hydrocarbon
... Soviet republic in 1924. It achieved independence upon the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Extensive hydrocarbon/natural gas reserves could prove a boon to this underdeveloped country if extraction and delivery ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/a_fg.html
hydrocarbon
... repatriated in the same period; other sources of contention include access to water and mineral (especially hydrocarbon) resources, fisheries, and arable land; armed conflict prevails not so much between the uniformed armed ...
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hydrocarbons
The hydrocarbons sector is the backbone of the economy, accounting for roughly 60% of budget revenues, 30% of GDP, and over 95% of export earnings. Algeria has the eighth-largest reserves of ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/e_ec.html
hydrocarbons
iron ore, chromium, copper, gold, nickel, platinum and other minerals, and coal and hydrocarbons have been found in small uncommercial quantities; none presently exploited; krill, finfish, and crab have been taken by ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/b_mp.html
hydrocarbons
... discovered natural gas reserves to large northern hemisphere markets. In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/e_ec.html
hydrocarbons
textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons, construction, cement, metals, light manufactures
www.exxun.com/Egypt/e_ec.html
hydrocarbons
... Korea, and Taiwan also exploit the Indian Ocean, mainly for shrimp and tuna. Large reserves of hydrocarbons are being tapped in the offshore areas of Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and western Australia ...
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/e_ec.html
hydrocarbons
... has not ratified its 1998 maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, primarily due to concerns over potential hydrocarbons; as of January 2007, ground demarcation of the boundary with Belarus was complete and mapped ...
www.exxun.com/Lithuania/i_ti.html
hydrocarbons
clothing, semi-finished goods and textiles, agricultural products, mechanical goods, phosphates and chemicals, hydrocarbons, electrical equipment
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/e_ec.html
hydroelectric
... ceded thirteen villages to Benin, but border relations remain strained by rival cross-border gang clashes; talks continue between Benin and Togo on funding the Adjrala hydroelectric dam on the Mona River
www.exxun.com/Benin/i_ti.html
hydroelectric
... global financial crisis. A severe drought exacerbated the situation in 1999, reducing crop yields and causing hydroelectric shortfalls and electricity rationing, and Chile experienced negative economic growth for the first time in ...
www.exxun.com/Chile/e_ec.html
hydroelectric
... in 2006 with Slovakia over Hungary's failure to complete its portion of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam project along the Danube; as a member state that forms part of the EU ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/i_ti.html
hydroelectric
hydroelectric potential, arable land
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hydroelectric
... over the Okavango Delta ecology in Botswana and human displacement scuttled Namibian plans to construct a hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls along the Angola-Namibia border; managed dispute with South Africa over ...
www.exxun.com/Namibia/i_ti.html
