Sentences with phrase «foreign oil companies»

Brazil needs the technology, equipment and expertise of foreign oil companies if it hopes to grow its oil industry.
«I have it on good authority that the majority of the appointments Kachikwu made as GMD were largely outside of the NNPC; he brought in people from foreign oil companies to head units in the corporation.
He points to several factors: the high price of fossil fuels and the moral desire to wean ourselves off of them; the fear of being held hostage by foreign oil companies; and the new concept that we ought to reduce our carbon footprint.
What people fail to realize is that Brazil's economic and energy boom is not being fueled by ethanol alone, but by vast oil deposits they are aggresivly extracting (the reason one George Soros invested 900 million in Petrobas, isn't it nice that he gives money to people who wish to restrict american production but pours hundreds of millions into foreign oil companies.).
The change is one of many in the North American energy landscape affecting Pemex, which also faces competition in exploration and production as Mexico prepares to allow foreign oil companies back into the country for the first time in 75 years.
It also contacted foreign oil companies last month, urging production increases; but I'd do that too if I knew I was going to have to make a cut in the near future.
When foreign oil companies want to cripple the U.S. economy, they need only increase the price of diesel, mainly beacause the shpping industry is totally dependant upon diesel.
Sonangol publishes its audited accounts and full details of oil revenue flows between foreign oil companies, Sonangol itself and the Angolan government.
On top of that, biodiesel drivers don't have to rely on foreign oil companies to set ever - fluctuating gas prices.
Over US $ 1 billion has been lost to the Nigerian people, while a few foreign oil companies and crooked individuals have profited.
«At a time when oil companies are making profits of hundreds of millions of dollars a day, we hope they will welcome a bill which would ensure fair competition with Chinese and other foreign oil companies,» said Global Witness Policy Adviser Sasha Lezhnev.
The Alberta government, a one party state for 41 years, now heavily subsidizes foreign oil companies to extract bitumen in the oil sands says a public interest group.
If Brazil hopes to grow its oil industry it will need the technology and equipment of foreign oil companies.
More and more Americans are coming around to the fact that Keystone XL, while a great deal for foreign oil companies, is bad news for the rest of us.
Americans understand that it is wrong to play political games and strip families of our right to protect our land and our clean water from foreign oil companies, because you can't drink oil.»
Foreign oil companies would refuse to dish out any more money to develop the country's resources if it knew that it could be kicked out at any moment by overzealous prosecutors in small towns.
In Brazil, though, one would think that such minute spills were a capital offense — especially if the offender was a foreign oil company.
The environmental secretary of Rio threatened to revoke Chevron's operating license over the spill, sending shivers all the way up to Houston, home to the dozens of foreign oil companies that feed Brazil's oil engine.
Tensions between PDVSA and foreign oil companies have steadily risen since Quevedo took charge in November and appointed military officers who had little or no oil industry experience to senior jobs.
The U.S. major confirmed the arrests, which are believed to be the first to affect a foreign oil company's direct employees.
Iran is believed to have responded with computer attacks on targets in the United States, including American banks and foreign oil companies.
To ensure a more sustainable model for the future, states» natural resource wealth should be saved for export, and foreign oil companies should only be awarded oil contracts once they partake in third - party monitored bidding rounds.
The cultural upheaval that comes from the post-colonial presence of foreign oil companies is important to the story, but we see it strictly through its immediate effects on Blessing's life.
What would 2009 Barack Obama say about this situation: a former Clinton staffer leaves to become a lobbyist for a foreign oil company that wants to get State Department approval to build an oil pipeline over sensitive ecosystems?
I guess «drill baby drill» only applies to foreign oil companies that George Soros has $ 811 million invested in.
This involved meetings with members of local civil society, the government and foreign oil companies.
It doesn't matter that this movie was supported by an foreign oil company.
In 2014, we published two Production Sharing Agreements signed by the Ugandan Government and foreign oil companies and a thorough analysis of them.
Our first day in the jungle we flew into Block 16, Repsol, which is interesting because it's a foreign oil company.
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