Sentences with phrase «many oil workers»

Rather than waiting to find out, the central bank opted to make it easier for unemployed oil workers to service their debts.

That's not fast enough to generate new jobs for all those former oil workers.

A gas flare burns an oil worker monitors a water tank while loading saltwater from an oil well storage tank near Sidney, Montana.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), daily output there has already dropped by more than 50 %, primarily because foreign oil workers are fleeing for their lives.

«A lot of those displaced oil workers, especially the professionals that were working in the shiny Calgary office towers — those jobs are not coming back,» Hirsch says.

Neither can Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who must answer to frustrated oil workers.

Rampant food shortages that caused Venezuelans to report losing an average of 11 kilograms (24 pounds) last year are particularly tough for oil workers tasked with grueling physical work in often remote oil fields.

Some oil workers have resorted to working odd jobs on the side, taking vacation to work abroad, or even selling their work uniforms - red overalls - for money to eat.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

In at least one administrative office in Zulia state, human resources staff quit processing out the quitters, hanging a sign, «we do not accept resignations,» an oil worker there told Reuters.

Contributing to the decreased supply is the Trump Administration's sanctions on OPEC countries boosting reliance on domestic oil supplies and a long - running economic crisis in Venezuela, where oil workers have been «resigning in droves» since their state oil company was taken over by a military leader.

Though most of the explosion in the Bakken region is already played out, and though a large portion of the oil workers in the region have already found permanent housing situations, I expect the growth in the Price / Book multiple coupled with steady earnings (if not growing earnings) to secure the safety of this investment for the near future.

The conditions for oil workers have deteriorated for years, with shortages of food, unsafe working conditions, and hyperinflation destroying the value of paychecks.

With global oil companies cutting 50,000 or more jobs, truckers might be after the newly unemployed oil workers.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

In SA you are not allowed to live there if you are not Muslim (American oil workers are exceptions who live in private compounds where Saudi law does not apply).

Even without another football game to further overcrowd the city, which considers itself a cultural oasis in a vast wilderness of oil workers» helmets and Levi's, the downtown area is declared off limits by every sane person, cultured or not.

I remember the reality of work - away fathers during the 1980s, whether it was tradesmen to Europe or, more commonly in my part of the world, oil workers out to the North Sea rigs or to the Middle East.

Edo Police rescue 3 abducted oil workers in Benin A crack team of detectives attached to the Edo State Police Command have rescued three oil workers attached to the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC).

Writing in the Press and Journal ahead of a visit to Aberdeen with Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, he warned that the industry was «at a cross-roads» and called for a resilience fund for oil workers and tax incentives:

Businesses and oil workers in the North Sea do not need to wait for another review, they need action now.

In December 2011, oil workers who went on strike for better working conditions were machine - gunned to death by the country's police in an act known as the Zhanaozen massacre.

Miss McGraa moved to the UK from Nigeria 11 years ago after meeting an English oil worker, Gareth McGraa, who had been working in a Nigerian complex.

«Recently, a prominent traditional Ruler in the State, King Dakolo of Ekpetiama raised an alarm on human trafficking activities in parts of the State by oil workers and Expatriates and appealed to NAPTIP to intervene.

In his welcome address, the National President of PENGASSAN, Comrade Francis Johnson, pledged the oil workers» union commitment to remain «true partners of progress in the nation's Oil & Gas Industry.»

An oil worker abducted during a Joint investigative Visit (JIV) on April 19 at an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in...

only GOD will help dis country y is it dat every year weexperience fuel scarcity na wa oo pls oil workers u all need 2 stand n say no 2 all dis fuel scarcity

Many oil workers come alone and live in construction housing known as «man camps,» making it hard to know how many people are in the area.

Apply caution if someone says he is an engineer, oil worker or in the military and uses this as excuse to travel, and therefore be unreliable getting back to you.

Breaking the Waves explores the relationship between a deeply religious young woman named Bess (played by Keira Duffy) and a Nordic oil worker named Jan..

We Come as Friends (Unrated) Neo-colonialism is the theme of this road documentary chronicling a modern odyssey across Africa featuring everything from Chinese oil workers to UN peacekeepers to Sudanese warlords to American evangelists.

documentary chronicling the generosity of a Christ - like pastor who opened up his church to alleviate the suffering of over 1,000 oil workers unable to find affordable housing in North Dakota.

Maybe just a little — there's a slightly enervating detour that sees Winfried accompany Ines to observe some oil workers whose jobs are likely to disappear as a result of the deal she's helping to finalize — but it generally maintains a breezy pace, and it genuinely needs the breathing room.

Valley of Bones The discovery of a valuable dinosaur fossil pits a disgraced paleontologist and a drug - addicted oil worker against a deadly drug cartel.

«A lot of those displaced oil workers, especially the professionals that were working in the shiny Calgary office towers — those jobs are not coming back,» Hirsch says.

Following the completion of her 2009 - 2010 series on the US Mexico border, Sambunaris spent four years traveling from the southern border of Texas to the Permian Basin and the Gulf Coastal Plains, photographing and interviewing local residents, pipe layers, rail men, oil workers, shipping executives, fishermen, truckers, port workers and marine biologists.

David Claerbout, «Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain», 2013

Earlier European modernism was a strong influence on Houshang Pezeshknia, who depicted oil workers on the island of Khark in this 1958 portrait.

Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain

Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain, 2013 single channel video projection, HD animation, color, silent, endless edition of 7 with 1 AP and 1 AC DC - 1

LIGHT / WORK will feature Oil Workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain (2013), a video work meticulously reconstructed from a small photograph found on the Internet of workers taking shelter from monsoon rains under a bridge.

If the oil prices stay low and U.S. shale oil extraction becomes uneconomic, maybe oil workers can find a new career in clean energy...

During the oil price crash, an estimated 100,000 Canadian oil workers were laid off, at some points causing Alberta's unemployment rate to hover around 10 percent.

Oil workers are threatening to strike unless the government steps in to stem further losses.

Some such program that hires oil workers to work in clean energy would of course also have a symbolic significance, too.

While rescuers searched for 11 missing offshore oil workers off the coast of Louisiana, the flaming, tilting rig they were on sank Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

In good times, a high - rolling oil worker, charged with assault, for example, would think nothing of laying out top dollar for a good lawyer, but those kinds of clients have pretty well dried up.

Regrettably, in an effort to cut costs and boost profits, oil tycoons lose track of the big picture - putting oil workers» lives at stake.

It could be a high - risk occupation like oil worker or a history of high risk activities like motorcycle riding.

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