Sentences with phrase «exploiting oil reserves»

The company announced on Friday that it has begun exploiting oil reserves at the offshore field of Prirazlomnoye.

Yet nanotechnology developed for medical applications could form a model for ways of exploiting oil reserves that conventional methods can not reach.

Dos Santos's long reign saw the end of Angola's bloody civil war (1975 - 2002) and a post-conflict investment boom as the country exploited its oil reserves.

After the detestable Energy Bill was passed I got responses to my article that suggested I stop my whining and that the U.S. should exploit its oil reserves.

Not exact matches

Launched in mid-2010 after 3 years of technical consultation, the Yasuni ITT project was lauded by foreign governments and environmental groups as an innovative way to fight global warming: Not exploiting the Ishpingo - Tambococha - Tiputini (ITT) oilfields in Yasuni National Park will, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), prevent the emissions of around 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to the annual emissions of France and accounting for 20 % of Ecuador's known oil reserves.

Researchers are planning to travel to Alaska and the Arctic to study the mammals before oil reserves there are exploited, to establish a baseline for animal health, he added.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

«Investors in carbon - intensive business could see $ 6 trillion wasted as policies limiting global warming stop them from exploiting their coal, oil and gas reserves, according to a report.

It is probably also worth noting the fact that Russia also has some of the worlds largest reserves of oil and natural gas and considers exploiting them to be one of it's most likely avenues to economic success.

China, too, has decided to tap into the shale revolution — in a deal with the U.S. announced this week, it will be exploiting what some estimate to be the world's biggest shale gas reserves, equivalent in energy content to about half the oil in Saudi Arabia.

The industry's greed only grows, fed by a clamor to exploit oil and gas reserves and continue to profit at the expense of people, wildlife, and the climate.

As recoverable oil reserves dwindle, there will be increasing pressure to convert coal to liquid fuels as well as exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and oil shale.

The mining industry has discovered that there are huge reserves of coal - seam gas and oil - shale that can be profitably exploited.

At the new conference, both stressed that this would be in the funds» financial interests, both because energy companies have been underperforming compared to market indices and because any substantial global action to limit climate change could prevent the companies from exploiting all of their oil and gas reserves.

Oil and gas major ExxonMobil said new reserves in the Arctic and Canadian tar sands must be exploited, moves scientists deem incompatibe with tackling global warming.

Industrial carbon producers have done all this not only to be able to exploit existing reserves of oil, gas, and coal, but also to develop new ones.

David Kavanagh of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom not only stopped a $ 16 billion share swap between BP and Rosneft in its tracks, but he also paved the way for Exxon to exploit vast oil reserves in the Russian Arctic.

A host of new infrastructure and downstream projects, coupled with aggressive strategies to exploit hard - to - access oil and gas reserves, is generating thousands of job opportunities across the supply chain.