Changes in perception may be needed as JTC are now looking into heading downwards for spaces housing people -- rather than oil -- in the form of an underground science city.
In the short, we are obviously looking at different measures we can take to help alleviate the impact of the oil -- rise in oil -- this rise in oil prices.
Thanks to huge current-account surpluses in China and the oil-exporters in the Gulf, emerging economies as a group still send capital to the rich world.
In the short-term, GTL could become a "drop-in" replacement for oil-derived kerosene in aero engines and airports without requiring any modifications to equipment, says Airbus.
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.
It did stumble a bit this week, spooked by the spike-up in oil prices created by the spreading unrest in oil-producing countries, notably Libya.
He may not have then predicted the way in which cod liver oil - rich in an essential fatty acid called omega-3 - would be seized from the shelves of health shops and supermarkets by a later generation of parents convinced it would help their child excel at school.
Britain has the highest fuel taxes in Europe, despite the fact that it is the only major oil-producer in the European Union.
The experienced management of American Eagle Energy has extensive oil exploration, development and production expertise, focusing in recent years on exploiting oil-prone formations in the Northern Rockies and Bakken Resources.
FORBES: For Frackin' In The Bakken You Gotta Go With American Eagle
One of the top-ten privately owned oil producers in the world, in 2010 TNK-BP churned out 1.74 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from its assets in Russia and Ukraine and processed almost half that amount through its refineries.
The family business Charles inherited consisted of an engineering firm, part-interest in a Minnesota refinery, a crude-oil-gathering pipeline in Oklahoma and some cattle ranches.
In 2009, then-Nigerian President Musa Yar Adua granted an amnesty to thousands of militants wreaking havoc in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the south.
With over 1m barrels extracted every day, it has become the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, and volumes are expected to double by 2008.
They are the second- and fourth-biggest oil producers in sub-Saharan Africa.
ECONOMIST: Middle East and Africa: A sub-Saharan spring? | The
The deadly logic of addiction -- the drive to acquire oil at all costs -- is experienced with particular ferocity in the oil-producing states of the equatorial region and global south.
That is until the last few days, when the turmoil in Egypt spread to oil-producing countries and caused a sharp spike-up in oil prices.
One of the first products, DuPont's high-oleic soyabean, which yields an oil lower in artery-clogging saturated fats, is now awaiting regulatory approval in Europe.
One place where Western oil companies have found open doors is in deep-water exploration, because state-backed oil companies in Russia, China and the Middle East have little experience drilling these tricky wells.
It's not, as evidenced by the fact that domestic oil and gas production has increased every year that he's been in office, and yet oil prices -- we experience these spikes in oil prices.
Global demand, meanwhile, continues to rise, thanks to an ever-increasing thirst for oil in fast-growing developing countries such as China and India.
ECONOMIST: The price of oil is beyond $130 a barrel. Where will it stop?
One of these realities is the energy system -- hydrocarbons in general, and oil and gas in particular -- that undergirds our modern way of life.
In that sense it's no surprise that every industrial boom--from oil in the 19th century, to autos in the early 20th, to technology in the late 20th century--was largely characterized by American entrepreneurs.
But Mossadegh wasn't happy that the profit from the country's primary resource -- oil -- was not staying in the country.
Al-Maliki called the operation in the oil-rich southern city a success Thursday but said it exposed weaknesses in the security forces, including operational snafus and troop desertions that he said will be addressed and reviewed.
Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
Welby says his time in business - 11 years as an oil executive - had helped him in his later work in the church.
BBC: The new Archbishop of Canterbury: 10 lesser-known things
Two Russian oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, are to merge, knocking Lukoil from the number-one position in Russia and creating the world's third-largest private oil company in production terms.
Pemex, the state-owned oil company that dominates the Mexican economy, recently announced deep-water oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting the company might be able to slow the decline of its production.
FORBES: The Mexican Miracle: Despite Drug War, Economy Is Booming
Those living in oil-rich regions such as Texas, Alaska or Alberta, or whose jobs are in oil or oil services, should take short positions in oil.
It vies with Angola as sub-Saharan Africa's largest oil exporter, mainly to America, and is the eighth-biggest oil exporter in the world, with stated reserves of 38.5 billion barrels.
应用推荐