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- noun Plural form of
unconventional .
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Examples
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Western oil majors, largely frozen out of the places where oil is plentiful and easily accessible, like the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela, are increasingly turning to so-called unconventionals -- difficult-to-extract resources such as shale gas in the U.S. and oil from Canadian tar sands, and technologies like GTL and liquefied natural gas.
A Gamble in Qatar 2009
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It has dealt with these industrywide issues by investing heavily in so-called unconventionals -- technically challenging and capital-intensive projects such as oil sands in Canada, gas-to-liquids in Qatar and liquefied-natural-gas projects in Nigeria and off Russia's Sakhalin Island.
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Yet it is precisely the so-called unconventionals that have become a big focus of the oil companies 'activities in recent years.
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Yet it is precisely the so-called unconventionals that have become a big focus of the oil companies 'activities in recent years.
Latest Articles 2008
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The U.S. is at the forefront of the unconventionals revolution.
Big Oil Heads Back Home Guy Chazan 2011
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"A company like Exxon Mobil can eliminate the technological risk" of developing unconventionals, says Amy Myers Jaffe , senior energy adviser at Rice University's Baker Institute.
Big Oil Heads Back Home Guy Chazan 2011
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But unconventionals could, provided we get over our hypochondria about exploiting them and our illusions about downside-free sources of energy.
Could Israel Become an Energy Giant? Bret Stephens 2011
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Driving the change is the boom in unconventionals—the tough kinds of hydrocarbons like shale gas and oil sands that were once considered too difficult and expensive to extract and are now being exploited on an unprecedented scale from Australia to Canada.
Big Oil Heads Back Home Guy Chazan 2011
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Holding Back Not all oil companies have piled into unconventionals the way Shell and Chevron have.
Big Oil Heads Back Home Guy Chazan 2011
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Whatever word you use: militia, unconventionals, levies they need numbers to act as a fixing force that pushes the enemy into engagement.
Comic-Con 08: Awesome Terminator Salvation Updates - Rated R?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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