The government also wants to reverse the production decline of the past decade.
Rising crude oil production in Texas and North Dakota has contributed to a reversal of the long-term US production decline.
This reflects investment patterns, the rate of production decline and, above all, a guess at prices, which is notoriously hard to do.
But Iranian oil production will decline as sanctions bite and the country loses access to equipment and expertise.
If water resources continue to be poorly managed, food and energy production will decline, and waterborne disease will increase.
This reliance on one export makes Malawi vulnerable, particularly when production levels decline.
The Houston-based company also said 2013 production would decline.
In fact, we believe that when the great gold selloff occurs and production is taken off line the marginal cost of production will decline as the least efficient mines are closed first.
With production on the decline, Chavez will have to work hard to avoid running out of money.
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Manny Ramirez was no saint, but it wasn't until his production began to decline that the Red Sox grew intolerant of his antics.
As I explained to Mineweb in a recent podcast, no miner wants to show investors that their production profile is in decline, so there has been a huge push to grow gold production.
The rate of growth of oil production this year has crawled nearly to a stop and experts predict an imminent and massive decline in gas production and exports due to insufficient investment in the industry.
Free-range production now looks to have the potential to reverse the sharp decline in local egg production.
It is certainly not unthinkable to me that Saudi production could start to decline this year.
It needs Arctic production to offset the decline in its main west Siberian oil fields.
The drop in confidence was due to a decline in production and a slump in new orders.
Some observers attribute a decline in production for the year to this incident.
Although there is a lot of oil and gas left, and more being found, the decline in production far outweighs the uplift from new fields coming on stream.
With steel manufacturers already under pressure due to increased raw material prices, it was inevitable that they cut down on production to combat the decline in the steel prices.
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Some academic researchers say it is hard to quantify an actual labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, in part because there is so little evidence of a decline in production.
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The decline in production from mature oilfields in the North Sea and Alaska also means that replacement supplies will have to be hauled longer distances by sea to the refineries of Europe and North America.
Factory output, the most important component of industrial production, was dragged lower by a steep 3.2 percent decline in auto and auto parts production.
With the decline in energy production under way, this is now surely inescapable.
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Price controls, demand growth and a drought-induced decline in hydropower production are among the many culprits contributing to this problem.
Moreover, lower quality copper ore has resulted in a decline in the production levels for the company in the past.
Crude oil prices were not attractive enough for oil companies to increase production, resulting in a decline in demand for tubular steel products.
However, due to the economic downturn, demand and price of natural gas declined in 2009, causing a decline in gas production as well.
It predicted a general decline in domestic production of natural gas through 2010, with the ultimate possibility of its phase-out as a significant fuel.
With equipment and crew constraints being resolved because of a decline in gas production, drilling activity in North Dakota is set to rise even further.
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Mexican oil production has experienced a precipitous decline, from a level of 3.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2004 to a recent 2.55 million bpd.
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