"We have said all along there is dispersed oil subsurface -- that oil is out there, " she said.
Allegations of fraud and self-dealing surround the Iraqi oil-for-food programme carried out under its name in the 1990s.
The initial 4G roll-out includes the oil-producing region of Cabinda, as well as 15 densely-populated cities and towns including Luanda.
The idea is that by pushing carbon dioxide in, you can get more oil out - so making money for the taxpayer.
Exxon Enterprises was typical, investing in high-tech businesses that had nothing to do with oil exploration -- losing out in word processors and computerized speech recognition.
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But in the race to get the higher-priced oil out of the ground as quickly as possible, many companies are simply burning it.
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.
Such a deal would certainly be good for Yukos-Sibneft, which would be able to get its oil out through a partner with world-wide distribution and refining facilities.
The way we live our lives would dramatically change if oil-based energy becomes economically out of reach.
It included Dr Mahathir's son, who recently sold assets to the state-owned oil company, a deal attacked as a bail-out tainted by nepotism.
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 resumption comes as part of efforts to avoid an all-out conflict over oil revenues and border disputes.
Conflict in Northern Ireland, the fall-out from the oil crisis and continuing industrial conflict between the government and unions were recurring domestic themes.
So for a relatively short period of 18-24 months, the government will substitute revenue fall-out from weak oil prices with their reserve fund cash.
Apart from the political fall-out from the oil spill, there are other, financial, reasons why there has been such an acrimonious row over who is to blame.
Mr Crandell reckons profits for the big four could nearly double over the next couple of years, as they wring oil and gas out of ever-more inaccessible places.
Iraq's oil-marketing organisation left Kirkuk production out of its second sales tender, issued last week, in a sign that the central administration lacks confidence about how soon the pipeline can be restored.
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Angola, sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil producer, pumps out more than 1.9 million barrels per day and boasts an expanding investment portfolio in its former colonial power, Portugal, and in other parts of Africa.
On his watch, oil-rich Kazakhstan managed to get out of its deep economic crisis following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and has seen annual growth rates of around 10% over the last few years.
Mr. Monis doesn't salt or oil fish ahead of time because salt draws out precious moisture and oil can cause flare-ups that mar the meat's delicate flavor.
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Exxon and others have also flocked to the oil-rich sands of Northern Alberta, Canada, but digging out the oil across vast swathes of forest comes at relatively high cost and generates concerns about the environmental impact.
You start with a pretty basic feed stock - oil or natural gas - but with a little work you can turn out a whole bunch of flavors.
To placate conservatives, he promoted nuclear power and recently came out for more offshore oil-drilling.
Equipment designed to cap any potential oil spill in case of a blow-out was damaged, work had to instantly stop.
Australia and the world's newest country are still locked in a nasty argument over the share-out of revenues from oil deposits in the Timor strait.
Ben Jacobsen, a finance professor at Massey University in New Zealand, has another theory: it takes investors (like economists) a while to work out the impact of oil-price movements on the economy generally.
Once in the cages, it's nothing but the best for the captive fish as they gorge on the expensive imported diet of pilchards carefully chosen to maximize the tuna's oil content and bring out a pink-to-red color.
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