Sentence examples for huge oil fields from inspiring English sources

Royal Dutch Shell signed an $800 million deal in 1999 to develop two huge oil fields.

With him out of the way, Yukos's huge oil fields and assets were absorbed by the state oil conglomerate, Rosneft.

Oil prices may be high now, but after the war, when Iraq's huge oil fields come on stream again, they will probably subside.

The fact that much of what is now the congested Los Angeles area sits atop huge oil fields has long been a source of concern for residents.

However, during the 1930s the development of huge oil fields in Texas and the Middle East, combined with the rapid exhaustion of some of Mexico's oil reservoirs, diminished Mexico's share of world production.

He took control of Yukos, Russia's biggest oil company which controls huge oil fields in western Siberia, during the loans-for-shares deals in the mid-90s, when the oligarchs took over state assets for pennies in the pound.

Harmon agreed to make a four-hundred-and-ninety-million-dollar loan guarantee to a Russian company that was drilling a huge oil field in Siberia.

Other wells have been drilled just west of the refuge, closer to the huge oil field at Prudhoe Bay that spurred Alaska's oil boom in the 1970s.

Mr. Gore's connections to Occidental resurfaced this year after the company bought the federal government's share of a huge oil field near Bakersfield, Calif., known as Elk Hills.

Mahathir negotiated with the sultan of Brunei in May to end the dispute over a huge oil field off the coast of Borneo Malaysiaa proposed to develop the oil field jointly with Brunei.

That rise, in the works for decades, was thrown into sharp relief with the discovery of a huge oil field off Brazil's coast last fall, followed by a natural gas discovery two weeks ago just as large.