Sentences with phrase «for small oil»

Although you're likely to spend $ 200 and up for small oil paintings, there are other affordable options, like original prints, photography and watercolours.

«By analysing the potential impact of future carbon constraints driven by global climate change policies, our study shows a deterioration in the financial risk profiles for smaller oil companies that could lead to negative outlooks and downgrades,» said Michael Wilkins, head of environmental finance at Standard & Poor's.

Not exact matches

When Easton Wren arrived in Canada in 1968 to work for Amoco, Calgary was a small town with a tightly knit oil and gas industry.

CNOOC underestimated the political debate it would provoke by bidding for an underperforming and reasonably small U.S. oil company; its inexperience effectively handed the contest to a competing bid from U.S. oil giant Chevron.

He later quit his job at the bank to pen Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, an extended argument for how expensive oil would bring globalization to a halt.

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

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.

Husky Energy - a Canadian oil giant backed by a Hong Kong billionaire - will also be seeking an exemption, this one covering the 2018 requirements for its small Superior, Wisconsin plant, spokesman Mel Duval told Reuters, disclosing the waiver for the first time.

So the pipeline is being built by an American company to help small - to - medium sized American oil companies transport American oil to American refineries in the Midwest for American drivers.

Two small offshore islands were cleared not only of jungle, but also of resident fishermen and their family graves to make way for an Esso refinery and Mobil oil - storage tanks.

Many of Shell and BG's big shareholders have voiced support for the deal but a slump in oil prices below $ 30 a barrel has raised concerns that Shell may be overpaying for the smaller rival.

For oil, small business will be closely watching the races in certain battle ground states such as South Dakota for indicators on what will happen with the Keystone Pipeline For oil, small business will be closely watching the races in certain battle ground states such as South Dakota for indicators on what will happen with the Keystone Pipeline for indicators on what will happen with the Keystone Pipeline XL.

A recent study revealed that a small, oil boom town in North Dakota fetches rents that are, on average, $ 2,400 for a one - bedroom apartment.

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

From the agriculture industry and the oil sector, to franchises and marijuana retailers, the recurrent themes that pose hurdles for smaller players are too much regulation, minimum wage hikes and immigration reform.

Binns said potential buyers could include small airlines or other firms that ship cargo to remote areas for oil, gas or mining companies, or those companies themselves.

Large producers tend to store oil until they have enough volume to fill a train, but for smaller producers who can not shut production and lack storage capacity, trucks may be the only option, said a Calgary trader.

However, you need to keep in mind that we are not talking about a systematic lowering of crude oil costs in eastern North America — we are talking about an increase in crude costs in Western Canada, combined with a potential small decrease in costs for some eastern refineries.

Even if the U.S. starts to charge for every barrel of Canadian bitumen that crosses the border, the fee is so small that oilsand producers, who shoulder a price discount of around $ 60 - a-barrel on headline oil prices, might not even notice.

Crude oil prices inched up after the EIA reported a smaller - than - expected build of 5.9 million barrels in crude oil inventories for the week to September 8, after a 4.6 - million - barrel build in the prior week due to the Gulf Coast refinery shutdowns.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

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.

(Reuters)- Murphy Oil Corp (MUR.N) said it will spin off its smaller retail gasoline business in the United States, review options for other assets, pay a special dividend and buy back shares as it seeks to return more cash to shareholders.

While it is true that small oil tankers have moved surplus oil out of Second Narrows for decades, it has never been done on this scale — or using ships that exceed the dimensions of what the Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) previously considered safe.

As its name suggests, the oil and gas producer focuses entirely on prospects within the state of California, and the crude oil price declines in 2015 created massive losses for the small exploration and production company.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

The commercial case for the Keystone XL project, which would allow Gulf Coast refiners to access oil from lower - priced, landlocked markets such as Alberta, therefore, would potentially allow the U.S. to reduce their dependence on foreign oil — albeit by a small amount.

