Numerous U.S. officials have traveled recently to Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, to discuss the country's ability to increase exports enough to make up for the loss of Iranian oil under the sanctions, the official said.
The south took with it three quarters of the formerly united country's oil reserves, a loss that sent Sudan's economy reeling.
It weighs up the loss of oil revenue, and says that would be offset, roughly, by the Treasury in London having to spend less on Scottish services.
Sudan has been suffering too - the IMF predicted that its economy would shrink by 11% in 2012 because of the loss of oil revenue following the South's secession.
The price spread between Brent crude oil, the European benchmark and West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, widened sharply because of the loss of Libyan crude oil production.
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My guess is that a diet of walnuts and lentils and olive oil contributes to a general loss of vigor that ultimately causes economies to stagnate.
The loss of crude oil imports from Libya since the political movements have closed production there has led the U.S. government to open the emergency reserves this summer.
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Louisiana loses the equivalent of a football field worth of wetlands every hour, and 40 to 60 percent of that loss is attributed to oil and gas activity, including exploration and dredging of pipeline canals.
But it also says, without citing any evidence, that Scotland currently has a bigger trade deficit with countries outside the UK. So if that's true and if that larger deficit were removed, it might mitigate against the impact of the loss of domestically-produced oil.
Gold registered a weekly decline of just over 7%, and oil notched a -3.6% loss.
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Oil services company Halliburton also gained after its loss wasn't as bad as analysts had forecast.
GDP, less than half the terms of trade loss from each of the 1970s oil price shocks.
That incident led to the largest-ever oil spill in U.S. waters and the loss of 11 lives.
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The tariff structure has, predictably, led to a loss in market share to the roads, oil pipelines and coastal shipping.
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Shares of Halliburton are up 35% over the past six months, versus a gain of 18% for arch-rival Schlumberger and a loss of 11% for number-three oil services player Weatherford International.
Total could also take the mantle, but while ExxonMobile has a history of timely efficiency in its projects, the Kazhak government probably fears a loss of bargaining power by letting the biggest oil and gas company in the world take control of its gas field.
You may have heard of some of the other factors that indirectly lower ApoCIII: weight loss, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and fish oil.
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You know, the companies - the oil companies and the retailers are not going to take a loss on that 18 cents - so it's going to be passed along.
The Deepwater Horizon rig - operated by Transocean on behalf of BP and its partners - exploded on 20 April and later sank with the loss of 11 lives, leading to the worst oil spill in US history.
With that in mind, it sounds like it's time for a movie of love, loss, big bucks and dirty dealing set in the oil sands boom town of Calgary.
In its filing, the U.S. Government made clear that it does not oppose the settlement reached by BP and the PSC resolving economic loss and property damage claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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However, the movement stopped short of agreeing to participate in peace talks being organised by the government, and thus there was scepticism about the likely impact on the conflict, which arguably poses the biggest political challenge to the federal government, and which has resulted in the loss of about one-fifth of the country's oil output since early 2006.
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That includes disastrous mine accidents that could result in devastating loss to families and communities, and environmental nightmares like the Gulf oil spill.
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As the biggest fishing town on Prince William Sound, Cordova may have suffered the greatest economic loss of any community in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
CORDOVA, Alaska (CNN) -- As the biggest fishing town on Prince William Sound, Cordova may have suffered the greatest economic loss of any community in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
The oil producer could face compensation claims for as much as three times the immediate economic loss.
We're talking about the loss here, by the way, of 400, 000 barrels of oil every day while the flow is shut down in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.
World oil markets will swing back into deficits in the third quarter of 2011 with the loss of 1.5 million barrels per day from Libya and a seasonal swing amplified by the reacceleration of economic growth in China and Japan, putting serious pressure on OPEC spare capacity.
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