The budgetary increases are a farce. If he really believed in decreasing dependence on foreign oil, he would not have pushed through an energy bill that was full of giveaways to the petroleum industry, with only marginal support to other forms of energy.
Seth Kaplan
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Sludge is made up a lot of different chemicals and petroleum that is used in the plant. The basic process is to let it burn and when the sludge is almost gone, then the extinguishing occurs.
Steve Patterson
We see it as a timely change in the petroleum group to take the company to the next level, with a concerted focus on exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico.
Glyn Lawcock
As a long-term business we should begin to look beyond that [hydrocarbons], beyond petroleum - to the energy needs of the world over the next half century. And that is what we are doing, starting today.
Lord Browne
The president just mentioned the technologies we do here are technologies that will help the nation use less petroleum. There's some importance that's been attached to that.
George Douglas
Deferring deposits to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is more symbol than substance.
David Sandalow
Automatic scholarships to Niger Delta indigenes so as to give them higher levels of competence to enable them compete for higher level jobs in the petroleum industry.
The Committee
The average age of petroleum engineers is 49. It won't be very long until all our engineers, geologists and tech people are ready to retire.
Paul Poley
We are continuing our intense scrutiny of conduct in the petroleum industry in the aftermath of Katrina.
John Seesel
All petroleum products are just going crazy in the last few days.
Bob Bartlett
The petroleum reserve is not a political reserve -- and raiding it won't lower fuel prices in the long run.
John Engler
It's odd that a city the size of Houston ? one that's the petroleum capital of the world ? doesn't have a Top 50 agency.
Richard Williamson
In the past, many have balked at paying a premium for an environmentally conscious blend of petroleum and renewable, biodegradable fuel.
Michael Devine
So much of what contractors use is petroleum derivative stuff.
David Spear
You almost conceptually expect that gasoline prices will be just about as volatile as petroleum and oil prices. It's hard to do the same with electricity.
Daniele Seitz
Coal is a relatively inexpensive form of energy compared to petroleum, and the United States has abundant reserves of it. There is benefit to converting coal to liquid fuels.
Bob Mccormick
You can't blame it all on energy because the trade deficit excluding petroleum rose faster than the overall deficit. The main culprit once again continues to be that imports are growing faster than exports.
Michael Sheldon
In the meantime, we do have a shortage of petroleum in this country caused primarily by hurricane Katrina.
Mike Rounds
The new construction gave us a chance to correct some of the things that we didn't have before. It also enabled us to put our petroleum storage tanks inside where trucks can come and load.
Dennis Krueger
Because of the petroleum, they are up a little bit.
Chuck Olson
Software is becoming the basis of the new economy, but surely that was also true of petroleum in 1912.
William Comanor
There is a very serious energy agenda that we can work on together. And Brazil is a leader in the production of ethanol production and deep sea drilling for petroleum.
Anthony Wayne
It's certainly not an instantaneous process. The rate at which petroleum is forming is not going to be the solution to our petroleum supplies.
William Thomas
If you've got a loss in refining capacity even if you released oil from the Petroleum Reserve, the fear is that it doesn't have any place to go.
John Kingston
You could put a million guys in their garages working on these cars, and it still wouldn't make a noticeable dent in the nation's fuel supply. That said, these cars are still displacing some petroleum, though a tiny amount.
George Douglas
In comparison, Cuba spent about $1 billion -- or more than 35 percent -- on petroleum imports.
Robert Menendez
The upcoming IAEA vote affects the petroleum ministry more than any other ministry as it has a direct impact on energy security of the country.
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora
Under a Kerry administration we'd likely have a much more interventionist SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) policy.
Jamal Qureshi
The increase in petroleum also causes it to be more expensive to actually produce the food and things of that nature.
Alan Hargrave
Infrastructure is clearly a critical process for adopting hydrogen fuels. There's certainly going to be places where hydrogen won't be existing for a long time, but the petroleum infrastructure is just about everywhere now.
Timothy Fisher
We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
Lisa Murkowski
This was a concealed explosive device that was left on piles of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanks. This was purely to sow terror.
Raymundo Ferrer
It came from a waste, it's not foreign dependency, it's not a petroleum product, and every little bit helps.
Mark Owens
Natural gas is still high, which will encourage switching to petroleum products.
Rick Mueller
It's very appropriate to have a small charge on petroleum to mitigate its impacts.
Bill Magavern
The market is now waiting for the U.S. government's oil stocks data. If there are any surprising declines in U.S petroleum stocks, crude futures will likely try to breach the $62 mark again.
Ken Hasegawa
Lower refinery utilization is contributing to a build-up in crude oil, but reducing the oversupply in petroleum products.
Merrill Lynch
It's very difficult to break in there but [the majors] can't stop trying because that's where the best growth demand for petroleum consumption has been.
Lysle Brinker
They (oil companies) have become financial engineers rather than petroleum engineers. I'd like to see them show a little more effort in the development side internally than they have lately.
James Halloran
We would like to put people's minds at ease as to whether the petroleum business is responding to circumstances that are beyond its control, or if there is an element of greed in the recent price increases.
Robert Morgan
If you run out of petroleum, which we will, these new products will step in. So life as you know it will go on, and we'll be better off for it.
Richard Wool
It's so under-explored it's almost unexplored...in fact some of our petroleum basins have not had a single well put in them.
Adam Feeley
The president will make a decision [to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve] in the next couple of days.
Joe Barton
The IIC claims that Mr. Sevan received money from African Middle East Petroleum in concert with Fred Nadler, a friend, and a relative by marriage of Mr. (Fakhry) Abdelnour, the principal of AMEP.
Eric Lewis
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