Sentences with phrase «big supply of oil»

The kind of big supply of oil necessary to fight a big war.

Venezuela is the fourth biggest supplier of oil to the United States.

Maduro's administration has pointedly claimed that the people who will be hurt most by the sanctions aimed at stymieing the nation's ballooning debt will be shareholders in the U.S. Indeed, there is outcry that the potential banning of oil imports from Venezuela — the 3rd biggest supplier of oil to the U.S. behind Canada and Saudi Arabia — will dramatically drive up gasoline prices and hurt the U.S. job market.

Not exact matches

The price of oil dropped Tuesday after a big jump a day earlier over jitters that Russia's military advance into Ukraine could result in economic sanctions against one of the world's major energy suppliers.

OPEC's supply curtailments and the threat of new sanctions are occurring just as demand in Asia, the biggest oil - consuming region, has risen to a record as new and expanded refineries start up from China to Vietnam.

Canada is the biggest U.S. supplier of foreign oil, and it buys some U.S. crude and sells it gasoline, natural gas and electricity.

And again, this would harm not just oil companies, but the hundreds of other contractors, suppliers, and vendors on which they rely to bring these big, international projects to fruition.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Oil jumped as much as 3 percent on Tuesday as a weak dollar propped up commodities, but crude prices came off their highs in post-settlement trading on signs of another big U.S. supply build last week.

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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.

This is also the conclusion of China's biggest crude oil supplier, OPEC.

In the case of offshore driller Noble Corp. and oil tanker operator Teekay Tankers, supply and demand played a big role, driving down prices for their services while increasing competition for the available work.

Even so, China's biggest oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, only provided 16 percent of its crude in 2014, less than half the U.S.'s reliance on Canada.

The introduction of traceable certificates back to mill and supply base level for 2016 is GreenPalm's biggest step yet on the journey towards a sustainable oil palm industry.

Executive Director of the SAPIA, Avhapfani Tshifularo, told journalists that the potential return of Iranian oil exports to South Africa threaten to displace barrels from Saudi Arabia and Nigeria that plugged the supply gap when sanctions were imposed on Iran, which is OPEC's fifth biggest producer.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Fulsome with praise, the «big guns of the international food supply system» have joined in a «public - private partnership» to get in on the program.18 Kellogg, Cargill, Monsanto and Procter & Gamble have pioneered the addition of vitamin A to margarine, vegetable oil, wheat flour, sugar and breakfast cereals — even to MSG!

Regardless, supply has been and continues to be the biggest issue weighing on the price of oil.

With Europe the world's biggest user and importer of biodiesel — from crops such as palm oil, soy and rapeseed — the vote will have a major impact around the world, notably in the EU's main international supplier countries Indonesia, Malaysia and Argentina.

If you consider the total energy supplied to the human system, the biggest energy innovation of the last 20 years is probably the ability to economically recover unconventional petroleum sources like tar sands oil and shale gas.

Big Oil has this public image of being an industry for fearless, no - nonsense manly men who aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty or braving the environmentalists» wrath in order to do their ugly but important work supplying the world with much - needed energy.

Given that most of the world's oil reserves (to use one example) are under control of governments, and OPEC has a pretty big lever to pull whichever way it wants to change the supply of oil, the notion that the price of a barrel of oil is set just by supply and demand is rather simplistic.

Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish expansion of the tar sands by refusing to purge tar sands oil from their fuel supply chains.

Although the Keystone State was thought to have tapped out its big - time energy supplies long ago, Pennsylvania was key to the rise of oil and coal that fueled U.S. industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Also, total electric demand will grow more rapidly as dwindling oil supplies cause a big shift toward electrically powered equipment of all kinds.

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To be really clear, if the ideas of people like Bob Ayres have merit [that energy * efficiency is a big component of economic growth, i.e., much of «Total Factor Productivity»], it is * even * more important to move faster and harder on efficiency and sustainable - energy replacements, and to stretch oil & gas supplies as long as possible.

Since then, Israel has discovered more and bigger gas deposits, reportedly worth hundreds of billions of dollars and capable of supplying the country's energy needs for decades (instead of far dirtier fuel oil and coal).

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Contrary to what the Competition Bureau may believe CREA has no monopoly over the real estate industry, because to suggest so would mean that CREA controls price and supply; kind of like the big oil companies with gasoline prices, and banks with their service charges and interest rates.