Britain offers generous tax concessions for oil and gas exploration, including bumper deals for companies involved in fracking.

Of the large oil companies, only one France s Total has argued against Arctic oil exploration and exploitation on the grounds of environmental risks and economic costs.

As Western oil companies are able to tap deepwater oilfields untouched by the Soviet exploitation, Azerbaijan is considered one of the most important spots in the world for oil exploration and development.

In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

This is an extraordinarily high dividend in the world oil industry. In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.

Oil exploration and extraction usually generate important royalties for central Governments.

Oil and gas exploration are grouped under the science of petroleum geology.

Oil exploration inside and to the northeast of the park is ongoing.

Violations cited were particularly prevalent in the mining and oil exploration sectors.

The same is true of oil companies.

But oil companies awkwardness is more substantial.

American, British, and French oil companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly of Nigeria s oil industry.

In return, the Angolan government gave China a stake in oil exploration off the coast.

Its main businesses are exploration and production of oil and gas, natural gas distribution and power generation, and refining and marketing oil products.

With North Sea oil production having peaked, disagreements over exploration for oil in the Barents Sea, the prospect of exploration in the Arctic, as well as growing international concern over global warming, energy in Norway is currently receiving close attention.

As such it will allow oil companies to release 8.9 million barrels of crude oil from mandatory stockpiles.

Even oil and mining companies have reported a less hostile environment.

Still, Iraq has vast oil and natural gas reserves, to which all of the major oil companies wanted access.

He approved oil exploration in closed nature reserves, and also systematically fought to suppress scientific evidence on climate change.

The war has had only two winners oil companies and defense contractors.

On the technical side, the Bush administration hired the world's best oil service companies to revamp Iraq's technologically challenged oil fields.

Instead, Bush pushed for subsidies to oil companies to encourage more domestic production.

But Turkey has no reason to attack the assets of foreign oil companies.

Perhaps, though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian, and Italian companies rather than British and US companies.

But the much larger, longer run effect comes from increased oil exploration and extraction, owing to the incentive of higher prices.

Following the 1973 oil crisis oil companies used their higher profits to start solar firms, and were for decades the largest producers.

High skilled migrants employed by Western oil companies, for example, were airlifted to safety.

In addition, there should be a windfall profits tax on oil and gas companies.

Oil companies continue having scientists on their payroll who are willing to sow doubts.

The airport is also serviced by various oil companies with corporate and charter flights.

Assets in the oil industry, on the other hand, were divided among several companies.

If it is generally thought that oil prices will be higher in the future, owners of oil reserves will tend to postpone costly investments in exploration and expansion of production capacity, and they may pump oil at below capacity.

State owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters.

The state owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.

Now it's gone. They have become the king of the forest, just like oil companies.

Recently, six major European oil and gas companies offered to collaborate on a carbon price.

Right now today, in Oslo as it happens, oil companies are fighting to keep secret their payments to governments for extracting oil in developing countries.

They have the right to know whether Enron and the oil companies are shaping energy policy.

Gazprom is buying up oil (Sibneft), gas, and power companies at knockdown prices, reinforcing its monopoly.

A similar process had taken place with American oil companies in Venezuela a few years earlier.

They were the leading companies globally in providing systems and equipment for oil and gas drilling.

Driven by the internationalization of the country's oil and gas companies, Russian OFDI is becoming substantial.

Likewise, international oil companies sell most of their oil in dollars, but they operate in various countries and pay some of their costs in local currencies.

This, and the contemporaneous failure of major pricing and production negotiations between the exporters and the major oil companies both led to the 1973 oil crisis.