Sentence examples for confirmed oil from inspiring English sources

The RP ratio has remained almost constant during the four decades after the 1980s due to an improvement in resource recovery technology as well as newly detected and confirmed oil resources, although oil resource depletion was a serious problem after the oil shocks in 1970s.

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said Tuesday that the tests conducted at three sites by a University of South Florida research vessel confirmed oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface 42 miles northeast of the well site.

A University of South Florida research vessel confirmed oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface 42 miles northeast of the site and 142 miles southeast, Lubchenco said at a briefing".

Iran boasts about 10% of the world's confirmed oil reserves and harbours the second-largest reserve of natural gas.

The algorithm was adapted to an important shipping route off the Galician coast (northwest Iberian Peninsula) and was developed on the basis of confirmed oil spills.

Jay Holcomb, the director emeritus of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, a bird conservation group that responds to oil spills, said in a posting on the group's Web site that about 20,000 rockhopper penguins had been "confirmed oiled".

Rockhopper's chief executive Samuel Moody said: Proving oil this far down dip in the Isobel Deep reservoir, in addition to confirming oil bearing sands at a location so close to the edge of the various other fan bodies is an outstanding result and hugely increases the likelihood that the Isobel/Elaine complex can become a third phase of development in the North Falkland basin.

Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the beads were spherical in shape with few oil filled channels distributed throughout the surfaces and small pocket structures inside the matrix confirming oil entrapment.

His comments come a day after the government said water tests confirmed underwater oil plumes from the oil spill, but that concentrations are "very low".

Suttles' comments came Wednesday morning on network news shows, a day after the government said water tests confirmed underwater oil plumes from the oil spill, but that concentrations are "very low".

On Thursday the Coast Guard confirmed that oil had hit the Chandeleur Islands miles off Louisiana's southeast tip.