Britain offers generous tax concessions for oil and gas exploration, including bumper deals for companies involved in fracking.

Of the large oil companies, only one France s Total has argued against Arctic oil exploration and exploitation on the grounds of environmental risks and economic costs.

Oil and gas exploration and exploitation

Total production of oil did not recover in 1992 but the year was nevertheless characterized by the intensification of oil exploration activities and efforts to improve the investment climate for foreign oil companies.

Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.

Radicals work at oil companies.

As Western oil companies are able to tap deepwater oilfields untouched by the Soviet exploitation, Azerbaijan is considered one of the most important spots in the world for oil exploration and development.

In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

So, sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies ,

The vessel was chartered by GECO which, as mentioned above, is one of two companies contracted to carry out the oil exploration around the islands. 17

The same is true of oil companies.

But oil companies awkwardness is more substantial.

This is an extraordinarily high dividend in the world oil industry. In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

Oil exploration and extraction usually generate important royalties for central Governments.

Oil and gas exploration are grouped under the science of petroleum geology.

Oil exploration inside and to the northeast of the park is ongoing.

Violations cited were particularly prevalent in the mining and oil exploration sectors.

American, British, and French oil companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly of Nigeria s oil industry.

And how about the oil, gas and mining companies?

There is considerable potential for investment in oil exploration in Sub Saharan Africa.

Oil wells, breweries, trucking companies, hotels, investment companies, such as yours, to say nothing of vice...

We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough.

Even oil and mining companies have reported a less hostile environment.

The top five oil companies last year made 137 billion dollars.

In return, the Angolan government gave China a stake in oil exploration off the coast.

As such it will allow oil companies to release 8.9 million barrels of crude oil from mandatory stockpiles.

Its main businesses are exploration and production of oil and gas, natural gas distribution and power generation, and refining and marketing oil products.

Still, Iraq has vast oil and natural gas reserves, to which all of the major oil companies wanted access.

The war has had only two winners oil companies and defense contractors.

I'm so angry about it. The oil companies are ripping me off.

With North Sea oil production having peaked, disagreements over exploration for oil in the Barents Sea, the prospect of exploration in the Arctic, as well as growing international concern over global warming, energy in Norway is currently receiving close attention.

Instead, Bush pushed for subsidies to oil companies to encourage more domestic production.

But Turkey has no reason to attack the assets of foreign oil companies.

The oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world.

On the technical side, the Bush administration hired the world's best oil service companies to revamp Iraq's technologically challenged oil fields.

Perhaps, though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian, and Italian companies rather than British and US companies.

High skilled migrants employed by Western oil companies, for example, were airlifted to safety.

In addition, there should be a windfall profits tax on oil and gas companies.

Oil companies continue having scientists on their payroll who are willing to sow doubts.

The airport is also serviced by various oil companies with corporate and charter flights.

Assets in the oil industry, on the other hand, were divided among several companies.

Following the 1973 oil crisis oil companies used their higher profits to start solar firms, and were for decades the largest producers.

He approved oil exploration in closed nature reserves, and also systematically fought to suppress scientific evidence on climate change.

State owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters.

The state owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.