Sentence examples for pursuit of oil from inspiring English sources

It was the company's pursuit of oil rights in Africa that attracted the Justice Department's attention.

The pursuit of oil will be just part of the energy challenge.

Mr. Hicks of the Navy also took issue with the notion that there was no military benefit to the pursuit of oil alternatives.

Rural Sussex in 2008 is some way from California in the early 1900s, but we are seeing similar levels of tunnel vision there, again in pursuit of oil.

WWF contends that the company "has breached the most respected global corporate social responsibility standards in its pursuit of oil in Virunga National Park".

Arabs blame Mr Bush for helping Israel to thwart Palestinian self-determination, for propping up local dictators and other authoritarians, and for having invaded Iraq in pursuit of oil or on behalf of Zionism.

Back in the 1970s Texas drillers, in pursuit of record oil prices, had goosed Lone Star oil production to more than 3 million barrels a day.

Oil partnerships with overt political backing from individual governments remain a novelty in the global market because western states do not normally throw their weight behind private-run oil companies while oil-rich Middle Eastern countries do not need to venture outside of their national borders in pursuit of offshore oil assets.

In the meantime, the field's neighbors say they worry that they are about to be swallowed by the pursuit of the oil beneath their crops.

Libya has been courted by government ministers and Foreign Office mandarins on a dozen or more occasions in pursuit of lucrative oil and gas contracts.

Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, said he had many concerns about the energy bill that appears to be taking shape, chief among them the aggressive pursuit of offshore oil.