Sentences with phrase «from major oil companies»

Blame only makes sense if there is some hope that it will result in a change of action and naive though it may be I do think there is some hope of action from the major oil companies.

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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.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oOil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oiloil.

Rich 100 rank: # 8 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Irving Oil, J.D. Irving Location: Saint John, N.B.

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.

From the early 1930s until 1972, U.S. oil states imposed oil supply quotas so restrictive they would make OPEC blush, while major international oil companies, or «The Seven Sisters» held back oil supply from the massive Middle Eastern concessions they operaFrom the early 1930s until 1972, U.S. oil states imposed oil supply quotas so restrictive they would make OPEC blush, while major international oil companies, or «The Seven Sisters» held back oil supply from the massive Middle Eastern concessions they operafrom the massive Middle Eastern concessions they operated.

All the while, the industry thrived financially under a combination of high oil prices, low natural gas prices (a major input cost), recession - induced relief from cost inflation and a reduced cost of capital as majors and foreign national oil companies gobbled up wobbly juniors.

Rich 100 rank: # 72 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 5 Major company holdings: Paramount Resources, Trilogy Energy, Tourmaline Oil Location: Calgary Age: 80

Riley was working in Houston for a major oil and gas company, putting in 10 - hour days and a three - hour commute, which kept her from spending time with her young son.

I have had, over my time at the University of Alberta, representatives from the Alberta Ministries of Environment, Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major oil, gas, energy services, pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my classes.

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.

Opposition, however, especially from several provincial governments and from oil and mining companies and small business groups, was so vociferous, as it had been to the report, that the Trudeau government retreated from any major reform.

SUSPENDED: A U.S. judge has ruled the China branches of global accounting firms should be barred from providing audits for U.S. - traded companies in a dispute that might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine Baidu to...

BEIJING (AP)-- An American judge has ruled the China arms of global accounting firms should be barred from providing audits for U.S. - traded companies in a dispute that might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine...

The decision to approve the international pipeline comes despite a major oil spill just a few days earlier from the company's Keystone l line in South Dakota.

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...

Just like Exxon and the major American oil companies receive welfare from tax payers.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

New York City sued five major oil companies, claiming they have contributed to global warming, and also announced it will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city's pension funds.

Checks by Citi Business News at some major Oil Marketing Companies showed that petroleum prices dropped by less than GHc1 at the pumps after Parliament passed the Special Petroleum Tax Amendment Bill to reduce that much - criticized tax from 15 percent to 13 percent.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a lawsuit against five major oil companies, but records show cars used by the mayor's office are buying gas from the same companies.

According to Bolsen, the process attracted investments from three major oil companies and won a $ 91 million grant from the Department of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- More oil than previously thought may have leaked into Lake Michigan this week from BP Plc's Indiana refinery, the company said on Thursday, after two U.S. Senators requested a meeting with the British oil major.

Now the former naysayers, from the International Energy Agency to most major oil companies, admit that conventional crude production has indeed peaked.

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»...

While most major religions derive from new ideas The Olive Oil Skin Care Company uses 100 % Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil in its all - natural range of hand made soaps and products for hair and body.

He describes the Taliban» s role as a major player in a new «Great Game» — a competition among Western countries and companies to build oil and gas pipelines from Central Asia to Western and Asian markets.

Aside from the generic PR, there is reason to take it seriously that the major oil stocks have gone to great lengths to rebrand themselves as energy companies.

If my thesis is correct then the company will benefit from being in all 3 major streams of the oil and gas industries.

Major oil companies such as BP (NYSE: BP) are in position to profit from the increasing need for energy around the world.

Gene moved from the U.S. to Calgary 12 years ago to take a job with a major oil company, earning more than $ 300,000 annually.

The work, which takes its title from a speech by a corporate head of one of the world's major oil companies, is made up of carefully factured plaques exhibiting quotes from business executives and important art world figures.

It's great to see San Francisco and Oakland California stepping up and suing major oil companies, demanding accountability for water levels rising from Climate Change.

Members of an American Petroleum Institute task force on CO2 included scientists from nearly every major oil company, including Exxon, Texaco and Shell.

The group's members included senior scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company, including Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and Sohio, according to internal documents obtained by InsideClimate News and interviews with the task force's former director.

Now, with oil prices crashing while the cost of production does not; with campaigners scoring victories from the Paris climate agreement to major institutional divestment from fossil fuels; and with increasingly viable competition from electrified transportation, efficiency and renewables — oil companies may be facing a unique confluence of uphill challenges.

Kinder Morgan, developer of the controversial Trans - Mountain oil pipeline in Canada, is the latest major company to take heat from shareholders over its climate impact.

Total is a French multinational company, one of the major in Europe, whose business cover the entire oil and gas chain, from the exploration and the extraction of the fossil fuels, to power generation including the transportation and the distribution of energy, while also being involved in products trading.

In July 2013, Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund advisor, excluded from its Energy Sector all 13 coal producers and the 6 oil companies with the highest exposure to tar sands «to reduce Storebrand's exposure to fossil fuels and to secure long term, stable returns for our clients...»»

Now ExxonMobil — the only major oil company to deny the reality of climate change — has joined the coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists from 100 countries on the IPCC.

A California federal court will soon hear oral arguments from San Francisco and Oakland that assert five major oil companies should pay huge sums of money for contributing to man - made global warming.

ExxonMobil has isolated itself from the community of major oil companies in the area of climate.

When has an environmental fine actually stopped a major oil company from dangerous engineering or transportation?

The city wants five major oil companies, including Exxon Mobil and BP, to pay for current and future damages from alleged man - made warming allegedly wrought.

When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine - tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas.

Aside from the astroturf nature of the planned events, which appear aimed at passing off industry employees as independent citizens, the memo also raises questions about the positions of several major oil companies on the issue of climate change.

(Being from Houston, I kind of follow the official positions of the major oil and gas companies on climate change; and you'd actually be surprised how frank many oil companies are.

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.

Nineteen major companies have already adopted policies not to purchase oil from tar sands, so it's high time that the rest of America's corporations follow suit,» said Michael Bosse of the Sierra Club's Beyond Oil campaioil from tar sands, so it's high time that the rest of America's corporations follow suit,» said Michael Bosse of the Sierra Club's Beyond Oil campaiOil campaign.

While some of the reduction from the big oil companies is probably due to the crash in oil prices that began in 2014, leading to lower activity across the energy industry, all five majors have enacted climate and efficiency policies, as well as anti-pollution measures, the report said.