"oil" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If companies won't invest because of public consternation about exploiting oil in the Arctic, Russia will have to think hard.
- In 1989, Iraq accused Kuwait of using "advanced drilling techniques" to exploit oil from its share of the Rumaila field.
- The 2010 merger of Maersk Training Centre and Svitzer Safety Services broadened a portfolio of courses to exploit the maritime, oil & gas, terminals and wind power industries.
- Soon after entrepreneurs in the 1850s began exploiting crude oil as a source of energy, the nascent oil industry found itself in a dilemma.
- Oil provides 40% of Norway's export earnings, and the government gives Statoil, the state-owned oil company, half the contracts for exploiting Norwegian oil.
- Dutch territorial ambitions in Aceh were fuelled by a desire to exploit its natural resources, especially black pepper and oil, and to eliminate an independent native state player.
- An alliance including national governments, regional councils and film stars has agreed to pay Ecuador not to exploit oil in its rainforest.
- This clears the road for U.S. oil companies to exploit Libyan oil and is expected to have a positive impact on the Libyan economy.
- Prince Saud was quoted in Le Monde as saying, "If they want to strengthen themselves against the Israeli aggression, they have no alternative but to continue exploiting oil and gas."
- This effort was part of a plan of the central government to rapidly exploit oil and pasturage in the Xining area beginning in the 1950s.
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