Last year, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme said that over half a century of oil operation in the region, by firms including Shell, had caused deeper damage to the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta than earlier estimated.
That changed the nature of the business from primarily an oil sands operation to a more diversified company.
When EnCana ( ECA) spun off its oil sands operation into a separate company last year, it created a dilemma for some investors.
Another rationalization under consideration: combining the oil and gas operation with PreussenElektra to form a single, integrated energy operation.
Al-Maliki called the operation in the oil-rich southern city a success Thursday but said it exposed weaknesses in the security forces, including operational snafus and troop desertions that he said will be addressed and reviewed.
Membership of the oil-rich Gulf Co-operation Council, which Jordan was invited last year to join, in the hope that it would bring a panacea of wealth, has yet to materialise.
The two oil-gluggers' recent co-operation on energy was, after all, as unusual as it was tentative.
Earlier, Rosneft, another state-controlled oil firm, acquired the main production operation of Yukos, a private energy company that had been dismembered by Russia's state.
Britain's 16th Air Assault division, which has been protecting the Rumalia oil fields, have also extended their operation northwest toward Highway 6, a major route out of Basra.
Smit, which in charge of salvaging Prestige before it sank, said the operation - to pump the oil back to the surface - would cost nearly 50m euros and take several months to complete.
The big prize here is a 20% stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project, an open-pit mining operation targeting 3.4 billion barrels of bitumen.
The first part of the operation to stop the Shell pipeline leaking oil into the North Sea has, according to the company, been successful so far.
We work with manufacturers in a variety of ways to ensure the smooth operation of a system here that provides oil and gas products to American consumers, but I don't think it was anything more specific than that.
The new contracts lack the security a new legal structure would grant, and Iraqi lawmakers have argued that they run contrary to existing law, which requires government control, operation, and ownership of Iraq's oil sector.
While the Balkans did net the Germans a reliable source of oil, attempting to squeeze an invasion of the Balkans and Operation Barbarossa into the same summer was a gigantic mistake.
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Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are traveling the country as part of Operation Free, campaigning to end our dependence on oil -- (applause) -- we have a few of these folks here today, right there. (Applause.) The young people of this country -- that I've met all across America -- they understand that this is the challenge of their generation.
If oil is discovered offshore, the pressure for greater economic co-operation will be strong.
When the Fed did indeed announce its QE3 program, it was widely expected that commodity prices, including oil prices, would surge higher as they did after QE2 and Operation Twist.
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China Integrated Energy, Inc. (CBEH) : A non-state-owned company, China Integrated has three main businesses: the wholesale distribution of finished oil and heavy oil products, the production and sale of biodiesel, and the operation of retail gas stations.
Zapata, of course, also has a 40 percent stake in food-services operation Viskase Companies and a 60 percent stake in fish-oil processor Omega Protein.
In the economic crisis that followed the quadrupling of the price of oil, the British unit sank deeply into the red while the French operation was only marginally profitable.
Indigenous groups are suing Occidental, an American oil company, for contaminating a huge swathe of jungle during three decades of operation in Peru.
At least one person has died during the clean-up operation, after being thrown from a ship by waves and drowning in the oil.
The Iraqi government said the operation that began March 25 targeted criminals who had been carrying out indiscriminate attacks, burglaries and oil smuggling.
Likewise, ordering The Godfather, a monstrous sandwich with four different meats, mozzarella, roasted peppers, pepperoncini and extra virgin olive oil, from Villa, a classic deli near East Hampton train station, is a ten-minute operation, as opposed to an hour.
Although offshore oil-service companies compete hard for work in the North Sea, they are apparently willing to try co-operation in some areas.
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