Chevron, meanwhile, is preparing to exploit reserves deep in the Gulf of Mexico, where it has extensive infrastructure for conventional drilling.
Specialist British film companies are preparing to exploit the hype created by Avatar, James Cameron's epic 3D science-fiction blockbuster.
He had learned to read hieroglyphics and had devoted himself to higher mathematics, so that he was thoroughly prepared to exploit both hunches.
With the help of foreign companies, the Kurdish regional government has been preparing to exploit the huge oil reserves that are believed to exist there.
ThinkProgress has details: The President's conservative critics had clearly been preparing to exploit the crisis as proof of Obama's weakness in the face of provocation.
The Germans were not prepared to exploit the opening, which gave the French and Algerians time to rush reinforcements into the line.
For the third time, Republicans are trying to make the law perhaps the biggest issue of the elections, and are preparing to exploit every problem that arises.
Several countries, along with corporations like ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, are preparing to exploit the region's enormous oil and natural gas reserves.
We can therefore legitimately argue that the existing legal framework, and political decisions create or maintain poverty, pushing people into the hands of those who are prepared to exploit them.
The fighters in Idlib said they were preparing to exploit the sudden absence of government forces to leverage their area into more of an independent zone than they had been able to achieve in the past.
