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oil and gas
The AAA then splits it down this way: $10.50 for meals, $9.50 for lodging, $7 for gas and oil, and $2 for tips and miscellaneous.
There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.
Ritter, the builder, is convinced that the total cost of all the heating systems plus the oil distribution system is no greater than would be gas heating systems in the houses plus their lines and meters.
In the search for oil and gas, we make similar waves under controlled conditions with dynamite and learn from them where there are buried rock structures favorable to the accumulation of these resources.
They have two main commercial sources: crude oil and natural gas.
Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.
* gas, 2 km ; crude oil 87 km ( 2008 )
An economic blockade with Turkey and Azerbaijan has cut Armenia's rail link between Gyumri and Kars to Turkey ; the rail link with Iran through the Azeri exclave of Nakhichevan ; and a natural gas and oil pipeline line with Azerbaijan.
* ATP Oil and Gas, a Texas-based oil and gas company that operates in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea
Conventional oil and gas fields are found throughout the province on an axis running from the northwest to the southeast.
As well Alberta is connected to the TasnCanada pipeline system ( natural gas ) to Eastern Canada, the Northern Border Pipeline ( gas ), Alliance Pipeline ( gas ) and Enbridge Pipeline System ( oil ) to the Eastern United States, the Gas Transmission Northwest and Northwest Pipeline ( gas ) to the Western United States, and the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station ( electric power ) to Saskatchewan.
In sequence, the most important products have been: fur, wheat and beef, and oil and gas.
Since that time, Alberta's economic fortunes have largely tracked the price of oil, and increasingly natural gas prices.
By 2012, despite natural gas prices at a ten-year low and a higher Canadian dollar, oil prices had recovered enough to restart economic growth.
* Support Activities for Mining & Oil & Gas Extraction ( primarily oil and gas exploration and drilling )
* Mining other than oil and gas ( mainly coal and mineral mining & quarrying ) =
gas 5, 250 km ; oil 1, 528 km ; refined products 1, 730 km ( 2008 )
Crude oil 158 km ; refined products 535 km ; natural gas 1, 330 km ( 2008 )
It is almost totally supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for over half of GDP.
The government has shown progress in its basic policy of diversifying the economy away from oil and gas.
gas ( 37 km ); oil 18 km ( 2008 )
In 2005 Bulgaria had 2, 425 kilometers of natural gas pipelines, 339 kilometers of oil pipelines, and 156 kilometers of pipelines for refined products.

oil and fields
It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.
She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.
It was not until the 20th century that rich oil fields were discovered in the area.
Jefferson's music is uninhibited and represented the classic sounds of everyday life from a honky-tonk to a country picnic to street corner blues to work in the burgeoning oil fields, a reflection too of his interest in mechanical things.
At least 10 – 20 high power ( 1000 × oil immersion ) fields are counted and an average determined.
Because of lack of financing, the development of oil fields near Doba, originally due to finish in 2000, was delayed until 2003.
Declining oil fields, saline aquifers, and unminable coal seams have been suggested as storage sites.
CO < sub > 2 </ sub > has been injected into declining oil fields for more than 40 years, to increase oil recovery.
Another benefit of injecting CO < sub > 2 </ sub > into Oil fields is that CO < sub > 2 </ sub > is soluble in oil.
All oil fields have a geological barrier preventing upward migration of oil.
Other disadvantages of old oil fields are their limited geographic distribution and depths, which require high injection pressures for sequestration.
The major disadvantage of saline aquifers is that relatively little is known about them compared to oil fields.
Unlike storage in oil fields or coal beds, no side product will offset the storage cost.
One proposal is to preposition truck-mounted fuel refineries near oil fields and bulk storage depots.
They were soon to be used in mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.
In December 2011, Afghanistan signed an oil exploration contract with China National Petroleum Corporation ( CNPC ) for the development of three oil fields along the Amu Darya river.
By 1901, the San Joaquin Basin was the main oil-producing region of California, and it remains so in the 21st century, with huge oil fields including the Midway-Sunset, Kern River, and Belridge fields producing much of California's onshore oil.
Petroleum seeps on the North Slope have been known for many years, and in 1923, the federal government created US Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 to cover the presumed oil fields beneath the seeps.

oil and Kern
The enormous Kern River Oil Field to the east and northeast has more active oil wells ( 9, 183 at the end of 2006 ) than any other field in California except for the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in southwestern Kern County ( which has 11, 145 ).
About 1910, Union Oil made a strategic alliance with the Independent Producers Agency, a group of small oil producers, to build pipelines from the Kern County oil fields to Union Oil facilities on the Pacific coast.
Of California fields outside of the San Joaquin Valley, only the Wilmington Oil Field in Los Angeles County has untapped reserves greater than, while six fields in the San Joaquin Valley ( Midway-Sunset, Kern River, South Belridge, Elk Hills, Cymric, and Lost Hills ) each have reserves exceeeding of oil.
They contain the Lost Hills Oil Field, the largest oil field in Kern County, and are located in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley.
As the Plain is adjacent to the super-giant oil fields of Kern Countythe Midway-Sunset Oil Field, third largest in the United States, is on the other side of the Temblor Range – the Carrizo Plain has long been considered to have at least a moderate potential for oil development.
By the 1890s numerous oil fields, including the Summerland Oil Field near Santa Barbara, location of the world's first offshore oil wells, the giant Midway-Sunset field in Kern County, and several fields in the Los Angeles Basin were contributing to an oil boom that made California one of the largest oil producers in the nation.
In the portions of the route in Kern and Fresno Counties, SR 33 passes through one of the United States ' largest petroleum extraction fields, with hundreds of nodding oil pumps along the highway.
Looking south along CA 33 in Kern County, near the fields of oil derricks.

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