Sentences with phrase «based oil major»

Houston - based oil major ConocoPhillips announced this week it had sold off multiple land packages in Texas» extremely active Permian basin for US$ 250 million and, at the same time, bought 35,000 acres of land in the Montney play in northern Alberta and B.C. for US$ 120 million.

Deepening its relationship with the Texas - based oil major would tie the Arab state more closely to the U.S. after recent tensions with Saudi Arabia.

Not exact matches

Unlike Alberta, where major oil and gas firms are based right in Calgary, the managers of the Colorado drilling companies he approached all said that their Houston - based head offices called the shots.

A major new international energy player is coming to Perth following the $ 18.5 million acquisition of Aberdeen - based IGL Oil & Gas Consultants by Finnish global consulting and engineering group, Poyry.

The Perth - based junior has secured board recommendations and pre-bid acceptances from several major shareholders in a deal that will bulk up its profile in the revered oil and gas basin

It's even what the oil companies want, for heaven's sake: Sustainable Prosperity, an Ottawa - based think - tank, recently surveyed 10 major energy companies, including Shell and Suncor, and found all of them were already incorporating a «shadow carbon price» into their decision - making, under the assumption they will contend with such regimes in the near future.

PERTH - based hydrocarbon major Woodside Energy Limited has continued its drive to expand production and take advantage of surging oil prices.

Scoring a major asset at a time when oil prices had hit major lows has transformed Perth - based junior Kalrez Energy NL from a gold explorer to an oil and gas producer.

The pollution judgment against Chevron issued in 2011 based on 105 technical evidentiary reports showing the oil major dumped billions of gallons of cancer - causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Chevron (CVX)- My original cost basis for the oil major was around $ 120 a share and it is currently trading below that at $ 117.

Oil is just one part of the story — we are also a major producer and exporter of coal and natural gas, base and precious metals, minerals such as potash, and agricultural and forest products.

National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the coming months, easing some of the stress on full pipeline networks.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Contrary to popular myth that a major cause of ocean pollution is oil spilled from ships, most of it is from land - based litter

In the first part, I reviewed the major health challenge facing coconut oil at that time, which was based on a supposed negative role played by saturated fat in heart disease.

Major television drama credits have included: Julian Jarrold's White Teeth, based on Zadie Smith's best - selling novel; Peter Kosminsky's The Project; Poppy Shakespeare: and, more recently Blood and Oil and Small Island for the BBC.

This model is based on the A45 AMG Edition 1 and was built as a tribute to the Petronas oil company, Mercedes - Benz's major sponsor in F1.

In MCX trading the products are divided into three segments i.e. Precious Metals which includes gold and silver, Base Metals which includes Zinc, Lead, Aluminum, Copper, Nickel and Energy which includes Crude oil and Natural Gas, other than these their are also various other products but in India major trades are done in products in these segments only.

The economy of Malaysia is commodity - based with palm oil, crude oil and rubber being the major exports.

Installed in the Nave, Long Gallery and Central Gallery at UCCA against a lime - green backdrop, Beijing - based artist Xie Nanxing's seven major oil paintings serve as an informative path that traces the evolution of European oil painting from the Renaissance to modern times.

In the summer of 2013 she relocated back to the oil - producing Niger Delta to create a major body of work about the region that will be shown in a number of US - based museums in 2015/2016, which will include her first solo museum show.

The work that was inspired and to an extent created in Vermont, from pencil sketches executed en plein air, fresh watercolors based on these sketches and painted while in Vermont, and many major oil paintings drawn from these sources and typically completed during the winter months in his New York studio, is celebrated in Milton Avery's Vermont.

A provocative artist, the Winnipeg - raised Feuer, who is now based in California, has taken aim at the oil and gas industry in recent shows, and this, her first major exhibition in Canada, is no exception.

The findings by Leonardo Maugeri, a former oil industry executive who is now a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project in the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, are based on an original field - by - field analysis of the world's major oil formations and exploration projects.

Large oil companies based in the US, and UK, and France - known as the «oil majors» - cumulatively control, at most, 15 to 20 % of proven global oil reserves, while nationalized oil companies control the remainder.

(04/26/2012) Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil processor and trader, has hired a major lobbying firm to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that palm oil - based biodiesel will not meet greenhouse gas emissions standards under America's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

In a submission to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Washington - based American Petroleum Institute argues that the $ 7 - billion (U.S.) pipeline would be a major boost to job creation, and warned that the U.S. can not take for granted its access to the vast oil sands resource in Canada.

Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).

It's not based on a numerical model of how oil would likely move and disperse if a well off Delaware really did have a major problem; that's a function of wind, tide, current, the properties of the oil, the rate and quantity of spillage, and of course the effectiveness of our efforts to contain the oil in such an incident.

But a recent report by the environmental research group CDP revealed that at least 29 major companies, including five major oil producers, are basing their internal planning on the assumption that such policies — specifically, a government - mandated carbon price — will be a reality as soon as 2020.

Experts agree that a shift in our energy and consumption is necessary to avert catastrophe brought on by global warming, yet there is strong resistance to a major move away from a coal - fired electricity and oil - based economy to one based on alternative sources of renewable energy.

A sizable portion of Klein's funds come from the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow - based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; Rosneft, the Russian - government - owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield's largest clients; and other Russian companies.

Indeed, corn is not the optimal basis for providing all the ethanol fuel we will need, but, as the President says, biofuels are needed to reduce our addiction to oil and to slow climate change — and the emerging biofuels market is spurring major investments in using biomass other than corn to make ethanol.

In Pennsylvania the Ridge and Valley region contains one of the world's largest deposits of anthracite coal, once the basis of a thriving mining economy; many of the mines are now shut, oil and gas having replaced coal as the major fuel used to heat homes.

«ZOOM is about the global race to build the car of the future, with pioneers in Japan, India, China, Europe and America all trying to tackle global warming, peak oil fears and the major transformation from carbon - based energy sources to new fuels and technologies.

(01/30/2012) Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil - based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission.

He explained to me that the agency's new projections were based on a major study it had undertaken into decline rates in the world's 800 largest oil fields.

Principally based in Cork, Ireland, Ardmore provides seaborne transportation of petroleum products and chemicals worldwide to oil majors, national oil companies, oil and chemical traders and chemical companies with its modern, fuel - efficient fleet of mid-size product and chemical tankers.

Vikoma International is based on the Isle of Wight and was founded by BP in 1967 after a major oil spill.

The economy of the Falklands has traditionally been based on agriculture, be it through sheep farming or fishing, but now the potential for an oil boom that triples the size of British reserves has some major companies considering investments in the region.

Considered to be the energy capital of the world, five of the six super major energy companies maintain a large base of operations in Houston which www.resumewritingservice.biz wants to draw your attention to (international headquarters of ConocoPhillips; US operational headquarters of Exxon - Mobil; US headquarters for international companies Shell Oil (US subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell located in London and The Hague, Netherlands), and BP whose international headquarters are in London, England.