Attempts to burn its fuel oil failed, even causing it to break in two.
In fact, the Obama Administration desperately tried and failed to increase oil and gas prices via cap and trade last year.
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Fish oil capsules failed to prevent flare-ups of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, in a large study in 2010.
But as OPEC's failed efforts to keep oil prices high have proved, production cuts can stabilize prices only if all suppliers stick to agreed reductions.
To prevent leaching and rupturing, breast implants have become increasingly firm, while trials with peanut oil and soy-bean oil have failed to produce a satisfactory alternative.
In September, the two countries' leaders signed a deal to resume oil exports, but failed to address other issues such as the fate of Abyei.
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EasyJet's earnings were hurt by the rising price of oil, which it failed to adequately hedge itself against--a process of buying its fuel ahead of time at an agreed-upon price.
In 2008 the country became a candidate of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - an international project meant to promote openness about government oil revenues - but failed to qualify by an April 2010 deadline.
And like many Gulf oil producers Saudi Arabia has failed to use its abundant natural-gas supplies properly.
If the speculators are not to blame, what about the oil companies, which have failed to increase output in spite of record profits?
He has failed to slash the huge subsidy on oil, which has risen to 1, 500 billion rupees (official spokesmen hint that oil prices will go up by June).
Shares of BP slid by 1.6% to 408.5 pence in London after a report in the Financial Times said four of the company's five North Sea installations inspected in 2009 had failed to comply with emergency regulations on oil spills, according to offshore inspection reports from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Anadarko has a 25% stake in the failed Macondo well that led to the Gulf oil spill during April 2010.
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But Mr Ritter had slapped punitive regulations on the oil and gas industry, and failed to compete effectively for big military projects.
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It follows a two year campaign in Greenland where the company has so far failed to find any commercially viable deposits of oil.
The big worry is that Russia has failed to use the breather it gained from high oil prices and devaluation.
As a result, the judge refused to force the insurers to honor the bonds, which the bank claimed required them to pay Mahonia when Enron filed for bankruptcy and failed to comply with its obligation to deliver the oil and gas, which Mahonia had paid for already.
Mr Chavez now has the power as well as the authority to cajole Venezuelans into accepting that their oil- fuelled, state-dominated economy has failed them.
In that same column, I surmised that any new tax revenue would likely be pursued in the form of proposals the President has previously pitched but failed to turn into law, such as eliminating preferences for the oil and gas industries, private jet owners, and private equity fund managers.
While technical in nature -- using the word "hydrocarbon" to refer to oil, for example -- the letter depicts a process that failed to detect a potential cause of the disaster.
Nigeria's former military rulers failed to diversify the economy away from its overdependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 95% of foreign exchange earnings and about 80% of budgetary revenues.
At a news conference Thursday, police said Auvinen had sprayed a flammable liquid, possibly lamp oil, on the walls of the school and that he tried but failed to light it.
But Big Oil, Big Ethanol and tiny start-ups like Verenium have all failed to meet federal mandates for so-called advanced biofuels, fuels produced with agricultural waste or dedicated fuel crops like switchgrass instead of from edible grains like corn.
Oil put a brief double top in on Thursday as it pushed through and failed on that pipeline explosion report.
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Initiatives to attract Western oil companies to get at the gas foundered as low prices and stingy terms failed to attract bidders.
Yet, in recent years, acquisitions of American energy-related assets by state-owned oil firms such as Saudi Arabia's Aramco and Venezuela's PDVSA failed to elicit so much as a murmur.
When the price of oil and natural gas was highly regulated, back in the 1970s, petroleum production failed to respond to rising prices.
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The announcement comes now, several months after gasoline prices have reached their highs, perhaps as a result of the failed efforts at the OPEC meeting this month to increase supply to assuage high market prices for oil.
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Amarin, which makes a new form of fish oil called Vascepa, could have marketing difficulties because doctors will draw comparisons between the niacin story and that for fish oil medicines, which showed benefit in early, open-label studies but have failed in more recent rigorous ones.
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