Sentence examples for oil estimating from inspiring English sources

At one point they had such a dominant position that they owned about 4.6 million barrels of crude oil, estimating that this represented two-thirds of the seven million barrels of excess oil then available at Cushing, according to lawsuits.

These reserves of thick oil, estimated to rival those of Saudi Arabia in size, were largely untouched.

Among them is a 1971 self-portrait in oil estimated at $6 million to $8 million.

The amount of oil estimated to be pouring from the well has been a matter of dispute from the earliest days of the spill.

With all four collection ships in place, BP could capture all of the oil, estimated at 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day.

The amount of oil estimated to be pouring from the well has been a matter of dispute from the earliest days of the BP spill.

Correction: February 23 , 2001 Friday A front-page article on Tuesday about the effect of oil exploration on wildlife refuges misstated the measurement of the oil estimated to lie beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

The Arctic refuge is a special case -- and not just because of the sheer volume of oil estimated to lie beneath, which at 5 billion to 19 billion acres ranks as the largest single discovery in the United States.

But that is not a lot of money considering Timan Pechora has one of the largest known reserves of oil, estimated at about 126 billion barrels, enough to supply the world for more than four years.

The border was closed in 2011 when relations deteriorated after the south seceded following a long civil war, taking with it three quarters of the country's oil estimated at 5bn barrels of proven reserves by the US Energy Information Administration.

The reservoirs are large, ranging from 100 million barrels at many fields to the more than one billion barrels of oil estimated at Thunder Horse, the largest find to date in the region.