...Chavez emerged a stronger president. He defeated a subsequent opposition-led strike that paralyzed the country's oil industry, and he fired thousands of state oil company employees.The coup also turned Chavez more decidedly against the U...
...the national average of 7.8 percent. North Dakota is at 3 percent; Oklahoma, 5.2.Businesses that serve the oil industry, such as steel companies that supply drilling pipe and railroads that transport oil, aren't the only ones benefiting...
...rapid-fire charges and retorts that drew on dense facts and figures that were difficult to follow. The men argued over oil industry subsidies, federal spending as a percentage of the GDP, Medicare cuts, taxes and small businesses and the size of...
...launching any guerrilla insurgency from the countryside that could destabilize the north African OPEC member and its oil industry.Gadhafi's death is expected to allow Libya to start earning money again by selling its oil on world markets as a...
A Georgia man working in the oil industry in Nigeria was kidnapped and held for ransom for seven days.
...lackeys deliberately trying to drive us into a Cuban economy, or are they blindly leading us in that direction?The oil industry creates jobs and provides needed supplies and services. They already pay an exorbitant amount of taxes, in ratio to...
...worth $2.2 billion last year.If BP is going to survive , it must protect those assets, says Amy Myers Jaffe, an oil industry scholar at Rice University in Houston.Dudley has adamantly defended BP's actions since the rig explosion. He must...
...during which time an estimated 2.5 million gallons of oil would flow into the Gulf unabated each day.Engineers and oil industry experts familiar with or involved in previous relief well missions at sea say that if the heavy mud BP plans to pump...
...the incoming president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, who spent most of his 39 years in the oil industry in offshore exploration. "If they get it on the first three or four shots they'd be very lucky."For the relief...
...contribute to global warming. Mr. Murray's source, the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is funded by Big Oil. Industry-funded think-tanks are not good, unbiased sources of information. A better source would be www.realclimate...
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