Sentences with phrase «big oil and gas companies»

By gutting Canada's long - standing environmental laws, the budget bill gives big oil and gas companies what they've been asking for — fewer environmental safeguards so they can push through resource megaprojects with little regard to environmental damage.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.

They also look for dividend - paying companies since the big oil and gas companies pay dividends.

Yes, that's right — most «socially responsible» funds screen out companies that sell alcohol, tobacco and firearms, but not big oil and gas companies.

Myriam Douo, lobby transparency campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe continued: «With ENTSOG there is a clear conflict of interest: members include subsidiaries of big oil and gas companies like Engie, OMV, Mol Group, E-On and Gazprom and climate - change deniers Centrica.

The French government, according to the group, is complicit in the climate - killing activities of the big oil and gas companies present at the summit, and needs to act like the climate champion it claims to be — by investing in renewables and energy efficiency.

Not only will much of their reserves be unusable, but big oil and gas companies face the threat of waning demand as the international community moves toward a more sustainable economy.

And the big oil and gas companies are afraid of this situation.

Some big oil and gas companies have filed for bankruptcy protection this year in connection with the collapse in oil prices.

Others in the task force include Koch Companies Public Sector, and Dezenhall Communications Management Group, a public relations company that specializes in media campaigns to defend corporations from progressive groups, and four of the the biggest oil and gas companies in the world — BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell.

In November, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his office would investigate ExxonMobil — the world's biggest oil and gas company — for misleading the public about global warming.

Fifty - two oil companies have already filed for bankruptcy this year, and over one - third of the world's biggest oil and gas companies could end up bankrupt in 2016 under stress from crushing debt loads (over US$ 150 billion) and lacklustre cash flows depressed by low oil prices, according to a recent study by Deloitte.

The quick reaction time by some of the high - cost producers, notably the American shale oil drillers, is why one of the world's foremost oilmen, Sadad Al - Husseini, the former executive vice-president of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil and gas company, is becoming bullish on oil even as Brent prices sink to the low $ 60s.

That's pretty much what six of Europe's biggest oil and gas companies said in a joint letter sent in May to Christiana Figueres, the United Nations» top climate bureaucrat.

The three - page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma's biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon's chief of lobbying.

Fifty - two have filed for bankruptcy since 2015, and over a third of the world's biggest oil and gas companies have crushing debt loads (over $ 150 billion) and cash flows depressed by low oil prices, according to the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions and a recent study by As You Sow.

Not exact matches

Oil - and - gas companies will be big winners because they pay the second - highest effective tax rate of any sector, at 37 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

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.

In June the company received the first - ever FAA commercial license for unmanned aircraft operations over land and water for its work with BP on Alaska's North Slope, part of a big push to develop oil and gas in remote areas with the help of UAVs.

Among the biggest issues oil - and - gas - exploration companies face in the search for new sources of hydrocarbons is putting humans or high - value assets at risk.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

In addition to dabbling in coal, real estate and oil and gas through their primary company, the Mancal Group, brothers Fred and Ron are also the biggest shareholders in mining junior Infinito Gold.

The company has also had to take big losses related to write - downs of the value of its oil and gas assets, to reflect the lower prices these energy commodities are garnering on the open market.

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

«Innovation's a big part of our whole corporate culture and part of what helps differentiate us,» says Carlson, pointing out that oil and gas companies can be risk - averse and sometimes late to exploit opportunities presented by technical advances.

HOUSTON ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration and production company, posted a bigger - than - expected first - quarter profit on Thursday, helped by rising crude prices and cost cuts.

The Toronto Stock Exchange has the distinction of having the greatest number of companies in the mining and oil & gas industries in any exchange across the globe, which isn't surprising given how big of a percentage of Canada's economy those industries form.

The companies in the FTSE 350 with all - male boards were named as Allied Minds, Centamin, Deajan Holdings, HellermannTyton Group, Nostrum Oil and Gas, Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust, Telecom Plus, Wizz Air Holdings, Al Noor Hospitals Group, Clarkson, Genus, Lookers, P2P Global Investments, Scottish Investment Trust, and Tritax Big Box Reit.

As the biggest station operator and supplier of natural gas for transportation in the U.S., the company should benefit from higher oil prices and more focus on reducing emissions likely to drive many truck operators to consider this new engine.

You don't have to stick with the big boys in the industry, though; there are hundreds of independent oil & gas companies that participate in drilling and exploration, equipment and services, pipelines, and refining and marketing.

But the two biggest U.S. energy companies were forced to slash costs to stay ahead of plunging revenues from their oil - and - gas production businesses.

The knee - jerk reaction of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the big oil companies to fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.

Three meat companies - JBS, Cargill and Tyson - emitted more greenhouse gases last year than all of France and nearly as much as some of the biggest oil companies like Exxon, BP and Shell.

Legislation introduced in the state Senate and Assembly would prohibit the state's pension fund from investing in big oil, gas or coal companies.

I know you've seen list's of other latest big companies engineering jobs in oil and gas companies from the link above?

Do you want to work as a medical doctor in big oil and and Gas or insurance companies in Enugu State?

It was the third - biggest American energy company by assets, according to the Oil and Gas Journal's 2014 Survey of Top 150 U.S. Oil & Gas Companies.

The company denies that the objective is simply to save money, and claims that to harvest oil and gas profitably from the North Sea, it must focus on the exploitation of small reserves as the big wells run dry.

«My advice would be to go into big companies that are forward looking... companies that might be doing oil and gas now, but have got an idea about enhanced oil recovery or CCS in the future,» he says.

Perry wants to cut the size of the Department of Education in half by consolidating its functions, and his energy policy is big on states» rights and freeing oil and gas companies to access existing resources.

But for the biggest companies, the figures are quite exact: If you burned everything in the inventories of Russia's Lukoil and America's ExxonMobil, for instance, which lead the list of oil and gas companies, each would release more than 40 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The goal for most oil and gas juniors is to be taken over by a bigger company at a nice premium for the shareholders, says Aroway Energy CEO Chris Cooper in an interview with OilPrice.com.

The broader TSX index and almost all Canadian Equity Mutual Funds are dominated by the Big 5 Banks, Big 3 Insurance names, a couple of Utilities and a couple of Oil & Gas companies.

Also, the utility and oil companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)

At the same time, the world's biggest energy companies, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, are sitting on a virtual mountain of coal, oil, and gas.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler said, «The proposal to allow oil and gas drilling in nearly all U.S. coastal waters is yet another ploy by the Trump Administration to unravel environmental protections and promote profits for the big oil companies.

This report, produced by Carbon Tracker, Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and leading institutional investors, is the first to rank 69 of the biggest oil and gas industry companies according to the extent of their exposure to the low - carbon transition.

The big global energy companies, like Exxon and BP, are perfectly capable of shifting their focus from oil to gas and if the market gets large enough, to renewables.

According to Al Jazeera America, «A 2010 donor list from the IRS shows the Texas Public Policy Foundation receives funding from groups long associated with big oil, gas, and coal, such as Koch Industries, the electric utility Luminant, and the oil and gas investment company the Permian Basin Acquisition Fund.»

Thanks in part to big investments in production and innovation by U.S. oil and natural gas companies, the U.S. economy is growing while simultaneously reducing emissions.