Sentence examples for oil touching from inspiring English sources

They have struggled lately to find global-scale projects worth investing in, even with oil touching $100 a barrel.

With oil touching $100 a barrel on Wednesday and consumer prices on the rise, inflation warnings are now commonplace.

The Petroleum Finance report suggests that Saudi Arabia could wrest control of oil markets now by flooding them quickly with oil, touching off a collapse in prices and discouraging investment in new fields, like those in Iraq.

[C11.] Stocks declined as oil touched a two-week high and technology stocks faded after a profit warning from Network Appliance.

The crack spread, the difference in value between a barrel of heating oil and a barrel of crude oil, touched $45.15 a barrel.

It is also pondering options for AOL, its struggling internet division.Fuel protestsThe price of oil touched almost $120 a barrel.

At midyear, as international demand peaked, oil touched $147 a barrel, producing gasoline prices of more than $4 per gallon and widespread distress in American households.

(As the lemon juice and the acidity of the olive oil touch the fish, they will start to 'cook' it, thus tenderising it slightly).

With the recession pressing down on shipping rates, about a tenth of the world's container fleet has been moored.A rising tide?The price of oil touched $60 a barrel.

On Monday, oil touched a high in New York trading of $119.40 a barrel, settling at $118.75, after a weekend strike closed a pipeline that delivers crude oil to British refineries from the North Sea and violence reduced production in Nigeria.

On Wednesday, US crude oil touched its highest price since May 2011, rising to $110.17 a barrel, before falling back slightly.