Sentence examples for squeeze oil from inspiring English sources

Last year, its cooperation with Saudi Arabia in clamping down on production was crucial in the decision to squeeze oil supplies.

If the country's tar sands are ever to yield their bounty to the world's consumers, producers must overcome technical obstacles in three areas: complexity, cleanliness and cost.First, consider how hard it is to squeeze oil from rock.

In Texas, the nation's largest oil-producing state, the demand for CO2 is soaring — because carbon dioxide can help squeeze oil out of formations deep underground — and new carbon dioxide-producing plants are in the works.

The snag, of course, is that it takes far more energy and money to squeeze oil out of this mucky stuff than it does to pump it out of the ground at a conventional oilfield.Undaunted, energy companies have ploughed billions of dollars into bringing down the cost of producing oil from tar sands.

In 2009 Total acquired half of American Oil Shale, which is trying to figure out how to squeeze oil out of rocks in Colorado; the Sierra Club doesn't like that either.

I look at it often, but I'd never try to squeeze oil out of it.

Can you imagine squeezing oil from rock?

Squeezing oil from nonporous rock is harder than extracting smaller gas particles.

The company's flair for squeezing oil from older wells makes it an ideal buyer.

While OPEC squeezed oil supplies, price controls in the United States choked production of natural gas.

But the same drilling techniques that produced the shale gas revolution are now squeezing oil from shale.