Sentences with phrase «biggest energy companies»

To help you navigate the process, we have researched the hiring process at the biggest energy companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum.

Gazprom and EuroSibEnergo, two of the biggest energy companies of Russia are propelling this developmental drive.

And our biggest energy companies, utilities and auto companies became dependent on cheap hydrocarbons that spin off climate - changing greenhouse gases, and we clearly have not forced them, through a carbon tax, to price in the true risks and costs to society from these climate - changing fuels.

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

Since hitting its peak in March 2011, the BlackRock iShares Oil Sands Index Fund, which tracks the biggest energy companies operating in Alberta's oil sands, has lost more than two - thirds of its value — and roughly half its value since oil prices began plunging last August.

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.

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.

Residents there do not know what is owed them by the government, as it takes away land and awards it to India's biggest energy companies to generate coal - fired electricity and power distant megacities, advocates say.

«All the good wind farm locations are now owned by the biggest energy companies,» says Greenpeace spokeswoman Sarah Liang.

Deepa Venkateswaran, senior research analyst for European utilities at Bernstein, speaks about an asset swap between some of Europe's biggest energy companies.

During the oilsands boom, Canada's biggest energy company spent money as if oil prices would always be north of $ 100.

The Energy Ministry is in constant contact with the big energy companies, and they are ready to go ahead with this.

The Energy Ministry is in constant contact with the big energy companies, and they are ready to go ahead with this,» the Kremlin said, reporting Putin's answers to reporters at the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.

Too often I read about how «cheap» the big energy companies are only to see them continue to fall.

This is why Friends of the Earth's Final Demand campaign is calling for an urgent public inquiry into the behaviour and influence of the big energy companies.

That's one way to reduce emissions and fight the big energy companies — but Corbyn has many other ideas.

People are already suffering under David Cameron's cost of living crisis and now, thanks to his failure to stand up to the big energy companies, consumers will be hit by ever high bills, with SSE increasing prices by nearly 10 %.

The big energy companies, the rip - off lettings agents and TfL under the Tory mayor all have more money.

The former Conservative prime minister, Sir John Major, has called for a one - off tax on the profits of the big energy companies.

S: Many people working in the big energy companies have great hopes that there are vast resources of natural gas around the planet that will keep us going for many decades.

And while some of their big energy companies fight it, the big energy companies are also figuring out now how to make money off of this.

These range from Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), the biggest energy company in the world, to Octagon 88 (OCT: OCTX), a small cap operating in Canada with very promising holdings.

Which is where your and my retirement comes in: if you have retirement investments in stock or mutual funds, chances are you own a piece of those big energy companies, such as ExxonMobil.

Big energy companies are under increasing pressure from investors to disclose how rising global temperatures and mitigating associated climate risks may impact them.

It helps big energy companies lower their carbon footprints and capture an even larger share of a shrinking global carbon budget.

There is concern that the big energy companies will be pushing carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a way of keeping the oil - based economy running.

Here where I live, we see the big energy company fight green tech tooth and nail so they can squeeze the little guys out, and once they control the market, they embrace what they formerly were in strong opposition to.

I do nt see as to how you can make a switch away from the big energy companies without the counterwight - at first - of govt at either local or national level.

In April this year, eight big energy companies, including GE, Shell and the two largest owners of utilities in the United States, Exelon and Duke Energy, were being questioned by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Failure to do so will perpetuate the status quo — where the big energy companies, who did not originate the global warming scam but acquiesced to it, will unfairly receive most to the blame when it unravels.

Molly Walsh, climate justice and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said «Across Europe, communities know that big energy companies do not have people's best interests at heart and are not making the changes we need to fight climate change.

The analysis challenges nine business as usual (BAU) assumptions made by the big energy companies when calculating that fossil use will continue to grow for the next few decades.

On the policy front, how the big energy companies react depends on whether they believe strict climate policy is not just inevitable but also imminent.

Political discussion on how regulations benefit the big energy companies and discourage projects like Feldheim's continue.

Denmark's biggest energy company, DONG Energy, is halfway through a 10 - year transformation journey from a reliance on fossil fuels to sustainable and non-polluting energy.

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.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oil.

So, although «the risk of climate change is clear and the risk warrants action» (in the form of greater energy efficiency and emissions - reducing technology), the big oil company will not be writing down any of its reserves.

A lawyer, he was senior counsel and vice-president at ABB Group, a Swiss engineering giant, and then had a string of titles, including strategic development director, at AMEC, a big London - based project - management company focused on the energy sector.

Target, Caesars and several energy companies were among the biggest money - losers among big American companies.

Energy Future, the biggest power company in Texas, can claim an ignominious distinction in the annals of American business history: Warren Buffett considers his nearly $ 2 billion investment in the company's bonds one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made.

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.

Some of these companies won't surprise you: There are several energy firms on the list of the Fortune 500's biggest losers, reflecting the enormous decline in oil prices that occurred in the second half of last year.

BP PLC, the world's third - biggest publicly traded energy company — and fourth - biggest public company of any kind — flirted with annihilation this year after a deadly explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20 and the environmental disaster that spread across the Gulf of Mexico in the four months that followed.

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.)

People who start companies tend to be goal - oriented: They'll set out to accomplish a big «it» — making a better product, hitting a huge revenue target, going public, whatever — and then spend all of their energy (and most of their waking moments) in its pursuit.

Salesforce cofounder and CEO Marc Benioff draws inspiration for his company's constant innovation from everywhere, even the residual energy from the dormant volcano underneath his vacation home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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

Then, in late 2009, Exxon Mobil, the biggest of Big Oil companies, bought shale gas producer XTO Energy for US$ 41 billion.

For instance, battery startup Stem raised $ 45 million from investors last year, including from the energy trading arm of big German power company RWE Group.