Sentences with phrase «from oil states»

Municipal bonds from oil states such as New Mexico and North Dakota remain in positive return territory but are beginning to show the impact of the economic drag low priced oil has created.

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«We established a long time ago that large quantities of oil and oil products from territory captured by Islamic State have been arriving on Turkish territory,» Putin continued.

A new report from the US Geological Survey has revealed that the oil and gas industry is causing earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States at an alarming rate.

Oil prices might have bottomed as output in the United States and other non-OPEC producers is beginning to fall quickly and an increase in supply from Iran has been less than dramatic, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has evacuated executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to four sources familiar with the matter.

In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

Buried in statistics released by the Energy Information Administration this week indicating the United States is exporting more crude oil than it has in 15 years is a still more startling fact: «Almost all of the crude oil exported from the United States has been delivered to Canada.»

Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

The Obama administration considered opening some of the affected areas to oil exploration, but abandoned the idea in 2016 because of concerns from states, coastal residents and the military, which uses waters that would be affected.

PDVSA also regularly buys U.S. light crude for processing at its Isla refinery in Curacao and to formulate an exportable Dilute Crude Oil (DCO) blend that is shipped from the Caribbean island to customers in the United States and Asia.

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Carolina - based private security firm hired by Texas - based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners won't be banned from North Dakota, though a judge is still weighing whether TigerSwan operated illegally in the state during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and might be subject to fines.

The sentiment on Thursday marked a shift from earlier in the week, when oil prices fell after Trump said the United States and France could reach an agreement «fairly quickly» on the Iran nuclear deal.

Most of the senators who signed are from states that depend on the continued burning of coal, oil and gas.

In northwest Louisiana, as the production rush began in the Haynesville Shale in 2009, the state water agency ordered oil and gas companies to stop pulling groundwater from the local aquifer that also supplied homes and businesses, and use surface water instead.

«Oil supplies (from the United States) are continuing to grow and there are no signs of a reversal,» said Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst at futures brokerage Forex.com.

Though the Obama Administration looked into opening some areas to oil exploration on a smaller scale, the idea was abandoned in 2016 after concerns from the military, coastal residents, and states that would be affected.

Following the U.S. State Department's decision to postpone a decision on TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian pipeline boosters from oilpatch CEOs to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver responded that Canada would have to look to other markets — namely China — to buy our oil.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

And while Hamm is supporting oil - related sanctions on Venezuela, U.S. refiners and Republican Senators from Gulf Coast states are actively lobbying against potential bans.

The U.S. oil company removed executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state - owned oil company PDVSA.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline would carry more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S. states to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast.

In December 2016, he fled to Canada, where he now seeks asylum from gangs that steal fuel from Salamanca and five other refineries operated by Pemex, the state - owned oil company.

U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has evacuated executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state - owned oil company PDVSA.

Venezuela's plunging output comes amid strong demand as well as concerns that supplies from the Middle East, by far the world's biggest oil producing region, could also be disrupted, especially should the United States in May re-impose sanctions against OPEC - member Iran.

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The bill's introduction also comes amid various actions and statements by the Trump administration, including a fourth round of sanctions that restrict Venezuela and Petróleos de Venezuela SA, a state - owned oil company, from issuing new debt or from engaging in other financial dealings with U.S. citizens.

August saw the US's most drastic action, restricting the Venezuelan government's access to the US financial system, preventing it and the state oil company, PDVSA, from issuing new debt in US dollars.

The move comes after months - long protests by environmentalists and Native American groups in North Dakota against Energy Transfer Partners LP's $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring crude oil from the state's Bakken oil patch through the Midwest and into the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The so - called shale revolution could help to alleviate Washington's reliance on foreign oil, including from turbulent Middle Eastern states, while also supporting a bid to export to more countries around the world.

The state's oil production grew tenfold over the past decade as it built a thriving oil shale industry virtually from scratch, driving unemployment to a national low and filling government coffers with surging tax revenue.

This follows a stark warning from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said at the start of February that sanctioning Venezuela's oil or prohibiting the crude to be sold in the U.S. was something the White House was continuing to mull over.

The accident, though, will likely shift the U.S. debate over Keystone away from whether or not building the pipeline would have any significant impact on greenhouse gases (the U.S. State Department says it won't, environmentalists disagree), to whether or not Western Canada's oil is a particularly hazardous fuel.

Her father had hoped she could use her business acumen and political standing to clamp down on theft from the state oil company as it struggled to adjust to the sharp fall of oil prices over the previous year.

However, stopping embezzlement from state oil companies is easier said than done.

In Nigeria in 2014, Lamido Sanusi was fired as head of the central bank after trying to track down $ 20 billion that he said had been stolen from that country's state oil company, NNPC.

According to Reuters, she's to be replaced by Carlos Saturnino, an oil veteran who was fired by Dos Santos from Sonangol last year, and who was most recently Secretary of State for Ooil veteran who was fired by Dos Santos from Sonangol last year, and who was most recently Secretary of State for OilOil.

As Hillary Clinton told a California audience recently, by way of explaining why the State Department was leaning toward approving TransCanada Corp.'s giant Keystone XL pipeline: «We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.»

According to a recent Reuters report, depending on who takes a Senate seat from several of these battle ground states and who wins certain gubernatorial races could mean which of the energy topics — EPA carbon regulations, the Keystone Pipeline XL's approval, relaxing crude oil export rules, developing clean energy technology — will take priority.

Shares in oil and gas group AWE have jumped more than 20 per cent following a $ 430 million indicative takeover offer from a Chinese state - owned energy corporation.

While oil - related dependence is down to 22 percent of 2015 government revenue from 35 percent in 2015, the country is still trying to squeeze more dividends out of state - owned oil and gas player Petronas, he said.

He was speaking following a meeting with Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is visiting the United States to promote a reform plan to wean the kingdom away from oil revenue.

Refiners in the U.S. Midwest, Ontario, Alberta, B. and Washington get their raw material from the Western Sedimentary Basin, production from which is growing thanks to the Alberta oilsands, the Bakken field in Saskatchewan and North Dakota and oil shales in the Rocky Mountain states.

Last month, Governor Jack Dalrymple called for a decrease in the state budget, since tax revenues are down and the budget outlook for the state is different from two years ago, when the price of oil was topping $ 100 per barrel.

Arab Light and Arab Medium were set at 10 - month highs for July, according to a statement from state - run Saudi Arabian Oil Co..

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

I think there is a substantial commercial and economic opportunity both in the construction of the pipeline and in the advantages of lower priced oil that would result from the pipeline for the United States and for Canada.

Similarly, State owned Petro China spent about $ 2 billion acquiring full control of the Mackay River project from Athabasca Oil Sands Corp...

The statement from the U.S government is widely interpreted as a threat to sanction state - owned oil company PDVSA, the government's main source of revenue.

The United States stands ready to assist Nigeria in diversifying its economy beyond the oil sector, a regional U.S. secretary said from Washington, D.C..