Sentence examples for unprofitable fields from inspiring English sources

The government is still only too willing to keep farmers working on otherwise unprofitable fields.

As Chongzuo's farmers can attest, the government is still only too willing to keep farmers working on otherwise unprofitable fields.

Asus and Acer, meanwhile, are clearly troubled by the disappearance of netbooks, even though those pulled down the ASP of PCs, because it has forced them into the potentially unprofitable field of tablets.

"Low prices will lead to the gradual shutdown of what are now unprofitable oil fields and alternative energy supplies, and they will discourage investment in new capacity," he writes.

With oil at $50, almost one-third of the fields will be unprofitable.

From late June to early January, across the world, the 10 oil firms with the largest proven reserves collectively lost roughly 20percentt of their market value....Goldman Sachs warned that nearly $1 trillion in planned oil-field investments would be unprofitable - even if oil were to stabilize at $70 per barrel.

Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil say that the law would increase taxes and royalties to the government, making it unprofitable to invest in Nigeria's deepwater fields.

He also unveiled plans for new oil and gas fields to be carved out of unprofitable parts of around 30 existing fields, which could produce an additional daily production of 20,000 barrels.

In the North Sea, EnQuest has pursued what it describes as a "scavenger strategy" centred on older fields that other oil companies have deemed unprofitable and abandoned.

Looking beyond the Insider 500 and coming up to date, the latest analysis from Wood Mackenzie shows that UK oil and gas fields are among the first to become unprofitable as the oil price has fallen.

And competition from other fossil fuels, like abundant coal supplies, has made it unprofitable to tap many of the country's new energy fields.