State oil companies control three-quarters of the world's crude oil reserves.
This can only come about through measures that will help the development of a non-oil economy and so improve the living standards of Nigerians and sedate the desire to control oil revenues.
So did foreign investment, including a vital deal last year giving a Russian oil producer, Yukos, control of the Mazeikiu oil refinery, Lithuania's biggest export earner.
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Ensuring Iraq comes on stream is seen as vital to keeping oil prices under control.
This is not an environment conducive to the kind of quick decision-making necessary to control oil prices.
Markets, the president maintained as recently as Friday, control oil prices.
Ken Cohen, vice president of public and private affairs, explained that not only do they not control oil prices, but also that profit from the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel represents less than 3 cents out of every dollar the company earned.
Under the new rules Iraq will still have to place all its oil earnings under UN control.
The populists shout louder, and claim that they are helping the poor through state control of oil and gas.
One of Romney's energy plans today has to do with giving states control of oil and gas on federal lands.
In Africa, winning power often means winning control of oil fields or diamond mines, which are often the only significant industries around.
Despite years of negotiations, Iraq still has no petroleum law, leaving thorny disputes between the federal government and the regions over the control of oil revenues.
We can appreciate this view as we see oil spewing out of control in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and how the two just do not distill.
However, it is surely over-stating the case to argue that it is only post-negotiation that such issues as the control of oil and the organisation of defence would or could be determined.
The SNP conference in Inverness over the weekend has started a new round of claims, that Scotland would be the sixth wealthiest country in the world if only it had control over oil.
After a row over who should control the oil ministry, Sudan's president, Omar Bashir, announced a unity government with former rebels from the south as part of a peace accord reached earlier this year.
The Kremlin is re-establishing control over the oil industry and other key economic sectors.
OPEC's market share is now too low to support its control of the oil price.
Some, especially in oil-producing areas, control bigger budgets than those of national governments in some neighbouring West African countries.
In 2005 county officials struck a deal with Yanchang, the regional state-owned oil company, to assume control of the wells.
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In particular, the Kurds want control of the oil-producing region of Kirkuk.
The Kremlin broke apart Yukos and seized control of its oil assets.
Allied troops are in control of southern oil fields, he said, and Basra is surrounded with only pockets of resistance remaining in the city.
PAS. It has long held power in the northern state of Kelantan but in the election it also won control of neighbouring oil-rich Terengganu.
While attacks on critical infrastructure are relatively rare, recent months have seen viruses and other malicious programs hit control systems at oil treatment plants and other facilities.
Georgia says Russia merely wants control of an oil pipeline.
The reason for doing so, according to Mauricio Tolmasquim, head of the state-run Energy Research Company (EPE), is to give the government more control over the oil business.
After Desert Storm, we did not use our military power to take or establish control over the oil resources of Iraq or any other country in the Gulf region.
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