The large nations will be less interested in the usable space and more keen on the possibility of exploiting the relatively
untapped oil resources of these areas for strategic economic positioning.
Not exact matches
As a
resource it is largely
untapped because markets traditionally rely on
oil, a far more secure supply.
The Anglo - Dutch group said the BG takeover would expand its presence in controversial deep - water activities — many of the planet's
untapped fossil fuel
resources are now in ocean regions that are difficult to access — but said it would also increase its presence in liquefied natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel than
oil.
That is especially true for Afghanistan's wealth of natural
resources, which include around a trillion dollars of
untapped minerals and substantial reserves of
oil and gas.