Sentences with phrase «big oil investments»

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It's a major investment, planned to last 30 years, making it the biggest oil project ever undertaken in the country.

This shameful investment ratio — 15 dirty dollars invested for every clean one — shows that the perverse relationship between big government and big oil has not changed.

The eight top teams will make one pick per round for three rounds, choosing from a predetermined list of 60 investments, including big Dow Jones industrial companies like 3M and Boeing, the tech heavyweights like Facebook and Amazon, as well as bitcoin, oil, and gold.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Renewable energy companies are expected to see big upticks in investments to develop new technologies, while coal and oil companies may see tougher regulations.

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.

In the first instance, this has meant a big drop in investment spending, especially in the oil patch.

The world's 50 biggest investment banks made revenue of $ 1.6 billion from trading, selling derivatives and other activities in metals last year, compared to $ 1.4 billion in oil, according to Coalition, a financial industry analytics firm.

In today's tighter price environment, Big Oil is in a renewed competitive position because there is competition for new capital investments, which means lower production taxes, much lower production costs, and easy access to resources.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters)- Saudi oil giant Aramco will buy an equity stake in Malaysian firm Petronas» major refining and petrochemical project, the companies said on Tuesday, pumping in $ 7 billion in its biggest downstream investment outside the kingdom.

The sharp drop in direct investment is a concern, although the decline is magnified by the decisions of a few big international oil companies to leave northern Alberta.

With oil prices high enough to pay comfortably for investments and dividends, the energy giant may be tempted to ramp up new projects in a bid to become bigger than Shell.

Frustration over what was viewed as weak UN climate agreements, plus the US Senate's failure to pass a climate bill in 2010, pushed foundations and nonprofit groups — such as Greenpeace — to ensure their investments were not going to big oil companies.

I accept that stadium is a big investment, and we are no plastic club with oil money, I just ask for some honesty here.

For example, this week the Indonesian President is in town for G20 talking to Gordon Brown and Cameron, about «investment»... in West Papua police brutality is routine, across Indonesia mines and palm oil for biofuel are displacing local people and leading to environmental destruction... London, West Papua, its all part of the same big process.

The military practically abolished Nigeria's federal system in favour of a unitary, distributive economy in which we all shared proceeds of oil; they created more and more states eroding sub-national economic viability; they nationalized and indigenized banks and declared that government would hold the «commanding heights» of our economy, marginalizing investment and the private sector brought in «big government»; they implemented «Udoji awards» and other elements of oil and FX subsidies that Nigeria battles to overcome today; and the about - to - depart government of Murtala / Obasanjo took the first $ 1billion jumbo loan that set Nigeria on the path to debt peonage!

At the same time, the big thaw will make getting the oil out more expensive — billions of dollars in infrastructure investments in pipelines, roads and the like will be damaged as the ground shifts beneath them.

As detailed in many other articles on this site, big oil and small oil stocks are excellent long - term investments.

You follow the movements of the market, look at the highest return generating «snake oil» investment and buy that big car which will divert resources from your retirement funds.

Naturally, big oil, mining multi-nationals, and giant agri - business are demanding TPP investment provisions of the kind provided in the new model BIT.

Biofuel investment should amount to 0.3 billion dollars up to 2035, Birol adds — so the big oil alternative would receive just 3 percent as much * money as continued investment in the fossil fuel it is one day supposed to replace.

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.

Global oil supply growth plunging, with US taking biggest hit for now IEA medium - term report sees oil market rebalancing in 2017, but investment cuts pose supply security risks down the road 22 February 2016

The question remains: Is Big Oil's investment in algae biofuels based on confidence in a credible alternative to fossil fuels, or is it nothing more than a public relations stunt?

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.

Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.

He opposes the improved fuel - economy standards, and would continue and expand tax breaks for big oil companies, while openly disparaging clean energy and investments in wind power.

b. Big Oil and Big Coal are not different from «Big Insurance» (e.g. «prediction» of more hurricanes as tool to increase insurance primes) and «Big Banking» (huge investments with tax money, via Government).

If the world moves towards low - carbon energy, as it should — and the big integrated fossil fuel companies fail to adapt — then divesting from oil, gas and coal investments could turn out to be smart business, as well as a good, albeit symbolic, politics.

What stopping KXL is really about is delaying big capital investments in new oil sands projects.

The investments are part of a wider dash for gas among the biggest energy companies, as the industry bets that the clean characteristics of gas compared with oil and coal will allow it to keep growing as other fossil fuels decline.

You are also apparently unaware that it is the same big, «bad» oil, gas, coal, and nuclear corporations that own wind — ie: GE, FPL, BP, AES, Iberdrola, Siemens, etc — many of whom have NOT paid any taxes in the U.S. in years, in large part thanks to their «investments» in wind.

«NAFTA - style investment provisions,» I explained, «would let big oil, mining, tobacco and agribusiness companies avoid accountability to national governments or courts for the environmental destruction and social injustices wrought by their investment projects.»

With big oil companies — and many countries — needing the current price to double to more than $ 60 a barrel to break even on their current investments.

As President Obama calls for greater investments in alternatives, the biggest energy companies are doubling down on riskier, more destructive oil sources

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