Sentence examples for oil block from inspiring English sources

Shell co-owns the offshore oil block with the Italian energy group Eni.

Things moved forward again when Emeka Obi, a Nigerian subcontracted by Mr Agaev, brought in ENI (which already owned a nearby oil block).

The case in question refers to a licencing payment that the Nigerian subsidiaries of Shell and Italy's ENI made in 2011 to develop a lucrative, offshore oil block.

Italian anti-corruption investigators have opened a formal investigation into Shell's acquisition of a stake in a $1.09bn£755m5m) oil block in Nigeria.

The oil block is estimated to contain up to 9bn barrels of crude, and has been at the centre of a series of disputes since 1998.

Dan Etete, who was oil minister in Nigeria under the military dictator general Sani Abacha, awarded the oil block to a company called Malabu oil.

It is close to selling four productive oil blocks.

Ecuador auctioned off the rights to several new oil blocks in the Amazon last November.

Turkmenistan is putting out a dozen of its Caspian oil blocks to tender.

The narrow Chinese interest in Sudanese oil blocks the world's general interest in preventing genocide.

Gordon Hailwood and his team found a "fatberg" of solidified grease and oil blocking 95% of the 2.4 metre diameter brick sewer pipe.