Sentences with phrase «promising oil deposits»
Oil companies would commission their own more precise seismic surveys after they were awarded leases, says Judy Penniman of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's Washington, D.C. — based trade association, and test drill the most promising oil deposits.
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Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.
Outside the realm of conventional oil, the tar sands of Alberta and the oil shale of the Western U.S. exist in huge deposits, the exploitation of which is currently costly and accompanied by major environmental difficulties, but both definitely hold promise for a substantial increases in oil supply.