Sentences with phrase «from large oil companies»

We expect the company will continue targeting small and midsize acquisitions to widen its geographic reach, in addition to larger acquisitions from large oil companies divesting their noncore branded retail outlets.

Plus countries like Iraq and Mexico have not developed their full potential, partly due to lack of investment and infrastructure from larger oil companies and international banks, Doman suggests.

Not exact matches

Moody's lowered its outlook for these large oil companies in 2018 from «positive» to simply «stable.»

Everyone from medical equipment suppliers to software producers to food services companies — all of these sectors service the oil and gas industry, and many of the largest happen to be based in the U.S.

The Chinese firm's demand for May - loading crude will be lower than the previous month due to refinery maintenance and as one of China's largest oil ports, Huangdao, could be shut for days from early June to accommodate a government meeting, a second company source said.

This year's Fortune 500 generated a total of $ 944.5 billion in earnings, which are down 12.6 % from last year's record of $ 1.08 trillion, in large part because tumbling oil prices took a toll on the majority of the companies on the list.

China's Sinopec, Asia's largest refiner, plans to cut Saudi crude oil imports loading in May by 40 percent after national oil company Saudi Aramco set higher - than - expected prices, an official from the company's trading arm Unipec said.

A large company like Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) can ride out the ups and downs, and it also benefits from lower oil prices (people have more money in their accounts), an improving economy and an eventual interest rate hike.

The biggest winners are the oil companies and large corporate and monied interests that stand to benefit from a strong Conservative majority.

But the steep tumble from $ 100 - per - barrel oil has helped cut short the age of big, multi-year mine developments, forcing companies to shelve other large projects; analysts expect smaller, more modular expansion projects from here on in.

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.

First - quarter sales and earnings at the world's fourth - largest oil company came in better than were generally expected, but were still off significantly from the prior - year's results.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

The largest oil and gas companies have not been able to benefit fully from the depletion allowance since a change in the law in 1975 and the allowance was reduced somewhat.

The largest detractor from performance for the quarter and past twelve months was Apache, the U.S. - based oil and gas exploration and production company.

The Wyden - Gregg bill from 2010 does not repeal LIFO, though it does propose a one - time adjustment for large oil companies which reduces the benefit of LIFO by re-valuing their inventory.

Of course, the precipitous drop in oil prices (down about 40 % from last year) is helping some large manufacturing, consumer discretionary, and transportation companies (prominently including airlines) offset the negative impact of the rising dollar.

One other news item of note from Marathon Oil this quarter was that the company announced it leased 250,000 acres of land in new resource plays over the past year, including a large position in the emerging Louisiana Austin Chalk play.

Companies said to be selling crude from Saldanha Bay in Africa Brent crude time - structure strengthens, encouraging sales Oil traders are emptying one of the world's largest crude storage facilities, located Continue Reading

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt From a supergiant oil field in Kazakhstan to the world's largest producer of potash fertilizer in Russia to an African iron mine, China has scooped up stakes in major resource and agricultural companies in...

Any geologist who works for Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Haliburton, Schlumberger, Gasprom, Saudi Aramco, Baker and Hughes, Petrobras, China's national oil company or any of the thousands of mining or oil or natural gas related companies that make a living finding fossil fuels, will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large forests or marine creatures.

Last year market research company Mintel predicted that savoury flavours - from olive oil to cheese and bread - would gain mainstream popularity as they made their way from upmarket foodservice outlets to small - batch artisan producer and then to larger retail outlets.

Murray's largest donation was $ 10,000 from Morton S. Bouchard, president and CEO of Melville - based Bouchard Transportation, an oil barging company.

The Cuomo administration must recognize the scope of this threat to our state from this company, which was responsible for the largest oil field spills in North Dakota's history just last month, involving 1 million gallons of hazardous brine.

Those Democratic committees have accepted large checks from special interest groups that routinely lobby the Legislature, including insurance companies, defense contractors, oil companies and labor unions.

