Sentences with phrase «even for oil companies»

Solar investments became hot, even for oil companies.

Not exact matches

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

Even oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips were among the companies that expressed support for the accord ahead of Trump's announcement.

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 world's largest oil company by market value had cut even cut its capital budget for the quarter by 38 %, but it wasn't enough.

It's even what the oil companies want, for heaven's sake: Sustainable Prosperity, an Ottawa - based think - tank, recently surveyed 10 major energy companies, including Shell and Suncor, and found all of them were already incorporating a «shadow carbon price» into their decision - making, under the assumption they will contend with such regimes in the near future.

For instance, as oil and gas companies adopt a more agile way of working, they could become magnets for top millennial talent; millennials will accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, which could facilitate the dismantling of large corporate centers, which in turn allows for an even more agile workplaFor instance, as oil and gas companies adopt a more agile way of working, they could become magnets for top millennial talent; millennials will accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, which could facilitate the dismantling of large corporate centers, which in turn allows for an even more agile workplafor top millennial talent; millennials will accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, which could facilitate the dismantling of large corporate centers, which in turn allows for an even more agile workplafor an even more agile workplace.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

U.S. oil and natural gas production from Pennsylvania could help power Ontario and Quebec for instance, even as Canadian shale flowed through pipelines from Alberta to the U.S. Infrastructure matters a lot in these settings, especially given the difficulties most companies are facing in building new pipelines (Exhibit A: see the Dakota Access Pipeline).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Even though Dover prides itself on being a diversified industrial company with businesses ranging from drilling equipment for oil and gas companies to refrigerators for retailers, the company decided Knowles could best create shareholder value as a standalone company.

Using reasonable estimates for the value of the company's oil and gas reserves, WPX appears to be even more undervalued.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

«Even at these lower prices, the US shale production will continue to increase because technologies and knowledge of shale prices are getting better month after month,» says Leonardo Maugeri, former top manager at Italian oil company ENI and now associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Even Lukoil for instance, another big & cheap Russian oil company has a replacement ratio of only slightly above 100 %.

Its nice to see some people have open there eyes but all is true lets ask our selves have this team change from last season where are the experienced players that wenger talked about he selling us bull and every season he gets away with it the fans deserve better am from the caribbean so chance r i might never get to see arsenal live at the emirates because its too expensive at least the club should be winning things i know its important to balance the books you must BUT football is about trophies as well and thats were the balance lies how the hell can we go Six (6) seasons yes 6 without a trophy not even a FA cup or carling cup and no one says a word about the manager that is rubbish Arsenal live in the past too much the time is now this season for me is the absolute last for wenger to win something i do nt care how much money he has made the club and Wenger if you cant bring that then go work for an oil company and make them money and leave arsenal to a manager who is willing to win something not only buy players for 10 million who take 10 years to develop am frustrated with this man.

One company, Young Living, recently received a warning from the FDA because their paid consultants were promoting «Young Living Essential Oil Products for conditions such as, but not limited to, viral infections (including E bola), Parkinson's disease, autism, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, insomnia, heart disease, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dementia, and multiple sclerosis,» even though «there are no FDA - approved applications for these products.»

Environmentalists and others have called for oil companies to capture the gas, which could be used to generate power or recover even more oil, rather than burn it off or release it into the atmosphere.

Several essential oils are helpful for relaxation, and Plant Therapy (one of the essential oil companies I purchase from) even makes a Growing Pains blend.

As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.

Commodities markets and stock exchanges aren't happy, and neither are the oil companies whose profits are falling — cheap gas having finally done for BP what even the $ 54 billion Deepwater Horizon blowout couldn't, plunging the petro - giant that assassinated the Gulf of Mexico into the red for an entire fiscal year!

Standard Oil received the same trifecta even as the company's rise meant plummeting oil prices for consumers and towering advances in supply, quality, and efficienOil received the same trifecta even as the company's rise meant plummeting oil prices for consumers and towering advances in supply, quality, and efficienoil prices for consumers and towering advances in supply, quality, and efficiency.

And BBL might be in an even better position than some of oil companies due to less major competition for some of the resources they mine for.

