Facing higher oil prices worldwide, countries, from China to Indonesia, are no longer keeping resource costs as artificially low as before.

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No capital expenses, no vast spikes in maintenance costs, no resource and skill requirements.

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China's largest offshore oil-and-gas producer Cnooc added 3.6% after its 2012 net profit fell 9.3% on-year to 63.69 billion yuan, due to rising operating costs and higher resource tax expenses.

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The DSO handles marketing, human resource support, accounting and billing, spreading costs efficiently across several practices.

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"The commission is under pressure to reduce costs and is already working under tremendous resource constraints, " said Dirk Hudig, of the Fipra public-affairs consultancy in Brussels.

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Australian resource-services firm WorleyParsons reported increased profits but said rising costs and project delays were pressuring margins.

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However, it raises costs in yen terms of the imported crude oil and natural gas that resource-scarce Japan must rely on to keep its industries humming and power its cities.

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When disaggregated, resource types can be grouped together and distributed throughout the rack, improving upgradability, flexibility and reliability while lowering costs.

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