Sentences with phrase «at other oil companies»

As industry job cuts top 200,000 worldwide, Exxon has kept its 75,300 - strong workforce intact with none of the sweeping layoffs seen at other oil companies, including its biggest U.S. rival Chevron Corp. «Exxon is just stronger financially than anyone else out there,» Brian Youngberg, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, said in an interview.

Not exact matches

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

The 80 - year - old has founded 10 oil and gas companies in his career and has been an early supporter of at least as many ventures by other people.

Of course, Marathon and COP were trading at different places when they announced their decisions to split up, with Marathon (MRO) trading at around a 20 % discount to other integrated oil companies, while COP was trading more or less on par with its peers.

I have had, over my time at the University of Alberta, representatives from the Alberta Ministries of Environment, Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major oil, gas, energy services, pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my classes.

And while some Canadian companies are finding success in clean solutions — Vancouver's Ballard Power is fresh off a record year for revenue — others, notably in Canada's oil patch, are at risk of falling behind.

But while some Canadian companies are finding success in clean solutions, others — notably in Canada's oil patch — are at risk of falling behind.

However, Asian interest in developing investment ties with Canada is not limited to China: Companies from Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have invested capital in Canadian oil and gas assets, and other Asia - based companies are looking at investment opporCompanies from Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have invested capital in Canadian oil and gas assets, and other Asia - based companies are looking at investment opporcompanies are looking at investment opportunities.

At present, most of this rent has been relinquished to companies that have been privatized: the large fuel companies (Gazprom, Yukos and other oil companies), mining companies (Norilsk, etc.), and the telephone, electric power and other monopolies.

The company also recently developed a portable cart - based oil management system that can be used at colleges, casinos, hospitals or other facilities with multiple foodservice locations on one site.

Most oil marketing companies begun the current pricing window with prices per litre averaging some 3.680 though others had much higher prices at the pumps.

Anecdotal reports about seeing the captain at a bar prior to leaving port, confirmed by a blood test revealing alcohol in his body hours after the accident, also spoke to the lack of staff oversight at the time by Exxon and other oil companies with supertankers on the high seas.

Glover and other executives said they think the approval process will be smooth because after processing plant oils, «We leave a hydrocarbon that looks exactly like petroleum fuel,» said Jennifer Holmgren, the general manager of renewable energy and chemicals at UOP, the company that derived the plant - oil refining and processing treatment for the Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines test flights.

So, P / E ratios are meaningless or, at best, a v rough rule - of - thumb pointer to the reserves life of an oil (or other natural resources) company.

The opportunity to avoid double taxation, at the corporate and individual level for other companies, is a huge advantage and many oil & gas conglomerates spin off their infrastructure assets and pay a transaction fee to the partnership for pipeline or storage needs.

The other is one I picked up at Good Will that was invented by someone locally and apparently shopped around to game companies unsuccessfully - it's a collaborative game where you and your fellow game players strive to prevent environmental disasters such as endangered species, melting polar ice caps, and oil spills.

Since then, oil production at other sites across the United States has seen a decline so companies have been fracking, a technique that combines hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, to tap into the oil and gas resources at the Permian.

Given the money that was spent by auto and oil companies in the 1970s on advertising about options, and the eventual awakening of the government and other authoritative bodies who began to look carefully at energy, I think we learned how to talk about energy and energy related science by the time the 2nd oil crisis hit, in 1979.

Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development at those same companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of energy (the fossil fuel companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).

2:30 p.m. Updated President Obama delivered a statement on BP and the seabed oil gusher today, decrying the «ridiculous spectacle» of the three main companies involved in the mess pointing fingers at each other in congressional hearings.

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«There is an incoherence at best between oil companies on the one hand positioning themselves as being on the side of the world's developing countries and while on the other actively pursuing strategies which will entail catastrophic climate change which we already know is having a significant impact on the global south,» she said.

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And many of us get downright angry at the selective way endangered species and other wildlife laws are applied — leaving wind turbine operators free to exact their carnage, while harassing and punishing oil companies and citizens.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

Since then, students at dozens of other universities have sat down with senior administrators and boards of trustees to lobby them to sell holdings in coal, oil and gas companies.

There are at least three other reasons the oil companies» PR campaign has had success for climate change deniers.

Just like researchers at other oil and gas companies, notably Exxon, Shell's scientists and managers understood, before the general public, that uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions could eventually put its core businesses at risk — and alter ecosystems and put much of the world's population in peril.

Progress continues on the previously announced front - end engineering and design (FEED) study at Marathon's Detroit refinery where the Company expects to increase the crude unit capacity to approximately 115,000 bpd, and construct a 28,000 bpd heavy oil coker and other associated process units.

«At a time when oil companies are making profits of hundreds of millions of dollars a day, we hope they will welcome a bill which would ensure fair competition with Chinese and other foreign oil companies,» said Global Witness Policy Adviser Sasha Lezhnev.

Since the plaintiffs claimed that burning of fossil fuels puts deadly CO2 into the atmosphere, causing all their forecasted death & destruction, then why didn't the oil companies ask the judge for a restraining order to prevent the plaintiffs from burning any more fossil fuels at least until the case was settled one way or the other?

In a poll of scientists in different fields by Doran and Kendall Zimmerman (2009), 97 % of those who published at least half of their peer - reviewed research in the climate field agreed that human activity was significant in changing global temperature; at the other extreme, only 47 % of economic geologists (typically employed by oil companies and the like) concurred.

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