Individual wells can be active for decades, slowly pulling (or stripping) more oil and gas out of the ground.

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Engineers there have been stripping CO2 from oil and gas pumped by an offshore platform in the Nordic Sea, and pumping it back down.

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You can damage your engine if you're not careful to use the right oil filter and replace the oil-drain plug without stripping its threads, or forget a leak-stopping gasket.

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Then Oil and other fossil fuels will go into a long decline with investors on a business decline strategy making money out of the asset stripping and running the oil fields into the ground.

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Stripping out the impact of oil price fluctuations and asset sales, underlying earnings grew 2 percent, the company said in a statement.

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We already tried stripping away rules and regulations that kept Wall Street banks and oil companies in bounds.

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