If these can be brought to the surface and to shore they will turn Brazil into an oil power.
Essar is part of a conglomerate with interests in shipping, steel, oil and power.
Natural gas also offers a potential solution to our dependence on expensive foreign oil to power our automobiles.
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Property, energy, oil, power stations, highways, retail, even telecom are doing well.
The simple fact is that the bottom half of American income earners are losing oil consuming power to the top quarter of Chinese income earners and the top one tenth of Indian income earners.
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Kim insists there will be plenty of electrical power available from nearby dams and an oil-fueled power plant.
The biggest losers would be the Arab oil states grouped in the Gulf Cooperation Council, most of which are monarchies kept in power by a combination oil dollars and American military power.
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While the low water use and cost of PV will appeal in the desert kingdom, the fact that solar will be displacing power generated from oil means that even CSP based power will produce cost reductions.
It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
History has shown that oil-based power politics can be used as a valuable weapon.
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However, Mr Bush's suggestion belies the fact that India uses virtually no oil in generating power.
Existing coal- and oil-fired power plants must reduce average emission levels of the least 12% of current plants.
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Mr Brown is convinced that convergence in the energy industry may lead to some oil firms buying power firms outright.
Stuxnet is tailored to target weaknesses in Siemens systems used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other utilities.
But its fleet of oil-fired power stations will keep going for years.
Two more factors spurring oil demand: power shortages in China and Japan.
Oil gave him power far beyond the confines of his dilapidated state.
That change, called the Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or MACT, rule requires that coal- and oil-fired power plants reduce pollutant emission rates significantly.
The oil-equivalent metric represents all forms of energy consumed, including crude oil, nuclear power, coal, natural gas and renewable sources such as hydropower.
And since there just isn't that much vegetable oil available to power cars, it's unlikely that there will be ever be a push to build this infrastructure.
As predicted, otherwise uniform cloud cover in these areas was streaked with bright plumes emanating from the industrial sites in question (ore smelters, oil refineries and power stations).
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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While the Kingdom is the world's largest oil exporter, power demand is growing approximately 8% per year, prompting authorities to investigate alternative sources of power, that can ease the demand on its primary source of income.
That means shipowners who wish to ply these waters will have to stop using bunker fuel (the cheap stuff left over once petrol, diesel and aviation fuel have been distilled from crude oil) to power their vessels because burning it produces too much sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and soot.
Additionally, URS has exposure (albeit smaller than its more cyclical peers) to oil, gas, and power end markets, which are beginning to pick up with higher oil prices.
About 600 industrial facilities will be affected: cement companies, oil refineries and electric power generators.
As with OPEC members, it is those who have the most oil who have the power, not the consumers.
Iraq argues the campaigners are only welcome at key infrastructure sites supplying water, oil, food and power.
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