Sentences with phrase «oil boom makes»

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AZERBAIJAN: Azerbaijan's major oil reserves and decade - long economic boom make it an attractive potential partner for the EU, which needs to diversify its energy sources away from a heavy dependence on Russian gas.

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.

You make the classic argument that the benefits of a booming tradable sector such as oil and gas must, ipso facto, outweigh the decline in other sectors — otherwise they wouldn't be generating enough demand to result in an increase in the country's currency.

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

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

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.

«The weather hits us on several fronts: one, in our inability to recover and, two, it does break down that boom and make it more permeable [to oil],» said Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft of the U.S. Coast Guard during a July 2 press briefing on the impacts of Alex, including the suspension of skimming and burning as well as the displacement of the boom protecting the coastline.

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.

Although the study acknowledges that methane sources come from a range of natural and man - made activities — oil extraction, natural gas leaks, wetlands, landfills, warming permafrost — researchers say they found less evidence that the boom in oil and gas production is the primary driver of the spike.

Still, Ford has reassuringly equipped the EcoBoost's bottom end with a forged crank and con rods, piston - cooling oil jets, and a deep - sump oil pan to make sure nothing goes boom.

The oil boom in the Dakotas has brought tons of jobs to this area, which makes it relatively easy for workers in Grand Forks to walk away from a job and find another one.

Thanks to the state's oil and gas boom, jobs in this state grew 2.8 percent over the past year, making it one of the quickest - growing job markets in the nation.

Ten years later when Rauschenberg was making Gluts, the assemblages composed of artifacts from the «80s - era oil boom in his home state of Texas, he described them as documentation of greed and excess, or «souvenirs without nostalgia.»

I'll be writing more on the dangerous boom in rail shipments of oil in coming months, but my friend Jon Bowermaster has made all the important points already in a compelling documentary.

They put a floor under boom - bust oil pricing that has made returns on alternative energy projects unreliable for the whole history of oil production.

I also make some admittedly vague proposals for using the proceeds of the oil boom in Keynesian fashion to buy useful renewable energy and energy efficiency capital, to help maintain that geopolitical strength in the long term.

The specific proposal I made in this particular essay is that the current oil - and - gas boom in the US and Canada will make the West stronger in the short term, and that this is a good thing, even though it will add climate emissions.

I presume, that in you efforts to preserve for all time something that is rapidly becoming a historical footnote, you still enjoy a bit of notoriety amongst the Ban - The - Bomb Baby Boomers (BTBBBs) whose millions and billions of dollars have been made on speculative purchases of coal and oil.

«We are planning a new line of food products made with American - farmed hemp seed and oil, to capitalize on the booming U.S. market for nutritious foods made with hemp seeds.»

In the midst of a massive production boom that has made the U.S. the top combined oil and gas producer in the world, we are still managing to reduce emissions and protect our environment for future generations.

Now that the tight oil boom has come along, you can make some educated guesses.

As the industry continues to boom, workers continue to make a decent living drilling for oil and gas; however, it is also a very dangerous industry that causes many serious injuries and deaths each year.

Recent research, albeit backed by the oil industry, estimates that Falklands oil could be worth $ 180 billion in royalties and taxes for the U.K., potentially making it that country's answer to the shale boom that continues to generate work for many U.S. lawyers and their firms.

Technology is booming, making it an oil field of wealth.

It was made at the height of the oil boom with prices well over $ 100 / barrel.