The original timetable had been wildly unrealistic to target oil production to start in 2005.
Guerrillas target oil company workers in Nigeria, pirates ransom cargo ship operators off the coast of Somalia and criminal gangs go after tech executives and their children in India.
The attacks come as security experts warn of efforts by malicious hackers to target the oil and energy industry.
It is a carrot and stick approach, with reduced duty for drivers using renewable fuels, and a challenging target for oil companies to increase the amount they sell.
Just the way some people blame that problem on tobacco companies for manufacturing the product, it is easier to target blame for oil spills on oil companies.
The new sanctions would target Iran's oil and banking industries, as well as other sectors.
Many have argued that Chesapeake may become a takeover target for the big oil and natural gas companies, but we believe differently.
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International unconventional plays are a target for most large oil field service firms, who are presently dependent on the U.S. for their unconventionals business.
The seasonal low was right on target, as crude oil prices did rally into July 2009 (point 6), but after a sharp, four-week correction, it again accelerated to the upside.
Big Oil remains a fat target to pay for it.
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But Kennedy Orubebe, a former student leader and now chief spokesman for the militant delta group, says that the activists' real target is the government not the oil companies.
According to Bernstein Research, Chesapeake would make an excellent acquisition target, especially for Asian state-controlled oil companies.
However, since Saddam was toppled in April, those elements opposed to the coalition's occupation of Iraq have found oil installations and pipelines an easy target.
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Consumer-price inflation is widely expected to hit 5% this year (more than twice its official target), though the sharp drop in oil prices may blunt that spike.
The northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, major oil-producing centers, were the target of bombing for the third night in a row Saturday night.
But Norilsk Nickel, with the world's largest reserves of the metal, treads in the shadow of rumors that the government is plotting to target it as it did Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company Yukos.
Stuxnet is tailored to target weaknesses in Siemens systems used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other utilities.
Inflation in the eurozone has been above the ECB's target 2% rate since July - driven up by high oil prices and the weak euro - and Mr Duisenberg said it would be "some time" before it fell back below this level.
First oil is expected to be landed by early 2006, with a target production rate of 250, 000 barrels per day.
Since then America has introduced sanctions that target Iran's central bank, the country's main conduit for oil transactions, by penalising any foreign financial institutions doing business with it.
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Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources of Americans' energy: the coal burned by power plants for electricity and the oil that is refined to run automobiles.
Given the certainty of this rule, we were able to push the 2020 target to 2016, in a way that, again, helps our goals in reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and gives auto manufacturers the certainty that they have always wanted on the manufacturing side.
The oil and gas money pouring into a fund against the day when the wells run dry is a tempting target, but raiding it would be risky.
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