Sentence examples for boosted oil from inspiring English sources

Still with oil, demand for new projects boosted oil services group Petrofac.

The law clearly boosted oil and natural gas production in challenging deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico.

OPEC had boosted oil production after hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck oil facilities in the Gulf region.

Among other factors, the weakening dollar and harsh winter over the last three months have boosted oil prices to consistent highs over $90 a barrel in the last quarter of 2010.

The dollar's fall in turn boosted oil and metal prices - gold hit a new high of $1043 an ounce - as well as giving a lift to equities as investors sought a safe home for their cash.

News of the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah boosted oil prices amid uncertainty over whether this could mean a change to the kingdom's policy of allowing prices to fall.

Venezuela has been boosting oil production as if OPEC quotas did not exist.

Even if a decision is made then to boost oil production, prices will remain high over the summer.

That is the assumption of research by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which suggests that a 25% drop in oil prices boosts oil demand by around 0.4 mb/d.

The captured emissions are then either stored underground or used to boost oil production by pumping it underground to pry loose the sticky oil from the rocks.

Brian Gilvary, the chief financial officer, said he did not expect the full impact of the agreement to allow Iran to boost oil exports to be felt until next year.