And we documented the oil majors' brilliant success in that old American sport, cheating the Natives.

The moratorium has now been lifted and the oil majors are back.

However, while the government has given the green light to the oil majors' projects, small-scale sustainable businesses claim little thought is given to them.

It's unacceptable that it's coming from one of the largest global oil majors in the world.

However, it would have hardly any impact at all on the oil majors.

Charterers, the end users of the ships, include oil majors and specialist chemical companies.

The oil majors agreed there were signs of growing global demand, especially from Asia and emerging markets.

Times have been anything but boring for minority investors in the production subsidiaries of the Russian oil majors.

"The oil majors will do studies comfortably from London or California," he said, because those executives are not willing to take the same risks.

Since then, oil majors have stepped up exploration efforts for oil and natural gas in the country.