Oil exporting countries, however, were currently facing oil capacity constraints and reduced oil refining capability.

East Fuel General Oil Company said, With China's domestic oil product quality standards continuing to improve, the refining capacity of the equipment also increased.

Most Russian OFDI has been in energy and mining related industries, including oil refining and oil and gas distribution.

Furthermore, many advanced countries had not improved oil refining technologies for some time.

And then lately, people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found refining cooking oil from restaurant slop.

And you have refining and delivery of that crude oil as what we call petrol or gasoline.

The agreement involves partnerships between the State owned oil companies of the three countries in projects on oil prospecting, refining and transportation as well as ship construction.

Countries need to reformulate their energy policies including by boosting production and refining capacity, diversifying energy sources, and giving new impetus to conservation. A better balance between production and consumption would avoid large swings in oil prices.

Mr. Mansour (Islamic Republic of Iran) said that the representative of Kuwait had rightly pointed to the increase in international demand for energy and reduction in oil refining capacity which had been affected by natural disasters and other elements.

Improving that capacity would benefit both oil exporting and oil importing countries.

Continuing geopolitical tensions combined with refining and distribution industry bottlenecks caused tight supply conditions for light products, which were coupled with high oil demand throughout 2004.

Energy reform opens up electricity generation and oil exploration, extraction, and refining to private foreign or domestic investment through licenses, concessions, production sharing, or profit sharing. The oil workers union has been banished from the board of directors of Pemex, the national oil company, and new contracts for shale oil and gas, together with deep water prospecting and drilling, will be signed with a government agency, not with Pemex.

With production capacity stretched to the limit, oil prices remained vulnerable to upward pressures.

If it is generally thought that oil prices will be higher in the future, owners of oil reserves will tend to postpone costly investments in exploration and expansion of production capacity, and they may pump oil at below capacity. They would rather sell their oil and invest later, when prices are higher, so they restrain increases in supply.

Capacity Building in Palm Oil Industry, Livestock Breeding and Animal Faltering Technology in Sierra Leone.

With non OPEC oil producers following suit, oil production was approaching full capacity in the first quarter of 2005, thereby heightening speculative pressures for price increases.

Capacity Building in Planning, Negotiating and Management for Exploitation of Oil and Mineral Resources in Mauritania.

Finally, the Panel notes that other factors, such as local sources of pollution from motor vehicle emissions, regional oil refining, and human occupation of historic sites could have contributed to the deterioration of the cultural heritage artefacts and sites.

The situation had been exacerbated by recent natural disasters and the refining capacity problem pointed out by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but South South and OPEC Fund initiatives were having positive effects.

The lower dollar also reduces the purchasing power of oil exporters. If nominal oil prices remain constant while the dollar declines, the real income of the oil producing countries declines, resulting in less investment in additional capacity and maintenance.

Saudi Arabia is boosting its spending on social and infrastructure investments substantially, as well as expanding oil sector capacity.

Edwin Snowe is presently working as Managing Director of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company.

Also, every time you buy gasoline in the United States, half of it is actually being refined along the coast, because the Gulf actually has about 50 percent of our refining capacity and a lot of our marine terminals as well.

With the crucial exception of energy rich Azerbaijan, they have few natural resources or high value manufactures, and have large agricultural sectors. They also depend on economic rents or Russian derivatives rather than adding value themselves Ukraine makes profits from gas transit, Belarus from oil refining.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Many ideas have been put forward over the years with a view to refining the concept.

The Ombudsperson office is the link capable of maintaining and refining the democratic state of law.

Oil s price reflects its extraction, refining, and distribution costs, but not that of creating the raw material. Millions of years and 200 tons of plant matter are necessary to produce one liter of oil, whereas just 15 kilograms of plant matter are required to make one liter of synthetic fuel.

Significant progress has been made in refining and disseminating a standard methodology for conducting threat and risk assessments.

With world oil production close to full capacity and prices already more than double their pre Iraq War level, this portends still higher prices, and still higher profits for the oil industry the only clear winner in Bush s Middle East policy.

(a) Supporting research and analysis aimed at refining instruments for mainstreaming a gender perspective into development policies and programmes

Given that most of Sudan s oil wealth is concentrated in the South, the management of the oil industry and its revenues after secession is an existential problem for Bashir s regime and its capacity to control his vast and ethnically diverse country. It is in the oil rich border areas that a new war might erupt.

As mentioned above (para. 1), the present document is part of the ICTR's continuing process of refining its Completion Strategy.

As mentioned above (para. 1), the present document is part of the ICTR's continuing process of refining its Completion Strategy.

This work demonstrates the importance of the value added of human rights approaches to poverty reduction, and refining its implementation.

Indeed, because oil prices were rising while the dollar was declining, capacity expansion by oil firms failed to meet forecasts for non OPEC production in the last three years. Even oil production in the United States has not matched the increase in oil prices, as rising import costs for tools and equipment partly a reflection of the dollar s weakness and other factors have forced project delays and cancellations.

It is followed by the manufacturing sector, which consists of petroleum refining, textiles, electronics, pharmaceuticals and watch and jewellery assembly.22

However, we should focus on refining that delegation so that Council action is a manifestation of all, by all and for all.

Nevertheless, Japan was ready to consider any proposal aimed at further refining the language and looked forward to continued discussion of the matter.

Oil. Oil. This was a big topic.

The effect is direct when it comes to oil prices. Although oil accounts for a smaller part of the energy mix nowadays and spare capacity is currently well ensured, chiefly by Saudi Arabia, a price shock would still have global effects as such shocks have had in the past.

Major oil exporters could respond in a variety of ways to political posturing on energy, most of which would exacerbate rather than ameliorate the global energy situation. One of the most plausible scenarios in response to calls by governments and politicians around the world to reduce or even eliminate dependence on oil is a relative decline in investment in additional production capacity in the oil producing countries.

Saddled with debt, reparations and oil capacity constraints, and with the security situation highly uncertain, Iraq has yet to achieve self sustaining economic growth despite the reduction in Paris Club debt.

Even in the parts of Iraq now controlled by the Islamic State, oil production continues, with output smuggled and sold in foreign markets. And the prospect that sanctions on Iran s oil exports will be phased out implies significant inflows of foreign direct investment aimed at increasing production and export capacity.