Instead, Schlumberger is planning more of what it is best at: pushing the technological boundaries of extracting the black stuff.
Then there is the laborious process of extracting the precious elixir.
What Dr Shields did was to work out a way of subtracting the noise, and thus extracting the signal.
An expedition to assess the potential environmental impact of extracting the nodules will be launched this summer amid concerns that massive "vacuuming" operations to harvest the nodules might cause lasting damage to ecosystems.
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Falling home prices reflects the market extracting capital so to channel it into what consumers now want more.
Poonawalla figured he could exploit the government's inefficiencies by extracting the serum from horses himself and producing cheaper vaccines.
In 2007, the Ecuadorian government made an offer that the oil would not be extracted on the condition that developed nations compensated them half of the money that the country would have earned through extracting the oil.
Allylix has duplicated the smell of sandalwood industrially, by extracting the genes for the relevant enzymes from sandalwood trees.
In the study released Wednesday, researchers suggest extracting the natural gas hydrates with "depressurization" -- a method that involves changing the ice into gas and water at the surface.
The site's legendary efficiency comes from extracting the last drop of value from every chemical reaction.
One of the most important tasks for the researchers will be extracting meaning from the huge amounts of data created by the project.
The firm has been extracting minerals from the region's coastal sand dunes for more than three decades, having set up a massive operation along the shore.
At low tide, children wade in the wreck's wake, splashing about and extracting the occasional starfish.
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Even at the time of the licence auctions, some observers were worried that, by extracting the highest prices, governments, particularly in Britain and Germany, would leave the companies without the funds needed to build the business.
Brinker stepped in and had the idea of extracting living cells from genetically modified organisms and grafting them onto the backs of cockroaches controlled by pheromones.
These educational reforms are crucial if Thailand is to attract the kind of foreign investment that boosts its productivity, rather than just extracting the country's resources and tapping its consumer markets.
But in the short term, researchers are working on reformers which produce hydrogen aboard vehicles by extracting the gas from methanol or other hydrocarbon fuels -- a process that can release pollutants, though at far lower levels than internal combustion engines, Roan said.
It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
Also a problem is the considerable cost of extracting deep water reserves from the remote South Atlantic.
Also a problem is the considerable cost of extracting deep water reserves from the remote South Atlantic -- although this becomes less of an issue as oil prices continue to climb.
The added shares, coupled with Wasserstein's hard-won reputation as a shrewd negotiator capable of extracting the maximum value in any deal, may also be weighing on the stock.
The company said it would achieve this by leveraging existing resources to expand sales, achievement of cost savings and extracting the full benefits of a vertically integrated business.
It is disingenuous of the administration to imply that extracting more tax from the oil companies, which it would do like a shot if Congress allowed it, would not raise prices at the pump.
Furthermore, included in the list of aid measures under active consideration by the European leaders is a scheme to assist the Soviet Union in extracting and selling oil and natural gas from the Soviet Union, using European expertise and equipment and providing royalty payments to the Soviets.
As the Fed extracts these assets from the financial system it may be effectively extracting liquidity from the market, which is would be contractionary.
Ore is something that contains materials that are worth more than the cost of extracting them.
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The process involves extracting gas from rocks by pumping in sand, water and chemicals.
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They forget that on the opposite end people will be extracting and thus depleting the capital stock.
If Norway joins, Iceland too will reconsider membership, in the hope of extracting a deal on fishing.
Applications for the technology extend beyond just injection, including the possibility of extracting tissue samples from a patient.
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