The Texas oil company does extensive work in the Inglewood oil fields.
Where once the state-owned giants hired oil majors to do the work, now they can manage projects themselves and hire technical help directly from the services firms.
Exxon has long led the oil majors in investment in research and technology, keeping up such work even when the oil price collapse of the late 1990s led rivals to slash funding.
Journe was tinkering to see if he could redesign the Centigraphe to work without oil while still protecting the delicate mechanism from wear and tear.
The few Qataris who do work in the private sector mainly work for banks or oil companies.
The two have previously worked together on projects, and the new deal will focus on expanding Global's existing fabrication work for the oil and gas and offshore renewables industries.
Even if the cost cuts work and Big Oil finally agrees to support the group, environmentalists are squarely against the drilling aspect of the plan.
There is a risk that price rises will peak after the first quarter of next year, if the past effects of higher oil prices start to work their way out of the consumer-price index.
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But until the oil industry returns to work, figures are just guesswork.
After graduation, Sally went on to work in the oil fields of Oklahoma and Colorado.
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He was here to study engineering and work in the oil business, his father said.
This foreign populations constitutes a third of everyone living in Saudi Arabia, 5.5 million of whom work in the oil industry.
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However, a 10-year study showed that while the oil does not appear to work for people who are already ill, it does seem to prevent illness in those whose genes make them vulnerable to developing symptoms.
Allen is the ruffian roustabout who left school at age 15 to support his family, moved to Alaska to work on the oil platforms, and eventually built his own business becoming the state's largest private employer and making a fortune.
The hunt for oil explains why these companies are so keen to restart work in the Gulf of Mexico, after a halt imposed by the Obama administration following the Deepwater Horizon spill.
When you look at the Consumer Price Index, perhaps 20 percent is tied to oil and food so the inflation in the index must work higher.
So the oil remains locked in the ground, as one million Californians look for work, as its schools and roads deteriorate, and as it keeps raising taxes to balance the budget.
The land rovers are powered by cooking oil, and the sewage system uses bacteria to do the dirty work.
Space travel and oil rig work are not jobs for the feint of heart or the risk averse.
That is sometimes easier said than done: the oil-company engineer willing to work only in comfy places is unlikely to thrive.
But he said the oil was contained and skimmers would work nonstop.
Also, my frequent co-author, Samuel Foucher, and I have collaborated on a number of papers and presentations, and Sam has done some excellent mathematical modeling work on the top oil exporting countries.
Conversely, the ransoms mean higher insurance premiums for the rattled shipping industry, delays for customers as more ships choose the longer passage around the Cape of Good Hope, lower revenues for the Suez Canal, and for the oil markets yet another variable to work into already volatile prices.
Ben Jacobsen, a finance professor at Massey University in New Zealand, has another theory: it takes investors (like economists) a while to work out the impact of oil-price movements on the economy generally.
The Iraqi oil ministry cancelled the contract after Lukoil refused to give in to pressure from Baghdad to start work on the field in breach of United Nations trade sanctions.
You base your argument on the premise that the oil-for-food programme does not work.
For the mundane work of replacing shocks or oil filters, though, they are competing with service stations and quick lube shops.
Although offshore oil-service companies compete hard for work in the North Sea, they are apparently willing to try co-operation in some areas.
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Don Spencer, a truck driver for an oil field supply company, hustled to the statehouse after work to hear the panel discuss amending the constitution to make gun possession easier.
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