So the role of France - the role of the oil companies against France and the U.S. being core to the oil companies securing their interests there in Chad - it is a critical issue in the geopolitical's test match that is going on.
That said, the central bankers' worries about inflation have been eased by the failure of high oil prices to stoke core inflation.
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Mukesh, 54, whose core business is oil and gas and 82 year-old Biki who lives and breathes his hotels business, may seem oddly matched.
Most of these (especially the core four) depend heavily on Russian gas and oil.
The company said it was pressing ahead with the sell-off as they were non-core assets which no longer fitted within its light oil-focused portfolio.
This part of Texas is in the core of the Eagle Ford s hale, currently the most profitable oil and gas field in the U.S. The people around here understand that the fracking of this shale, the injection of billions of gallons of sand-and-chemical-laden water, takes place 2 miles beneath the ground.
" A report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Sudan last October reinforces these assessments, "The oil issue and the extremely volatile situation prevailing in western Upper Nile are clearly at the core of the armed conflict in the Sudan and have particularly dire consequences for peace.
By the same token, today's benign core inflation figures may be understating price pressures, particularly given the falling dollar and record oil prices.
Ibrahim Ajami, the CEO of ATIC, told me that government and business leaders had identified semiconductors as a core business to compete, part of a long-range 2030 plan to transition the economy from oil and gas business to high technology and to build its own chip foundries.
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