The decision to put Mission Control in Houston back in 1961 kick-started that city's non-oil economy.
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest economy after South Africa's and the world's eighth-largest oil exporter, yet the continent's most populous country (with 140m-plus citizens) has yet to fulfil its economic potential.
It accounts for 15% of the U.S.'s crude-oil imports, less than half the amount the U.S. imports from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.
Third, and most important, Timor-Leste's oil-and-gas income is relatively modest, and started to flow only after independence.
Elliott has said it wants Hess to boost shareholder value through various means, including a potential spin-off of the oil company's holdings in North Dakota's Bakken shale-oil field.
Same goes for India's Azim Premji, who turned his dad's cooking-oil business into technology giant Wipro.
On 5% of the world's vegetable-oil farmland it produces 38% of output, more than any of these other crops.
Polar, which claims to generate almost 3% of the country's non-oil GDP and has 19, 000 employees, complains of harassment.
Last year's vote on a controversial Dodd-Frank rule requiring U.S.-listed oil and gas companies to report payments to foreign governments for oil rights passed by a 2-1 vote on party lines.
But the Japanese pulled out of the Taiyo fish cannery at Noro, timber exports were hit by the Asian slump, Ross Mining closed its Gold Ridge mine and Guadalcanal's palm-oil plantations have been abandoned.
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Under the rule of Sani Abacha, who died last year, Nigeria's leaders damaged the state's oil refineries so much that the world's 11th-biggest oil exporter found itself importing fuel (to the profit of the president and his mates).
And in buses on the U.S.' West Coast, we're testing hydrogen fuel-cell engines, designed to replace today's oil-burning engines.
The proposed budget was already super-austere, because inflation is high and oil prices low, reducing revenues from Mexico's state-owned oil company.
Congo-Brazzaville is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-biggest oil producer , but it does not look rich.
Tiny Congo-Brazzaville, with only 2.6m people, is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-largest oil producer.
Angola, sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil producer, pumps out more than 1.9 million barrels per day and boasts an expanding investment portfolio in its former colonial power, Portugal, and in other parts of Africa.
The convoy was heading from Baiji -- the site of Iraq's largest oil refinery -- to Ramadi, in Iraq's volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad, the police official said.
Mexico City (CNN) -- Workers digging through the rubble of what were offices at Mexico's state-run oil giant have found more victims, raising the death toll from last week's blast to 35.
Obama announced in March that he would approve a portion of the pipeline, a part that runs from Cushing, Oklahoma -- a key repository of U.S. oil -- to the Gulf.
Thirteen of the 16 billionaires who have hit age 90 built their fortunes themselves--the three exceptions being U.S. oil-family scion David Rockefeller, Danish shipping-company executive Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller and Saudi banker Saleh Al Rajhi.
His faculty appointment followed a 31-year career at Mobil Oil where he was Vice-President of the U.S. oil and natural gas business, and then Vice-President of oil and natural gas in Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
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It would be good, too, for Yukos, which wants to build an eastward pipeline to get its own oil out of Siberia and reduce its dependence on Russia's state-run oil-transport company.
Getting Mars back online early was a triumph for Shell--and a rare piece of good news for the world's third-largest oil and gas company.
The acquisition will be made by BP's joint-venture partner, Bridas Corporation, which is itself a joint-venture between Argentine tycoon Carlos Bulgheroni and CNOOC, China's state-owned oil company.
Analysts believe that Clair - along with other developments in the area - could lead to the Atlantic overtaking the North Sea as the UK's biggest oil-producing region within 20 years.
The attackers machine-gunned the vehicle after it crossed from the Republic of Congo into Angola's oil-rich territory of Cabinda.
Uneximbank had benefited from the loans-for-shares scheme to acquire, for next to nothing, Russia's fourth-biggest oil firm and its biggest nickel producer.
Due for completion in 2013, it will take gas from Myanmar's offshore Shwe field and will have the capacity to satisfy 10% of China's oil-import needs.
Moreover, critical US national security interests, such as the stability of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, Egypt's 35-year strategic alignment with America following Sadat's pivot away from the Soviet Union, and the fate of the Arabian Peninsula's oil-and gas-producing regimes, justifiably weigh in the balance for Washington's decision-makers, and the West as a whole.
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