But the real power players might be the geologists who evaluate undersea land formations.
The Victorians were outstanding geologists, and there are good reserve estimates back to 1864.
So geologists are fired after these mega-mergers, and the number of prospects that are pursued diminishes.
Triton, having recruited geologists and engineers from the biggest oil companies, seemed like a good risk.
More important, Nichols kept the PennzEnergy geologists and drilling engineers who understood offshore drilling.
There, the geologists on board will acoustically measure the seabed some two kilometers below.
For decades geologists have discovered bountiful oil and gas onshore in the Wilcox zone.
Archaeoseismology calls upon the expertise of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, seismologists, geophysicists, architects and structural engineers.
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These employ 6 481 professional guides, one-quarter of whom (1 751) are trained geologists.
Such depths are commonplace when sample cores are drilled out of the earth's crust by geologists.
And geologists and hydrologists fret about the possibility that dissolved metals might get into water supplies.
On Earth, geologists study layers of rock to determine the history of our planet.
According to the local mining lore here, senior geologists tend to do their work the old-fashioned way.
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Geologists will tell you that Namibia's dunes are built and shaped by wind and carved by water.
Rock-breakers work with geologists and surveyors to make sure that only profitable grades of ore are mined.
Some geologists falsely believed heat from the waste could melt surrounding rock and form a radioactive volcano.
Geologists believe that the petroliferous structures discovered in the deep blocks extend westwards into contiguous ultra-deep blocks.
"I only hire old geologists, " says Norman Slater, managing director of Slater Coal, a South African coal company.
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"I relish the opportunity to work with older geologists, " says Steve Flank, a 29-year-old from Thunder Bay, Canada.
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To develop a deepwater oil field, geologists first sift through terabytes of data collected by undersea seismic devices.
In Ohio, state geologists are working on an estimate of the Utica formation's reserves but haven't completed it.
The drill bits still have a way to go, but so far the geologists like what they see.
Even more than usual, the geologists must be crossing their fingers and praying that their predictions come true.
Geologists believe the island is a "plug" left behind from an extinct volcano.
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Perhaps some enterprising geologists should take some time away from their seismic logs to look at the history books.
Meanwhile, dueling geologists elsewhere are looking for land formations with a different provenance.
All the children departed with a big bag of fossils and minerals, and hopefully some left as budding geologists!
Shell says there might not be as much gas as geologists have predicted.
There just aren't that many geologists around to study all of those pictures.
Management of these companies often went from geologists to bean-counters, who were far more concerned with squeezing out profits.
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