Sentence examples for exploration business from inspiring English sources

The global oil industry, argues Chevron, is changing from "an exploration business to a manufacturing business".

I have spent most of my life working in the oil exploration business.

I had zero experience in the oil exploration business but had built up a respectable knowledge of it.

With that in mind, the global oil industry is on the verge of a dramatic transformation from a risky exploration business into a technology-intensive manufacturing business.

Mr. Dudley is focusing on BP's exploration business outside the United States, while still trying to regain permission for new drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

After the split, ConocoPhillips will remain focused on its exploration business, which already produces about 1.7 million barrels of oil equivalent a day and has more than eight billion barrels in reserves.

The decision to separate the pipeline and exploration businesses immediately raised its market value by about $1.5 billion.

Largely for historical reasons, today's oil giants are ungainly combinations of higher growth exploration businesses shackled to sluggish refining and marketing operations.

Instances of more specialized firms trading at higher valuations suggest the oil industry's model of shackling racy exploration businesses with steady refining operations doesn't help investors.

TotalFina Elf, which is based in Paris, wants to focus on its United States chemicals and global oil exploration businesses, analysts said.

Earlier this week, V. K. Sibal, who regulates India's oil and gas exploration businesses, asked to retire early after he became the subject of an investigation by the Central Bureau of Intelligence, India's equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.