Sentences with phrase «spindletop oil boom»

US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in recent years and used shale - drilling technology to create an oil boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.

The shift, an EIA report released on Friday noted, reflects both a steadily growing Chinese demand and flat - lining U.S. oil imports as a result of America's shale oil boom.

Williams rode an oil boom and a pugnacious attitude to the highest approval ratings of any leader in the country, and now exits stage left with barely a dent in them.

The United States will overtake Russia as the world's biggest oil producer by 2019 at the latest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, as the country's shale oil boom continues to upend global markets.

She mentioned that, despite the shale - oil boom, the U.S. would continue to need energy imports «for a very long time.»

A recent study revealed that a small, oil boom town in North Dakota fetches rents that are, on average, $ 2,400 for a one - bedroom apartment.

That is despite the fact that North Dakota's oil boom — now in its ninth year — shows no signs of letting up.

Seminole State College was established there in 1931 amidst an oil boom and today, Seminole has roughly 7,000 residents.

Conventional clean - up equipment such as skimmers and oil booms proved useless in recovering the large amounts of submerged oil that now covers an area of river bottom estimated to be approximately 200 acres.

At this rate, as the Saud's reorganize, i see real wages not only recollecting their losses from the last recession, but then recollecting their losses from the 00's oil boom driven real wage losses........

I find it interesting that Alberta under Klein did not share the prosperity bonus with the rest of Canada when they had a surplus from the oil boom.

Small business owners began struggling after the oil boom turned to gloom in 2014.

Mitchell, who died two years ago at age 94, was reportedly among those urging for tighter regulation of the practice, fearing that small, independent drillers might take dangerous shortcuts as they rushed to participate in a historic oil boom.

Today, Russia is similarly hemorrhaging capital as a result of international sanctions and crashing oil prices, prompted by both the American shale oil boom and OPEC's inaction in stabilizing the commodity at last month's meeting.

Between 1971 and 1981, the time of the last great oil boom, Alberta's population grew by nearly 40 per cent, too.

The shale oil boom has driven natural gas prices lower and coal - fired power plants are switching over to natural gas.

Number of the Week: U.S. Oil Boom Affecting Global Prices The U.S. oil boom is finally affecting global energy prices — but don't expect cheap prices at the pump as a result.

Well, we got us another oil boom, pissed it all away, and i...

Maybe they are praying for another oil boom?

I doubt another oil boom will happen again, if ever, but there are still many billions to be taken out of Alberta.

«Please, God, give us another oil boom.

The Alberta Liberal Opposition will promote these goals by championing fiscal responsibility and efficient, transparent government, thus bringing prosperity to Alberta that lasts well beyond the next oil boom.

The oil boom drove up real estate values, and S&Ls made loans based on those values.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

Since the oil boom of the 1970s and»80s, Saudi Arabia, whose official creed is Wahhabi Islam, has exported Wahhabism to parts of Africa, Asia, and the West through scholarships and the funding of radical mosques, preachers, and groups.

I once saw this prayer crudely but effectively expressed in a bumper sticker on a beat - up car in Williston, North Dakota: «O Lord, Give Us Just One More Oil Boom.

The fraction of crude oil consumed in the U.S. that was imported went from 35 % immediately before the 1973 oil crisis, peaked at 60 % in 2005, and then returned to 35 % by 2013 [7] thanks to increased domestic production [8] from the shale oil boom.

If the new east African producers are not to repeat the mistakes of the established ones, then, they should heed the lessons of Africa's last oil boom.

A plan to build beyond agrarian agriculture and oil boom, a plan to make Ghanaians confident again.

Coincidentally, in same 1978, the oil boom period which started in 1971 had begun to decline with the then military government having nothing to show for the huge petro dollars that accrued to its coffers.

It was there as we trapped ourselves in the revolving door of oil boom and oil bust.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

We have had seasons of plenty as marked by the oil boom, and we have experienced lean years.

Onochie in a tweet on Saturday said, if the country had saved during the oil boom, Nigerians wouldn't have been suffering.

Oba Lawal lamented over the state of the nation's economy especially its effects on the life of the states of the federation, reiterating that had it been the past administration had looked beyond the oil boom, Nigeria would have been the best among its peers in the world.

She tweeted, «If we saved during oil boom, we would not have gone borrowing.

Those trends are largely a result of the domestic oil boom.

This is especially significant because the U.S. oil boom of the last decade — and the resulting demand for skilled workers — caused salaries for entry - level petroleum engineers to double, making them the highest paid of all new college graduates.

An oil boom is also a job boom.

Reaching «the Crazy Point» Keller's office in Williston is as good a spot as any to see the impacts of the oil boom.

The convoy will be skirted by 800 meters of offshore oil booms and 5,000 meters of absorbent booms.

«North Dakota's political leadership is still in the mold where a lot of our oil and gas policy reflects a strong desire to have another oil boom,» said Mark Trechock, who headed the Dakota Resource Council, a landowner group that has pushed for stronger oversight, until his retirement this year.

Hutton's first documentary feature was Crude Independence, a portrait of small - town life during the present - day oil boom in North Dakota.

18 BOOMTOWN by Matt King A slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country.

Pioneer Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray In Norwegian and English with English subtitles Taking place during the early 80's Norwegian oil boom, Pioneer tells the story of a tragic diving accident that leaves the survivor alone to investigate how it happened.

The oil boom has brought thousands of new residents to the town, almost all of whom work in the Bakken oil fields in Montana and North Dakota.

The 2007 period drama about a driven, single - minded oil prospector in the southern California oil boom was chosen by critics from Total Film magazine.

«No Country for Old Men,» a crime saga about a drug deal gone bad, and «There Will Be Blood,» a historical epic set in California's oil boom years, will compete for best picture against the melancholy romance «Atonement,» the pregnancy comedy «Juno» and the legal drama «Michael Clayton.»

Filmed in the oil boom town Williston, North Dakota, The Overnighters tackles complex economic and spiritual questions surrounding a church that has opened its doors to shelter those who can't find work or afford increasing property costs.

«Pioneer,» Dec. 5 Based on a true story, this indie film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg and starring Wes Bentley («The Hunger Games»), Stephen Lang («Avatar»), Aksel Hennie («Headhunters»), and others, is set in the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom in the 1980s.