Sentences with phrase «by international oil companies»

Global Witness analysis found that while the oil contracts put more money in state coffers than previous contracts signed by government we can not follow payments made by international oil companies into government accounts.

The Bill which provides transparency and certainty will also encourage increased investments by international oil companies thus leading to an increment in capital inflows.

Notably, Iraqi compliance would have been challenging regardless, given its limited ability to shut down northern production and the financial penalties levied for restricting output from southern fields operated by international oil companies, her team added.

Not exact matches

• Neptune Energy Group, which is backed by Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners, agreed to acquire ENGIE E&P International, a Paris - based oil and gas exploration company, for $ 3.9 billion.

Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.

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.

It also said it may appeal Wednesday's ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) against Venezuela's state - run oil company PDVSA.

These dedicated zones will be occupied by both domestic companies like China Oil & Foodstuffs Corporation and international country pavilions from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic» cases of child labour and labour rights abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...

He stated, «Over the years, international oil operating and service companies in Nigeria took all their research problems back to their home countries or to centres across the globe without recourse to our involvement by local universities and research centres.»

The event was also attended by Rear Admiral Thomas Ernst, Deputy Commander EU Naval Force, Colonel Richard Spencer Chief of Staff, EU Naval Force and Jan Kopernicki, President of the Chamber of Shipping and Chairman of Oil Companies International Marine Forum.

Indonesia's sprawling tropical forests and peat soils act as a massive carbon storage sink but have been heavily deforested and degraded in recent years, primarily by palm oil companies and the pulp - paper giants Asian Pulp and Paper and Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd..

I also have a position in MFC Industrial, a company with exposure to metals and oil and gas (which, however, I will be selling shortly), a video game developer that is a net / net (Gravity Ltd.), a small position in RadioShack (made even smaller by the decline in share price over the past 2 years), and finally a short - term spinoff trade (Oil States Internationaoil and gas (which, however, I will be selling shortly), a video game developer that is a net / net (Gravity Ltd.), a small position in RadioShack (made even smaller by the decline in share price over the past 2 years), and finally a short - term spinoff trade (Oil States InternationaOil States International).

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gOil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil and gas.

The report is written by Leonardo Maugeri, a top oil company executive from Italy who is currently a research fellow at the Geopolitics of Energy Project of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

The Nessergy oil deal shares many similarities with a string of secret deals in Congo's mining sector, where mining rights were bought at knockdown prices by offshore companies and then «flipped» to major international firms for a vast profit.

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.

Meanwhile an internal audit by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) concluded it had violated its own environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies.

Bold language in the ExxonMobil papers released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reflects a brazen, behind - the - scenes effort by the oil company and other energy giants to disrupt the principal international science assessment program on global warming.

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Indonesia Forests Indonesia Hints at 40 % Emission Reductions by 2030 - If International Support is Forthcoming Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company's License to Review Environmental Record Orangutans» Fingers Mutilated by Oil Palm Plantation Workers: more on the Ape - Palm Oil Connection

The report, released today by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a Canadian - based think tank, outlines how billions in federal and provincial tax breaks and corporate incentives benefit companies in the oil and gas sector like Imperial Oil, whose earnings in 2015 were CDN$ 1.1 billioil and gas sector like Imperial Oil, whose earnings in 2015 were CDN$ 1.1 billiOil, whose earnings in 2015 were CDN$ 1.1 billion.

Acting for an international oil company in a High Court claim for alleged diminution in value to a multi-million pound private property caused by illegal tapping of the company's pipeline by fuel thieves.

Elektrim SA v Vivendi Universal SA & Ors [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 8: grounds for restraining by injunction an arbitration; as well as several leading cases dealing with interim relief in aid of international arbitral proceedings including Mobil Cerro Negor Ltd v Petroleos de Venezuela SA [2008] 1 Lloyd's Rep 684 (expropriation of Mobil's oil fields in Venezuela; successfully discharged worldwide freezing order for US$ 12 billion under s. 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996); ETI NV v Republic of Bolivia [2009] 1 WLR 665 (CA): (nationalisation of company; successfully discharged a freezing order obtained under s. 25 of the CJJA 1982 and s. 44 of the AA 1996 in aid of an ICSID arbitration); Telenor v Vimpelcom & Altimo Group (pre-arbitration interim relief in S$ 3bn telecommunications shareholder dispute); Yukos Oil v Rosneft (US$ 425m freezing order in support of enforcement of Russian arbitral awardoil fields in Venezuela; successfully discharged worldwide freezing order for US$ 12 billion under s. 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996); ETI NV v Republic of Bolivia [2009] 1 WLR 665 (CA): (nationalisation of company; successfully discharged a freezing order obtained under s. 25 of the CJJA 1982 and s. 44 of the AA 1996 in aid of an ICSID arbitration); Telenor v Vimpelcom & Altimo Group (pre-arbitration interim relief in S$ 3bn telecommunications shareholder dispute); Yukos Oil v Rosneft (US$ 425m freezing order in support of enforcement of Russian arbitral awardOil v Rosneft (US$ 425m freezing order in support of enforcement of Russian arbitral awards);

Having been awarded two oil exploration blocks by the DRC's government in 2006, which were subsequently transferred to two companies registered in the BVI, Tullow brought both legal proceedings and a case before Paris» International Court of Arbitration.the DRC really would be one of the last places you want to get embroiled in a legal dispute

In 2014, the PCA awarded the former Yukos Oil Company shareholders damages, unanimously finding that Russia had breached its international obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty by destroying Yukos Oil Company, expropriating its assets for political reasons and transferring its assets to the state - owned oil company RosneOil Company shareholders damages, unanimously finding that Russia had breached its international obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty by destroying Yukos Oil Company, expropriating its assets for political reasons and transferring its assets to the state - owned oil company RCompany shareholders damages, unanimously finding that Russia had breached its international obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty by destroying Yukos Oil Company, expropriating its assets for political reasons and transferring its assets to the state - owned oil company RosneOil Company, expropriating its assets for political reasons and transferring its assets to the state - owned oil company RCompany, expropriating its assets for political reasons and transferring its assets to the state - owned oil company Rosneoil company Rcompany Rosneft.

In a recent case (National Iranian Oil Company v Crescent Petroleum Company International Ltd [2016] EWHC 1900 (Comm)-RRB-, the English High Court clarified that the enforcement of a contract procured by bribery would not be contrary to public policy, but the enforcement of a contract to pay a bribe would be.

representing an international oil company in an AAA / ICDR commercial arbitration (New York seat) relating to rights and remedies pursuant to an agreement governed by New York law to share costs and monetary awards of investment arbitration against a South American state (claim US$ 500 million)

He continued to sell real estate in Arizona until he was 80 - years - old, when he turned his energy to oil and watercolour painting and helping his company raise money to support the families assisted by Habitat for Humanity International.