That's because their production is already high, while the number of untapped oil resources is limited.
More importantly, Venezuela's vast oil resources have been vital to support China's breakneck-speed economic growth.
In July, its leader Eamon Ryan said he was wary of quoted figures over oil resources which had not yet been tested.
To the Israeli government it was obvious that Saddam, with his enormous oil resources, did not need nuclear power for civilian purposes.
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No one ethnic or religious group would be allowed to claim exclusive rights to any part of the oil resources or infrastructure.
This has enabled the US to gain significantly more extractable oil resources.
Iraq's vast oil resources will contribute some cash, but not as much as the administration hoped: oil production and exports have been slowed by sabotage and antiquated equipment.
Thus, Baduel has tried to bring Venezuelans into a debate on national issues of importance such as oil policy and how to use oil resources and oil income.
Germany, without domestic oil resources, faced a real energy crisis.
Washington moved quickly to reassure Turkey that the Kurds would not be allowed to control Kirkuk and its oil resources, or to declare an independent state in northern Iraq.
Second both companies are considering the possibility of an oil pipeline from the vast oil resources of the Orinoco to the Colombian Pacific coast to export oil to China.
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After Desert Storm, we did not use our military power to take or establish control over the oil resources of Iraq or any other country in the Gulf region.
So we are intent on ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remain under national Iraqi control, with the proceeds made available to support Iraqis in all parts of the country.
Current major oil exporters, such as Russia and the Middle East, could be "significant net losers in the long term unless they can develop their own shale oil resources on a large scale", it said.
Ecuador lacks the substantial natural oil resources that Venezuela possesses but the Bolivarian Revolution also has an important ideological and rallying component that without the proper personality and leadership might not enjoy the same intensity.
In the past, the Turkish government has vehemently opposed any move by the Iraqi Kurds to develop oil resources, because of Turkish fears that the oil revenues would allow the Kurds to establish an independent state.
Yet demand for air travel, and energy generally, is rising quickly in China and other developing countries - something likely to push up prices for the rest of us in future, as the world's oil resources deplete.
The populous nation, a member of the OPEC oil cartel, possesses vast oil resources and is active in regional affairs -- most notably in its newly democratic government's efforts to battle HIV and AIDS and its regional peacekeeping missions.
The Bank claims that exploiting oil resources is one of the few development options open to Chad, where 80% of the people live on less than a dollar a day, and 90% of the country is desert or semi-arid.
In October, it released its first estimates for the neighboring (in Ohio) or underlying (in Pennsylvania and New York) Utica shales of 38 TCF, plus 940 million barrels of unconventional oil resources and 208 million barrels of unconventional liquids.
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Attacks on oil resources increase.
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Add to that an estimated 1 trillion barrels of oil sands resources and another 2.8 trillion barrels of oil shale, and we can all afford to put down our "End Is Nigh" placards.
Green says different ministries are promoting different investment priorities, from foreign stocks and companies to oil and other resources.
Meanwhile, as California focuses upon wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, vast oil and gas resources remain undeveloped.
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Interestingly, Garcia blamed the violence in Bagua on "external" forces, which are competing with Peru's oil and gas resources.
In 2003 and 2004, she chaired the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska's oil and gas resources.
"Nowadays, you try to blend in, " says Mr. Milici, who assesses oil and gas resources at headquarters in Northern Virginia.
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He made his wealth in oil and natural resources, following the liberalisation of Russian markets in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Iran is a country that is rich in oil and natural resources.
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