Sentences with phrase «oil boom on»

They see no big oil boom on the horizon and there is no sense of an impending runaway market in Calgary, Pesta says.

The country is an absolute mess when it comes to the impacts of the oil boom on both nature and people.

Finally, learn about life in the city before the oil boom on a tour of Abu Dhabi Heritage Village, home to a recreated Bedouin camp.

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For GE, the deal will help it focus more on the oil and gas sector, especially in North America, while shielding the parent company's earnings from the energy industry's boom and bust cycles.

Despite the United States» boom in oil production, the world is still dependent on the Middle East for oil and gas reserves.

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.

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.

Its 5,000 square metre purpose built hydro technical facility, positioned on a 10,000 sqm site, will provide hydraulic services to the booming oil and gas, marine and shipbuilding industries.

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.

A domestic energy boom has seen the United States reduce its dependence on foreign oil, helping to temper the trade deficit.

He is a Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of the forthcoming book «Missing OPEC: The History and Future of Boom - Bust Oil Prices,» from Columbia University Press, 2016.

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.

But that building boom is largely on hold until oil prices rise again.

The boom in oil and gas production in the US has profound effects on the economy and foreign policy.

You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)

According to the IEA, the drilling boom for shale oil is putting US production on track to pass Saudi Arabia.

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.

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

Among the issues raised were the $ 2 trillion valuation Saudi Arabia wants for the world's largest oil producer, the scale of dividends Aramco's prepared to pay and the impact of the shale boom on oil prices over the next few years.

Clean Harbors deployed booms and absorbent pads in Great Harbor off of Woods Hole in Cape Cod on Jan. 21 to contain a mystery oil spill.

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.

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.

Former chancellor Ken Clarke has warned of the dangers of an economy based on oil revenues, as he attacked the SNP's predictions of a post-independence referendum North Sea boom.

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.

«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.

He said that water samples from the Gulf of Mexico are showing signs that marine bacteria are already pitching in to help with clean - up efforts, and that populations of these bacteria in this area are likely to boom as they feast on the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

While some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy and decreasing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, others fear the potential health and environmental consequences that come along with fracking.

Members of the Pulitzer Prize - winning team from InsideClimate News, together with the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel, reveal that as oil and gas booms in Texas, legislators and regulators are more intent on protecting the industry than residents who fear for their health from the air they breathe.

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.

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.

«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.

A remarkable nonfiction essay on golden rules and grand intentions and oil booms that do not pay off for everyone, The Overnighters is a rich and troubling documentary highlight of the year.

The most critically acclaimed film of 2007 is described as a sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn - of - the - century petroleum boom.

Documentarians Ben Cotner and Ryan White took a look at the campaign to overturn California's ban on same - sex marriage in «The Case Against 8,» while «The Overnighters,» from director Jesse Moss, examines the manpower boom in the oil fields of the Northwest.

Almost a century later, John's grandson and author Bryan Mealer's father, Bobby, left his steady but dead - end job at a chemical plant near Houston for the oil booms and busts of Big Spring, Texas, taking a big chance on oil with his mercurial cousin Grady.

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.

On the other hand, the boom in oil & gas drillings has grown Timken's tubular business which now accounts for 20 % of sales.

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.

Workers and businessman who expected the commodities and crude oil boom to go on forever have seen their prospects diminish.

Cheap capital, riding on the oil boom, sent Dubai to incredible heights.

«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.

Start your weekend with a trip to Wichita Falls tourism bureau where you can pick up history brochures that will lead you on self - guided tours of Wichita's neighborhoods, including the downtown — where buildings like the Keller and LaSalle Crossing were evidence of the oil boom — Southland (full of bungalows built in the first half of the 20th century), and the Eastside, historically an African American neighborhood.

Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom, a collaborative exhibition with writer Elizabeth Farnsworth, debuted at The Field Museum of Natural History on June 7, 2013.

Crow Booming the One Big Water, Gulls Flying Away, 2010; oil and alkyd on panel; 36 x 48 in.

BILLY CHILDISH Man and Woman Leaning on Boom (Oyster Catchers, Thames Estuary 1932), 2012 oil and charcoal on linen 72.05 x 108.07 inches 183 x 274.5 cm LM17199

Crude oil is the fastest growing category of hazardous shipments on North American rails because of limited pipeline capacity for booming Bakken production.

This past year saw President Obama's aggressive pronouncement of his climate agenda, more of the same for the Keystone XL pipeline, and some of the starkest evidence that America's oil and natural - gas boom is turning on its head almost every bit of conventional wisdom about the global energy landscape.

We are #'s 1 - 2 and 2 - 1 on those issues going all the way back to the oil booms and the dust bowl respectively.