In short, Texas loves being an oil-producing state while California is embarrassed by it.
The uprisings in oil-producing countries have not gone away, and indeed have become more violent.
' That's partly because some oil-producing regions, like Mexico and the North Sea, are declining.
Saudi Arabia is one of the few oil-producing countries not pumping at full volume.
We are able to find people to comment about the situation in a major oil-producing nation.
We are in regular consultation with the IEA as well as with oil-producing states.
As a result, international oil companies, national oil companies, and oil-producing states are awash in money.
But vast differences remain in the region, as oil-producing countries tend to have low unemployment rates.
But we are in touch with the IEA and oil-producing countries about the developments in the market.
North Dakota is expected to pass California and Alaska to become the second-highest oil-producing state, behind Texas.
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But as any oil-producing developing country can attest, such profits can create problems as well as solve them.
Some, especially in oil-producing areas, control bigger budgets than those of national governments in some neighbouring West African countries.
Savings in emerging markets and oil-producing countries have risen over that period, but not enough to reverse the trend.
Meanwhile, events in two large oil-producing countries are feeding speculation in futures markets.
The initial 4G roll-out includes the oil-producing region of Cabinda, as well as 15 densely-populated cities and towns including Luanda.
This has spurred rising consumption in many oil-producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Kuwait.
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Like previous booms, the current one has transferred unimaginable wealth from oil-importing to oil-producing countries, and from consumers to oil companies.
Higher energy demand and rising oil prices boosted oil-producing countries, while the continuing surge in high-tech demand benefited Asia and North America.
After Cuba, Gustav's projected path takes it over the oil-producing Gulf, before making landfall in the US, possibly as early as Monday.
What goes on in Libya can be managed by other oil-producing nations.
In particular, the Kurds want control of the oil-producing region of Kirkuk.
If oil-producing countries save much of their windfall, world demand will shrink.
Nader Ardalan, an architecture reserach fellow at Harvard University, says people in the oil-producing world want to be considered in a different light.
The spending of petrodollars also helps the dollar less than the euro, because oil-producing countries tend to import more from Europe than America.
In other words, what is the dollar amount per barrel that would be required for an oil-producing country to balance its fiscal budget?
Concerned that the rebound may derail vulnerable recoveries, leaders of some oil-producing countries promised to increase supply at a conference on January 24th.
In 1995, Russia's worst recorded earthquake killed 1, 989 people in the Far East oil-producing town of Neftegorsk, on the north of Sakhalin Island.
The country's main supply route, a railway connecting Brazzaville and Pointe Noire, the oil-producing town, has been disrupted for the past seven months.
The same U.S. military forces and programs that help protect Israel from Iranian missiles and Islamist terror groups also protect Arab oil-producing states.
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The northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, major oil-producing centers, were the target of bombing for the third night in a row Saturday night.
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