Sentences with phrase «foreign oil sources»

The Chinese leadership, and particularly the military, is very concerned about oil import dependency and has made a concerted effort to keep its foreign oil sources as diversified as possible.

Not exact matches

Foreign firms have pushed for a greater say in procurement to combat inefficiencies and graft, oil industry sources said, but disputes over governance standards have caused operational delays, raising tensions over Venezuela's falling oil output.

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.

And perhaps the biggest threat of all is the «keep it in the ground» movement, which if actually implemented, would erase the gains made in recent years and bring us back to an era of dependence on foreign sources of oil.»

ABU DHABI / DUBAI (Reuters)- Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has picked a local bank and three foreign lenders as bookrunners for the planned initial public offering of its retail unit that could raise $ 1.5 billion to $ 2 billion, sources said on Thursday.

According to its website, LOOP has received more than 12 billion barrels of oil from foreign and domestic sources over the past three decades, but as an imports - only facility, it's never been used to load an export cargo — until now.

When you add in refined products and other petroleum liquids, Canadian exports soared past 4.1 million barrels a day, a total that is higher than the next seven U.S. suppliers combined, and nearly four times more than Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s second largest source of foreign oil.

Africa's biggest economy and top oil producer is reeling from the fall in crude revenues, the source of 95 percent of foreign earnings, which has led to the naira hitting record lows on the parallel market amid dwindling foreign exchange reserves.

He noted that oil became the source of 70 per cent of the national earnings and 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings.

President Obama has repeatedly highlighted the need for greater conservation efforts when it comes to shoring up our existing and future energy reserves and reducing our dependence on foreign sources of oil.

The nationwide electrical grid is only 3 % petroleum - fueled, whereas transportation is almost completely powered by oil — 60 % of which comes from foreign sources (and growing).

A lack of capacity on this end along with pipelines facing environmental opposition have led California refiners to import oil, often from foreign sources, via ship and pay a higher price for doing it.

In his weekly internet and radio address on Saturday, President Obama focused on the ideal of utilizing fuel efficient technology as a means to lower the cost of energy, as well as decrease the dependency the US has on foreign sources of oil.

Coal, foreign oil, wind, solar, hydroelectric, tidal, bio reclammation, nuclear, thermal and perhaps some new clean energy source that is relatively affordable.

-- «That's why I'm calling on the Congress to fully fund my Administration's Future Gen program to build clean coal power plants that will reduce our competitivity with foreign sources of oil and increase our commitment to carbon emissions.»

There is no present cost effective clean energy source which can get us off our knees from foreign oil.

concerned citizen, # 20, every energy source has external costs, such as pollution, infrastructure requirements, carbon footprint (both construction and operation), payments to hostile nations (foreign oil) and rent - seeking opportunities for corporations and politicians.

The 1993 tax was pursued mainly as a source of revenue to cut the deficit, not a means of reducing American dependence on foreign oil and cutting risks of dangerous climate change.

Whatever the reality of AGW, it would greatly benefit the U.S economically and morally to stop buying and burning foreign - sourced oil.

Science and technology have extraordinary potential to help America achieve a broad range of national goals, including sparking economic growth and job creation; allowing Americans to live longer, healthier lives; developing clean sources of energy that reduce our dependence on foreign oil; and protecting our environment.

«The CO2 numbers [in the oil sands] sound frightening when only the production and refining are taken into account... Yet once the oil is burned, a variety of sources say the total lifecycle impact of oil sands relative to the average crude used in the U.S. is much smaller, including the Council on Foreign Relations (17 percent higher emissions) and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (5 - 15 percent).»

Indeed, even if we transition to clean sources of energy, we risk trading our dependence on foreign oil for dependence on foreign clean energy.

According to a military advisory board, America's reliance on foreign sources of oil constitute a «national vulnerability» for the economy as well as our armed forces, both of which depend on fossil fuels.

So I'm not just going to reiterate the arguments that people have made, but I will say that the case for plug - in hybrid electric vehicles can be boiled down into short - hand that people understand: energy security, vulnerability to foreign sources of oil, greenhouse gas emissions, the environment, economic security.

Although palm oil is a leading threat to orangutans, it is an important source of foreign exchange and employment in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Ray Mabus crowed that the biofueled fighter demonstrates «the Navy's commitment to reducing dependence on foreign oil as well as safeguarding our environment» and to being «an early adopter of alternative energy sources.»

Ethanol is yet another fuel source that is attractive for US drivers since it can help to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil and cut down on greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.

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I would have guessed Iceland, but it's actually the U.S.: Beyond the sun, a new wave of clean energy As policymakers promote alternative energy sources to reduce the United States» emissions of greenhouse gases and its dependence on foreign oil, entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly inventive about finding novel ways to power the economy.

§ 15927 («[I] t is the policy of the United States that... United States oil shale, tar sands, and other unconventional fuels are strategically important domestic resources that should be developed to reduce the growing dependence of the United States on politically and economically unstable sources of foreign oil imports -LSB-.]»)

One might think that in an era of dependence on foreign sources of gasoline, and the wars being fought in oil - rich countries like Iraq or Libya, that it might be in everyone's interest to use a little bit less of the stuff.

The costs are too high, they take too long to deploy, and I am VERY concerned that we are FAR more dependent on foreign sources of uranium fuel than we are for oil.

Bush was given a white handkerchief that had been held on an exhaust pipe of a revved - up 18 - wheeler, and deemed it clean enough to hold up to his nose... President Bush touted biodiesel as an option to help reduce dependence on foreign oil, saying»... we must develop promising new sources of energy, such as hydrogen, ethanol or biodiesel.»

As recently as five or six years ago, these difficulties seemed intractable, as the rapid development of alternative energy sources seemed the only way out of our dependence on foreign oil, and such development seemed nowhere in sight.

As Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations points out, «to make the case that Keystone XL would greatly increase GHGs, one has to start by arguing that blocking the pipeline would substantially curtail oil sands production,» and that the production would not be replaced by other sources.

Several Democratic senators have urged their colleagues to steer away from any carbon - pricing mechanism and focus on a narrower — but still weighty — bill that reduces foreign oil dependence by developing cleaner energy sources and increasing efficiency standards.

With U.S. dependency on foreign oil getting uncomfortably close to crisis levels, any viable alternative energy source is looking pretty good.

California's LCFS gives an economic advantage to California TEOR [thermal enhanced oil recovery processes] over foreign HCICOs and assigns a mandatory economic disadvantage to out - of - state and foreign existing crude sources.