Sentences with phrase «as global oil industry»

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Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

As early as in 2015, Cisco Consulting Services and Oxford Economics said in research that the oil and gas industry adopting IoE has the potential to increase global GDP by up to 0.8 percent — or US$ 816 billion — by 202As early as in 2015, Cisco Consulting Services and Oxford Economics said in research that the oil and gas industry adopting IoE has the potential to increase global GDP by up to 0.8 percent — or US$ 816 billion — by 202as in 2015, Cisco Consulting Services and Oxford Economics said in research that the oil and gas industry adopting IoE has the potential to increase global GDP by up to 0.8 percent — or US$ 816 billion — by 2025.

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.

Or Harper might prefer to take the loss, the better to portray the oil - sands industry as a victim of global nanny - statism at the next election.

Still, pockets of weakness remain as lower oil prices continue to hinder investment in the energy industry and a firm dollar restrains global sales.

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.»

Their latest comments highlight the industry's remarkable resilience, but also serve as a warning to rivals and traders: a retreat in U.S. oil production that would help ease global oversupply and let prices recover may prove shorter than some may have expected.

The difference, however, is that while foreign companies mostly sold oil assets, they mainly purchased natural gas assets as an adjustment strategy to cope with the anticipated decline in oil prices and even the global oil industry.

Lately, though, the big boys in the global oil industry are finding that earning a buck isn't as easy as it used to be.

Recent cancellations of Alberta tar sands / oil sands projects point to the uphill battle the industry will face as innovation transforms the global energy economy, Jerry Oppenheim of the New Climate Economy project told an event last month hosted by Corporate Knights and Sustainable Prosperity.

WILMINGTON, Del., March 23, 2015 — As the tri-annual NPE opens today in Orlando, Fla, many of the 60,000 who registered are dealing with issues like the environment and sustainability, global competition and unstable oil prices, according to a survey of nearly 800 plastics industry professionals.

The oil is also used in animal feed, and while major global retail chains, multiples and manufacturers such as Arla, Danone, Kelloggs, M&S and Unilever have already begun to show their support for sustainable palm oil products, the agriculture industry has been slower to catch on.

The industry is facing the loss of jobs and future investment as a result of the plummeting price of oil on global markets.

Global campaigns such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to bring more transparency to the oil and gas sectors in an effort to alleviate the resource curse have yet to live up to their promises, a new study finds.

Industries that deal with global resources and products such as mining, forestry, oil, chemicals, machinery, and banking, react more to industry factors than country factors.

As the artist writes, «The vast transportation network of the petrochemical industry, a near invisible part of a seemingly tranquil landscape, impacts the everyday lives of everyone involved, from oil riggers to Gulf Coast fishermen to consumers across the globe, interconnected and interdependent as the global economy continues its inexorable expansion.&raquAs the artist writes, «The vast transportation network of the petrochemical industry, a near invisible part of a seemingly tranquil landscape, impacts the everyday lives of everyone involved, from oil riggers to Gulf Coast fishermen to consumers across the globe, interconnected and interdependent as the global economy continues its inexorable expansion.&raquas the global economy continues its inexorable expansion.»

Anthropocene itself reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centres of global capitalism, transforming the aerial landscapes of sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture information and excess.

Re # 10 The USGS was walked up to the wall back in the mid 90's and told in no uncertain terms that if they kept addressing environmental science and failed to sing the oil industry line (on remaining petroleum reserves as well as on the issue of global warming), then they would be dissolved, flushed, kaput — the Congressional funding would be cut off.

The official, Jason K. Burnett, once a Bush appointee and now an Obama supporter, told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that the argument for putting off any carbon dioxide limits was made by «individuals working for particular oil companies, Exxon Mobil,» as well as oil industry trade associations.

California headed for a high - stakes battle over global warming Tuesday, as an oil industry - backed measure to suspend the state's aggressive climate - change law qualified for the November ballot.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

The BBC make the link between the decline and global warming by asking the RSPB — which is about as «scientific» as asking someone from the oil industry for their opinion.

On Season 1, Episode 2: Harrison Ford investigates the global effects of the palm oil industry and corruption in Indonesia, and Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wild - land firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fires.

«Some supporters of global warming legislation believe that the division in the once - monolithic oil and gas industry, as well as other splits among energy producers, could improve the prospects for the legislation.»

It finds that across the oil and gas industry $ 2.3 trillion of upstream projects — roughly a third of business as usual projects to 2025 — are inconsistent with global commitments to limit climate change to a maximum 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies.

I can't speak for oil and gas analysts, but I'd be surprised based on past experience in the industry if the risk of a 10 % or greater drop in global demand for oil or gas in the 2030s would have much of an effect on their price targets for companies — certainly not enough to qualify as a bubble.

