Tom works for an oil company.

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.

This was the largest decrease of any other oil exporting nation in the world, and has led to Britain becoming a net importer of crude for the first time in decades, as recognized by the energy policy of the United Kingdom.

To be sure, Russia s role as the world s newest petro state is very different from the Russia where life expectancy for men is bordering on levels seen in the poorest African countries.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Around 1896, the first submerged oil wells in salt water were drilled in the portion of the Summerland field extending under the Santa Barbara Channel in California.

Since 2002, efforts to diversify mining products have gradually borne fruit, with the results of seismic research carried out by a United States company pointing to the presence of major oil and gas fields.

The increasing development of offshore oil exploration makes it necessary to work throughout the year with petroleum systems models based on the use of an increasing number of seismic lines.

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

For example, an the Oil Ministry gave a 1.3 billion no bid contract to an oil company associated with the Revolutionary Guard, and Ahmedinejad appointed his brother in law as cabinet secretary.

A negative oil shock, together with rising government bond yields could clip the recovery s wings and lead to a significant further downturn in asset prices and in the real economy.

From Welfare State to Innovation State

We are statesmen, and the Republicans are statesmen.

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.

Invocation of responsibility by a State other than an injured State

A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state.

Palestine would be defined as a state of the Palestinian people, and Israel as a Jewish state.

If Palestine were a state, it would be judged to have failed.

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This ongoing debate has impeded decisions on the future of deep wells in Blue Amazonia. Lula s administration has even thought about creating a new national oil company to deal only with the new fields.

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.

Even if owning oil assets is a useful hedge (as in a small, oil consuming country), it is not clear that buying stakes in opaque companies in foreign countries is the best strategy.

What is urgently required now are genuine statesmen and stateswomen.

At this level, we are concerned with which state aligns with which other states and which state negotiates with which other states.

Today, 16 African countries and growing have sovereign country ratings. What does this mean?

(d) It is committed in one State but has substantial effects in another State.

It was bordered to the north by the powerful state of Qi and to the south by the powerful state of Chu.

State of nationality of a corporation

Spain is a developed country.

Literature is the future of a nation.

Coercion of another State