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Many reporters filed live reports while driving through flooded streets in extra-heavy "mobile units" laden with the latest in broadcast technology.
Joe Peyronnin: Goodnight Irene Joe Peyronnin 2011
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Many reporters filed live reports while driving through flooded streets in extra-heavy "mobile units" laden with the latest in broadcast technology.
Joe Peyronnin: Goodnight Irene Joe Peyronnin 2011
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In Venezuela, TNK-BP will acquire a 16.7% stake in PetroMonagas SA, an extra-heavy oil producer; a 40% stake in Petroperija SA, which operates the DZO field; and a 26.7% stake in Boqueron SA, TNK-BP said in a statement.
BP to Sell Assets to TNK-BP for $1.8 Billion Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen 2010
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But production and refining is where the problem lies, given that most of the country's crude is extra-heavy, as much solid as liquid, and difficult to extract and process.
Venezuela's Oil Pledge to China Unlikely to Be Fulfilled Kejal Vyas 2011
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Analysts have questioned how economic Venezuelan reserves could be because most are from the heavy and extra-heavy oil in the Orinoco Belt, which is difficult and expensive to extract.
Venezuela's Oil Reserves Top Saudi Arabia's, OPEC Says Benoit Faucon 2011
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Burden of expectations gives this top 10 an extra-heavy to-do list - USATODAY. com
Burden of expectations gives this top 10 an extra-heavy to-do list 2008
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When I got to my condo, I threw him in the washing machine for an extra-heavy spin cycle.
Tom Matlack: An Open Letter to Tiger Woods (and American Men): Crash & Learn 2010
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Burden of expectations gives this top 10 an extra-heavy to-do list
Burden of expectations gives this top 10 an extra-heavy to-do list 2008
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Just to develop these "extra-heavy oil" deposits will require significant financial and energy investments and, as with Canadian oil sands, the environmental impact could be devastating.
Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over 2009
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On the other hand, any increase in the production of Canadian oil sands, Venezuelan extra-heavy oil, and Rocky Mountain shale oil will entail energy-intensive activities at staggering levels, sure to emit vast amounts of CO2, which might more than cancel out any gains from the biofuels.
Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over 2009
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