Two Russian oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, are to merge, knocking Lukoil from the number-one position in Russia and creating the world's third-largest private oil company in production terms.
When China invests it secures an equity share of production on terms comparable to other co-owners (mainly the host country).
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Although in volume terms production has at last begun to catch up with pre-recession levels (see chart), most small firms are probably still in decline.
One of them is Apache (APA), one of the major independent natural gas and oil exploration and production companies in the U.S. and the fourth largest oil-and-gas company in terms of production.
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This could be possible as there is tremendous potential for economies of scale, both in terms of mass production, which reduces the cost of each turbine, and in terms of the construction and management of vast wind farms offshore where there are few limits on available acreages.
In terms of production, manufacturing output is up 20 percent since 2009, and increased again in July.
In terms of production yield, the largest farms can generate 3%-4% returns annually.
However, TNK-BP has been a major success for BP in terms of production.
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Exxon Mobil and Chevron, with the least exposure in terms of production and proven reserves, are the least exposed of the top 20 largest oil companies.
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The firm will also gain access to operations in Barnett Shale in North Texas, which is one of the largest shale basins in North America (in terms of production).
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Barbassa is confident that Petrobras will become the largest company, both in reserves and in terms of production, taking its current 2.57 million barrels of daily output to 6.4 million by 2020.
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Lord Justice Judge quashed the order, saying the wide terms of production orders made by an Old Bailey judge "would have a devastating and stifling effect on the proper investigation of the Shayler story".
The ongoing debate between western oil companies operating in Kazakhstan and the government on the terms of production agreement spilled into the open yesterday at a conference on investing in Kazakhstan in New York City.
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Brazil ranks seventh in terms of production.
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During the workshop, the Senegalese radio managers will also discuss their training needs in terms of radio production.
In fact, within eight short years, the U.S. will surpass Saudi Arabia in terms of oil production, the International Energy Agency said Monday.
The other reason I started in games at this time was that I foresaw the direction things were going in, in terms of music production and music implementation.
Shortstop will still be a scarce position in terms of fantasy production next season, especially in the American League, and hitting atop the Yankees lineup will always have its benefits, no matter how poorly Jeter hits.
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"We need to be open to different kinds of investment in terms of exploration, production and refining, " Flores said of Pemex.
"This allows us to up the ante in terms of what the production is going to entail, " the Grammy- and Tony-winning singer-songwriter said.
But before Westerners begin pointing fingers at Asian countries for contributing to greenhouse gases and other anti-sustainability actions, it should be understood that while they may be growing in their contributions to deleterious effects on the earth, they still lag far behind western nations in terms of per capita production of Carbon Dioxide, the greenhouse gas identified as the greatest contributor to climate change.
They have been the largest driller for years, and they have a very explicit strategy in terms of rig deployment, production, and prices.
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The most reliable projections that have been issued to date make it clear that the Eagle Ford Shale is likely to ultimately surpass the East Texas Field to become the largest oil field ever discovered in the lower 48 states in terms of total ultimate oil production.
In terms of copper, Barrick saw production slide to 112 million pounds, from 140 a year ago.
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He gets a six-year production deal with Fox with the most favorable terms possible and with the studio promising to buy at least two movies per year from Chernin.
Zambia's unwise nationalisation of the mines in 1969 (as advised by the best of British development economists) may have contributed to declining copper production but population pressures, shifts in the terms of trade since the 1970s and a burden of debt to the West that originated then in recycled petro-dollars have contributed massively to the impoverishment of the country.
Samsung provided reporters with some hands-on time with pre-production units, which revealed the S 4 to be, in terms of hardware, a solid successor to the III.
However, a few years in, the electronics market underwent significant changes and Klipsch decided to cease production of the Aragon line in 2005, while still honoring warranty terms and offering customer support.
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If your universities, if your system of higher education migrates toward applied knowledge, away from the production of basic knowledge, it may therefore hurt your overall economy in terms of its capacity to generate the people and the talent you need for broad based problem solving and innovation regardless of its specific applications.
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