Sentences with phrase «oil development in»

The goal is to provide these communities with the tools to combat deforestation from palm oil development in Liberia.

The US just provided $ 1 billion to Mexico for oil development in the Gulf of Mexico while imposing a moratorium on oil developement in the Gulf of Mexico.

Useful quantitative measures of the increasing ecological impacts are provided by the history of oil development in Alberta, Canada for production of both conventional oil and tar sands development.

Sustainable Development Institute / SDI ($ 49,700): To combat deforestation from palm oil development in Liberia by training forest communities to track and report illegal logging using an innovative smartphone application named TIMBY (This Is My Backyard).

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

The Canadian media are full of speculation that the Canadian government will push for special treatment and protections from global warming regulation of its fastest - growing source of greenhouse gas emissions — the tar sands oil development in Alberta, where much of Canada's oil is derived.

«Increasing oil development in the Western Arctic will contribute to climate change, threaten special areas, and put further pressure on subsistence users,» said Earthjustice attorney Rebecca Noblin.

Oil development in the Arctic Refuge would result in habitat loss, disturbance, and displacement or abandonment of important nesting, feeding, molting and staging areas.

Its main focus is the Bakken light oil development in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.

Oil development in the Bakken region is dominated by hydraulic fracturing because of the type of rock in which the oil is located.

Increased oil development in that region in recent years has attracted thousands of oilfield employees.

The organization has also assembled some 1,000 scientists, engineers and medical professionals at the ready to work on pro-bono basis to help non-profits and human rights organizations on issues as varied as studying the potential for oil development in Kenya by examining unique geological conditions and assessing the potential for detrimental effects on local water quality.

Not exact matches

LNG development also has strong political support in B.C. — all three major parties favour it in principle — because, unlike oil from Alberta, it would almost certainly result in higher royalty revenues.

These are some of the most significant developments in the oil saga for quite some time.

The region in recent years has seen investor sentiment rattled by developments such as the drop in oil prices, the war in Syria and a sudden corruption purge from Riyadh.

Tuesday vote was taken hard in Canada where development of the oil sands is important to Alberta's budget.

«Today, the focus is on oil markets, where prices have risen on the back of rising supply risk from developments in Iraq,» wrote Camilla Sutton, chief FX strategist at Scotiabank.

But developments in the oil and gas industry and an influx of new residents are putting pressure on local amenities, as Alison Birrane reports.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum will proceed with development of its $ US1.9 billion ($ A2.6 billion) Greater Enfield oil project in the Carnarvon Basin.

The Company's capital investment in the development of oil and natural gas properties and other capital expenditures, before the change in accounts payable, was approximately $ 250 million in the quarter and includes several Wattenberg wells being turned - in - line approximately two weeks ahead of schedule.

When combined with the Company's existing 10,000 barrel per day agreement for in - field gathering with Oryx Midstream Services and planned investment of approximately $ 20 million in its own oil gathering system in 2018, PDC believes this agreement ensures its ability to successfully produce and deliver volumes in accordance with its current development plan.

Abramovich was in Fribourg court as part of a lawsuit brought by the London - based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development against Abramovich, Russian oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler, and the Russian energy company Gazprom Neft, a bank spokesman said Wednesday.

While Tillerson has ties to Russia, he partly missed a key energy development back home in the United States by ceding growth potential in the shale oil industry to smaller, more nimble rivals, including Continental Resources.

These developments raise the possibility that Canada's two leading pipeline companies will lose out to American rivals in the race to get fast - rising oil production from Alberta, Saskatchewan and North Dakota to higher paying refiners on the Gulf Coast, Asia and California.

Including Gateway, Enbridge's North American oil pipeline program «is probably the biggest capital expansion in the history of the company,» says Vern Yu, vice-president for business and market development.

«As natural resources become strained in other parts of the world, the Canadian Arctic will be an increasingly attractive place to do business,» he says, «whether that's thanks to oil - and - gas development or alternative energy.»

If the oil majors were to attempt to be more disciplined this time around, the resulting rise in prices would simply accelerate the development of alternative sources of supply, as well as curbing demand growth.

Anti-Keystone groups like to argue that blocking the pipeline would choke oilsand development in Alberta, but a much more likely scenario is that the oil industry would simply look for alternative transport means.

Williams's real estate development company in Baton Rouge had been «body - slammed,» he says, when an oil - and gas - price crash rocked the Louisiana economy.

Even with oil prices still down by half from the peak, improvements in well development productivity have enabled US producers to make money at much lower oil prices.

While doing little to hinder oilsands development, a rejection would prolong price distortions in oil markets.

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

The debate over TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline has forced Americans to confront their complicity in the development of Canada's oilsands.

This stance is interesting since the industry has recently been seen to downplay the role of new pipelines in enabling oilsands development given the rise of oil - by - rail.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Both Abu Dhabi and Dubai are encouraging the development of theme parks to help boost foreign tourist arrivals as oil prices slump, causing an economic slowdown in the region.

#WITH a 28 per cent success rate in the exploration of the Timor Sea region, there is currently a strong industry focus on offshore and onshore oil and gas development.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Ltd plans to fast track development of its wholly - owned Enfield oil field in permit WA -271-P on the North West Shelf.

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

In a matter of hours, Aschidamini can pool together top - tier resumes and form well - oiled offshore teams for any industry, from marketing to tech development — regardless of the project brief.

It adds that «approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.»

For more than two decades, Warburg Pincus has invested or committed over $ 9.5 billion across more than 50 energy investments around the world involved in oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, power generation, oilfield technology and related - services, mining and alternative energy development.

The report does envision scenarios in which oil sands development is curbed by a combination of lower oil prices and a lack of pipeline capacity.

I have been involved in the buying and selling along with the development of oil and gas producing properties in many states over 100's of wells.

This month, Brent crude oil futures climbed above $ 74 a barrel, reaching highs last seen in late 2014 — a welcome development for oil producers.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's FOMC Meeting Statement followed by reports tomorrow on UK PMI, Eurozone PPI, CPI, US Challenger Job Cuts, Productivity, Unit Labor Costs, Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, Markit Services PMI, ISM Services, Durable Goods and Factory Orders for near term direction.

Not exactly a welcome development as global oil producers continue to pump at record rates despite the downdraft in prices.

U.S. stocks traded sharply higher on Tuesday on continued momentum from strengthening oil prices and encouraging developments in the Euro zone.