The ugly dismemberment of Yukos showed that Russia had few qualms about how it maintained its grip on energy reserves.
During simulations, our candidate minimum dynamic reserve maintained its recolonization sources through time, suggesting that minimum dynamic reserves may provide an operational framework for determining reserve size in dynamic landscapes under the influence of large natural disturbances such as fire, insect outbreaks, windstorms and flooding.
"Shell faces a challenge" in maintaining its proven reserves "over the coming years -- particularly during 2002 and 2003" and simultaneously achieving production growth and keeping expenses down, the memo begins.
In this way, the MG-forming VSG can maintain its full power reserve capacity for dynamic response.
To maintain its hard currency reserves, the RCB relies on the obligation of all exporters to convert half their hard-currency earnings into rubles.
"We see the euro is holding remarkably well in its exchange rate to the US dollar: it's maintaining its share as a global reserve currency," he says.
Evergreen oak and Aleppo pine cover the foothills; beneath them, the French government maintains its largest strategic oil reserve.
In order to maintain its oil and gas reserves, the renamed Chevron Corporation acquired Gulf Oil in 1984 in one of the largest corporate mergers of its time.
They are bound to rise further if Iraq, which accounts for 5% of world output and at least 10% of reserves, maintains its export ban for long.No one should underestimate Mr Hussein's capacity for making mischief.
In this view, if the dollar maintains its status as the global reserve currency, that would be good news for Americans only in the way that another offer for a credit card is good news for a family about to land in bankruptcy: It may stave off foreclosure for another spell, but it makes the ultimate day of reckoning that much worse.