Enbridge Energy Partners, the U.S. unit of Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc received an order from the EPA in March requiring more containment and recovery of oil from the spill.

The comment taken from the leftist rag the Guardian, «Scientists and economists have been offered $ 10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today»...

Chevron, headquartered in San Ramon, California, is the 2nd largest integrated energy company in the United States, with a production capacity of 2.6 million oil - equivalent barrels per day (75 % of which comes from outside the United States) and global refining capacity of 1.96 million barrels of oil per day.

Countless stock market indexes exist, tracking everything from oil stocks to transportation businesses to small, medium and large companies.

MLPs, often spin - offs from energy companies, operate large parts of the nation's energy infrastructure, such as oil pipelines, natural gas processing facilities and storage depots.

Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis: Company Description: Exxon Mobil Corp., formed through the merger of Exxon and Mobil in late 1999, is the world's largest publicly owned integrated oil cCompany Description: Exxon Mobil Corp., formed through the merger of Exxon and Mobil in late 1999, is the world's largest publicly owned integrated oil companycompany.

Coming from a family focused on human medicine — his father worked in the medical department of an oil company and his mother was a nurse — Roussel's decision to become a large animal veterinarian came as a surprise.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gOil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil and gas.

In January, New York City went to court to claim compensation from the five largest oil companies for dramatic climate change impacts, including Shell.

All three of the largest anti-nuclear groups in the United States have budgets over $ 100 million per year and receive funding from oil, gas, solar and wind investors, or are invested in oil and gas, and renewable energy companies.

The big global energy companies, like Exxon and BP, are perfectly capable of shifting their focus from oil to gas and if the market gets large enough, to renewables.

NYC will divest $ 5bn from fossil fuels and launches litigation against some of the world largest oil companies.

Norway's largest company will be known as Equinor from tomorrow, as it tries to shake its oil - focused image

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, seeks damages from the five largest publicly - traded oil companies — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell — to help pay for the city's work adapting to climate change, including coastal protections and upgrading its sewer system.

New York City is suing five of the largest oil companies over the billions of dollars it spends protecting the city from the effects of climate change, and it plans to divest its pension funds» $ 5 billion in assets involving fossil fuel producers, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

Also, despite oil companies being the largest businesses in the world they still accept subsidies from the government... much more than wind turbine subsidies.

A new study connects climate change impacts to the emissions from Exxon, Chevron and other large oil, gas and cement companies and their products.

A sizable portion of Klein's funds come from the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow - based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; Rosneft, the Russian - government - owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield's largest clients; and other Russian companies.

I wouldn't be surprised to find a large percentage of NGO «green» funding coming from oil companies via various annonymous donations.

Indian companies likely to benefit from the focus on solar energy include Tata BP Solar — a tie - up between Tata Power and BP Solar, a subsidiary of the British oil giant — and Reliance Solar, part of the country's largest private sector firm, Reliance Industries.

And having generated a disproportionate share of the world's carbon emissions, the world's largest oil and gas companies have a unique responsibility for cutting emissions from their own operations.

And for all this, we must accept the word of economist McKitrick, whose main claim to fame in climate «science», apart from his association with McIntyre, is as co-ordinator of an execrable error - ridden review of climate science (the Independent Summary for Policy Makers), produced for a think tank (the Fraser Institute) known to receive significant funding from some of Canada's largest oil and gas companies.

Smaller, oil sands - only players such as MEG Energy are more vulnerable during a downturn because they don't have the cash cushion of larger companies and don't have refining operations to offset lost revenue from oil and gas sales.

Beginning in 2002, Soon's funding mostly came from oil companies, including Southern Co, one of the largest coal burners in the United States, and the American Petroleum Institute, according to documents uncovered in a Freedom of Information Act request by Greenpeace and seen by Reuters.

(Reuters)- Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $ 1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace.