond the car companies stand a host of oil, tobacco, banking and consumer-goods firms that plaster their decals on cars and on trackside posters.
Oil has lots of industrial uses beyond fueling your vehicle.
According to a 2009 Congressional Research Service report on unconventional gas shales, directional drilling (sometimes referred to as horizontal drilling) allows for access beyond the area below the drill to both oil and gas reserves in locations inaccessible to conventional drilling, including to difficult to reach offshore reserves.
To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
The baleful thesis arises from concerns both that a cliff lies beyond any peak in production and that alternatives to oil will not be available.
This time he's stranded in the arctic wastes of Alaska when the plane transporting a crew of rugged oil drillers crashes in the back of beyond.
It is hard to understand why Mr Obama opposes this idea, beyond a traditional Democratic distaste for helping out big oil firms indeed, he has said he might drop his objections in an effort to push a bipartisan legislative package on energy.
The list goes far beyond into emerging energy players facing technical challenges to bring oil to the wellhead.
Most health and human development indicators have shown no significant improvement beyond that which is normal in the midst of an oil boom.
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Now that the reckoning is here, it becomes a little easier to see that we fool ourselves with the apparent cheapness of subsidized oil and that a healthy environment is priceless beyond reckoning.
There are a ton of fundamental reasons to believe that the price trend for oil will continue forward in this current decade and beyond.
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Oil was in a bubble of its own, well beyond the general commodity bubble.
Cheaper oil, too, is the result of factors far beyond Mr Obama's reach.
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