Sentences with phrase «by major oil companies»

This is why I used corpus - linguistic tools — essentially, using a computer to analyse vast amounts of text for certain patterns — to investigate nearly 500 corporate documents produced between 2000 and 2013 by major oil companies (including all the big names).

«I am very worried about the damage to the environment by major oil companies that are allowed to flare their gas even in the 21st century.

Global warming and man - made climate change have been acknowledged by a major oil company for the first time.

I knew an Anderson consultant to ENRON and a number of ENRON employees who went to work there after being laid off by a major oil company in the oil bust of the late 1980s.

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«They have every single super major engaged in a deep and serious way, principally in deep water and shallow water projects,» he said, adding there have already been two significant finds in shallow water, including one by ENI and another by a consortium of companies including Talos Energy and Premier Oil.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

After years of declining output, major oil companies have ramped up crude production this year, just as they are being battered by a plunge in prices due to already excessive supplies.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt From a supergiant oil field in Kazakhstan to the world's largest producer of potash fertilizer in Russia to an African iron mine, China has scooped up stakes in major resource and agricultural companies in...

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Checks by Citi Business News at some major Oil Marketing Companies showed that petroleum prices dropped by less than GHc1 at the pumps after Parliament passed the Special Petroleum Tax Amendment Bill to reduce that much - criticized tax from 15 percent to 13 percent.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a lawsuit against five major oil companies, but records show cars used by the mayor's office are buying gas from the same companies.

«So he is discussing with some oil companies and looking for some innovative financing which might pick up some of the financing so that we reduce our financial output and contribution by the Federal Government, that will be a major saving which can be used to plug the gap particularly with falling oil prices.

Until the 1990s, the U.S. was the major supplier of rare earths, largely out of one mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., owned by oil company Unocal, now part of Chevron.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

The comment taken from the leftist rag the Guardian, «Scientists and economists have been offered $ 10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today»...

Experts say that sales of premium fuel will level off as motorists turn to the midrange, 89 - octane unleaded gasolines that have been introduced by most major oil companies.

The work, which takes its title from a speech by a corporate head of one of the world's major oil companies, is made up of carefully factured plaques exhibiting quotes from business executives and important art world figures.

Most people think it's the oil industry in general that is promoting this FUD but ExxonMobile seems to be the only major oil company standing with the coal industry and their ex-tobacco scientists, could this be because they have heavy investments in coal but it's easier to scare people by telling them the greenies will take away their SUV's?

The group's members included senior scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company, including Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and Sohio, according to internal documents obtained by InsideClimate News and interviews with the task force's former director.

While many of the defecting companies said their anti-Kyoto posture had not changed, this was a major blow to a 10 - year campaign by oil, coal and automotive interests to prevent public action to address the climate crisis.»

Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.

That figure may well be much smaller by the time of the next election, because the market value of some of the major companies has been falling rapidly, and the value of their coal, oil and gas fired power stations is falling even faster.

When a billion dollar investment by any of the major oil companies could make liquid fluoride thorium reactors a reality in a few years, you have to ask yourselves about whether they really care about producing energy or whether they only care about producing a certain kind of energy.

Sustainable hemp seed, fiber and oil are also used by major companies such as Ford Motors, Patagonia and The Body Shop.

«Oil Giants Call for Global Carbon Pollution Fees --» Six major European oil companies are asking the United Nations to help impose carbon dioxide emissions pricing in all countries... the letter was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom's BG Group and BP, Italy's Eni, the UK - Netherlands's Royal Dutch Shell, Norway's Statoil and France's Total.»&raqOil Giants Call for Global Carbon Pollution Fees --» Six major European oil companies are asking the United Nations to help impose carbon dioxide emissions pricing in all countries... the letter was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom's BG Group and BP, Italy's Eni, the UK - Netherlands's Royal Dutch Shell, Norway's Statoil and France's Total.»&raqoil companies are asking the United Nations to help impose carbon dioxide emissions pricing in all countries... the letter was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom's BG Group and BP, Italy's Eni, the UK - Netherlands's Royal Dutch Shell, Norway's Statoil and France's Total.»»

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

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.

Concerns have also been expressed that the Temer government is inviting an «oil frenzy» by giving companies a package of major tax breaks.

The new report outlines the role of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) in defining the future of Europe's energy policy — a group established by the European Commission but made up exclusively of gas industry interests, including major gas and oil companies such as Engie, Enagas and OMV.

But a recent report by the environmental research group CDP revealed that at least 29 major companies, including five major oil producers, are basing their internal planning on the assumption that such policies — specifically, a government - mandated carbon price — will be a reality as soon as 2020.

It appears that conventional oil has reached its peak and is, as well, controlled by sovereign oil companies not the oil majors.

San Francisco and Oakland are suing five major oil companies, including ExxonMobil, for damages allegedly caused by man - made global warming, arguing Big Oil covered up the knowledge their products would change the climate and should pay for current and future damagoil companies, including ExxonMobil, for damages allegedly caused by man - made global warming, arguing Big Oil covered up the knowledge their products would change the climate and should pay for current and future damagOil covered up the knowledge their products would change the climate and should pay for current and future damages.

The first, is a major focus on mapping out the implications of the energy transition involved for key stakeholders, with a focus on coal, oil and gas sectors, on capital expenditure by companies and scenario planning around demand and supply.

Unless the aggressive tax structuring of the oil majors is met with equally aggressive enforcement by government, the world's biggest oil companies — Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell — will pay very little in income tax too.»

The report outlines the role of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) in defining the future of Europe's energy policy — a group established by the European Commission but made up exclusively of gas industry interests, including major gas and oil companies such as Engie, Enagas and OMV.

Similar documents by ExxonMobil, oil trade associations, and utility companies have emerged in recent years, though this Shell document is a rare, early, and concrete accounting of climate responsibility by an oil major.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

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.

Sustainable hemp seed, fiber and oil are also used as raw materials by major companies, such as Ford Motors, Patagonia and The Body Shop, to make a wide variety of products.

Scientists and economists have been offered $ 10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Here in the UK warmist ideas are unquestioningly accepted, and carelessly promulgated, by every major political party, scientific and cultural institution, church, charity, university, school, trade union, local authority, NGO, and even, universally, by big business (with the energy companies and even the oil companies towing the line).

New York City set the tone this year by deciding to divest its US$ 190 billion retirement fund from fossil fuels and sue major oil companies for climate damages.

The latest climate lawsuit filed against major oil companies by a local government is, once again, being handled by the plaintiff's firm behind similar lawsuits in California and New York City.

The numbers are consistent with a Carbon Tracker report released in May which argued that seven major oil and gas companies could create $ 100 billion (U.S.) in value by avoiding high - cost development.

Since the first quarter of 2013 (the earliest budgetary estimate for this year's capex projections that vary by company) 2015 capex budgets for 19 major oil and gas producers have been revised down by $ 32.7 billion or 10 percent

(07/25/2012) A campaign run by environmental activists has helped lead to a 87 percent reduction in palm oil use by eight major food companies in Norway, reports Rainforest Foundation Norway, which led the effort.

Successfully appeared for an oil company in arbitration brought by major rig company in February 2013.