Sentences with phrase «by the oil boom»

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

Seek out the historic heart of Dubai to browse through the souks and markets in Deira, or admire the lovely old dhows bobbing in the bay at the Dhow Wharfage to get some insight into the Dubai that existed before it was transformed by the oil boom.

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Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.

High - end residential property prices in Perth have weakened considerably since the iron ore construction boom ended and oil prices collapsed, although these two negative events are slowly slipping from the headlines and being replaced by positive changes.

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.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

In recent years, America's unprecedented oil and gas boom has been driven by one factor above all others — and that's shale.

With a booming oil and gas industry, Houston avoided much of the suffering wrought by the financial crisis.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

The cash - and - stock deal marries operations that are broadly complementary in terms of geography as well as giving Marathon extra capacity in the U.S. light crude produced by a booming shale oil sector.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

When the history books are written, the shale oil «boom» will be looked back upon as one of the bigger scams executed beautifully by Wall Street.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

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.

In its highly anticipated Annual Energy Outlook 2018, the agency forecasts that the U.S. will become a net exporter of energy by as early as 2022, thanks in large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictions.

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.

REGIONAL SUPERSECTION — SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES By Gordon Platt As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long term.

Lying on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the one - time backwater was transformed by an economic boom as the winding down of the conflict and a spike in commodity prices drew oil companies and multinational agricultural interests to areas that were previously off limits.

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.

The Great Plains state is undergoing a boom fueled by fracking for oil and natural gas.

Booms were deployed in the nearby Kanawha River to collect any leaking oil but none was detected in water tests carried out by local water provider West Virginia American Water.

The company said the updated figure, which BP shared with the Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, includes oil collected by vacuum trucks and an absorbent boom.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

The Coast Guard is coordinating the response to the underwater oil geyser, although most of the work is being done by booms and skimmers that BP is paying for, a Coast Guard spokesman says.

Because of a hydraulic fracturing boom, crude oil shipments by rail spiked from 9,500 carloads in 2009 to nearly 400,000 carloads in 2013, AAR data show.

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

Fracking Boom Leading to Fracking Bust: Scientists Quebec Oil Train Explosion Visible from Space Decision by Obama Won't Keep Oil from Flowing

By the time the 25-fold boom in cod liver oil popularity began in the 1920s, tuberculosis mortality was well on its way toward eradication but vitamin A status must certainly have improved throughout that time.

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.

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.

«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.

by Angelo Muredda The intersection of the financial crisis and the North Dakota oil boom has turned Williston, ND into an unlikely mecca in the past few years.

An oil - drilling craze that began here in the 1850s created vast fortunes but would boom, bust, and eventually dry up in Pennsylvania, like coal and steel, leaving behind unemployment, a compromised ecology, and faded grandeur by the cubic foot.

Taking full advantage of the booming small car market fueled by the oil crisis, the Civic cemented itself as a practical, yet enjoyable small car.

Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth.

That's driven partly by the booming oil and gas sector, but it's true across all sorts of industries, too, such as entertainment (in Austin) and air cargo (in Dallas - Ft.

Excess capacity was brought on by many hard asset firms just as the boom was going bust, thanks to the long lead time to start producing from a mine or oil well.

Like much of Texas, Houston has benefited from the oil and gas boom created by fracking projects — particularly Eagle Ford Shale in the southern part of the state.

«For a time, my family lived in a one bedroom house left over from the oil - boom days located on a small lane by the ocean... Our porch opened to unkempt forests and fields, high dunes, and the endless play of light and texture of the Pacific.

They are greeted by shoals of fish, carpets of plastic pollution, the booms of seismic probes used to prospect for oil and an imagined rendering of a «lonely whale» that I wrote about long ago.

What people fail to realize is that Brazil's economic and energy boom is not being fueled by ethanol alone, but by vast oil deposits they are aggresivly extracting (the reason one George Soros invested 900 million in Petrobas, isn't it nice that he gives money to people who wish to restrict american production but pours hundreds of millions into foreign oil companies.).

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North DakoOil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakooil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakooil fields in North Dakota.

According to a study commissioned by Canada's National Energy Board and based on 20 years of Beaufort Sea data, three of the most widely - used oil spill containment methods — burning spilled oil in - situ, deploying booms and skimmers, and aerial application of dispersants — would be impossible due to bad weather or sea ice 20 - 84 percent of the brief, June - to - November open - water season.

In the Good Yglesias category, we have «the spice must flow» problem in that stopping the Keystone XL pipeline and other pipeline - fighting as led to a boom in shipping oil by rail.

And by increasing the supply of commercial CO2 on the market, EPA posits that the price of CO2 will decrease, leading to a boom in oil and gas production.

OIL AND GAS: • A reporter discusses her book on the oil and gas boom in North Dakota, where she spent a year interviewing people affected by the industry.

This analytical report observes that the economic boom in the Asia - Pacific region has been fuelled by surges of energy consumption, especially of fossil fuels, including oil, gas and coal.