Typically, they could have 20 million barrels of oil, or its gas equivalent (boe), whereas the major fields had as many as 500 million boe.
Ten oil companies--led by BP (nyse: BP - news - people )with a 34% stake and Unocal with 10.3%--are jointly developing major fields there.
Today, the system is used in therapy and education, and can have a strong spiritual dimension -- but one of the first and major fields of use is business, where it has been adapted as a way of bringing insight into oneself and others.
In June, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) won a 60% stake in the privatization of Aktyubinsk (see map next page) in Kazakstan's northwest, a deal that got it two major fields -- Zhanazhol with reserves of 1 billion barrels and Kenkayak with 300 million.
The company is one of the few publicly traded national oil majors that is sitting on major oil fields.
Besides the Bakken and Barnett regions, the other major shale fields include the Fayetteville, Haynesville, Marcellus, Utica, Anadarko Woodford and Eagle Ford regions.
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I've been able to get to within about 10 miles of Kirkuk -- able to see the oil capital of the north: a burning flare, a harmless flare, burning off gases from one of the major oil fields on the outskirts of Kirkuk.
Today, three years after Deepwater Horizon, offshore drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico, driven by the continued high price of oil, a series of massive new fields discovered with the help of improved exploration technology, and the growing difficulty of finding major new oil fields abroad.
Information technology and software engineering are also strong fields throughout most major U.S. metro areas.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, Gold Fields suffered from major strikes.
Major donors in non-tech fields typically start even later, since it can take longer to amass the requisite fortune.
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It is to set the fields for golf's major championships and other big tournaments in a fair, transparent manner.
There is so much natural gas coming out of the shale oil fields Texas that storage is a major issue.
"We've seen a decline in metal thefts, but hare coursing and trespassing on people's fields and crops is still a major problem, " he said.
As traditional oil fields yield less and less, major producers are looking for crude in less conventional places, from oil sands and shale plays to ultra deepwater.
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Gold Fields shares have under performed even the other major miners.
To have Merritt drop by KEXP while touring in support of The Magnetic Fields' latest album, Distortion, was a major coup.
Still, the decision is being lauded as a major victory for Hollywood and the effects could be felt across other fields of media.
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In 1997 the National Research Council issued a major report on the health effects of exposure to power frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF), such as those due to electric power lines.
Brazilian oil-giant Petrobras, which has the state as one of its major shareholders, pushed its way into center stage after discovering pre-salt fields off the coast of Brazil.
Britain's 16th Air Assault division, which has been protecting the Rumalia oil fields, have also extended their operation northwest toward Highway 6, a major route out of Basra.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, it was reported that, in March 2003, Total SA negotiated a major contract with Saddam Hussein's regime to develop Iraq's southern oil fields.
That level of development would require "a very high and persistent pace of new field developments", of more than 17 new fields per year over the next 25 years, which would be "a major challenge for the oil and gas supply chain".
One of Japan's major energy companies is making a significant investment in at least 20 UK offshore oil and gas fields.
The need to build pipelines from gas fields to utilities and the requirement to build networks of charging stations on highways and in major cities will require a whole new massive infrastructure effort, which in turn will need the services of construction workers, engineers and other assorted building folk.
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