South Sudan has large-scale oil production, but is landlocked and reliant on Sudan's ports for export.
Sakhalin may soon offer all of Russia a foretaste of what large-scale oil investment can mean.
But the government is keenly aware that large-scale oil production may come at a price.
If predictions are accurate, the report argues, Sudan could become a "new medium-scale oil exporter" during the Bush administration.
This is oil on an outlandish scale--if true this would effectively double America's current total proved oil reserves.
It is hard to really grasp the scale of the oil market.
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From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
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.
The sheer scale of our oil reserves -- the world's largest -- guarantees the complete sustainability of the model in which the country's resources are used to stimulate growth in the economy and aid development.
It has built one of the world's fastest-growing economies, thanks mainly to the large-scale export of oil, metals and grains, which helps to ensure that it doesn't rely too heavily for trade on Russia, its former Soviet neighbor, or on China.
What is agreed right now is that there's very little scientific information about large-scale production of jatropha oil.
China, which has agreed to build and renovate 6, 000km of roads in Congo, reportedly wants to cultivate oil palm there on a massive scale.
Nonetheless, there is a U.S. consortium, the National Algae Association, that is actively seeking a future in which algae are grown on a large scale and converted to oil-alternative fuels.
Oil shocks have frequently instigated such large scale dissonance.
"If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption, " said Kunz.
Independent retailers had complained that oil companies and supermarkets had been using their scale to give themselves an unfair advantage, but the regulator found no evidence of this.
Add to that our coal and comparable amounts of cheap natural gas, and America is sitting on a hydrocarbon gusher that is unprecedented in scale since the dawn of the oil age.
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And wringing rock oil out of rags would not exactly get to scale.
Much of the spending in the expanded oil-for-food deal, on whatever scale it proceeds, is expected to be put to such ends.
The deficit ends four years when it could claim to be in surplus, on a modest scale, assuming a large share of oil revenue and not including capital spending.
With that, Doosan plunged into full-scale production of power plants for turnkey transfer to oil-rich nations, two-thirds of its business today.
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That makes the industry similar in scale to the Netherlands, the 18th-most prolific oil-consuming country.
Oil-and-gas firms have been fracking on a large scale in Canada and America for over a decade.
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Although some people make their own diesel at home from leftovers and recycled cooking oil, coffee-based biodiesel seems better suited to larger-scale processes.
It is ridiculous to compromise indigenous food-production in any nation, since all nations will find it increasingly untenable to import food on the vast scale most currently do, in the absence of cheap oil or gas.
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In 2012, the growth of U.S. oil supply saved the market from significant supply-side tightness given the scale of non-OPEC supply disappointments elsewhere, like in Brazil.
There is no doubt that the Nigerian oil and natural gas industry can perform more efficiently and on a greater scale and that reform is required to achieve this.
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Either would represent another wasted opportunity to make a critical large-scale investment in our clean tech competitiveness and a future free from oil.
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Solazyme, founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, uses patented technology that allows algae to produce oil and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities quickly, efficiently and on a large scale.
Likewise, debased dollars wobble the scale at the point of exchange and push commodities up a la an oil shock.
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