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how oil and gas companies are making and tracking ambitious commitments to reduce methane emissions.
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How Oil and Gas Companies Have Blocked Progress on Global Warming
A detailed analysis of
how oil and gas companies calculate their «proven», «probable» and «possible» reserves and a comparison of current estimates.
Not exact matches
For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach
and then a year later left the classroom to start a
company, I've seen firsthand just
how much the community has invested in bringing in
and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old
oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.
A year later,
how are Canadian
oil and gas companies responding to the collapse in crude
oil prices?
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation
and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for
and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the
company's finances
and operations posed by the environmental, social
and economic challenges associated with the
oil sands»; a report of «known
and potential environmental impacts»
and «policy options» to address the impacts of the
company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on
how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy
company»;
and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse
gas emissions.»
The Toronto Stock Exchange has the distinction of having the greatest number of
companies in the mining
and oil &
gas industries in any exchange across the globe, which isn't surprising given
how big of a percentage of Canada's economy those industries form.
If Alberta doesn't change
how it requires
companies to finance their own
oil and gas well cleanup costs, the energy industry
and, ultimately, taxpayers in Alberta face cleanup costs of up to $ 8...
Disclosing the Facts: Transparency
and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions
and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from
oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural
gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.
The sponsors withdrew the resolution after the
company agreed to report on
how much of its
oil and gas reserves would become unsellable — or stranded — if a global treaty decreased fossil fuel demand.
On September 30, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued new rules (pdf) meant to upgrade safety equipment
and tighten well control as well as force
oil companies to show regulators detailed plans of
how they will manage risks
and prevent blowouts at offshore
oil and gas sites.
«
Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel
and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials
and a retired professor, pointing out
how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural
gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.
Officials in Pennsylvania were not immediately available to say
how much
gas and oil energy
companies produce from state forest
and park land.
The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out
how much
oil,
gas and coal the world's major energy
companies hold in reserve.
Since 50 % of sales are exposed to the
oil and gas industry, let's take a look at
how the
company performed when the price of
oil collapsed between 2014 - 2016.
Here's
how streaming
companies differ from direct plays on gold
and silver miners or
oil and gas drillers:
One advanced course I completed last year included a lengthy section on
how to estimate a resource
company's
oil and gas reserves.
I see that mr. Boone, has run into trouble
and right now
oil is dirt cheap (let us see
how long that lasts) but now that we are officially in recession (two consecutive quarters down)
and the
oil and gas companies boast record profits
and the
oil, natural
gas,
and coal resources will all last longer than 25 years by most projections (coal about a hundred years give or take a decade?)
The agency also took an overdue step to clarify
how to curb emissions of methane from the hundreds of thousands of wells, compressors
and other leaky parts of the nation's sprawling
oil and gas industry, issuing an «Information Collection Request» requiring
companies, among other things, to describe the types of technologies that could be used to reduce emissions.
He was a member of the divestment movement, urging colleges
and universities to pull their endowment investments out of
oil and natural
gas companies and tweeted about
how it was a «sane» position to suggest that «Exxon's actions may have imperiled all of humanity... It's time to divest.»
Investors in
oil and gas companies have been in the dark about their exposure to climate risk, but they will now be able to confront
companies with precise information
and ask hard questions about
how they intend to deal with potentially stranded assets.»
A recent survey by EY indicated some younger Americans can learn more about
how natural
gas and oil companies and refiners are developing the energy that our country will need for decades to come — safely
and responsibly.
The church is one of dozens of congregations across the country exploring
how to divest their portfolios of coal,
oil and gas companies.
(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.
In a blockbuster story, The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed
oil and gas industry giant ExxonMobil to «determine whether the
company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about
how those risks might hurt the
oil business.»
The $ 2 trillion stranded assets danger zone:
How fossil fuel firms risk destroying investor returns, maps out coal, oil and gas supply that makes neither financial nor climate sense in a 2 ˚C world and how this affects both listed and public compani
How fossil fuel firms risk destroying investor returns, maps out coal,
oil and gas supply that makes neither financial nor climate sense in a 2 ˚C world
and how this affects both listed and public compani
how this affects both listed
and public
companies.
Remember when rabid arch-warmist Dana Nuccitelli of Skeptical Science
and Guardian fame was discovered to be in the pay of an «
oil and gas»
company (Tetra Tech)(aka Dana's Dirty Little Secret)
and thus probably the worst person to pontificate about eg
how bad coal
and tar sands could be for the world's climate?
At
Oil Change International, we dug into the numbers and released a report detailing how US bank has raised more than $ 2 billion for companies building oil and gas pipelines in the last year, since their «promise» to end financing for these pipelin
Oil Change International, we dug into the numbers
and released a report detailing
how US bank has raised more than $ 2 billion for
companies building
oil and gas pipelines in the last year, since their «promise» to end financing for these pipelin
oil and gas pipelines in the last year, since their «promise» to end financing for these pipelines.
The report, released today by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a Canadian - based think tank, outlines
how billions in federal
and provincial tax breaks
and corporate incentives benefit
companies in the
oil and gas sector like Imperial Oil, whose earnings in 2015 were CDN$ 1.1 billi
oil and gas sector like Imperial
Oil, whose earnings in 2015 were CDN$ 1.1 billi
Oil, whose earnings in 2015 were CDN$ 1.1 billion.
In an email dated 17 July 2014, about the US presidential primaries, Nix wrote to Wylie: «We have been asked to write a memo to Lukoil (the Russian
oil and gas company) to explain to them
how our services are going to apply to the petroleum business.
In this competitive labour market,
companies want mining,
oil and gas,
and construction professionals who can clearly articulate
how their unique skills
and successes can add value to their business.