Today, there are established centers at marine mammal facilities to de-oil otters.
It was signed by some of France's most high-profile chief executives, including Christophe de Margerie of oil firm Total, Frederic Oudea of bank Societe Generale, and Air France's Jean-Cyril Spinetta.
The boss of Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, paid for it with his job.
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The oil goes into a de-gasification plant, and then four-fifths of it is stored for export.
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The causes of 1990-91 and 2007-09 were similar: Real estate collapse, stock market turbulence, financial engineering turkeys come home to roost, loan failures, taxes going up, a Middle Eastern war, a spike in oil prices and everybody de-leveraging at once.
And because of that, Rio de Janeiro thinks that its newfound Petrobras oil wealth can one day make their Atlantic Ocean the North Sea of Norway.
He booted Luis Giusti, head of state-owned Petrleos de Venezuela -- and killed the ambitious oil expansion.
On Aug. 1, a federal court in Rio de Janeiro gave Chevron and its partner, oil drilling firm Transocean, 30 days to suspend all its activity in Brazil.
These contracts would have allowed Discover to explore for oil in places such as Madre de Dios in the rainforest region and Pisco in the coast of Peru.
De Kooning relished studio experiments, like mixing oil paint with water for puckered textures, or off-printing parts of wet paintings onto pages of the Times, making a mad science of beauty.
It reckons that over the next 15 years most of the top ten cities will display below-average growth in population and output (one exception will be Rio de Janeiro, boosted by investment in offshore oil as well as the Olympic games of 2016).
Chevron was slammed in the press for the accident, though the oil sheen was cleaned off the surface of the Atlantic in less than two weeks and no oil washed up on the famed Rio de Janeiro beaches.
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Ask anyone about BP and Electricite de France SA and the image of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown come to mind.
The P-36 was located in an especially oil-rich area off the coast of Rio de Janiero, and was expected to produce 180, 000 barrels per day in the near future, making the explosion an even greater loss.
De Margerie singled out Brazil, criticizing its new policies on offshore oil concessions, where he says Petrobras aims to partner up with other oil companies based solely on how little return on capital they are willing to live with.
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As several ships trawled the debris site in the Atlantic, Brazil's defense minister said a 20-kilometer (12-mile) oil slick near where the plane, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, went down indicated it probably did not break up until it hit the water.
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Mr. Maduro reconfirmed several ministers in their posts including Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, who also heads state energy monopoly Petroleos de Venezuela SA, Defense Minister Diego Molero, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua and Vice President Jorge Arreaza.
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It discovered the biggest offshore oil find in years back in 2007, off the coasts of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo states.
But later Grupo Brescia regained a foothold in the fish products business with Tecnologica de Alimentos SA, which is now the largest producer of fish meal and fish oil in the world.
Michael Harris was a geologist in Rio de Janeiro for Devon Energy, a U.S.-based natural gas and oil producer, according to a company spokesman.
De Margerie says that what he likes about Fort Hills is Petro-Canada's vast oil sands experience.
The development comes after some 200, 000 people protested in Rio de Janeiro against the bill, which they said would deprive Rio state of much of its oil revenue.
It discovered the largest offshore oil deposits in recent history back in 2007 and 2008, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
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The egg, an engagement present for Germaine Halphen, who became the wife of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, was originally bought by Edouard Ephrussi, the representative of the Rothschild family's oil interests in Baku, in modern-day Azerbaijan.
The threat by a prosecutor to impose huge fines on Chevron, an American oil firm, and jail its executives after a small leak off the coast of Rio de Janeiro earlier this year raises concerns about the treatment of foreigners.
Regarding calls that President Obama should open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help placate high gasoline prices, de Margerie says that with Saudi Arabia still capable of replacing the 1 million barrels per day of Libyan oil there is no defensible argument to open the SPR.
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