Oil is extracted and processed by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), with proven oil reserves holding approximately steady, although oil production has been declining.

Since the discovery of oil in the early 20th century, Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves and has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil.

For example, China showed little interest in the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands prior to 1968 the year a geographical study pointed to vast oil reserves beneath the seabed.

The islands, claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, are valuable because of their oil reserves and commercial fishing industry.

Tom works for an oil company.

But Saudi soft power extends beyond custodianship of Mecca and Medina, for Saudi diplomacy is also backed by the largest oil reserves in the world.

Tom worked for an oil company.

I created a little oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2007, huge oil deposits were discovered off Brazil s coast.

In 1969, the Phillips Petroleum Company discovered petroleum resources at the Ekofisk field west of Norway.

Carbon, in the form of petroleum coke, and hydrogen may also be produced as petroleum products.

Besides the largest conventional oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela has non conventional oil deposits (extra heavy crude oil, bitumen and tar sands) approximately equal to the world's reserves of conventional oil.

The exact nature of the king's power is uncertain.

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Smaller reserves are found in the United States.

Africa is a continent rich in energy, holding two thirds of the world s reserves of hydro electric power trillions of kilowatt hours representing about half of total world resources.

There has also been speculation that Megrahi s release was related to negotiations over oil contracts between Britain and Libya.

It is apparent that not all of the income from LISCR is being recorded by the Government, but without a detailed audit of accounts it is impossible to explain where the unreported funds went.

Few doubt that they will be.

But General Babangida also has deep pockets.

Gas reserves should last about 50 years at present rates of consumption.

Taking precautions during sexual activity is regarded as an individual responsibility.

If it's not, it's certainly affecting their eggs and larvae, I would certainly think.

Yet this technology remains unproved.

This is likely to be a long drawn out and expensive process with an uncertain outcome.

The Fed has printed new bank reserves with reckless abandon.

And Congressman Markey asks, you know, Is it going to take a submarine ride to see if there are really oil plumes?

Haradh Airport is a small airport in the oil complex of Haradh in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

The outlook for India s economy remains more uncertain.

Relationships of clarioids to other families remains uncertain.

The financial stringencies of the Great Depression put a definitive end to the Policy.

For example, in January 1974, when the first world oil crisis began, oil prices doubled in just days.

A mechanism that allows rich countries that don t need additional reserves to transfer their allocations to those that do is readily available, using the IMF s gold reserves.

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.

Unlike its Persian Gulf neighbours, Bahrain has little oil wealth and the economy has expanded into banking, heavy industries, retail and tourism.

The military and political challenges are significant, the risks are considerable, and the benefits are uncertain.

The EU s debt arithmetic is uncertain and precarious.

The political horse trading is over for the time being, and the outcome seems assured.

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As a result, the country s energy reserves have also become an investment magnet.

The country's oil reserves have played a major role in its growing wealth and influence.

Chávismo, apart from its reliance on charismatic leadership, has never amounted to more than a social program hitched to an oil bonanza.

It would be nice if there were an easy and reasonably certain way to accomplish that.

So called structural reforms may help, but the likely gains are small and uncertain.

That is not a bad formula for a state of permanent civil war.