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- adverb & adjective In or into operation or production.
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Examples
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On present trends, just to replace oil reserves that will be exhausted and to meet the growth in demand, we will need 64 mb/day of new capacity between now and 2030 - that is 6 Saudi Arabias, or roughly 1 Saudi Arabia coming on-stream every 3 years.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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While conventional assets are relatively easy to develop and historically have offered good returns, projects in some more technically difficult sectors—like deep-water and LNG—typically take longer to bring on-stream, and are higher cost, meaning returns are lower.
Big Oil Heads Back Home Guy Chazan 2011
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On present trends, just to replace oil reserves that will be exhausted and to meet the growth in demand, we will need 64 mb/day of new capacity between now and 2030 - that is 6 Saudi Arabias, or roughly 1 Saudi Arabia coming on-stream every 3 years.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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On present trends, just to replace oil reserves that will be exhausted and to meet the growth in demand, we will need 64 mb/day of new capacity between now and 2030 - that is 6 Saudi Arabias, or roughly 1 Saudi Arabia coming on-stream every 3 years.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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The new 3.6MW scheme, which will itself be dwarfed by the massive London Array off Kent when that eventually comes on-stream, is made up of two projects, Walney 1 and 2, off Barrow-in-Furness.
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On present trends, just to replace oil reserves that will be exhausted and to meet the growth in demand, we will need 64 mb/day of new capacity between now and 2030 - that is 6 Saudi Arabias, or roughly 1 Saudi Arabia coming on-stream every 3 years.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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In Brazil, the company brought on-stream the first permanent facilities on the Tupi field, which will be able to produce up to 100,000 barrels of oil a day and up to 177 million standard cubic feet of gas a day.
LNG Business Lifts BG Group's Profit Alex MacDonald 2010
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Two huge projects in Qatar are due to come on-stream next year that alone should increase output by more than 10% — Pearl Gas-To-Liquids, which converts natural gas to transportation fuels like diesel, and a big liquefied-natural-gas project, Qatargas 4.
Shell Expects Output, Cash Flow to Grow Guy Chazan 2010
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Peter Voser In its yearly strategy update, Shell said it would produce 3.5 million barrels a day of oil equivalent in 2012, 11% more than it did last year, as big-ticket projects come on-stream.
Shell Expects Output, Cash Flow to Grow Guy Chazan 2010
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Two huge projects in Qatar are due to come on-stream next year that alone should increase output by more than 10% — Pearl Gas-To-Liquids, which converts natural gas to transportation fuels like diesel, and a big liquefied-natural-gas project, Qatargas 4.
Shell Expects Output, Cash Flow to Grow Guy Chazan 2010
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