Algae typically do not produce oil under normal conditions, but they do when they are stressed.
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In the new normal, oil and gas CEOs can no longer be effective leaders if they don't lead with safety.
Bucking normal trends, oil prices jumped despite the gains in the equities markets.
Under normal circumtances, oil prices might have declined.
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The oil company's production capabilities have not been harmed, and operations and oil production will continue Friday as normal, Lozoya said.
This means that an ounce of gold would buy 14.30 barrels of oil, which is within the historically normal range.
Most health and human development indicators have shown no significant improvement beyond that which is normal in the midst of an oil boom.
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Crude oil was already dropping sharply by July (the normal seasonal high) and declined into the October low.
Philadelphia Energy Solutions, which operates a 330, 000 barrel-a-day oil refinery, said Tuesday morning it had begun to restore normal operations.
She said Ukraine was negotiating contracts to buy oil from Kazakhstan instead and petrol supplies would be back to normal by June.
The aircraft underwent normal overnight maintenance which included opening the cowl doors and checking the oil levels, the report said.
"Very high oil prices will dampen any kind of recovery and any kind of growth even during normal times, " Gurria said.
If the current price right now is looked at as the new normal, which I think it is for numerous reasons, then the oil stocks-despite oil prices going flat-the oil stocks, I think, will go straight up soon.
What happens to Iraq's oil will be crucial in determining how fast the country is able to resume something like normal economic life.
Hopes of an end to the squeeze on output got a boost from Venezuela's oil minister Rafael Ramirez, who said exports would improve to at least a third of normal levels next week.
At the same time implied (annualized) volatility, reflecting the oil market's expectations about price fluctuations, is running around 45%, 15 points above normal levels.
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