Sentences with phrase «oil blocks known»

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HMF, also known as 5 - hydroxymethylfurfural, can be used as a building block for plastics and «biofuels» such as gasoline and diesel, essentially the same fuels processed from crude oil.

More often a problem in the teen years, acne vulgaris, as it's known medically, starts when skin pores become blocked by excess oil and dead skin cells.

Is it dangerous for pregnant women to block DHT — with stinging nettle, and rosemary oil, say — as this hormone (so far as I know) is used in the development of the male foetus?

I know in turbo charged cars, you should keep the engine running after spirited driving for a few minutes so that cool oil can reach the turbo charger but what about normally aspirated cars, should I do the same so that cool oil circulates the engine block.

In addition to being a complete long - block (minus the oil pan and induction system), the Chevrolet Performance unit was a known quantity.

The three - color aquatint print, created during her first collaboration with Wingate Studio, employs larger patterns and blocks of color than the Jane's well - known microscopic dots of oil paint, allowing the viewer a sense of the structure behind her meaningfully configured compositions.

PHOTOS: 29 July: SeattlePI Blog: Protesters rappel from Portland bridge seeking to keep Shell icebreaker from departing The «Shell No» campaign moved to Portland on Wednesday, as demonstrators rappelling off a bridge and «kayakctivists» in the water sought to block departure of a Shell - leased icebreaker that has a vital role to play in the oil giant's Arctic drilling plans.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

In 2010, the Congolese government sold SOCO the right to explore for oil in an area known as Block V, about half of which extends into Virunga National Park.

In 2011, Shell and Italian oil giant Eni paid $ 1.1 billion for an oil block, knowing the money would go to a front company secretly owned by a notorious former Nigerian oil minister, Dan Etete, who had been convicted for money - laundering.

New, leaked internal emails seen by Global Witness and Finance Uncovered show that Shell's most senior decision - makers knew that the money they paid for oil block OPL 245 in 2011 would go to convicted money launderer and ex-Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete — rather than to benefit the Nigerian people.

Although Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is better known for its power prowess, the firm does house a capable regulatory practice on the oil and gas side, with litigator Randall Block QC regarded as a market leader.