Companies might want to maintain production anyway in part to recapture certain fixed costs.
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Big Russian raw materials exporters certainly need to invest fortunes to maintain production in coming years.
This will help Exxon maintain its production momentum in light of low natural gas prices and high crude oil prices.
Fesharaki is more optimistic than most experts about whether Iran can maintain current production of around 3.9 million barrels a day.
While it appears that Venezuela has paid the highest price to maintain OPEC production quotas lately, others will soon feel the pain.
Although it appears that it is Venezuela that has lately paid the highest price to maintain OPEC production quotas, others will soon feel the pain.
Fesharaki cites a 1974 study that determined Iran needed to reinject 9 billion cubic feet of gas a day to maintain oil production above 4 million barrels a day.
This could result in a double whammy for the United States -- adding a new dimension to the threat we face and encouraging competition for overseas arms sales upon which the American defense industrial base is already unduly reliant to maintain vital production capabilities.
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Russia is opening its doors to western oil companies to exploit its technically challenging reserves in deepwater and unconventional deposits to help it maintain its present production and export levels.
Accordingly, the companies have been slowing production to maintain a balance between the supply and demand of steel.
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But the country needs its migrant workforce to maintain this level of agricultural production.
Intel expects to maintain this 90-day production rate despite the increasing complexity of the microprocessor.
Despite these severe cutbacks, with aforementioned drilling improvements, all expect to maintain or slightly increase gas production for 2013.
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Policy is to maintain 2 million bpd of production capacity that Saudi Aramco can turn on at nearly a moment's notice.
Benbrook also fails to mention that by improving weed control and reducing the need for ploughing, genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant crops enable many farmers in North and South America to adopt and maintain no- or reduced-tillage production systems, which results in important reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Indeed, Gadhafi may have enough forces on the ground, a mix of paramilitary and elite army, to prevail, or at least to maintain control of the west and significant oil production.
Still, because of relatively inexpensive production costs, Sensata is able to maintain 30% cash flow margins.
From tourism and fishing to international commerce and renewable energy production, coastal and waterside communities help maintain vital sectors of our Nation's economy.
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Over the next several hours, she struggles repeatedly to record the song The Ladies Who Lunch, first trying it out in a key lower than that used in the production, then finding it hard to maintain the idiosyncractic tempi required to sing while appearing intoxicated.
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The BBC also says it will share production facilities with ITV1 so that ITV1 can maintain its regional news bulletins.
We need to obviously maintain and, when possible, increase our domestic oil production, but we need to do it in a safe way.
We are executing a plan that we believe will manage costs in the near term while allowing us to maintain the manufacturing and operational capabilities required to quickly ramp up production.
With production cost higher than normal, Aeropostale was unable to maintain its image as a promotional teen retailer.
He explained that they like to maintain a level of mystery around the facts and figures of the production so as not to undermine the suspension of reality that the production encourages.
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So far the Saudis have been able to maintain their lonely job of global swing player, and in July upped production to 9.9 million bpd, a level unmatched by the Kingdom since 1980.
Ironically, the more draconian the U.S. defense cuts, the more important it is that we maintain vigorous research and development programs and avoid critical shortfalls and bottlenecks in defense production capacity that constitute vital hedges against future security threats.
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The more draconian the U.S. defense cuts, the more important it will be to maintain vigorous research and development programs and to avoid critical shortfalls and bottlenecks in defense production capacity as vital hedges against future security threats.
More critical still, in order for Japan to maintain a surplus in its current account, companies should invest even more to expand production and sales abroad, so as to increase earnings that can be repatriated as dividends to Japan.
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In December workers at Mercedes's Sindelfingen factory near Stuttgart went on strike after the company said it would shift production of its C-Class cars to Alabama, so Mercedes promised to maintain employment at the plant until 2020.
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