Hydrocarbons Quotes

Without Russia's contribution, prices would rise even more. Some members of the EU meet 90% of their demands for gas with the help of Russian hydrocarbons and have no complaints so far. Everybody is happy. Russia is a reliable partner and has never failed her partners in Europe, even in the hardest times of its economic development. - Vladimir Putin

We will have an economy based on solidarity and reciprocity. We do not dismiss the presence of foreign investment, but we want it be real fresh investment to industrialize our hydrocarbons, all under state control. - Evo Morales

Traditional energy sources will be dominant in the first half of the 21st century. We cannot do without hydrocarbons. - Viktor Khristenko

This will be the biggest contribution we will make. Many hydrocarbons are in higher abundance than one would expect, and there are many others we haven't identified yet. - Michael A'Hearn

The government will exercise its right to state ownership of Bolivia's hydrocarbons. - Evo Morales

Sustained high international oil prices have compelled several import dependent countries such as ours to look for other indigenous means to enhance their hydrocarbon security. Our strategies include besides enhancing our domestic efforts for exploration of conventional oil and gas and improving recovery from existing producing fields, the rapid development of non-conventional sources of hydrocarbons such as CBM. - Murli Deora

Of course, what we are announcing today is not an instant, magical transformation of the energy market. It is a very realistic, practical step in a new direction. For the foreseeable future, for decades to come, the world will need hydrocarbons, and we will continue to invest in order to produce and sell oil and gas in the cleanest, most efficient way possible. - Lord Browne

Of all the light they receive from the sun, they only reflect a tiny portion of it which is one thing we think might be characteristic of liquid hydrocarbons like ethane. - Seran Gibbard

Just at it did when the Great Game was played out in the decades leading up to the First World War, ongoing industrialization is setting off a scramble for natural resources. The coming century could be marked by recurrent resource wars, as the great powers struggle for control of the world's hydrocarbons. - John Gray