Sentence examples for oil exploit from inspiring English sources

He points out that trade associations for commodities like almonds and olive oil exploit consumer desire to find foods that promise extraordinary health benefits.

Jenkins regards the retention of the islands as an expensive anachronism which should be negotiated away via the UN and the oil exploited under licence.

Low-energy transport of crude oil, exploiting non-stick lotus effect-inspired surfaces, was discussed recently (Wang et al. 2013).

"Plans to explore for oil and exploit oil reserves put Virunga's potential value at risk," it says.

In Brazil, the UK's support will help Petrobras and other multinational oil companies exploit colossal, untapped reserves of oil and gas in Brazil's deepwater basins.

And for Rosneft, finding another suitable oil company to exploit oil reserves beneath Russia's Arctic seas may not be so simple.

Clearly, it wouldn't be good PR for either Pacific or Peru to explore for oil in, or exploit oil from, a national park, although it wouldn't be the first time a concession and park have overlapped.

Still, the new oil exploits in the Americas suggest that technology may be trumping geology, especially in the region's two largest economies, the United States and Brazil.

Albertans have already grown richer than most other Canadians on the royalties from conventional oil, and exploiting the oil sands threatens to enlarge the gap.

Estes says: "Companies that have oil to exploit as well as gas – including Exxon and Shell, which have made acquisitions – are in the best position".

Finally, in 1972 the Oslo parliament set up Statoil ("state oil") to exploit the first big discovery on Norway's continental shelf.