The nuances of big oil's relationship to Washington was immaterial to Democrats who intensified the onslaught that began on Thursday after Mr. Barton's apology, and his subsequent apology for the apology.
The probabilities of being in low and high inflation regimes and transition from one to another are very close in the inflation/crude oil price relationship.
Adjustments in oil supply relationships to respond to the new U.S. legislation will be difficult and will have an effect on oil prices — as, too, would any closure of the Strait of Hormuz, analysts say.
All hands on deck: stop the cozy oil industry relationships, get focused on recovery efforts, and for heaven's sake.
Analysis of the main ingredients of pizza (such as tomato and olive oil) and their relationship with heart disease did not yield a satisfying solution either.
In 2005 the UK became a net importer of oil, complicating its relationship with a source of bumper revenues over the previous 25 years.
In the past the polymer's price moved fairly tightly with that of oil but that relationship has broken down recently (see chart).
As is often the case in the Bush administration, oil helped the relationship between Ms. Perez who was general manager of corporate communications for the Chevron Corporation, and Ms. Rice who served on Chevron's board of directors.
This budding oil and gas relationship might explain why some European states have looked the other way in the face of recent human rights abuses in Baku some of them related to NK.
But Rhodes said the "blunt" and "direct" discussions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are a result of a deeper engagement that looks beyond what had previously defined the relationship – oil.
Ever since Margaret Thatcher signed the Al-Yamamah trade deal – which exchanged billions of pounds worth of military equipment to the Kingdom in return for thousands of barrels worth of oil – the British/Saudi relationship has been characterised by a deafening omertà.