For a time, Chevron was part of a small group of oil companies — including BP, Shell and Total — that were publicly touting forays into renewable and alternative energy.

Since diluted bitumen is sold into heavy oil streams (usually at a small discount to heavy oil), you need to account for the fact that a barrel of bitumen is worth less than a barrel of heavy oil, because the added diluent is a higher value product.

What Tier I receive is now mostly a small compensation for their industrial economy being harmed by the oil curse.

One small group thinks that lower for longer could end soon because U.S. shale can't keep a lid on prices forever and can't catch up with expected robust demand — all the more so that investments in conventional supply around the world have slumped since the oil prices started crashing.

Mitchell, who died two years ago at age 94, was reportedly among those urging for tighter regulation of the practice, fearing that small, independent drillers might take dangerous shortcuts as they rushed to participate in a historic oil boom.

The Alberta government has leased almost 100,000 square kilometers of the oil sands deposit, so the potential certainly exists for an industrial project on the scale of England, if a little smaller.

That pushed down the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark price for mid-continent oil, but had a much smaller effect on Brent crude, the benchmark price for most oil outside North America.

As owner of the five - year - old, Lancaster, Pennsylvnia - based Katerina's Finest, an olive oil importer and distributor, Zeppos says signing up with a barter network, comprised of local small business owners and companies that offer personal services, has been a godsend, particularly for financially - strapped startups like hers.

Bloomberg reports that the country is the bloc's smallest oil producer, but the sector accounts for roughly 40 percent of Gabon's GDP, 45 percent of government revenues, and nearly 85 percent of exports.

These and other smaller producers, who have been aggressively battling each other for market share in Asia, continue to add to the more than 1 million barrel a day world oil glut.

However, their long - term contracts and the fact that greater use of frac sand is one way for oil and gas companies to maximize productivity from each well means that demand declines might prove smaller than those of other oil services companies.

Another example for a succesful «private Equity» style transaction ist a smaller Russian oil company, Rusneft.

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

The word Diwali itself means «festival of lamps», because houses and public spaces are decorated with scores of small oil lamps in honor of the goddess Lakshmi, to whom Hindus pray to for success and wealth.

They quietly moved around the room, lightly tracing the sign of the cross on their small foreheads with anointing oil, praying for each of them to encounter Jesus, to know Jesus, to step into their lives as an act of worship.

Visit the Vatican for a small fee tour the joint, get a visitation with the Pope for only 10,00 Euros, visit Lourdes the snake oil is swell, see the shroud of Turin for a small fee, the hustle goes on and on a venerable sites every few 100 kilometers to take your money.

For when anyone is about to take his daily meal he puts in a few drops of oil» not so that he may enjoy some kind of pleasant flavor from the taste of it (indeed, the amount is so small that it is hardly enough to smear the passages of his throat, never mind to pass through it), but so that by doing this he may weaken the boastfulness of heart that usually creeps in flatteringly and surreptitiously with a stricter abstinence....

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

I cut them all into small cubes, place them on a baking tray and bake at 180C for an hour with a generous sprinkling of paprika, dried herbs, cinnamon and pink salt plus a drizzling of olive oil.

Garnish the reserved 1/4 of apple — cut in small cubes pumpkin seeds — optionally soaked and dehydrated for extra crunch drizzle of chili olive oil (optional)-- olive oil mixed with chili powder fresh mint or cilantro leaves

for the crust (gluten free and vegan)(makes one large pizza crust) 1/3 cup plus 4 tablespoon almond milk — divided 1/2 teaspoon coconut sugar 1/2 tablespoon active dry yeast 1 1/2 tablespoon ground chia or flax seeds 3/4 cup (105 g) buckwheat flour (I used sprouted homemade flour) 1/2 cup (60g) tapioca starch 3/4 teaspoon sea salt 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for brushing the blossoms 1 small zucchini — finely shredded (optional)

Start by peeling and chopping the beetroot into small chunks, place in a baking tray with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper, then cook in the oven for 40 - 45 minutes until soft.