Morgan Stanley analysts recently included this chart of crude production costs. Onshore Middle East oil sites are much cheaper to tap than North American shale, which costs about $65 per barrel to extract.
1. ponder-reflect deeply on a subject; I mulled over the events of the afternoon; philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years; The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate.
âdivinerâ: synonyms and related words: 1  a needle in a haystack idiom. 2  beachcomber. 3  bounty hunter. 4  burrow. 5  cast around. 6  dig. 7  drag. 8  nose. 9  once-over. 10  poke. 11  poke around. 12  quest. 13  rake sth out. 14  seek. 15  shake. 16  turn a place inside out idiom. 17  turn sth upside down idiom. 18  wanted. 19  wild-goose chase. 20  witch hunt.