Sentences with phrase «oil producing countries such»

Oil producing countries such as Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Libya also rank highly.

OPEC has also struck an agreement with non-OPEC oil producing countries such as Russia and Kazakhstan for an additional 0.5 million barrel cut.

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If the country produces something the lender needs, such as oil, it's possible to freeze overseas assets or exports, sometimes more for embarrassment value than anything else.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

Crude oil prices have continued to rise over the last year due to strong demand by recovering developed economies such as the United States and China, limited spare production capacity in oil producing countries (or unwillingness to add more), and political instability, such as what we are seeing in Libya.

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

«The factories had been set up to distill «sassafras oil»; produced by boiling the roots and the trunk of the exceptionally rare Mreah Prew Phnom trees and exported to neighbouring countries,» such as Thailand, Vietnam, USA and China, reports Fauna & Flora International (FFI), the conservation group involved in the recent raids.