Sentences with phrase «for oil companies at»

This is why tax breaks abound for oil companies at a time of record profits.

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Among the biggest issues oil - and - gas - exploration companies face in the search for new sources of hydrocarbons is putting humans or high - value assets at risk.

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

• BP Energy Partners will sell portfolio company Pinnacle Midstream, a Houston, Texas - based oil and gas exploration company, for at least $ 300 million, according to Reuters.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

But the first three months of the year could be the biggest hurdle for the small companies to clear, Abhishek Deshpande, an oil markets analyst at Natixis, explained.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

Perth - based Carnarvon Petroleum says it will invest about $ 10 million to acquire 3D and 2D seismic data, which will allow the company to expand its search for oil and gas at its Phoenix project off the Pilbara coast.

Reports that shale companies were posting juicy profits at very low oil prices has likely factored into heady projections for shale output.

A report that year from the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade group, found that women accounted for 17 % of the workforce at oil, natural gas and petrochemical companies.

Middle Eastern insiders actually trade the oil market anonymously and through masked trading companies for their personal gain at the expense of lives in their country's military.

The actor and former governor of California said in a Politico - sponsored podcast at the SXSW festival in Austin that he is in talks with law firms about possibly suing global oil companies «for knowingly killing people all over the world.»

For a company that had hedged a quarter or half of its oil production last year at $ 80 or $ 90 per barrel, they will now suddenly feel the pain of oil trading at $ 60 per barrel.

Already, oil companies are bracing for bad pipeline news, says Rafi Tahmazian, a portfolio manager at Canoe Financial in Calgary.

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.

And it's not just America's oil companies that are at risk here and asking for some common sense to be injected into this process, contrary to the narrative being spun up by House and Senate Democrats.

With the oil and natural gas markets stabilized, at least for now, investors should begin considering which companies could emerge from the rubble of the oil price collapse to see their stock prices double or triple in the next few years.

And while some Canadian companies are finding success in clean solutions — Vancouver's Ballard Power is fresh off a record year for revenue — others, notably in Canada's oil patch, are at risk of falling behind.

One of my best friends at the time was a CPA, had been on the accounting team for one of the worlds largest oil companies, and was teaching small business accounting and bookkeeping at the time.

Looking ahead into 2018, I am keeping a close eye on the energy sector, where the ability of US exploration and production (E&P) companies to grow oil production — at half the price of oil from just a few years ago — remains a competitive advantage for these firms.

The country, which hasn't sold bonds abroad since the default, has settled arbitration cases at the World Bank, paid Spanish oil company Repsol SA for the expropriation of YPF SA and negotiated with the Paris Club of creditor nations.

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

In the case of an oil spill cleanup, the costs are likely to be directly incurred by an insurance company, but the premiums paid for that insurance come at the expense of the value of the oil transportation service — the higher the expected clean - up costs from oil spills, the higher insurance premiums will be, and this will mean higher pipeline tolls, which in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shipped.

Oil production has also disappointed — despite virtually every company's plan to «make it up in volume,» at least for this year.

State oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, commonly known as PDVSA, on Sept. 26 sweetened terms of a debt swap, offering to exchange more bonds maturing in 2020 for $ 5.3 billion worth that mature in 2017 after investors balked at an earlier $ 7.1 billion one - for - one proposal.

A group of workers at Venezuela's state - owned oil company is requesting wages in dollars as well as meal plans and better health insurance to make up for what they called «suffocating» economic conditions.

Michael Rawlinson, Global Co-Head of Mining and Metals at Barclays, commented that while the sharp drop in oil prices has reduced costs for mining companies it has also added to uncertainty in the market and could prolong the wait for the commodity cycle to turn upwards again.

And it was great that the rally was held right in our constituency, at the huge facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing oil and gas wells.

After bottoming out at decade - plus lows in February, oil prices finished the year up more than 40 %, lifting the prospects for a lot of companies across the oil and gas industry.

The electric company, PREPA, relied on selling bonds to pay for the imported oil it burned at its power plants.

As noted in an earlier paragraph, when investors consider exploration and production company stocks, they are increasingly looking for companies that can find and produce oil and gas efficiently and at low cost.

Copper, one of four business units at Teck besides steelmaking coal, oil and zinc, is a priority for the company

«The ideal way for China to replace the dollar as the dominant currency for her cross-border trade is to encourage her oil suppliers to accept payment in her own currency,» says Alasdair Macleod, head of research at Goldmoney, a gold - based financial - services company in Toronto.

A company with a very long history of dividend raises, that is no doubt feeling a bit of pinch as demand for their oil and gas services are weakening in the near term, DOV still looks attractive at current prices.

Shell Oil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas priceOil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas priceoil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas priceoil and natural gas prices).

«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.

Why are people willing to pay 21x earnings for Coca - Cola when it is expected to grow at 8 - 10 % over the next five years, while they are only willing to pay 9x earnings for an oil company like Chevron that is also expected to grow by 8 - 10 % over the next ten years?

I believe severe valuation contraction at all three companies sets them up for potentially excellent returns should the price of oil recover later this year, here's why.

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Commenting on these challenges, Jignesh Bhatt, Executive Director for GATC, «leveraging our logistics expertise, dedicated members of our company, and our intimate relationship with key suppliers of CSPO, we are able to seamlessly import and distribute CSPO products to our customers in the US and Canada that have made a superior commitment to sustainability for palm oil at highly competitive prices since 2013.»

At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...

«This past year, we also strengthened our partnership with environmentally and socially responsible palm oil companies to also offer bulk RSPO SG palm oils and palm kernel oils at competitive prices to US and Canadian companies that have made a superior commitment to sustainability for palm oil.»

Grimm is an amateur poker player — which means he plays poker for money but not for a living — and an amateur would have as much chance in the big poker game at the Horseshoe as Cadillac Jack would have of bringing in a wildcat oil well through the floor of the First National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil Company is locatoil well through the floor of the First National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil Company is locatOil Company is located.

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.

The President has deliberately refused to institute proper investigation into reports of corruption allegations involving his appointees including the grievous BOST scandal, activities at the National Communication Authority, allegations against his two deputy chiefs of staff, the cash for seat scandal, inflation of cost, breaching of procurement regulations, illegal oil deals with foreign companies, bribes taking at the Presidency, etc..

As at the time, the company, which was barely a year old and had no history of producing a droplet of oil, was awarded controlling stakes in two lucrative oil blocks — OML 30 and 34 — for just over $ 50 million each.

The increase in demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.