"Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters -- the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, " the report says.
Of the Seven Sisters of Declining Exports, six are countries where the oil machine is run by a national oil firm.
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Yergin says he's always asked when oil will run out for good.
The South American nation, then ruled by military dictator Ernesto Geisel, needed oil to run its industrial machine, which was booming at the time.
Savings funds, such as Norway's Government Pension Fund, transfer resource wealth across generations by building portfolios that aim to provide returns long after the oil has run dry.
Mr Salmond said Scotland's oil had disappeared "down the gullet of the London Treasury", while Norway had established a fund which would see the country remain prosperous for generations after its oil had run out.
From a a palm oil plantation run by a Malaysian company, Sime Darby, the Today programme's Evan Davis looked into whether these lands deals are a route into better life, or a signing away of the nation's wealth.
And the fact of the matter is, is that if they even approach the amount of car ownership that we have, oil will run out very quickly and on the way, prices will just spike up naturally, no matter what we do.
It would be good, too, for Yukos, which wants to build an eastward pipeline to get its own oil out of Siberia and reduce its dependence on Russia's state-run oil-transport company.
Oil companies have also been in the "eye of the storm", but the boss of state-run oil giant Sinopec says the country's oil quality standards are to blame for pollution, Economic Information Daily reports.
Ireland is on the verge of securing revenue from oil that could run into billions of pounds.
U.S. officials also recently approved a deal that allowed Chinese state-run oil company Cnooc Ltd.
The government run oil company has been loath to raise gasoline prices due to inflation fears.
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Reform and modernisation of Mexico's massive state-run oil company, Pemex, has been a priority of his centre-right government.
It said the state-run oil firm was hit because it was a key source of income for the government.
And we realized that big oil-price run-up was based largely on speculation anyway.
After Chavez nationalized foreign-run oil fields, critics say oil production has slowed.
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The true test of success in diversifying Gulf economies away from state-run oil will be when some of that money chooses to come home.
By controlling what Petrobras, the state-run oil producer, charged for petrol, for instance, the government was limiting the cash the company had left over for investment.
The Market Vectors Russia ETF ( RSX) gives investors access to four firms that are not traded on US markets: state-run oil major Rosneft, VTB Bank, Novatek and NLMK Steel.
French judges investigating misuse of funds in 1989-93 by Elf , then a state-run oil company, were denied access to papers detailing bribes paid to foreign firms to win contracts.
And recently Turkey has sounded keener, with American backing, for gas as well as oil pipelines to run from the Caspian across Georgia and into Turkey, to by-pass the prickly Russians.
Bolivia names Manuel Morales to head state-run oil company.
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PDVSA, Venezuela's state-run oil company, announced a sharp fall in 2006 profits on Tuesday, perhaps a sign that a lack of investment in the industry may be eroding the country's productive capacity.
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Mexico City (CNN) -- Workers digging through the rubble of what were offices at Mexico's state-run oil giant have found more victims, raising the death toll from last week's blast to 35.
"That's part of our message -- to let the public realize we are not the Exxons and the Mobils, " said Fred Fesenmyer of Minard Run Oil, a Bradford, Pennsylvania, company that has been in his family for six generations.
To keep the thousands of oil field workers from clogging the one artery to the oil sands, 500 buses run in a continuous loop from Fort McMurray to the oil fields.
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