Sentence examples for petroleum money from inspiring English sources

This orphan's early days were darkened by a sense of indirection and by lawsuits over Hammer's use of Occidental Petroleum money to create the museum.

In a sign of how trickle-down petroleum money appeals to retailers, at a time of near-record oil prices, Russian developers were expected to open 4.6 million square meters, or 49 million square feet, of retail space in shopping centers in the second half of 2007 and 2008, according to Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate company.

Iran: Petroleum money has unleashed a spending spree on science.

It also creates a sovereign wealth fund – the petroleum revenue investment reserve – to help invest the oil money.

That's because it is interconnected to the oil and gas business and ultimately loses out in terms of investment and executive attention to big-money petroleum.

The money from petroleum development will swell significantly in coming years as billions of dollars of investments come on line.

The regional and municipal governments have money from petroleum and mining royalties, and could spend it revitalizing the highlands according to the model.

In 1995, Congress let lapse the tax on chemical and petroleum companies which funnelled money into Superfund, and now the E.P.A. often must sue companies to pay for the removal of the toxic waste they have left behind.

The earlier effort, "Making Money on Oil," turns students into petroleum futures traders who have to decide how weather, crops, currency and political unrest will affect the price of oil.

Carlos Andrés Vera, the director of a documentary about the the uncontacted tribes, says the Huaorani take money from the petroleum companies in return for a promise not to attack.

Developed with money from Occidental Petroleum in 1985, the coal mine was China's first big venture with a foreign firm and a symbol of the country's willingness to do business with corporate America as it emerged from behind its Maoist curtain.