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...other oil-poor countries like South Korea, which buys all its crude on the open market and is therefore exposed to sharp price rises. The way to do that is to invest in exploration and development in countries that have oil fields but lack the capital or technology to exploit them. When Chinese companies have a stake in oil coming out of the ground, even if it originates abroad, they will have secured long-term supplies independent of the world's fickle prices. The process of overseas exploration began in 1997, when Premier Li Peng encouraged state-run oil concerns...
...opportunities it is finding. In the Soviet era, BP officials explain, oil wells were developed in a cookie-cutter approach that didn't customize extraction techniques to the needs of individual fields. By tailoring solutions to each reservoir and well, the officials say, it's possible to exploit them far more productively...
...leading lady” Ned Kynston (Billy Crudup). She mouths his lines with practised passion, for despite a ban on female actresses in public theater, Maria—surprise, surprise—harbors ardent aspirations for thespian glory of her own. The filmmakers missed a golden opportunity to exploit the subtle human side of a fascinating historical moment, creating an unconvincing hodgepodge of hackneyed aphorisms...
...leading lady” Ned Kynston (Billy Crudup). She mouths his lines with practised passion, for despite a ban on female actresses in public theater, Maria—surprise, surprise—harbors ardent aspirations for thespian glory of her own. The filmmakers missed a golden opportunity to exploit the subtle human side of a fascinating historical moment, instead creating an unconvincing hodgepodge of hackneyed aphorisms...
...fellow refugee, Dona Vera, who presides over a salon of sorts called the Hacienda de la Soledad, concealing her European past behind flamboyant displays of Indian folklore. In the third panel of the narrative's triptych, we travel back to 1910, when the British came to the area to exploit its mines and miners. That one of them, caught up in the revolution, was Eric's grandfather bears out the traditionalist's truth that time moves not forward, but around...