Rhodri Thomas, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, says the geology of the Polish shale is similar to that of the Barnett Shale, a giant field in Texas that now supplies about 7% of America's gas.
As Pemex's giant Cantarell field continues its steep decline, Mexico's oil output is falling.
On Wednesday, crude production was launched at Iraq's giant Halfaya field, the latest development to bolster the country's export potential.
We look forward to exploring new operating systems and hunt for bugs and glitches like little gophers in a giant green field of code.
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For example, ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas company, warned on April 23rd that without the pipeline it would be forced to suspend production from its giant Britannia field.
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The sinking of the Ryou-Un Maru brought about the end of a journey for the rust-stained ship that drifted across the Pacific Ocean as part of a giant debris field generated by a tsunami that struck Japan following a 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011.
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Add to this the work of Matthew Simmons, who in his 2005 book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, analyzed papers presented at Petroleum Engineering conferences, and concluded that the super-giant Ghawar field would soon enter a period of decline.
And even though the restaurant business is relatively paltry relative to the size of the debt, and relatively risky, the fact that it also owns this giant oil field means when push comes to shove it can pay off the debt by turning on the oil spigot.
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Then the giant Prudhoe Bay field was discovered and everyone ran off to work there instead.
Tim Russert was a giant in our field -- a standard-bearer of journalistic integrity and ethics.
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The giant Kirkuk oil field is pumping 500, 000 bpd, compared with 850, 000 before the war.
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Nonetheless, Ekman is a giant in the field and his contribution to our understanding of non-verbal communication is enormous.
The giant heavy oil field offshore Newfoundland was discovered way back in 1981.
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The fate of that deal is now on hold, and Russia has since excluded Shell from the international consortium developing the giant Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea.
Further complicating matters, Shell was also negotiating to trade half of its 55% stake in Sakhalin II with state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom for half of a giant natural gas field called Zapolyarnoye.
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The rest comes from spots like Azerbaijan, Angola, Algeria and Iran, where it weathered a bribery scandal in 2004 and is developing the giant South Pars gas field.
In just the last few weeks, more than 1, 000 people have protested at ExxonMobil and Russia Lukoil's super-giant West Qurna oil field, demanding jobs and payment for private land that has been lost or damaged by oil operations.
"We will be able to turn the football field into a giant Jumbotron, " says Nicholls.
The oil giant BP says a gas field it runs in partnership with Norwegians and Algerians was attacked.
There can be no level playing field between the giant multinational corporations and individual citizens without such differential rights.
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Robertson's grandfather, the legendary Texas wildcatter Hugh Roy Cullen, had discovered the giant Tom O'Conner Field in south Texas in 1932.
One reason these small financial institutions can compete with the big banks is that under the Durbin Amendment, they get higher swipe fees on debit cards, and they can use that to level the playing field with their giant competitors.
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In some countries, bamboozled bargain-hunters, abandoned in an obscure field as part of a giant practical joke, would probably turn furiously on their tormentors.
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The supermarket giant wants to develop land at the Brewery Field, Northgate, with offices, shops, parking and a play area, creating 260 new jobs.
Oil giant BP, which operates the In Amenas field in a joint venture with Sonatrac, the Algerian national oil company, and Norway's Statoil, said it was attacked by "unidentified armed people" who were occupying the site.
Oil giant BP, which operates the In Amenas field in a joint venture with Sonatrac, the Algerian national oil company, and Norway's Statoil, said it was attacked by "unidentified armed people" who are now occupying the site.
Last month the BBC reported on the race to secure patents on graphene and how, despite the UK's early lead, China was now leading the field with the South Korean electronics giant Samsung holding nearly ten times more patents than Britain as a whole.
Italian oil giant ENI has swapped half of its stake in a Libyan field for some Gazprom assets in Siberia.
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