Saudi Arabia s national oil company has achieved homegrown expertise in oil drilling that is widely admired in the West.

My point is that this is not oil drilling.

Shell Oil Company

Well, I think they feel that drilling for oil is an evil thing.

The Authority warned that the merger would restrict competition in the markets for equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production, and thus the merged company has to divest itself of National Oilwell's Norwegian subsidiaries active in drilling equipment sales and service.

I work for an oil company.

I work for an oil company.

Tom works for an oil company.

Tom worked for an oil company.

The merged company would have had a very strong position in the drilling equipment market.

Brandon started a company in Berlin, Pennsylvania that specializes in a new kind of drilling technology.

Likewise, the Russians have just erased much of Iraq s debt and agreed lucrative oil drilling deals.

They were the leading companies globally in providing systems and equipment for oil and gas drilling.

Stop the drilling! Stop the drilling!

This is surely one of the biggest reasons for the lax regulation of deep sea oil drilling.

It is also suspected of drilling horizontally into the South s oil fields, in defiance of the CPA.

We stopped drilling in ANWR, but we didn't actually reduce the amount of oil that we consumed.

The oil company BP is discovering that right now.

That's why we named the oil company after it.

State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) is an Iraqi National Company responsible for marketing Iraq's oil.

In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the subsequent US drilling embargo, the approval of Shell s drilling operations off the Alaskan coast received considerable media attention.

In 1973, the Norwegian government founded the State oil company, Statoil.

Oil experts argue that offshore drilling never had the potential to amount to more than a small share of global supply.

Drilling fluid, a.k.a.

Deep borehole drilling

Stop the drilling!

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation () is Kuwait's national oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City.

Well drilling 192 000

Stop the drilling! Fore!

Houston, drilling has recommenced.

And (Drilling noise) (Laughter)

Nigeria is reorganizing its state oil company, introducing transparency legislation, and launching sweeping audits of the oil and gas sector.

So that means drilling for oil in the deepest water, including the icy Arctic seas, where a clean up may simply be impossible.

The company owning the oil cargo is Western Commodities (Pty) Ltd., South Africa.

It's a scientific drilling vessel.

If you are a big oil or coal company, your choice will be nothing.

In the late 1800 s, oil extraction involved dredging with a mule. Today, no one thinks anything of drilling 3,000 meters beneath the ocean floor.

The first drilling to test the basin is expected to take place in 1997 and 1998 with the first oil production tentatively scheduled for 2005.

Equipment for such a method is also lightweight when drilling deep holes, compared to traditional drilling equipment.

The oil price goes through the floor. That company goes out of business, and then you can bring the oil price back up.

In 1946, Magnolia Petroleum Company (now part of ExxonMobil) erected a drilling platform in of water, 18 miles off the coast of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.

Svetlana Bakhmina was a lawyer at Yukos, the oil company formerly run by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The same month, however, one of China s largest oil companies concluded a drilling contract with Norway s Statoil, clearly signaling that diplomatic tensions would not stop business.

Like those guys drilling for me.

Support for oil nationalization Most of Iran's oil reserves were in the Persian Gulf area and had been developed by the British Anglo Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) for export to Britain.