Partnering Maui Brewing Company for this first barbeque evening, Chef Jen has also incorporated the robust beer flavors in preparation of side dishes that include Bikini Blonde Charred Corn On The Cobb; Fire Roasted Molokai Sweet Potato with Coconut - Porter Jus; Anuhea Asparagus with Pressed Lemon Oil and Black Lava Salt; House Crafted Kimchee Cabbage Slaw; and Charred Upcountry Tomato and Surfing Goat Dairy Chevre Macaroni and Cheese.

Also, the utility and oil companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)

Though the company had high hopes for its exploration program in the Arctic, it always maintained that it would likely walk away if it failed to find oil this summer, even though the decision would be costly.

Guess it pays to be the biggest oil company in the world — even though their profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire clean energy industry combined.

This method of extracting petroleum leaves an unholy mess, even as conveyed by a libertarian writer like Ronald Bailey visiting the Alberta oil - sands mines on a junket paid for by oil companies.

This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...

Though Shell's debacles are plain to see, its experience also illustrates that even the best - prepared, best - equipped, and most technologically advanced oil company has no business drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean.

A perfect example of this was oil major ExxonMobil's March response to shareholders on managing climate risk, which made clear that the company has no expectation of government regulations that would strand its oil and gas reserves in the ground and would spend millions and even billions to continuing digging, literally, for more hydrocarbon reserves.

«Our company is in effect making a massive bet — with shareholders» money — that the world will remain addicted to oil for decades, even as its competitors are taking steps to hedge their bets,» the group wrote.

By so quickly dismissing geothermal as something that should be part of the oil sands debate, even as the oil companies themselves explore the option, he exposes himself for what he appears to be: a nuclear pitchman riding on a fading reputation as an environmentalist.

Unlike tech companies such as Facebook or even Tesla, the primary investor value proposition for which depends on rapid growth and far - future profitability, most oil and gas companies are typically valued based on risked DCF models in which near - term production and profits count much more than distant ones.

Actor and environmental activist Arnold Schwarzenegger is gassing up the chopper for a gas - burning helicopter joy ride for some lucky contestant, even after he said that he would sue oil companies for killing people with fossil fuels.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

Even though the Alberta government has found the time to meet with oil and gas companies about the review they have yet to meet with any of the 60 - groups that called for it.

I personally would pay more for a car just to get out from under the oil companies & foreign oil dependance... even if the price of gas went back to $ 1.

Author Bruce Babcock, an Iowa State University economist, says that even if the mandate were waived immediately, it would be at least three months before a price change would hit the market because of sustained demand for ethanol by oil companies.

But the sharp drop in coal prices, under competition from cheap natural gas, and a string of bankruptcies among leading US coal companies has inadvertently revealed the coal industry's continued support for climate denial - even as oil companies moved away from open rejection of the science.

As Mark Lynas indicates, no oil company could have got away with this level of blatant conflict of interest even for a day.

«The temperature change over the last century, even if it were all due to man, is so much less than the models predict,» said Lindzen, who has received government funding for his research during Republican and Democratic administrations, but hasn't conducted any research for oil or coal companies.

Natural gas, generally, emits half the amount of CO2 per unit of electricity as oil does, so it makes sense for big petroleum companies to lean on this resource more as a way to position their respective asset mixes as lower carbon and secure an even larger piece of the global carbon budget.

- Cut taxes for the rich - Protect government handouts for oil companies and - Help pay for each by slashing funding for scientific research, and for programs that poor and middle class Americans rely upon for education, health care, and, yes, even putting food on the table.

Even a project at BP's maligned refinery in Texas City, Tex. — owner of the oil industry's worst safety record and site of a deadly 2005 explosion, as well as a benzene leak earlier this year — secured a waiver for the preliminary phase of a carbon capture and sequestration experiment involving two companies with past compliance problems.

For example, I foresee it as much more politically likely that costs will be born by US taxpayers over oil companies with cosmically large profits, even though those companies were profiting from the very problem being addressed.

Even oil companies see a future in renewables; as global demand for wind power grows, major oil companies are diversifying their portfolios to develop offshore wind.

These incidents, argues Gustavo Ampugnani, lead energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Mexico, foreshadow worsening oil - and gas - related disasters as the country's massive energy reforms open Mexico's vast fossil fuel reserves up to international companies that are even less regulated and scrutinized than State - owned Pemex.