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.
Synonyms and Antonyms of limp. 1  1 to walk while favoring one leg she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler Synonyms halt, hobble Related Words hitch; blunder, falter, flounder, lurch, shamble, shuffle, stagger, stumble, teeter, totter, waver, wobble (also wabble); dodder Near Antonyms breeze, glide, sail Antonyms stride.