Sentences with phrase «american oil industry»

For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname «Oil Capital of the World» and played a major role as one of the most important hubs for the American oil industry.

Meanwhile, of course, the American oil industry alone reaps literally tens of billions of dollars in annual subsidies.

In pushing for the Obama Administration's approval of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the North American oil industry and its political patrons argue that the pipeline is necessary for American energy security and its construction will help wean America of dependence on Mideast oil.

The institute also sets equipment standards for the American oil industry.

file this under «green train wreck»; «liberal fascism»; & «lefties want to nationalize the American oil industry»

Not exact matches

Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry's biggest lobby, told Fortune in an interview at the Republican National Convention.

Canadian CEOs agreed that the BP disaster will lead to much tougher regulation of the entire North American oil extraction industry, with a mean of 6 on the 7 - point agreement scale.

A report that year from the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade group, found that women accounted for 17 % of the workforce at oil, natural gas and petrochemical companies.

The depressed prices mean lower prices for refiners and less pump pain for North American drivers, but it's hardly good news for Canada's oil industry, which spent billions on oilsands projects after world crude prices had risen high enough to justify the investment.

Perry said the energy industry, leveraging the continent's substantial oil and gas reserves, can create a North American strategy that is powerful around the world.

But make no mistake, the prospect of American energy independence makes life harder for Canada's oil and gas industry.

As I've written many times before, the American fracking industry is largely responsible for keeping global oil prices low, which has been a huge windfall to the world economy.

The extraordinary cost reductions achieved by North American oil and gas companies have likely reached their limit, and any boost in profitability for much of the U.S. shale and Canadian oil sands industries will have to come from higher oil prices, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

To run the Department of Energy, Trump chose former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who took the job «believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.»

«It is not a coincidence that American energy security has shown vast improvements at the same time that America's innovative energy industry was able to ramp up oil and gas production,» said Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy, which produces the annual report.

The American Petroleum Institute is recruiting a former top Republican congressional staffer with financial - sector expertise to lead the oil industry trade group, according to people familiar with the hiring deliberations.

The American Petroleum Institute, an industry group, is to publish its weekly report on U.S. oil supplies.

However, in spite of their attempts to destroy the North American tight oil industry be assured that the Saudis have failed.

North American Energy Partners Ltd (NOA) is a company that provides Heavy (Earthworks) Construction and Mining Services primarily in Canada's Oil Sand industry.

Government and industry enthusiasm for tidewater pipeline access arose from a large premium that existed between international and North American oil prices between 2011 and 2014 due to a pipeline bottleneck in the US caused by a rapid increase in US oil production.

Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt The largest Russia - based manufacturer of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, TMK, upgraded its over-the-counter American depositary receipt (ADR) program to the OTCQX International premier platform.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

«These states are seeing the benefits and ability of the oil and natural gas industry to responsibly develop American energy,» Moreau said.

«The oil and gas industry has benefited from outdated royalty rates for leasing our public lands, while the American people are forced to suffer the consequences of fossil fuel extraction,» he said.

Oil companies would commission their own more precise seismic surveys after they were awarded leases, says Judy Penniman of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's Washington, D.C. — based trade association, and test drill the most promising oil deposiOil companies would commission their own more precise seismic surveys after they were awarded leases, says Judy Penniman of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's Washington, D.C. — based trade association, and test drill the most promising oil deposioil deposits.

«The larger point here is that Administrator Pruitt is saying it's OK for industry to withhold basic information on pollution from oil and gas operations from the American people,» he told E&E News.

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In 1988, a vegetarian - oriented food activist group, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), warned the American public against the dangers of saturated fat and campaigned for the food industry to switch from beef tallow and lard to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil — specifically soybean oil.

More specifically, most of these seven panel members appear to be closely associated with the processed food industry, those purveyors of the sugary, and hydrogenated oil - laden foods that are making Americans ever - fatter.

David is currently developing an American cod liver oil industry, with emphasis on fermented cod liver oil.

For instance, American investigative journalist Nina Teicholz uncovered one association in questions that «has long received major financial support from the vegetable oil industry».

The biggest moneymaker in American society is the oil industry, do you know what's number two?

Since 1924, the American Petroleum Institute has been a cornerstone in establishing and maintaining standards for the worldwide oil and natural gas industry.

The railcar manufacturers in the tank car business, Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN), American Railcar (NASDAQ: ARII), Greenbrier (NYSE: GBX) and Union Tank Car, a lessor / manufacture also part of Berkshire Hathaway have all had a flood of orders and deliveries based on oil demand.

Higher gas prices keep people on the job The oil and gas industry is big business in the U.S.; the American Petroleum Institute predicts that the number of jobs in the sector will increase by 1.3 million through 2030.

That is great for us politically, because export industries get stimulated, and no one cares about imports (buy American), except crude oil.

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In the 2D side scrolling game, users control a thunderbird — a symbol from Native American cultures used by pipeline protesters, such as those who camped out to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline — to gather lightning and destroy as much of the oil industry's machinery and pipelines as is possible, in order to score more points.

The myth of American escapism and the enduring draw of the open road are forever linked with our dependence on the oil and gas industry.

Oil and gas production is so massive in the United States that over 2.5 million American workers are employed by the petroleum industry.

The predictable (and predicted) result was that both vehicle CO2 pollution and vehicle oil use grew dramatically until skyrocketing oil prices of 2008 shocked American drivers into a revolt, unfortunately nearly killing the US auto industry.

The other issue, of course, is that since 2001 the American government has been subcontracted to the oil, coal, timber, and agribusiness industries.

The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known.

But either way it is possible for him to knit a vision of an American energy future drawing on the strengths of the innovative power of science and industry that allowed oil to be tapped — if not controlled in this case — nearly four miles beneath the sea surface.

While the Trump team characterizes the question as an effort to bring about transparency, it's worrying workers because the head of Trump's Energy Department landing team is Tom Pyle — who is better known as the president of the oil - industry - funded advocacy group American Energy Alliance.

[17] Before joining the Bush White House, Philip Cooney who had spent years on the payroll of the American Petroleum Institute where he worked as a leading lobbyist against regulation of the oil and gas industry and served as the former «climate team leader» of API.

With the right energy policies, America's oil and natural gas industry could support as many as an additional 1 million American jobs in 2025 and as many as 2.3 million by 2035.

As the American Petroleum Institute pointed out earlier this week, in 2010 the U.S. oil and natural gas industry delivered $ 476 billion in benefits to the U.S. economy — more than three times the amount it earned.

According to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and other oil industry groups have been directing state legislators to make public and legislative statements in favor of the pipeline project, and have provided legislators with draft legislation, language for op - eds and testimony to be presented as their own.

The U.S. oil industry is playing the «China card» in urging the American government to quickly approve TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which will deliver oil sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries.