Sentence examples for explorations for oil from inspiring English sources

Explorations for oil between the 1960s and '80s proved unsuccessful.

On Dec. 6, 1941, Mr. Green joined with Eugene McDermott, J. Erik Jonsson and H. Bates Peacock to buy a Dallas company called Geophysical Service Inc., which was working on seismic explorations for oil but moved into electronics during World War II, making submarine detection devices and radars.

More tangibly, he promised to build a government oil refinery (predicting that "the near future will witness the greatest explorations for oil which this province has ever known").

Exploration for oil and gas began in the 1950s.

Since exploration for oil began during the early 1860s, some 50,000 oil fields have been discovered.

There are calls to limit new exploration for oil and gas, and so to reduce hydrocarbon exports.

Republicans, with the support of a few Democrats from oil-producing states, favor expanding exploration for oil and gas in the United States.

"About 15 years ago, the Syrian government was doing some exploration for oil here and put their steam shovels in the ground, and piles of bones came up".

Wading into a subject that is politically contentious in the United States, Mr. Trichet also urged industrialized countries not to hinder drilling and other types of exploration for oil.

Unfortunately, proposals to cut taxes permanently, encourage more exploration for oil, or restructure road taxes into true user fees are not on the immediate horizon.

It has also pledged to cut greenhouse gases emissions by 40% by 2030, a goal critics say sits uncomfortably besides aggressive exploration for oil and gas.