Sentences with phrase «top oil producer»

The US is set to overtake Russia as as the top oil producer.

The International Energy Agency — formed by 28 member nations to research energy issues and respond to disruptions in the oil supply — predicts in its World Energy Outlook 2012 (PDF) that the U.S. will become the world's top oil producer by the end of the decade, overtaking Saudi Arabia, and will be a net exporter of oil by 2030.

A significant percentage of the Angolan population still have no access to clean water, education, food or medical attention which should be considered a crime against humanity for a country which is Africa's top oil producer.

Africa's biggest economy and top oil producer is reeling from the fall in crude revenues, the source of 95 percent of foreign earnings, which has led to the naira hitting record lows on the parallel market amid dwindling foreign exchange reserves.

The kingdom's top religious authorities including the Grand Mufti accepted that decision, but the gathering of about 50 clerics outside the Royal Court suggested wider disquiet among conservatives in the world's top oil producer.

Until very recently, it was the world's top oil producer and exporter, before the American shale boom catapulted the U.S. into first place.

And plenty of market watchers think supply disruptions will be contained because Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil producer, is moving to cover Libya's lost barrels.

After hopes were dashed that a meeting of top oil producers would end in agreement on freezing productions, where will the price of oil head?

In a deal announced on 19 February, state - owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC)-- one of the three top oil producers in China — agreed to pay $ 1.76 bn (# 1.4 bn) for an 8 % stake in the $ 22bn (# 17.5 bn) Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations concession.

Not exact matches

The quest to regain the top producer spot in one of the most - prolific U.S. shale basins had eluded Hamm's Continental since at least 2014, when Whiting bought smaller rival Kodiak Oil and Gas.

The Anglo - Dutch oil major, whose acquisition of BG Group transformed it into the world's top liquefied natural gas producer, has been under pressure from shareholders to cut annual spending to ensure it can maintain its dividend given the slow recovery in the oil prices.

However, the current deal between allied major oil producers could soon be at risk amid heightened tensions over an escalating proxy war between two of OPEC's top three crude producers, Shah said.

We are the world's top producer of oil and petroleum hydrocarbons.

Texas, the nation's leading oil producer — one of the world's top producers, in fact — is diversified well enough to not feel the pain as much.

A U.S. computer maker and a Japanese brokerage led the quarter's contributors, while a Swiss freight company and a Canadian oil producer were top detractors.

The top producer of crude oil in Africa will become the 21st member of Barclay's government bond index at the start of 2013.

The Alberta government announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

The plunge in crude prices all but killed profits at China's top energy producer and its largest oil refiner.

OPEC oil output has fallen in October from the previous month, a Reuters survey found on Friday, as declines in top producers Saudi Arabia and Iraq outweighed higher supply from African members.

It added, «Recent upsurge in vandalism has negatively impacted on the Nigerian crude oil production output, losing its African top crude oil producer to Angola.»

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves, and the eighth largest natural gas reserves in the world, and consistently ranks among the top ten world crude oil producers.

Chesapeake Energy Corp., a top producer, has already started cutting production of cheap gas and strengthening its assets in oil - heavy fields.

A rush to invest and drill Top producers Chesapeake Energy and Exxon Mobil Corp., along with hundreds of big and small oil and gas producers, are pouring billions of dollars into developing North American shale formations.

Sitting on tremendous oil and natural gas reserves, Nigeria ranks among the top fossil fuel producers on the globe.

The term is also used more generally to describe a host of unconventional extraction techniques, such as horizontal drilling, which have helped make the United States the top producer of crude oil in the world.

When the cable technician and his wife moved to Dimock, an agricultural community of about 1,500 nestled in the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, they had no inkling they were sitting on top of a mother lode of natural gas — that is, not until an agent from Cabot Oil & Gas, a Houston - based natural gas producer, knocked on their door in May 2008.

Norway, the world's top farmed salmon producer, now imports more fish oil than any other country.

Safe, responsible energy development has made the United States the world's No. 1 natural gas producer, and the U.S. could become the world's top producer of crude oil related liquids before the year is out, the International Energy Agency reports (h / t Financial Times.com).

In the midst of a massive production boom that has made the U.S. the top combined oil and gas producer in the world, we are still managing to reduce emissions and protect our environment for future generations.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers» put out a news release headlined: British Columbia Top Supplier to Oil Sands which is highly misleading.

Most of the top producers primarily extract oil.

The country is one of the world's top five producers of olives and dishes cooked in olive oil (zeytinyağlı) often have their own section on

The area under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia expanded from 673,000 hectares in 1990 to more than 5 million in 2008 and the country expects to produce 21 - 23 million tons of palm oil this year, extending its lead as the world's top producer.

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