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oil giants    

Read about some oil producers   
Listen to a news report   

oil giants    

by Margaret O'Keeffe    

For many years now the decisions made by the major oil-producing countries have had far-reaching effects on the whole world economy, because of both the power of the oil companies and the direct effect of price changes on the cost of living.  The search for more fossil fuels still goes on.

In this article you can

read about some more recent discoveries by the big producers   
listen to a news report on the future of energy supplies   
learn oil industry-related vocabulary   
develop your vocabulary with word-building activities   

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