And just think about this: Sometime down the line, you could potentially live in a converted oil silo as your primary residence and keep a waterfront vacation property at a retrofitted oil rig.
But Mossadegh wasn't happy that the profit from the country's primary resource -- oil -- was not staying in the country.
Only a small shift in national energy policy to favor natural gas over oil would make this play even more attractive as cars shift to natural gas from oil as their primary fuel.
Included are three major oil companies, three primary telecom carriers and most all prominent media firms.
In 1949 nearly 91% of America's total primary energy came from coal, oil, and natural gas.
Congress would do well to tread lightly: Market forces are the primary driver for the rise in oil and gasoline prices.
This sudden surge in exports of oil distillates, the primary source for motor diesel fuel consumed in the U.S., occurred at the same time diesel prices hit record highs.
The primary alternatives such as coal, oil and natural gas power plants also pose dangers to nearby residents who breathe in fine pollutants released by the combustion of these fuels.
Cottonseed oil is also the primary input in the production of Olestra, a frying fat that glides through humans without leaving a trace of fat or calories, and is also an important source of vitamin E for pharmaceutical producers.
The primary culprit is the buoyant price of oil, itself a product of global economic recovery.
The breakdown of primary energy was coal 23 percent, oil 44 percent, gas 17 percent, and other 17 percent.
The government has also arranged for Petrobras to be the primary operator of all pre-salt oil fields and to have a minimum 30 percent stake in all pre-salt joint ventures, an arrangement that is still competitive in relation to other major oil-producing states like Nigeria and Venezuela (and without the high militant and political risk).
The usual summertime correction in oil prices is now setting up risk-controlled buying opportunities for several strong oil-services stocks and a primary sector ETF.
Workers in apparel, rubber, plastics, furniture, primary metals and transportation equipment are especially hard hit by oil price increases.
The continent's primary industrial engine imports 60% of its gas and oil needs.
Revenues: The primary source of hard currency for Iran is the export of oil and natural gas.
The primary concern with an investment in Chevron would be a retreat in oil prices.
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And yet only nuclear power, which went from zero to about 8.5% of the U.S. primary energy over that time frame, has managed to steal significant market share from coal, oil and natural gas.
The primary difference between bitumen and ordinary crude is the size of the hydrocarbon molecules: in liquid oil, these molecules contain between five and twenty carbon atoms, while in bitumen they contain more than twenty. (At room temperature, pure bitumen is so viscous that it will not flow.) The main job of the upgrader is to break down the oversized hydrocarbons into smaller units.
But Saudi investors may be resented for buying up primary commodities from poor countries, while monopolising and limiting the output of their own special one: oil.
As for Venezuela, its oil money helps it earn somewhat better rankings in the "macroeconomy" and "health and primary education" sections of the Competitiveness Report, giving the country an overall rank of 88 out of 125 countries.
Like it or not, in the oil and gas industry and in other industries with catastrophic potential, the CEO must take on the primary leadership role in safety.
By 2008 the market share for coal, oil and natural gas, along with nuclear, had grown to 92.5% of total primary energy in the U.S. with the remainder coming from renewables.
Although the most prevalent environmental debate centered on potential pipeline leaks that might endanger the sensitive Ogallala aquifer area in Nebraska and other states along the route, it is clear that a primary opposition goal for many is not to simply to reroute the pipeline, but rather to discourage and handicap oil use altogether.
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