Interface built the carpet industry's most oil-independent cost structure while cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 82%.
Today, most batteries come from Asia and most oil comes from the Middle East.
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As with OPEC members, it is those who have the most oil who have the power, not the consumers.
Oil prices go up, most oil company share prices go up with it.
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That war shut down most oil output in the country, but much of the missing supply has since come back online.
The stockmarket winners highlight that Arab business is no longer just about oil and not just because most oil firms are state-owned.
It is actually even more fragmented than that, because most oil production is co-owned by royalty holders who get a percentage of the production.
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The Dallas and Houston metropolitan areas are among the most oil-addicted with annual per capita oil consumption of 368 gallons and 323 gallons, respectively.
Most oil giants pulled out of the onshore U.S. in the 1990s, considering the assets too old and worn-out to be material to growth.
The impoverished nation, which the International Monetary Fund has billed as the most oil-dependent economy in the world, will elect a new government in June.
Ambassador GUIJIN: (Through Translator) The Western countries and Western oil companies have, for years, carried out oil exploration in the most oil-rich regions in the world.
The key to the future, says Dudley will be Russia and the United States, the nation that pumps the most oil and the one that is enjoying the most growth of supply.
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As in most oil states, Iraq's idea is to channel the crude oil wealth into the creation of refineries, steel mills, agriculture, cement factories, as well as sundry infrastructural programs--schools, hospitals, roads and the like.
China only produces about 4 million barrels per day, and imports the remaining amount, making the Asian giant the second largest importer of oil, says the EIA. The largest importer of oil in the world has been the U.S., with an intake of 8.7 million barrels per day, according to the EIA. Japan imports the third most oil, at 4.3 million barrels per day.
Fears about the security of oil supplies from the world's most important oil-exporting region have pushed oil prices up sharply as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has worsened dramatically.
During 13 years as the most scheming oil tycoon in Dallas, his face was one of the most easily recognised on television.
The Democratic effort to launch S.B. 940, known as the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act, would have ended tax breaks for the top five most profitable oil companies.
In 1993 Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida awarded her company, Famfa Oil, an oil prospecting license which went on to become OML 127, one of Nigeria's most prolific oil blocks.
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But most big oil companies and others besides used similar practices to keep money from the taxman.
That makes the industry similar in scale to the Netherlands, the 18th-most prolific oil-consuming country.
Meanwhile the world's most accessible oil fields, in the Middle East and elsewhere, are being depleted.
As for continuing government tax subsidies to the five most profitable oil companies, Romney is less clear.
Lukoil has been trying to catch up with its smaller rival, Yukos, considered the country's most westernised oil company.
That now includes Spindletop, the most iconic oil gusher in American history.
Another contrast is that most Texas oil is on private lands, which owners are willing to lease at a price.
Most major oil companies are now involved in shale oil and gas production, including Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP.
Still better, the company is solely focused on North America during the most important oil and gas boom in 50 years.
Eni already is the biggest customer of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled gas producer that is nationalizing most domestic oil and gas production.
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