Sentences with phrase «rich oil reserves»
Just 10 years ago, it was defined by desert sand and rich oil reserves.
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There are no oil riches, no veins of gold to be found on Canada's most successful aboriginal reserve.
That power squarely rests with oil - rich nations that hold most of the world's oil reserves and the Wall Street banks and hedge funds that speculate and make markets in the oil trading game.
Oil - rich Kuwait, with an estimated 89 years of petroleum reserves, could lag behind its GCC neighbors in terms of real GDP growth this year.
Speaking earlier this week, Mr Brown said: «It's the countries that have got substantial reserves, the oil - rich countries and others who are going to be the biggest contributors to this fund.»
It is no coincidence that the citizens of Arab countries with limited fossil fuel reserves have enjoyed greater freedom over the years than their oil - rich neighbours.
Lacking the rich oil, coal and other energy reserves of many other nations, Japan relies on nuclear power for some 30 percent of its electricity.
Ian Goldin of the University of Oxford says the US and other rich countries fear Ebola will weaken their trading and strategic partners such as India, Brazil — or Nigeria, also home to Africa's largest oil reserves, and violent Islamic jihadis.
Qatar is rich in oil and natural gas reserves, with the world's highest GDP per capita and is currently experiencing a significant boom in the real estate and hospitality sectors.
Even though the reserves account for a large stretch of land, there isn't a great deal of overlap in the government - owned lands and the oil - and gas - rich geologic compositions.
More than 120 million acres of protected land — larger than the state of California — are situated over rich reserves of oil, coal and gas, according to a new analysis by Greenpeace's Unearthed investigations team.
Apparently, Petro cryptocurrency is highly supported by the oil - rich South American country's oil reserves, but many view the project as little more than a way of escaping US - imposed economic sanctions.