The last time that happened was a decade ago, when a combination of recession and the Gulf war ravaged the industry.
This 143 billion barrels of proven reserves means the war ravaged country holds more oil than Russia, the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Indonesia and the U.K. combined.
"From a very young age he had a very tough upbringing, growing up in a war ravaged country and had to work extremely hard to provide for the family, " said Ms Thiyagarajah.
If South Korea was still war-ravaged and impoverished and the Cold War was still raging, it might make sense for the U.S. to maintain a security guarantee.
But most people seem to believe Zahir Shah can somehow unify their war-ravaged country.
And it helped him imagine something else: a bleak, war-ravaged future version of Earth.
But now he clearly sees the parallels between his cousin and those war-ravaged kids in Africa.
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Allies across the Atlantic were united in their commitment to protect war-ravaged Western Europe from Soviet aggression.
Will it also succeed in setting up an administrative system that works for the war-ravaged Malakand region?
The north-east, already war-ravaged, with 40, 000 people displaced by the fighting and in camps, was especially badly hit.
More than 400 people have died since early last week in battles across the war-ravaged country, according to sources.
The man in charge, Under-Secretary-General Jean Marie Guehenno, explains the challenges of achieving freedom and democracy in war-ravaged nations.
But Noor's story is just one of many and represents the greater need for humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged region.
From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.
But youthful enthusiasm can only take you so far in any sport, particularly from a war-ravaged country with little competitive structure.
Talisman claims to have convinced the government to set up a fund to help war-ravaged areas, an idea the government claims as its own.
Democratic Republic of Congo : Intrepid explorers are flocking to a corner of this war-ravaged country, where rebel groups still terrorize much of the population.
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Nearly a decade ago we entered war-ravaged Afghanistan with the ambitious goal of harnessing the power of mobile technology to catalyze reconstruction and economic development.
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In the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, several efforts are under way to stabilize large parts of the country ahead of national elections in April.
Efforts to make Band-e-Amir a national park began in the 1970s but were put on hold through the decades of war that ravaged the country.
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Could he replicate his work in that war-ravaged Central American nation?
The budget deficit is 9% of GDP and there is pressure to spend even more on roads, canals, hospitals and Tamil-speaking nurses in the war-ravaged east.
If the country can show other starving and war-ravaged nations how to escape from their predicament, its seat at the diplomatic top table will be richly deserved.
The war-ravaged capital is one of Asia's hottest property markets.
The biggest reason for optimism, though, is success in registering Afghanistan's estimated 9.5m voters, a Herculean task in a war-ravaged land where no proper census has ever been attempted.
The SEC decision was prompted by a vigorous campaign mounted by U.S. human-rights, religious-freedom and national-security groups, labour unions and environmentalists opposed to foreign firms doing business in war-ravaged Sudan.
Concerned that the transitional administration of Hamid Karzai could not cope, Afghanistan's minister for refugees asked Britain and other European countries not to force asylum-seekers back to the war-ravaged country.
The debt relief, plus the aid Iraq is receiving from America, should give the government in Baghdad the resources to rebuild the country's war-ravaged infrastructure and start tackling poverty and unemployment.
He said that, time and again, war-ravaged people had asked for help in establishing security and safety, restoring basic services and core Government functions, supporting a political transition and jump-starting economic recovery.
He expected the summit to discuss the question of outside security forces entering Afghanistan, but Washington first wanted Afghans to try to "get rid of the bandits" threatening aid efforts in the war-ravaged state.
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