Short-term price movements, its oil minister insists, should not distract from the world's enduring thirst for oil.
Enduring images of oil-coated sea otters have left the impression that leaking tankers are the cause of marine oil pollution, but a new study finds a much less obvious villain: runoff carrying traces of oil, gas and grease from countless highways, lawn mowers, parking lots and airports.
This is an enduring goal in the maritime industries, such as shipping, offshore oil exploration, and aquaculture.
Like war-scarred veterans, OPEC found greater solidarity by enduring the crash in oil prices.
And it's not just the oil companies enduring "major write-downs against reserves" (Nelder points to... Chesapeake Energy, Encana, Apache, Anadarko Petroleum, BP, and BHP Billiton).
The title alludes to the obscure nature of, not only Angola's diamond trade, but also the inescapable and enduring corruption in the oil industry.
In the United States three quarters of a century later, well-funded climate change deniers and the political network supported by the Koch brothers are testimony to the enduring power of the oil industry.
The Kalighat paintings also depict a courtroom scene of the trial of the mahant followed by the mahant in jail, enduring rigorous labour turning an oil press or working as a jail gardener, while jail guards or the superintendent watch over him.
In the Doge's palace, the Church of San Sebastiano, the Villa Barbaro at Maser with the great architect Andrea Palladio, and churches and palaces all over the city, he extolled youth, beauty, and prodigious harvests in frescoes and oil paintings of enduring charm.
With the economic sanctions that Tehran is enduring and with the fall of oil process, the Supreme Leader is in need of the nuclear deal more than ever before.
