| The Japanese also had their eye on the rubber plantations, mineral wealth and oil reserves of the Dutch East Indies. |
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| Still, some fears about China's grab for oil reserves are at odds with experts' view of how global oil markets work. |
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| Mbagne acquired greater significance with the discovery of huge oil reserves in its territorial waters. |
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| Part of the problem, he explains, is that the data available on oil reserves and production estimates is not very reliable. |
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| Also, a firmer currency would make it cheaper for the country to amass oil reserves and other commodities. |
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| Some people have been making some pretty dire predictions about the depletion of oil reserves recently. |
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| One good reason may be that the Azeris suspect that Azerbaijan's oil reserves were depleted by years of Soviet exploitation. |
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| The deal varies from oil reserves to an overcharge for goods and service to a secret fund discovered in government accounts. |
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| Sunni Arabs live mainly in central areas without oil reserves and fear they will end up short changed. |
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| Canada now claims to have the second largest oil reserves in the world, all based on the inclusion of its oil sands in its reserve estimates. |
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| Until only a few years ago, Sudan's oil reserves represented no more than untapped potential. |
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| Large areas, both offshore and onshore Namibia, still remain unexplored to determine the potential of gas and oil reserves. |
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| It has more than one-fourth of the world's oil reserves, but Texas known for its black gold is king of oil in the United States. |
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| Two important alternatives to current oil reserves are shale oil and tar sands. |
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| Wald has also spoken of the need for bases to help protect oil reserves in Africa. |
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| That is equivalent to seven times the value of all known oil reserves in the country and 31 times the value of foreign direct investment. |
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| The war was a scramble for the control of the second largest oil reserves in the world and a move to establish its imperial hegemony. |
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| From the oil reserves in the Caspian Sea the pipeline runs through Azerbaijan and Georgia to a tanker terminal on the coast of Turkey. |
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| The country is estimated to have oil reserves that total some 50 billion barrels, and natural gas reserves have been pencilled in at a gigantic 1,700 trillion cubic feet. |
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| Other questions still remain, including demands made by Asari on behalf of the Ijaw people seeking self-determination and control over the vast oil reserves of the region. |
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| The world is drawing down its oil reserves at an unprecedented rate. |
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| Many people in the region are said to be worried that the US's real interest lies in the enormous Guarani aquifer and the large oil reserves in the region. |
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| Germany is well prepared in its strategic oil reserves, and there are no glaring factors that would force a drawdown of reserves, barring a global catastrophe. |
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| Nearly half of the world's economically recoverable oil reserves have already been extracted and around 50 countries have passed their point of peak oil output. |
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| There is considerable mineral wealth, particularly oil reserves, silver, and zinc, as well as uranium and copper, not all of which has been fully exploited. |
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| Can we replace rapidly depleting oil reserves with oil shale? |
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| When oil sands are included, Canada has the world's second largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. |
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| Tar sands, also known as bituminous sands or oil sands, represent approximately two-thirds of the world's estimated oil reserves. |
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| The controversy isn't over whether abiogenic oil reserves exist, said Larry Nation of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. |
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| For all of Akita, shale oil reserves are projected at 100 million barrels, worth nearly 10 percent of Japan's annual oil consumption. |
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| It also ranks fourth in oil reserves with an estimated 153,600,000,000 barrels. |
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| He became enormously popular in Iran after he nationalized Iran's petroleum industry and oil reserves. |
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| The country has the world's largest natural gas reserves, the 8th largest oil reserves, and the second largest coal reserves. |
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| These gas and oil reserves are part of the Po basin Province of Northern Italy and the Northern Mediterranean Sea. |
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| These reserves are generally not counted when computing a nation's oil reserves. |
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| On November, 26 2012, Paraguayan President Federico Franco announced the discovery of oil reserves in the Chaco near the Pirity River. |
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| In 1999 it was estimated that there were 200 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves hosted in rifts. |
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| Qatar is a high income economy, backed by the world's third largest natural gas reserves and oil reserves. |
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| Is it time for the U.S. to break the piggy bank of oil reserves? |
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| The British and Norwegian sections hold most of the remainder of the large oil reserves. |
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| It has a high income economy backed by the world's sixth largest oil reserves. |
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| However, the presence or extent of proven oil reserves in Somalia is uncertain. |
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| The UAE is a federation of seven sheikhdoms, of which Abu Dhabi is the capital and holder of the vast majority of its oil reserves. |
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| Most of Saudi Arabia's estimated two million Shiites live in the east, where the vast majority of the wealthy kingdom's oil reserves lie, and many complain of marginalisation. |
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| Gaddafi's Libya, despite its relatively small population, was known to possess vast resources, particularly in the form of oil reserves and financial capital. |
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| Saudi Arabia has since become the world's largest oil producer and exporter, controlling the world's second largest oil reserves and the sixth largest gas reserves. |
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| The CIA asserts that as of 2011 while UNCTAD suggests that most proven oil reserves in Somalia lie off its northwestern coast, in the Somaliland region. |
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| Tullow Oil estimates Kenya's oil reserves to be around 10 billion barrels. |
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| Ltd, will develop oil reserves in Jufeir and build its infrastructure, according to a document entitled Belarus' Strategy of Development of Energy Potential. |
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| Current proven productible oil reserves are reported at 280 million bbls. |
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| Oil reserves in sedimentary rocks are the source of hydrocarbons for the energy, transport and petrochemical industries. |
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| Oil reserves denote the amount of crude oil that can be technically recovered at a cost that is financially feasible at the present price of oil. |
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