Research in reflection seismology and petroleum prospecting.
Statoil, the Norwegian oil company, reports a second big oil discovery in the Barents Sea in less than a year, brightening Norway's and the remote Arctic region's petroleum prospects.
Drilling brought in more than petroleum prospects.
Despite the negative associations with oil among many ranchers and farmers, demand for kerosene and other petroleum derivatives drove oil prospecting in Texas after the American Civil War at known oil-producing springs and accidental finds while drilling for water.
There's no doubt there's oil there," said Thomas E. O'Connor, the principal petroleum engineer for the World Bank, who headed an in-depth, three-year study of oil prospects in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's northern coast.
The petroleum reserve lay dormant until the Second World War provided an impetus to explore new oil prospects.
All of the experimental tests were carried out in State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting of China University of Petroleum, Beijing.
Few travelers were willing to face the prospect of petroleum-sullied beaches, and those who depended on tourism were left struggling to supplement their incomes.
Few travelers were willing to face the prospect of petroleum-sullied beaches, leaving those dependent on tourism struggling to supplement their incomes.
HONG KONG, Dec. 5 Com munist China has asserted sovereignty over the little Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea where Japanese and United States companies have been prospecting for petroleum.