(07/21/2008) Shell Oil is funding a project that seeks to test the potential of adding lime to seawater as a cost - effective way to fight global warming by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans, reports Chemistry & Industry magazine.

Then why is the tone of Sharon Begley's cover story — nine pages in which anyone skeptical of the claim that human activity is causing global warming is painted as a bought - and - paid - for lackey of the coal and oil industries — so strident and censorious?

But, as the self - styled «world capital of the oil and gas industry», there's a connection between rising global greenhouse gas levels and the extreme weather now being inflicted that some of your residents have understood for decades and had a hand in.

The explanation for this, though, rests on an understanding of wider political and economic interests — could it be, perhaps, that this is the result of the billions of pounds pumped into the economy by professional denialist foundations such as Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation and the legions of right wing Tory backers (not to mention the combined, and substantial efforts, of the global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream Global Warming Policy Foundation and the legions of right wing Tory backers (not to mention the combined, and substantial efforts, of the global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream media?

As Tropical forests across the world are in danger from the steadily increasing reach of the palm oil industry, which is projected to expand exponentially as global demand increaseAs Tropical forests across the world are in danger from the steadily increasing reach of the palm oil industry, which is projected to expand exponentially as global demand increaseas global demand increases.

In July 2014, Myanmar was accepted as a candidate of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global scheme which promotes transparency in the oil, gas and mining iIndustries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global scheme which promotes transparency in the oil, gas and mining industriesindustries.

The oil and natural gas industry is also focused on how to meet national and global energy needs as efficiently as possible.

Moreover, a new environmental review is needed to account for the dramatic changes in the outlook for the tar sands industry, as lower oil prices and a global movement to address climate change has led Exxon to write down billions of barrels of tar sands reserves and companies like Statoil and Total to pull out of the tar sands entirely.

What I found in late 2009 almost always led me to myriad praise of Gelbspan as the discoverer of leaked industry memos containing the awkward «strategy» phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which proved skeptic climate scientists were on the payroll of «Big Coal & Oil.»

The tobacco industry was caught red - handed with a secret memo strategy saying «doubt was their product ``; catch skeptic climate scientists in a similar conspiracy with Big Coal & Oil where the strategy is to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» and you'll have the public so outraged that they will never trust a word those skeptics have to say.

In July, BNEF projected that «electric cars will outsell fossil fuel - powered vehicles within two decades as battery prices plunge, turning the global auto industry upside down and signaling economic turmoil for oil - exporting countries.»

«If the United States, with its wide - open and decentralized oil industry, can act as the swing producer, the global oil market can function as a genuinely competitive market.»

A senior scientist has condemned as a «deliberate effort to mislead» a series of television adverts produced by an oil industry - funded loyying group that seeks to portray concern over global warming as alarmism.

We focus on the fossil fuel industry because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.

Yet the growth in oil demand from trucks has outpaced all other sectors — including passenger cars, aviation, industry and petrochemical feedstocks — since 2000 and contributed 40 % to global oil demand growth, a similar contribution as cars.

The global energy industry is in the midst of transformational change as traditional forms of energy such as oil and coal are being replaced by cleaner, renewable alternatives.

Suggestions of conspiracy is also occasionally found among IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists, as in the following e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab: «Ironically, the people who are conducting these attacks and accuse the scientific community of belonging to some sort of «global conspiracy» are themselves part of a conspiracy, funded by the oil and coal industry, to discredit any scientist or piece of evidence that supports the hypothesis that humans are causing a detectable change to global climate.»

Even if the entire global fleet of planes is fueled by non food - grade coconut and babassu oil - as one engine was for a much publicized crew - only Virgin flight in 2008 - the industry would have to contract a lot of farmers to grow a lot of babassu on a lot of land that we just might want to keep for food crops.

As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on our SourceWatch site, CEI has been well - funded by Exxon and other oil companies, and is one of the main U.S. corporate front groups fighting efforts to address global warming and regulate the industry that feeds it funding.

The Colorado communities contend that ExxonMobil and Suncor were aware that their products caused global warming as early as 1968, when a report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the US oil and gas industry's premier trade association, warned of the threat burning fossil fuels posed to the climate.

Al Gore and his followers have tried to prevent this «immersion» from happening by steering the public into believing skeptic scientists were paid to lie, and they found their best success with that tactic under the guidance of Ross Gelbspan and his exploitation of the «reposition global warming» phrase as a sinister «big coal & oil» industry directive.

Anna has led global technology projects that support functions such as real estate, finance, compliance, marketing, and knowledge management — across industries including construction & design, oil & gas, banking, media & advertising and legal services.

Globally, companies are struggling to secure the skills needed; specifically within the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields; disciplines key to the growth of economies and businesses worldwide as well as the global oil and gas industry.

Into its fifth year, the guide serves as a reference for recruitment and employment trends in the global oil and gas industry.