Sentences with phrase «half billion»

The field, covering nearly 75 square miles, was discovered in 1911 and has produced over 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), making it one of the most productive fields in the United States.

The last time it grew was 2013, when it climbed 6.4 % to $ 14.5 billion.

(The combined company is the subject of a $ 1.4 - billion bid from a South African consortium.)

Investors estimate that the company has grown to about $ 16 billion in value, up from $ 13 billion earlier this year, according to The Information.

If all goes well, they will ratify an agreement that will unlock bailout funds that would allow Greece to pay the the almost $ 2 - billion it owes the IMF at the end of the month.

The minister of the day, Jim Prentice, killed a $ 1.3 - billion offer from Alliant Techsystems, an American company.

The SBA estimates the new funding will support $ 1.8 billion in small business lending.

• Xiaomi, the Beijing, China - based smartphone maker, is speaking with investment banks about an IPO that could value the firm at at least $ 50 billion, Bloomberg reports citing sources.

GE is piggybacking along to the tune of at least $ 2 billion a year in extra equipment sales — a significant boost even for a company of GE's scale.

In 2012, these television services spent $ 1.39 billion on Canadian programming, representing a 9.6 per cent increase over the previous year.

International revenue growth was also strong, with Europe excluding France up 7.4 percent to 2.4 billion euros, although...

Final - mile delivery is a market that could grow to about $ 12 billion over the next decade, from about $ 3.7 billion today.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

Dropbox has a private valuation of $ 10 billion, and though it's uncertain whether it will be able to initially sell shares above it, the stock could trade higher once it's public.

May 1 - Plane maker Boeing Co said on Tuesday it would buy aerospace parts company KLX Inc for about $ 3.2 billion in cash to expand its aircraft services business.

This end of the market is dominated by DJI, a Chinese manufacturer expected to crack US$ 1 billion in revenues this year.

Despite watching CVS vastly increase its market share after cutting its $ 2 - billion tobacco business, every other major pharmacy chain continues to insist there's no way it can stop selling cigarettes.

Prem Watsa, known as Canada's Warren Buffett, is now the company's fifth - largest shareholder through Fairfax Financial Holdings, the $ 9 - billion insurance and investment firm that he founded in Toronto.

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

For the first three quarters of 2017, BofA earned $ 15.7 billion.

The NCAA Tournament is a major source of advertising revenue for television, generating more than $ 1 billion per year in ad sales.

«I went from running a $ 100 million business at Fiskars to a $ 2.5 billion business at UP,» says Fritz, who, after all the businesses he'd seen sold, appreciated the tradition of long service at UP.

That explains why Restaurant Brands International (RBI), the Oakville, Ont. - based parent company of Tim Hortons and Burger King, will shell out US$ 1.8 billion in cash to acquire Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, an American fried chicken chain.

Warman says Tencent controls a significant share of Glu Mobile and has at least a 10 % stake in Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI), which recently acquired King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion.

Billions of dollars in unclaimed property is being held by states until owners claim it.

Will President Obama's proposed $ 50 billion in funding for fixing roads, bridges, rail lines and airports be enough?

Money for the original program — which helped to lend $ 22 billion to some 55,000 small businesses — was included in last year's economic stimulus bill.

Total company revenue rose 14 % to $ 6 billion, while net income edged up to $ 660 million from $ 653 million a year earlier.

More than a billion people log into Facebook daily, and Americans spend 40 minutes of their day, on average, on the social network.

Revenue of $ 13.83 billion beat forecasts of $ 13.72 billion but it disappointed on revenue outlook and its shares fell 2.2 per cent in after - hours trading.

The Federal Aviation Administration and Space Florida, the state agency tasked with promoting interstellar tourism, predict suborbital flights alone could generate up to $ 1.6 billion in revenue during their first 10 years of operation.

It has annual revenues of about $ 3.3 billion.

Far from it: Its capital expenditure has almost doubled, from $ 2.2 billion in 2006 to a planned $ 4.2 billion in 2015.

The company's EPS outlook of $ 32.40 to $ 34.10 on EBITDA of $ 2.03 billion to $ 2.13 billion is below FactSet's consensus estimates of $ 34.21 EPS on $ 2.14 billion in EBITDA.

Revenue rose to $ 4.87 billion from $ 3.34 billion.

The United States could lose up to 700,000 jobs and suffer billions of dollars in lost economic output if President Donald Trump ends a program granting work permits to the children of undocumented immigrants, a new report finds.

Using traditional methods, you know if you've taken a sort of Apollo - style approach, an optimistic class number would be about $ 10 billion a person.

A grace period on Chinese loans to Venezuela has lapsed, potentially depriving the cash - strapped OPEC nation of billions of dollars in desperately needed oil revenue this year.

Last year, companies raised $ 3.8 billion via ICOs, and this year alone they have already raised $ 2.8 billion, according to data from CoinSchedule, a site which tracks the activity in the space.

The overall games market will continue climbing to $ 83 billion by 2016, but mobile and online will increasingly make up the lion's share after surpassing consoles and PCs this year.

So before anyone demands $ 44 billion from Canadian taxpayers to end homelessness, let's first give the private sector a chance to fix this problem free of charge.

But, he doesn't see how the Trump administration could take down an industry that is already generating billions of dollars and created thousands of jobs.

I've seen how an executive vastly increased her company's valuation by throwing away a $ 2 - billion line of business she knew was undermining her company's brand.

Hospitals and pharmacies shelled out $ 424.8 billion on drugs, up 12.2 % from 2014's record mark, according to new data from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

So shifting part of that number to U.S. producers, who will charge higher prices on a few tens of billion in sales, won't sink the economy.

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

«Now you have close to 1.5 billion people around the world with smartphones connected to broadband and connected to payment systems,» Coneybeer said.

As of September 2017, China has about 1.39 billion mobile telephone subscribers.