Sentence examples for gulf production from inspiring English sources

Still, gulf production is rapidly ramping up again, and overall domestic oil production is up 10 percent this year in a continuation of a three-year trend.

Only 15 years ago, oil experts said gulf production was in a deep decline and oil companies were abandoning the area for Russia and the Caspian Sea.

For a time after the BP spill, the drilling moratorium ordered by the Obama administration caused a decline in gulf production, but a reversal has occurred.

The sale represents about a quarter of BP's gulf production of 240,000 barrels a day in the three months that ended June 30.

While there have been hit shows from the Gulf, production in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi remains expensive and is often financially unviable without support of a local benefactor.

The rise in gulf production in recent years, in large part because of BP's deep-water giant Thunder Horse field, has stabilized domestic production after almost two decades of yearly declines.

Major ethanol producers and lobbyists describe the developing gulf between production output and transport capacity as a temporary growing pain that will be alleviated over time.

So far, gasoline prices across the nation have risen only modestly the last few days, even though about 96percentt of Gulf oil production and 82percentt of natural gas production had been shut down by midday Sunday, according to the federal Minerals Management Service.

The government said 28.3 percent of gulf oil production and 10.4 percent of natural gas output had been halted as facilities braced for the storm.

A downward trend in oil prices helped give an upward push to the stock market, as gulf coast production revived after Hurricane Dennis.

The Energy Department recently projected that gulf oil production would expand from its 2011 level of 1.3 million barrels a day, still nearly a quarter of total domestic production, to two million barrels a day by 2020.