Sentence examples for oilfields from inspiring English sources

On Friday peshmerga (Kurdish fighters) seized two nearby oilfields, Kirkuk and Bai Hassan, turfing out Arab workers and replacing them with their own staff.

Among other things, the two neighbouring countries decided to build an oil pipeline to link the oilfields in southern Iraq with Iran's vast refinery in Abadan- an agreement overlooked by the American media.

According to Citibank, shale oil and new Arctic oilfields may see US production doubling to 14.2m barrels per day (bpd) by 2020.

Although the area under coca in Peru fell slightly last year, to 60,400 hectares, it dropped more in Colombia.Only a quarter as many firms as had been expected, most of them Asian state-owned companies, registered for the first auction of "sub-salt" oilfields in Brazil.

But if the conflict drags on, he could be tempted to intervene to protect Sudan's own interests in the oilfields, which are close to the border.

OGX was desperate for new prospects: it has lost 90% of its value since admitting last year that its oilfields off Rio de Janeiro's coast were less productive than expected.

With Buzzard, one of the region's largest oilfields, also closed for maintenance last autumn, production plunged.

Offshore oilfields are expensive, and ageing ones especially so.

Oilfields need lots of money invested over a long time, so the industry prizes stable taxes as much as striking a gusher.

Rosneft needs money, to repay a $20 billion loan it took to acquire TNK-BP and to ramp up production at TNK-BP's ageing oilfields in western Siberia.

After Rosneft, a Russian state-owned oil giant, took over some oilfields from Yukos, a private rival, their output actually fell, although it is now rising again.