Sentences with phrase «opened oil fields»

Newly - opened oil fields are unable to make up for decreasing production in older fields.

Although there is hope for a boost in local production after the country opened its oil fields to foreign investors this year, it's going to be hard to make the kind of turnaround needed after a 13 - year production decline.

Norway has some of the most ambitious emissions policies in the world, but is opening oil fields that can not pay back in a safe climate future.

Not exact matches

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.

Despite the rampant shutdowns of wells caused by the falling oil price of late, there are still more job openings than job seekers in this field, according to Job Bank Canada.

Another is Harold Hamm, owner of Continental Resources, who opened up the Bakken shale oil fields and supports Republicans.

Statoil had thought the field could hold more than a billion barrels of oil, which would have made it one of the largest fields in Norway and really opened up the Barents Sea for development.

When oil fields in the Middle East opened up, he was involved in sending pipe and construction equipment there, his son Greg said.

Along with questions of national interest, the candidates also fielded questions on a hot - button local issue, a proposal by the Coast Guard to open 10 new anchorages on the Hudson to oil barges to relieve congestion at the Port of Albany.

There is a lot of oil under the ice the one thing that america has identerfied as a problem in the future is oil stocks so by helping the ice melt they are opening up new oil fields.

That's significantly less than in oil fields open for business in the Gulf of Mexico, coastal Alaska and off the coast of southern California, where there are 10.1 billion barrels of known oil reserves as well as an estimated 85.9 billion more.

Of the 800,000 b / d increase in actual field production of crude oil, almost all of the gain has come from shale and other tight formations that horizontal fracturing methods have only recently opened up.

«At the open of this week's episode of «Ray Donovan,» a rather rotund man is digging a grave in a remote oil field.»

«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.

Ippolito continued to open up the picture plane in his oil on linen 1980s works with the soft diffusions of color and suggestive forms of «Paesaggio» (1980), the floating irregular shapes of «One June Morning» (1988) in a blue / lavender mist, the opposing edges of shapes hanging on within the blue field of «Small Painting» (1982), and the floating orange - on - orange diffusions suspended in «Orange» (1982), all pieces which exemplify Ippolito's belief in «color as light.»

Frankenthaler's invention of soak - stain, which involved pouring turpentine - thinned oil paint (and later, watered - down acrylic) on a flat, untreated canvas, opened doors to the next big thing, Color Field painting.

Further major series of paintings include 64 «Beside the Sea» canvases (1962 — 1968), in which Motherwell mirrored the spray of the sea by splashing oil paint onto rag paper with great force; and «Open» (1967 — 1972), his response to the colour - field painters of the 1960s, described by him as «a painted plane beautifully divided by minimal means, the essence of line drawing».

Frankenthaler explored a variety of linear components in her oil paintings of the 1950s, but in the 1960s she shifted her focus, embracing acrylic paints to explore open, flat fields of color, evident in the large and glowing 1973 painting «Nature Abhors a Vacuum.»

On the final night of the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso (a very serious annual gathering of business and science interests to talk about the emerging opportunities with the warming of northern Norway causing the permafrost to melt opening new oil and gas fields among other things) there was a gathering of all the 1,000 participants.

When other huge oil fields or coal mines were opened in the past, we knew much less about the damage that the carbon they contained would do to the Earth's climate system and to its oceans.

When other huge oil fields or coal mines were opened in the past, we knew much less about the damage that the carbon they contained would do to the earth's climate and its oceans.

«As someone who has visited some of the worst recycling sites in the world, including in China, I can say without reservation that the worst recycling is still better than the best open pit mine, forest clear cut, or oil field.»

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, joined with Democratic Govs. Ted Kulongoski of Oregon and Chris Gregoire of Washington to reaffirm their opposition to opening undersea oil fields to new drilling, as part of an elaborate action plan for preserving coastal waters.

Originally opened in 1996, the firm's Williston office has grown with the town and the development in the Bakken oil fields and we now seek additional assistance to meet increasing demand.