Sentence examples for major petroleum fields from inspiring English sources

When Edward L. Doheny discovered oil under a private residence in 1892, he set off an oil-drilling spree that made Los Angeles one of the world's major petroleum fields.

Petroleum is exported by pipeline from the Ughelli fields, and other major oil fields exist near Warri (which possesses an oil refinery), Koko, and Escravos, as well as offshore.

BEIRUT — Once highly dependent on revenue from petroleum sales, the Syrian government has lost control of many of the country's major oil fields over the past few months as Kurdish forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army have made significant gains in the east.

During his political career he was credited with guiding the province through the Great Depression and shaping it into a model of economic prosperity, in part owing to the discovery of a major oil field at Leduc in 1947 and his innovative rules concerning the proper management of petroleum reserves.

He went on to emphasise the strategic significance of Iraqi petroleum fields in relation to the danger of production peaks being breached in major oil reserves around the world: "Russia's production has peaked at 10 million barrels per day; Africa has proved slow to yield affordable extra supplies – from Sudan and Angola for example.

Giant petroleum fields and significant petroleum-producing sedimentary basins are closely associated.

Another option is bringing in a new investor like the Malaysian petroleum company Petronas, which is known to be interested in one of OGX's offshore petroleum fields.

Russian officials say reciprocity, or mutual dependence, is a condition for foreign investment in their petroleum fields.

The port is now concerned mainly with servicing North Sea petroleum fields, and the town has a chemical industry.

Until a deal was set and the legal and tax rules were clear, progress on major petroleum projects was stalled.

Build enough coal-to-liquids plants and places like Montana and West Virginia could one day become major petroleum producers.