Today, three years after Deepwater Horizon, offshore drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico, driven by the continued high price of oil, a series of massive new fields discovered with the help of improved exploration technology, and the growing difficulty of finding major new oil fields abroad.
Lucas Oil also sponsors some car races, including the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and has a track in Missouri.
Orphaned as a child, Abramovich dropped out of college, then made fortune in a series of controversial oil export deals in early 1990s.
Abramovich was orphaned as a child and dropped out of college, then made his fortune in a series of controversial oil export deals in the early 1990s.
In 2010, I wrote a series of posts documenting how oil and natural prices had decoupled from each other (see here and here).
Tze had worked at an online marketplace for the oil and gas industry and at a series of what he called "exhilarating disasters" in e-commerce.
The bank would then make a series of trades in the oil-futures markets designed to cover what it would have to pay American if the price of fuel rose.
Meanwhile, private firms push ever further into remote areas in search of lumber, minerals, oil and gas, creating a whole new series of potential flashpoints.
Robert's American Gourmet now performs a series of tests to make sure cheese and oil don't make its Booty too fatty.
An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas in 2005 that killed 15 workers, a series of other safety concerns and allegations that the company fixed propane prices have battered its reputation in America.
The series, "Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, " kicked off last July with a three-part narrative about the oil spill and the environmental impacts of a type of oil called diluted bitumen, or dilbit.
It's the latest in a series of great profit reports from the U.S. oil industry.
NPR: The Marketplace Report: Oil Giants Look to Shield Profits
During a visit to the hallowed Crimson halls, the team was kindly enough to show off the material through a series of messy, messy demos, dropping water, motor oil, liquid asphalt and newly-mixed concrete on aluminum and glass.
Using data from 1973 for developed countries, and a shorter series for developing ones, Mr Jacobsen and his colleagues found that oil-price changes and stockmarket returns are linked but lagged: if oil prices rise, shares do fall, but not right away.
After a series of small strokes in March 2002 and the death of her husband, retired oil executive Denis Thatcher, Mrs.
After a series of small strokes in March 2002 and the death of her husband, retired oil executive Denis Thatcher, she largely withdrew from public life the following year.
The Middle East is filled with erratic state and non-state players who could easily set off a series of events, military and diplomatic, that would shut down much of the oil shipments from the Persian Gulf for some period.
To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
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