Cuticle wax is a solid oil, and is just as susceptible to the diatoms' charms as any other oily substance.
Moreover, the sorts of fields that Western oil firms are starting to develop, in very deep water, or of nearly solid, tar-like oil, are ever more technically challenging.
The market was supported by the U.S. dollar index backing well off its daily high and by a solid rally in crude oil prices.
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With 3 billion barrels of oil equivalent reserves, it's as solid as they come when it comes to oil and gas exploration and production companies.
New York s HESS CORP. (HES, 59) is a solid second-tier integrated oil-and-gas firm with scores of gas stations across the eastern U.S. It s got 1.5 billion barrels of oil-equivalent reserves (versus 17.2 billion at Exxon).
Crude oil remains in a solid overall bearish fundamental and technical posture.
Using research from the Ohio labs of the old Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), now a division of BP, Lee has a solid oxide cell that can be configured to run on natural gas, soy oil or farm wastes.
To Barrow that makes the companies churning out the oil both alluring commodity plays and solid income-earners.
Upstream business was relatively solid, with U.S. net oil-equivalent production during the first two months of the quarter coming in close to its Q3 numbers: the company produced 660 million barrels of oil equivalent (mboed) through November.
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The Essar spokesman said the company had "made solid progress in recovering the small amount of discharged oil".
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Strong gains in the U.S. dollar index recently, along with a large drop in crude oil prices, have worked to put solid downside price pressure on the precious metals markets.
Petroleum coke is the solid black gunk left over at the end of the oil refining process.
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Crude oil prices are trading modestly lower Thursday morning after solid losses posted Wednesday.
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In our view, their upstream performance continues to be solid, yet the market has not recognized this potential as oil prices have increased.
Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
Crude oil prices are trading modestly higher Friday morning after absorbing solid losses Wednesday and Thursday.
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Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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For the individual investors still looking to add oil-patch stocks to their portfolios, Apache has the solid production and resilient earnings track record to justify the accumulation of its shares in 2012.
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Meantime, Nymex crude oil prices are trading lower Wednesday morning on a corrective pullback from solid gains posted Tuesday.
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Crude oil prices were sharply lower Thursday on follow-through selling pressure after solid losses posted Wednesday.
Meantime, Nymex crude oil prices are trading higher Wednesday morning, on a corrective bounce from solid losses posted on Tuesday.
Meantime, Nymex crude oil prices are trading slightly lower Tuesday morning, on a corrective pullback from solid gains posted Monday.
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Both gold and crude oil prices were under strong selling pressure in Asian trading Thursday, but then posted a solid recovery during European trading hours.
The chairman of the Federal Reserve did his best to promote the good news: he drew attention to the benefits of lower oil prices, the end of the war in Iraq and what he called the continuing solid gains from productivity growth.
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