Sentences with phrase «oil rush»

Oil companies are no doubt dreaming of a northern oil rush, while environmentalists face nightmares of devastating spills.

Oil companies are no doubt dreaming of a northern oil rush, while environmentalists face nightmares of devastating spills.

Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue - in - cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.

Day after day for a span of 10 months, a torrent of oil rushed into the Gulf of Mexico after the initial explosion near the Yucatan Peninsula.

Beyond the headline: Pennsylvania towns challenge fracking being shoved down their throats; BP looks to the Amazon for more oil; Alberta, Canada's oil rush shortchanges locals.

New titles out this week include Final Fantasy XIII - 2, SoulCalibur V, NeverDead, the Mac version of BioShock 2, and last week's indie title Oil Rush.

Turmoil is a simulation game from developer Gamious that situates players in the midst of the 19th century North American oil rush.

For those of you waiting to get your hands on Unigine's naval strategy game Oil Rush 3D, your wait is finally over and it is now available on Google Play.

The shale gas rush (and a similar oil rush under way in other regions) is clearly in its frontier days.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an unprecedented safety alert on the transport of hydraulically fractured oil from North Dakota's booming Bakken oil fields that could also cool Canada's unconventional oil rush.

In the US this has reached a crescendo, with big fossil fuel companies (and Australia's BHP Billiton) falling over themselves to become part of the new oil rush.

The reason, the wells drillled in the boom of the 1930 to 1950 oil rush used vertical technology which could only pump 50 % of a well's capacity.

If the Arctic Oil Rush inspires a new era of cheap oil once again... the planet will be a cinder in short order (figuratively of course).

From good to bad in energy news today, beyond the headline: Pennsylvania towns challenge fracking being shoved down their throats; BP looks to the Amazon for more oil; Alberta, Canada's oil rush shortchanges locals.

I think a factor that is overlooked in the Arctic Oil Rush (Klondike Gold Rush) is that this is a «Big Oil» source i.e. a large supply source of oil.

Lanchester describes owning a house on the rapidly gentrifying Pepys Road as being like being part of an oil rush, except instead of drilling, «all people had to do was sit there and imagine the cash value of their homes rattling upwards so fast that they couldn't see the figures go round.»

Oil Rush is a 3D naval strategy game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world; nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever.

And the year is 1980 with the backdrop of the «oil rush» during that time.

Told through the stories of three generations of the McCullough family — Eli, who survived and even thrived as a Comanche captive in the 1850s and went on to become a Texas Ranger; Pete, his son, who raised cattle and entered the oil rush of the 1910s; and Jeanne, Eli's granddaughter, who took her place in a man's world and solidified the family's fortunes by investing in pipelines in the 1940s and»50s — The Son is full of compelling characters, vivid imagery and murky morals.

Turmoil «s setting takes place during the oil rush in 19th century North America.

Botanicula, E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, Oil Rush, Splice, and Universe Sandbox are the games thrown in this time.

The four exclusive maps Warehouse, Oil Rush, Burn Out, and Sub Factory have been chosen to offer diverse tactical conditions.

I rarely play PC games these days but I couldn't miss out on this one — a management sim about starting your own business to thrive on the oil rush whilst having direct control over what you build and buy.

He went on to describe ground zero in the oil rush, the town of Titusville, «with its busy population of six thousand, where but a few years since it scarce numbered as many hundred.»

With all the talk about an an oil rush in the Arctic, it's useful to ponder the old - fashioned accident that just occurred on the mighty Mississippi River in New Orleans, where one leaking barge has spread a slick down nearly 100 miles of the river toward the Gulf of Mexico, closing that vital waterway to all ship traffic while cleanup crews figure out next steps.