Moving out of the laboratory and onto the water, with a working oil-collection system, is the next step.
"Oil and gas prices are high, and they are here to stay, " says Plummer, standing in shirtsleeves in front of a working oil well.
Working unexplored oil basins and paying a modest 20% royalty to the Colombian government, those ventures now generate 10% of Lewis' output.
Mr Mackenzie has 30 years' experience working in oil and gas, petrochemicals and minerals, and had previously held senior positions at BP and Rio Tinto before joining BHP in 2008.
Brazilian authorities, and national oil giant Petrobras, had been working with global oil companies in order to tap the coveted assets, in a field that is thought to contain about 8 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Alex Beard, aged 43 (director oil commodity department), joined Glencore in May 1995 working in the oil commodity department as a marketer, responsible primarily for the CIS region and gaining expertise in high sulphur crudes.
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Also on the oil front, there are reports that some OPEC members are working to increase oil production.
The Gulf is left holding the incremental oil baby, with Washington and Beijing not merely unwilling to underwrite security arrangements, but inadvertently working towards an oil market based on volumes, not price.
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Forty-nine vessels - oil skimmers, tugboats barges and special recovery boats that separate oil from water - were meanwhile working to round up oil, BP said.
He said working in the oil industry was "not even a quarter" as pressured as being a parish priest.
ExxonMobil is working with Imperial Oil (amex: IMO - news - people ) on its Kearl mine.
The dangers of working on an oil rig have declined in recent decades, but the job can still be risky.
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Many were culled from investor conferences like the Money Show or via high-pressure salesmen to buy working interests in oil wells.
It is mostly small communities where people often make their living from the sea, either working in the oil and gas industry or as fishermen.
Mr Taylor was working for US oil company Weatherford when he was abducted near the town of Yopal, capital of the oil-rich province of Casanare.
He was first ordained in 1992, having spent 11 years working in the oil industry before turning his back on a successful career to study theology at Durham.
The report, by CareerCast, says being a reporter at a newspaper, magazine or TV show is worse than waiting tables and only a tiny bit less lousy than working on an oil rig.
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Texans, including those working in the oil and gas industry, want this law to be effective, and everyone wants service providers to comply with not just the letter of the law, but its spirit as well.
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Prosecutors said Mix deleted a string of more than 200 messages from his iPhone about October 4, 2010, after he had been told to collect electronic files related to the disaster and prepare to turn them over to a company working for the oil giant's attorneys.
The weak dollar, which makes it cheaper for importers to buy dollar-denominated oil supplies, is one more factor working in favour of continued oil price strength.
Though this does not affect current production, it has highlighted a problem that all the big oil companies face: working out how they are going to replace the oil that they lift every year.
Prove you'll fight as hard for tax cuts for working families as for oil companies and most affluent Americans.
The concern, generally, is that billions of speculative dollars are chasing a fixed amount of oil, working to increase commodity prices.
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The four men were working for the British oil company Emerald Energy, a subsidiary of China's Sinochem, when they were snatched in March 2011.
Mr Taylor was taken hostage while working for Texas-based oil firm Weatherford.
The country is also working on iron ore and oil exploration projects.
In the oil business, for example, Ceradyne is working to have its ceramics used to squeeze hydrocarbons from oil sands and tar, such those found in great quantity in Western Canada.
The Attorney General today said that the administration's oil and gas working group was going to be meeting this week to talk about high -- the rise in gas prices as it investigates possible manipulation, speculation in the energy markets.
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