Sentence examples for challenged oil from inspiring English sources

He dismissed the union demands as "impossible" at a time when the Norwegian government has challenged oil companies to lower their operating costs in response to flagging international investment.

In its filings to the S.E.C., Exxon Mobil has reported that it has stress-tested its major assets and expects that future cash flow could sustain even its most economically challenged oil and gas fields.

She called the gas tax holiday a first step to building a coalition of Americans to challenge oil companies and ultimately bust up and minimize their power by steering the nation's energy policy toward alternative fuels.

Instead, the respected energy thinktank, the IEA, predicted that coal was now on track to challenge oil as the world's biggest source of energy, and UK greenhouse gas emissions jumped 4.5% because coal was so cheap.

The studies, which must address a broad range of economic and environmental issues, have been the main forum for critics within the government and the public to challenge oil drilling and other projects.

"They have a tremendous amount of oil in the ground that is very accessible," said Tom Reed, the chief financial officer for Ruspetro, an independent oil company that specializes in one type of challenging oil deposit in Siberia that stumped a generation of Soviet geologists.

They typically possess some distinct characteristics, which challenge oil recovery and extraction.

This paper is the second part of a two-part series introducing a new and innovative managed temperature drilling technique for thermal wellbore strengthening of challenging oil and gas wells.

He memorably challenged foreign oil executives by telling them "people who have lived without oil for 5,000 years can live without it again for a few years in order to attain their legitimate rights".

Hermitage looks most exposed in its campaign against Gazprom, as it is the only fund to have challenged the oil major's management.

Noting that his province is to take in a record $5.7 billion from oil and gas royalties, Mr. Klein challenged other oil-rich jurisdictions in North America, like Texas, to follow his lead.