Sentences with phrase «oil well in»

Are you ready to die for an oil well in Iraq?

I think it's a far more noble endeavor to risk your life to protect and endangered species or a threatened habitat than some oil well in Iraq.

Last month, more than 100 people protested at the Naples Pier, erecting a symbolic oil well in front of Governor Rick Scott's beachfront home.

By comparison, It costs over $ 2 billion to drill an oil well in the GOM, whether it comes a gusher or not.

Nancy Rabalais, a marine scientist who has spent much of her career probing environmental risks to the coasts and waters of the Gulf of Mexico, sent me some cautionary thoughts on cleanup options based on decades of work, including field studies following the 1979 blowout of the Ixtoc I oil well in the western Gulf.

He mainly pointed his camera at ecosystems and human communities in harm's way, but sometimes focused on the fossil fuel industry — most notably in capturing the first images of Shell's (ultimately ill - fated) Arctic oil rig Kulluk as it prepared to drill an exploratory oil well in the Beaufort Sea in 2012.

Usually the «easy» oil or conventional oil has allowed technologies even dating back to the first oil well in Pennsylvania to become very profitable.

On April 20, 2010, a blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP.

One year after the blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent burning and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, what has been learned?

The men who drilled the world's first commercial oil well in 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania, probably knew they had jobs that had never existed before, but it is a fair bet they had no inkling that they were on the brink of changing the world.

He also spoke to conservative voters by describing Obama as environmentally extreme, claiming that the administration tried to stop an oil well in North Dakota because «20 or 25 birds were killed.»

ExxonMobil started its humble beginning in 1859 when Colonel Edwin Drake and Uncle Billy Smith drill the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania which led to the oil gold rush.

Really, a powerful sales letter is like having a little oil well in the backyard, pumping out money for you, day and night.

On a conference call to discuss fourth - quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations, the Calgary - based company said Thursday it plans to drill only 59 net Alberta heavy oil wells in the current quarter, down from 116 drilled in the fourth quarter.

Frank Chelsey and Robert Galbreath drilled the farmland and built the first oil wells in the area.

On CNBC, a Wall Street veteran was asked on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange how it was that the price of oil had not soared because of the missile war in our region, and he replied unhesitatingly, «Because there are no oil wells in Gaza».

What if an America made energy - independent by the shale revolution decides that the US should no longer guarantee the safety of oil wells in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait?

According to an Associated Press report, there are up to 27,000 abandoned oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico that aren't being monitored by anyone.

The South - East and South - South lawmakers have called on the Federal Government to review the ownership structure of oil wells in the country to allow for at...

Willard Wattenburg, an electrical engineer and nuclear physicist from Greenville, California, made a name for himself by directing the capping of the more than 500 hundred burning oil wells in Kuwait after the Gulf War in 1991.

Researchers found high levels of ammonium, selenium, lead and other toxic contaminants as well as high salts in the brine - laden wastewater, which primarily comes from hydraulically fractured oil wells in the Bakken region of western North Dakota.

In their June letter, Western lawmakers noted that the monument counted 15 active oil wells in 2010 and that «giant fields with billions of barrels of reserves surround the monument.»

Frank Chelsey and Robert Galbreath drilled the farmland and built the first oil wells in the area.

Previously, we held a non-operating working interest in approximately 37 oil wells in the East Poplar Field, Roosevelt County, Montana which contributed only nominally (if at all) to our positive cash flow and profitability, and during much of the latter half of calendar 2008 resulted in operating losses.

There are 1.1 million oil wells in the U.S., many of them only delivering 15 barrels a day — and almost exhausted.

If we set that at the concentration that existed at the start of the industrial age, or even at the time of the first oil wells in Oklahoma, we have much reduction to accomplish.

Let me here mention a few of the cases where I've been wrong:... Just before Iraq torched the Kuwaiti oil wells in January 1991, I warned that so much smoke might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia; as events transpired, it was pitch black at noon and the temperatures dropped 4 - 6 °C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

[iv] Akron Beacon Journal, Production continues to grow from gas - oil wells in Ohio's Utica shale, December 3, 2015, http://www.ohio.com/news/local/production-continues-to-grow-from-gas-oil-wells-in-ohio-s-utica-shale-1.645081

From my research, the performance of tight gas and oil wells in the US is so poor that the fiction will soon be exposed, possibly (likely?)

Paul Cruzen's climate model of nuclear winter was put to the test courtesy of Saddam setting ablaze the oil wells in Kuwait in 1992, and failed miserably (as I've blogged in detail elsewhere).

Hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait were left burning by retreating Iraqi forces.

The push for C.C.S. is largely based on the energy industry's experience with enhanced oil recovery, a technique for pumping carbon dioxide into dwindling oil wells in to force out the remaining crude.

representing a global oilfield services company in LCIA arbitration proceedings relating to the drilling of oil wells in the Middle East;

representing a global oilfield services company in ICC arbitration proceedings relating to the drilling of oil wells in the Middle East;

Frank Chelsey and Robert Galbreath drilled the farmland and built the first oil wells in the area.

In addition to having some of the earliest and largest oil wells in the country, it also saw the birth of the famous roadway Route 66.

He owns a number of oil drilling operations and oil wells in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Not exact matches

In addition to the underperformance from the energy sector after U.S. military strikes in the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the markeIn addition to the underperformance from the energy sector after U.S. military strikes in the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the markein the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the market.

This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL cholesterol.

The recession of 1973 - 1975 in the U.S. came about because of rocketing gas prices caused by OPEC's raising oil prices as well as embargoing oil exports to the U.S..

---------------------------------------------------------- Read more from Mad Money with Jim Cramer Marathon CEO to Cramer: «Low oil is a good thing» Cramer Remix: What the election means for your money Cramer: Republican victory adds up in the market ----------------------------------------------------------

That deal, though, saddled Whiting with billions in debt just as oil prices cratered, giving Continental an edge as it spent cash to improve ways it fracks wells.

SINGAPORE, April 26 - Oil prices rose on Thursday, lifted by concerns over supply disruptions in Venezuela and the Middle East as well as by strong demand.

It may be that students seeing the new pictures of the oil industry will think better of Standard Oil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gusheoil industry will think better of Standard Oil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gusheOil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gushers.

While energy companies have been shutting down wells in response to the present oil price slump, there are still more job openings than job seekers in this field, according to Job Bank Canada.

While manufacturing has shown a little weakness, the biggest difference by far is in mining — and that's where the Oil patch weakness shows up, as well as coal and metals production for export (recall how awful rail and steel have been in the Weekly Indicators for the last 4 months).

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

Now TransCanada is staking a good deal of its future in an oil pipeline that could end up being rejected because of political considerations.

Nearly as surprising was the willingness of Russia and private oil companies in North America to carry on at prices that were understood to be well below their break - even points.

It's good news for both, but oil importers will see 4.7 percent growth in 2018 and 4.6 percent in 2019, while oil exporters in the region will see 2.8 percent growth in 2018 and 3.3 percent in 2019, according to the IMF outlook.