The same people have also made it a criminal offence to put oil of citrus into jam or jelly.
"The threat of that oil being sold at any moment can lead to more risk for companies that might put more oil in storage, " says Tom A. Kloza, publisher at Opis Energy Group, which tracks the heating oil market.
That is a fancy way of saying that Oil Creek Valley put the whale oil industry out of business.
He has also put his oil fields in the Bakken Shale region of North Dakota up for sale.
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And being willing to put the oil revenues aside means that Norway has high taxes to fund its services.
The only problem: foreign companies that compete against U.S. companies, such as state-owned oil giants, aren't subject to the SEC's regulatory arm if they don't do business in the U.S. That could put American oil companies like ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron at a competitive disadvantage to their foreign counterparts, oil advocates say.
Or when China's CNOOC oil company put up a bid for the American oil firm Unocal a year earlier?
This is a complete 180-degree change from the situation at the beginning of 2008, when record-high oil prices put a big smile on the faces of oil producers while forcing oil consumers to pinch pennies.
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Nor, so far, have Yukos's troubles put off international oil companies from investing in Russia's energy sector.
Oil put a brief double top in on Thursday as it pushed through and failed on that pipeline explosion report.
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Never put chemicals or oil down the drain -- they will contaminate rivers and then make its toxic way into our oceans.
His assessment was that Mr Blair, "like his promises", was past their "use-by date" and that voters would not listen to a man who put "snake oil rather than milk on his cornflakes".
An external shock in the shape of higher oil prices also adversely affected companies exposed to fuel costs during the early stages of 2011, as a crisis in Egypt put pressure on oil prices.
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Indeed, as we explored in this space last week, federal acreage has enough oil and gas to put a big dent in U.S. oil imports.
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Such a rare moment of transparency should put pressure on other oil firms to follow suit.
High estimates put the equivalent recoverable oil at somewhere between 20 billion and 30 billion barrels.
After the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which swamped an Alaskan sound with oil and put the company in the polluter in chief spot for years, Raymond did little directly to repair its image in the eyes of the public.
And following the intersection of the well bore with those relief wells, they will put heavy mud down there to suppress the pressure of the oil coming up from the reservoir, put a cement plug in and effectively do what I would call a bottom kill, as opposed to the top kill, which was not successful a couple of weeks ago.
High crude oil prices also put a floor under alternative energy sources and their producers.
Still, recent price action hints the crude oil market has put in a near-term bottom.
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There are some early clues the crude oil market has put in a bottom.
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However, recent price action hints the crude oil market has put in a near-term bottom.
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General scepticism about OPEC's ability to pump any more oil has also put upward pressure on the price.
Beginning in the 1970s, oil windfalls were put into international banks, where they fostered activity nearly every place else.
New official estimates put the leak the worst oil spill in American history.
The government will put aside some of its oil profits in a stabilisation fund, for spending when the oil price falls.
Two of eight red-throated divers had to be put down after ingesting the oil, and a dunlin also died, a spokeswoman said.
The doubts swirling over the economic recovery have also put additional pressure on crude oil prices, as evidenced by the recent failure to overcome chart and trend line resistance last week.
Longer term plays such as heavy oil should be put into the mix for positive cash flow, as should joint ventures with serious NOCs to give BP much more market and political cover.
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