Sentences with phrase «south american oil»

The South American oil and gas provinces of Brazil and Colombia are suffering from engineering skills shortages, offering opportunities for candidates willing to travel.

Represented an energy investment group in an international arbitration involving a contractual dispute over the sale of South American oil fields.

We also began building positions in a few new companies including a small oil equipment company, a Canadian listed South American oil and gas company, a South American beverage bottler, and a leading U.S. - based wireless communications company.

The researchers also created a draft sequence of the South American oil palm E. oleifera.

Not exact matches

Just this week, Venezuela launched a new cryptocurrency called the petro, which is supposedly backed by the South American country's oil reserves.

Higher demand for petroleum and gasoline in South America has also boosted appetite for North American oil.

Oil output in Venezuela , a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has fallen from almost 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) to just around 1.5 million bpd currently due to political and economic turmoil in the South American country.

President Trump has also banned Americans from buying the Venezuelan government's «Petro» cryptocurrency, which is supposedly backed by the South American country's oil reserves.

Oil accounts for over 95 percent of Venezuela's export earnings, so the collapse has been acutely felt in the South American OPEC nation.

Venezuela's only hope at this point would be more assistance from Russia or China, two countries that have loaned large sums of money to the South American nation, a lot of which was given in exchange for oil cargoes.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the South American country — which has the largest proven oil reserves in the world — to contract 10 percent this year and has declared it the worst - performing economy in the world right now.

They are grotesque, distorted figures from the American south» snake - oil salesmen, cripples, prophets, murderers... They are characters we can not avoid looking at.

I recommend making chimichurri, a South American condiment like pesto, that is made with parsley, garlic, oil and vinegar, which is terrific with steak.

When switching to food grade lubrication, a South American dairy experienced significant decrease in hydraulic oil consumption.

I'm thinking lime, orange, cumin and oregano for a South American taste, or maybe grated ginger, miso and sesame oil.

There are two species of oil palm, African (Elaeis guineensis) and South American (Elaeis oleifera).

One of the greatest of all suspense films, this legendary French shocker is Clouzot's nerve - rending account of four expatriate drivers trying to escape a horrible little South American backwater by driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin to a burning oil field over dangerous mountain roads.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Meanwhile, Castillo has problems of his own - fallout from recent missions involving a clandestine rescue of a DEA agent from South American drug runners, and the confiscation of some fifty million dollars from thieves in the Iraqi oil - for - food scandal.

Some popular South American funds rely heavily on oil and metals that are tied to the level of global economic activity, such as iron and copper, but the region has more than that to offer.

John Ferren, Paris Abstract, ca. 1935 Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 31 3/4 inches Collection Newark Museum, NJ Presented by the Newark Museum and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Saturday, April 10, 2010, 10 am — 5 pm Billy Johnson Auditorium, Newark Museum The Newark Museum and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros present Dialogues in South and North American Abstraction, an important international symposium that explores the conceptual and aesthetic parallels that linked artists -LSB-...]

Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975) Deep South from America Today, 1930 — 31 Mural cycle consisting of ten panels, Egg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground on linen mounted to wood panels with a honeycomb interior.

Images, from left: Charles Sheeler (1883 — 1965), Interior, South Salem, New York, 1926, oil and fabricated chalk on linen, 33 1/8 × 22 1/8 ″, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 31.344.

The 25 - minute documentary outlines how this Caribbean island nation, tucked a few dozen miles from the South American coast and long a refining hub for Venezuelan oil, is struggling to expand tourism but do so without degrading a prime asset drawing visitors — its coral reefs.

Last month Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said that if the South American country is compensated with half of the forecasted lost revenues, it will not exploit oil in Yasuni National Park, setting aside the area for wildlife and indigenous people.

We are not told what a boon the oil sands are to Chinese, South Korean and American suppliers.

(08/07/2009) Despite violent protests by indigenous groups over plans to expand oil and gas exploration in the Peru's Amazon rainforest, energy investments in the South American country are expected to increase to $ 1.5 billion in both 2009 and 2010, reports Reuters.

The South American country has said it would forgo oil exploitation if the international community pledged half the revenue of the suspected oil returns ($ 3.6 billion).

Nigel has been advising on the meaning and effect of an early termination clause in a series of charterparties between shipowners and charterers who subcharter to a South American national oil producer.

Recent experience includes LCIA arbitrations about political risks insurance, major bank loans to Russian entities, and long - term coal supply agreements; an UNCITRAL arbitration about a coal contract price adjustment mechanism; LMAA arbitrations relating to shipbuilding contracts, charterparties, and bills of lading; a FOSFA Board Of Appeal hearing about a contaminated cargo of vegetable oil; and ICC arbitrations about a South American gas field consortium and an East African oil and gas exploration project.

A European oil and gas company as plaintiff in U.S. litigation against foreign sovereign related to expropriation of a multi-billion dollar South American subsidiary

Two ICC arbitrations involving an energy major and the national oil and national gas companies of a South American state, issues enforcing a contractual stabilisation clause.

a South American national oil company in a US$ 500 million post-acquisition arbitration governed by New York law

representing an international oil company in an AAA / ICDR commercial arbitration (New York seat) relating to rights and remedies pursuant to an agreement governed by New York law to share costs and monetary awards of investment arbitration against a South American state (claim US$ 500 million)

Apparently, Petro cryptocurrency is highly supported by the oil - rich South American country's oil reserves, but many view the project as little more than a way of escaping US - imposed economic sanctions.

As per the Bitfinex statement, the United States has legally forbade any economic partnerships or negotiations with the government of Venezuela, the Central Bank of Venezuela, the state - owned oil company PdVSA, and any other entity related to the South American country's government.

Raul felt a cold shiver run down his spine as the young woman opened a can of South American pecan oil.