Boomtime in the oil patch - Ramping up with advanced machine tools

摘要

You don't have to be an expert in international affairs or even the global energy industry to know that there arc powerful forces at work pressuring every facet of the efforts now underway to find, develop, and produce energy resources. Every day, news headlines trumpet the global dependence of the industrialized world on imported oil from some of the most troubled and troublesome parts of the world.