The future of oil sands is here: they are cost effective and their face is green.
King Hubbard, associate director of the Exploration and Production Research Division at Shell Oil Company, quantitatively mapped the future of oil production.
In the midst of financial and political turmoil throughout Europe, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) met last Thursday in Vienna, Austria, to discuss the future of oil production.
In the early 1980s our editor made a bet with Alan Abelson, then editor of Barron's, on the future price of oil.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions from peers range across the record-low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean during the past year and the likely future of oil prices , before peers continue the marathon committee stage consideration of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.
Stand by for more tomorrow on the future significance of oil under Scottish waters.
But what seems important to me is that the people responsible for forecasting the future price of oil seem decidedly more bullish on its future course.
The scramble to secure oil supplies now and into the future has contributed to the sharp increase in the price of oil on both the spot market and for future delivery.
Apparently out of a belief that oil prices will collapse in the near future, making the current gusher of oil industry profits a very short-lived phenomenon.
How's this for irony: The clean fuel of the future could end up being developed by the oil titans of today.
These structural problems, coupled with worries about the future, mean that the riches of the oil bonanza are not flowing into more productive channels.
First of all, to mediate the dispute among the different Iraqi parties and militias over what the future structure of the country and division of oil is going to be.
The IEA states in its most recent World Energy Outlook that there are many sources of uncertainty surrounding future oil supplies, but the size of the resource base is not one of them.
What I feel is most important, especially in trying to get a handle on future crude oil prices, is the general ability of the oil producers (including the US) to satisfy consumer demand, across all product types.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
Yet demand for air travel, and energy generally, is rising quickly in China and other developing countries - something likely to push up prices for the rest of us in future, as the world's oil resources deplete.
The fact is, this President is focused on a long-term solution so that Americans in the future, and his successors have a policy in place that means that we will not suffer from the kind of swings from the policy -- sorry -- suffer the impacts of serious spikes in oil prices in the future.
We need to use that money for clean energy investment so that we have the industries of the future and we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
The most likely cause of a future increase in world oil prices, and thus diesel fuel prices, is stronger growth of the global economy.
No matter what happens in the distant future, today Schiller is in the middle of the most exciting oil and gas play in the Gulf of Mexico, one whose true scope will become evident in 2011.
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They simply reflect the fears of the oil market: oil traders are worried about future supply constraints, not existing ones.
We caught up with Hamm in February for this video interview, and you can also read my past coverage in Forbes Magazine about how Hamm got his start and a profile of him and his expectations for the future of the U.S. oil scene.
Mere talk of opening up America's coastal waters, the theory runs, has convinced traders of a big future boost to oil supplies and so pushed the price down.
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Not so long ago, Mr. Gore was among the many environmentalists who deemed natural gas the fossil fuel of the future because it emits considerably less CO2 than coal or oil.
One area where Kenya may play a greater role in the future is in the production and transportation of oil.
So there were legislations put in place, hard fought legislations, to, for example, reserve some of the oil revenues for future generations, a future generations fund.
But technological advances and improvements in recovery methods, as well as reduction of water usage and greenhouse gas emissions, have made oil sands a viable and popular option for the future of U.S. energy.
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We need a clear agreed formula for dividing the revenue from current and future oil and gas fields, and we need to limit the number of provinces that could come together into one big powerful region.
Maybe it's the amount of money allegedly squandered, with little added to the investments Brunei needs for a future beyond oil and gas.
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