Sentences with phrase «oil firm bp»

Oil firm BP says the world is still failing to do enough to tackle climate change, despite major policy announcements over the past year from the US, EU...

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• Pandion Energy, a portfolio company of Kerogen Capital, agreed to buy a 10 % stake in two North Sea fields from Norwegian oil firm Aker BP, Reuters reports.

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

Ms. Baumann is a former BP Amoco executive who currently serves as President and owner of Cross Creek Energy Corporation, an energy advisory firm with investments in the domestic oil and gas business.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just announced he has hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action against the oil giant BP in connection with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill in the GulF of Mexico.

Senate Committee on Local Content has summoned a British firm, BP Oil International Limited over a $ 3.3 billion pre-financing crude oil deal that may have breachedOil International Limited over a $ 3.3 billion pre-financing crude oil deal that may have breachedoil deal that may have breached...

DiNapoli recently announced he had hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action lawsuit against the oil giant BP in connection with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gOil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil and gas.

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

After Google chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of «literally lying» about climate change on NPR in September 2014, a fleet of companies ditched ALEC, from oil giants like BP and Occidental Petroleum to software and tech firms like Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, and SAP — the company which chaired ALEC's corporate board.

Indian companies likely to benefit from the focus on solar energy include Tata BP Solar — a tie - up between Tata Power and BP Solar, a subsidiary of the British oil giant — and Reliance Solar, part of the country's largest private sector firm, Reliance Industries.

He permitted it to rubber - stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP — a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company — with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry - friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years.

In private, big energy firms were offered sweetheart deals to acquiesce to the climate bill, including expanded offshore drilling for oil giants like BP and taxpayer subsidies for coal and nuclear interests that outstripped those for clean energy.

Let's see what they have been up to: Texas product liability firm, Hissy Kientz LLP, added a new key practice area to its main website, on lawsuits by the cleanup workers of the BP oil spill.

As an example Leigh Day Solicitors is top ranked by the Chambers Directory which comments that the firm has been representing Colombian farmers against BP Subsidiary Exploration (Colombia) in relation to alleged environmental damage caused by an oil pipeline.

Mr. Budd, a shareholder of Baron & Budd since 1985 and president and managing shareholder since 2002, has expanded the firm from its cornerstone asbestos practice to a national firm capable of tackling the biggest defendants in areas as diverse as pharmaceutical and medical device injury, water contamination, BP Gulf oil spill, financial fraud and various other areas of practice.

More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histoOil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil spill in U.S. history.

She has a wide experience of legal and business matters having worked for over 25 years on international cross border corporate and finance transactions as a lawyer with major US and UK law firms and for 5 years for BP in their downstream oil business and legal department.

Currently, our class action law firm serves on the national plaintiff's steering committee for litigation surrounding the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill and the high - sulfur Chinese drywall linked to odor and metal corrosion in new home construction.

Larger firms such as Shell, BP, E.ON and ExxonMobil offer a number of schemes across the full range of oil and gas roles (engineering, business and science).