"Small oil" advocates like Fesenmyer say there's a significant amount of domestic oil potential that remains untapped.
Making matters far worse for the potential of Greek oil and gas as a potential new revenue stream is the privatization effort launched by the new government.
All they know is that low oil prices make potential investment projects more profitable.
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Investment is pouring into the tar sands, but potential oil exports will outstrip pipeline capacity by 2015.
The potential oil and gas fields weren't big enough to justify their costs.
They believe that roughly a third of the oil and gas potential under UK waters still remains to be extracted.
Equipment designed to cap any potential oil spill in case of a blow-out was damaged, work had to instantly stop.
The SOA branch said ConocoPhillips China had made little progress in checking for potential oil spill sources and preventing more spills.
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Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly.
Various nations that, whether by inadvertence or a conscious desire to hoard precious resources, are locking up much of their potential oil production.
The Saudis are testing similar systems in heavy oilfields where Al-Naimi says they could boost the potential oil to be squeezed from a field sixfold to 40%.
Rathlin Energy was awarded their exploratory licence in 2008 by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to explore the north coast for potential oil and gas reserves.
The RSPB has also voiced concerns about any potential oil extraction around Rathlin Island, off County Antrim, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area (SPA), which it argues is too important for wildlife to allow that to happen.
While Australia is the best part of 10-years behind the U.S. in terms of exploring for and developing its unconventional oil and gas potential it is a country which featured prominently in a 2011 analysis of world shale gas potential by the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
Predictions of easing gasoline prices are also being driven by views that there could be potential oil supply overhang concerns coming up in the absence of a strong and immediate message by the successor of Saudi King Abdullah, reinforcing the adherence to self-imposed production limits by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members.
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And just yesterday, we announced the next step for potential new oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic.
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The oil spill has the potential to become one of the worst in U.S. history, Landry said Tuesday.
The oil sands have the potential to continue to ramp up production.
In our view, their upstream performance continues to be solid, yet the market has not recognized this potential as oil prices have increased.
All told we plan to make available more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.
Several MPs, along with a former head of Iraq's largest state oil company and Iyad Allawi, a potential future prime minister, have said recent oil deals should be reconsidered.
Washington (CNN) -- Oil giant BP and contractor Halliburton knew of potential flaws in the cement slurry used to reinforce the oil well below the Deepwater Horizon rig before it exploded in April, according to a letter Thursday from the lead investigator for a federal probe of the Gulf oil disaster.
The deal for Mariner is even larger with 181M proven barrels of oil equivalent (47 percent are oil or other hydrocarbon liquids), but according to the press release there is the potential of 2B barrels of oil equivalent among their 50 deepwater prospects.
It says the potential impact of oil drilling on Rathlin Island has not been fully explored.
The country has ample natural and human resources, albeit not the strategic kind, like oil, that really motivate potential interveners.
But President Bush has repeatedly shown an unwillingness to sign anything that will punish the oil industry for its profit potential.
Also, the shale boom in the U.S. and the long-term potential of the oil sands business in Canada might have prompted a shift in focus.
"We are aggressively responding with our state and local partners to mitigate the fire and prevent any potential impacts from oil that entered the water, " said Cmdr.
It also has the potential of affecting oil markets.
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There has been no pollution so far but a potential danger from an oil spill remains.
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