The Saudi Council of Ministers, the cabinet, has declared that it wants to return oil prices to fair levels.
China is busy building bridges and investing in infrastructure across the continent, in return for oil and minerals to fuel its rapidly expanding economy.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.
Hatfield said the oil return line is one of the items that is routinely inspected, but she did not say when it was last inspected or describe its condition at that time.
This week's accord could result in little more than a return to a 1994 pact between America and North Korea, by which North Korea froze its operations at Yongbyon in return for fuel oil shipments and an agreement eventually to provide replacement nuclear reactors that could less easily be used to make weapons material.
Companies were offered "buybacks" instead, under which they drilled for oil, built pipelines and handed over the assets to the government in exchange for a fixed return, paid in oil.
Two others have exposure to oil futures: iPath Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) Crude Oil Total Return Index Exchange Traded Note and PowerShares Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) Oil Fund.
In the 1970s, for instance, the investment return was much higher than the market return, as the oil shock and the subsequent years of stagflation caused a stampede out of equities.
KEDO, the organisation responsible for building two nuclear reactors and making interim deliveries of fuel oil in return for a freeze on the North's production of plutonium, from which nuclear bombs can be made.
Is oil, to return to Burroughs, the ideal commodity for neoliberal free-market capitalism?
Pressed to show a decent return for shareholders, giant oil companies that would never have dreamed of selling out in the past are putting themselves on the block.
Enron was supposed to be supplying oil and gas in return, but never was.
The rising world oil price brought a return to economic growth in Venezuela in 2011 after two years of recession.
Brent crude prices have fallen on hopes that oil production in Libya will return soon, even though those assumptions may prove to be overly optimistic.
Drilling for oil is thought to have a return on energy anywhere from 5x to 20x.
"Our task is to contain the oil, ultimately to eliminate the leaking well and, most importantly, to clean up the oil, defend the shoreline and restore the shoreline where the oil comes ashore, so we return it to the original state, " he said.
In return, Beijing gets a big stake in future oil production and a guaranteed oil and gas supply.
If his regime in fact falls, the thinking is that Libya will eventually be able to return to pre-crisis levels of production and oil markets will settle at lower levels.
In the past year or so his African trips have taken in Gambia, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda, among other places, presumably offering generous oil deals that few can resist in return for backing.
De Margerie singled out Brazil, criticizing its new policies on offshore oil concessions, where he says Petrobras aims to partner up with other oil companies based solely on how little return on capital they are willing to live with.
He and his white shoe legal counsel argued that in an era of high inflation (1980s), an oil and gas investment which had a projected return of 20% was, in fact, conservative because the return would only keep pace with inflation.
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But unlike gold, the inflation track record on TIPS is short, ambiguous and heavily distorted by illiquidity, oil prices (which are included in their return), and the same excess liquidity "conundrum" that has been confusing yields across the bond spectrum.
In return for food, medicines and clothes, Jordan receives Iraqi oil at very favourable prices.
China's Sinopec's deal to develop the Yadavaran oil field is being delayed because the rate of return Iran offered the Chinese was too low.
If First Reserve's track record is any guide, in a few years it is likely to return Abbot to the public market or sell it to another oil services company.
The note consists of futures of contracts of seven agricultural commodities (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar) and tracks the return of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index.
Hayward's remarks come on day 45 of the disaster, as oil drifted eastward toward Florida and President Obama announced he will return to Louisiana on Friday to assess the latest efforts to counter the spill.
In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel oil and build two Western-designed light-water nuclear reactors (since it is a bit harder to produce weapons-grade materials from such reactors than from the ones North Korea had been building).
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