Sentences with phrase «controlled by oil»

Is it fair for those additional costs to be born by builders when the earthquake risk is essentially a dial controlled by oil and gas industry?

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Meanwhile, the 2015 repeal of a 40 - year - old ban on crude oil exports - passed by a Republican - controlled Congress and signed by former President Barack Obama - has made strategic shipments overseas possible.

To be fair, there have been a several times that markets didn't recover as quickly after seismic geopolitical events such as the invasion of France in 1940 and the Yom Kippur War (which led to a complete realignment of control over global oil), according to the Credit Suisse team led by Keating.

That could cut off a major supply of oil while potentially handing the region's balance of power to Iran, which could end up in control of the routes used by 40 % of the world's seaborne oil.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts, the sources told Reuters.

As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.

As facilities such as oil refineries and large electrical utilities become ever more reliant on remote - control systems linked by far - flung digital networks, the demand for highly reliable security has taken off.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

On the contrary the Jewish interest is solely in the marketing of petroleum products and even there it is probably no more than 5 per cent, the chief marketer being American Oil of Baltimore, and American Oil, though still managed by the Blausteins, who founded it, is now controlled by a Standard of Indiana subsidiary.

This year the Conservative government approved the sale of $ 1.9 billion in oil sands assets to two companies controlled by the Chinese government.

The primary beneficiaries of the Trans Mountain pipeline are Houston's Kinder Morgan, Alberta's slumping oil sector, controlled by foreign multinationals such as Exxon and Shell, and export markets in Asia, primarily China.

The joint statement by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the Investor Network on Climate Risk, and the Investors Group on Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments in oil and gas importing regions to consider playing a role in encouraging control of methane emissions.

The Alfa Laval Moatti 290 filter for hydraulic control oil (HCO) has now been approved by MAN Diesel & Turbo on its modern two - stroke engines.

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

A budget measure approved by the Republican - controlled Senate late Thursday allows Congress to pursue legislation allowing oil and gas exploration in the remote refuge on...

Moscow and Riyadh, backed by OPEC, are negotiating a deal that would allow them long - term control of oil prices.

The Canadian oil producer controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka - Shing would support a tax if it's applied broadly and at least includes the rest of North America, Ghosh said Friday on a conference call to discuss third - quarter earnings results.

Only after multiple extensions was final approval granted and even then, it came with several caveats, the most notable being, ``... given the inherent risks posed by foreign SOE acquisitions in the Canadian oil sands, the Minister of Industry will find the acquisition of control of a Canadian oil sands business by a foreign SOE to be of net benefit to Canada on an exceptional basis only» (emphasis added).

In other words, barring unspecified «exceptional circumstances», investments by SOEs involving majority control of oil and gas properties are off - limits.

The second is that the world economy was moving along very smoothly in the post-war period, with everything under control, until hit by the external shock of the OPEC - induced oil price rise in late 1973 (and again in 1979).

First, Bacevich underscores that U.S. policy in the Middle East was significantly set by FDR when in 1945 he promised military protection to the Saudis if they would guarantee an unlimited flow of oil under U.S. control.

Simultaneously the US is using the situation created by the Gulf War in 1990 to legitimise their military control over the biggest oil region in the world.

They very rarely use anything for insect control, preferring to create resilient crops by building healthy soils and using inputs such as neem oil only as a last resort.

Omega 3 fatty acids are one of the most beneficial to skin health as they control the oil production, and delay the skin's aging process by nourishing skin cell membranes and preventing wrinkles!

By making it yourself, you get to see and control how much oil goes in so you can modify to suit your own tastes and diet.

The calorie and fat content is controlled by omitting oil altogether.

To fulfill his pledges to the IOC, Putin has, as Nowak says, enlisted Russia's oligarchs, the opportunists who became billionaires during the collapse of the Soviet Union by taking over vast amounts of oil, gas and metals, reportedly gaining control of some 40 % of the country's GDP.

The deal, which was signed by the immediate past minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison - Madueke, gave Atlantic Energy Limited a controlling 55 percent stake in the oil block.

Schneiderman says the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by unreasonably delaying its obligation to control methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

Francois Conradie, a political analyst at South Africa's NKC Independent Economistss, said that if Gen Buhari wins, he expects to see the most trouble in the oil - rich Delta region and in the northern states currently controlled by Mr Jonathan's PDP.

Surface slicks may account for as little as 2 per cent of the oil now spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study of a controlled deep - water spill conducted in 2000 by the US Minerals Management Service and a consortium of oil companies, including BP.

When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill erupted into the Gulf of Mexico last April, the only view researchers and citizens had of the gushing oil was the video feed controlled by BP.

The cartel, which controls roughly 40 percent of global oil production, has cut output by about 8.5 percent over the same period last year, while global demand is down by a little over 2 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

All the big oil companies are beginning to tap hard - to - reach deposits by using 3 - D seismic imaging and computer - controlled sensors to detect where pockets of oil are located in a well.

The gene that controls shell thickness, creatively named SHELL, was identified in 2013 by researchers at Orion, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), a government research institute based near Kuala Lumpur.

In Malaysia, independent smallholders get planting material that has been validated by the MPOB from trusted oil - palm breeders, but that layer of quality control doesn't exist in Indonesia.

These findings suggest that adding coconut oil to a patient's existing diet might control the growth of C. albicans in the gut, and possibly decrease the risk of fungal infections caused by C. albicans,» said Kumamoto, Ph.D., a professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the molecular microbiology and genetics program faculties at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

A new inter-disciplinary study led by researchers at Tufts University found that coconut oil effectively controlled the overgrowth of a fungal pathogen called Candida albicans (C. albicans) in mice.

As early as 1942, Wiener had been approached by Frank Fremont - Smith, the chief executive of the Macy Foundation (a charitable organisation founded from the fortune of Joseph Macy, a Quaker oil magnate) with the suggestion that the newly developing concepts of feedback and automatic control might have applications in the field of mental health.

«The new rules approved by Colorado's Air Quality Control Commission, after taking input from varied and often conflicting interests, will ensure Colorado has the cleanest and safest oil and gas industry in the country and help preserve jobs,» Hickenlooper said.

But behind it is the beginning of a defensive strategy by the oil states that is likely to become far rougher than the campaign by tropical countries to maintain control of their forests.

Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self - assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of colors...

These unfavorable effects of n - 6 LA shown in the SDHS are consistent with two other randomized controlled trials, in which experimental dietary conditions selectively increased n - 6 LA in the place of SFAs by replacing animal fats and common margarines with corn oil.50 51 Together, these three trials provide a rare opportunity to evaluate the specific effects of increasing n - 6 LA without confounding from concurrent increases in n - 3 PUFAs.

The same mechanisms that quickly separate mixtures of oil and water are at play when controlling the organization in an unusual part of our DNA called heterochromatin, according to a new study by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

A study cited by the National Institutes of Health reports that subjects who applied rose oil were, «more calm, more relaxed and less alert than subjects in the control group.»

However, the variable manufacturing conditions, quality controls and processing methods used by the vegetable oil industry make the presence of at least trace amounts of soy protein possible — and even likely — in soy oil or soy lecithin.

Coconut oil provides plant - based fats in the form of medium - chain triglycerides which impart health benefits like faster utilization by organs as fuel and appetite control.

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By making it yourself, you get to see and control how much oil goes in so you can modify to suit your own tastes and diet.