In a test case pitting community rights against the oil and gas industry, the Court ruled that the towns of Dryden and Middlefield can use local zoning laws to ban heavy industry,
including oil and gas operations, within municipal borders.
Not exact matches
Some of Friedland's past money - makers
include the 1996 sale of his Voisey's Bay nickel property to Inco for $ 3.1 billion
and the 2009 sale of Ivanhoe Energy's American
oil and gas operations to Seneca Resources Corp. in a $ 40 - million deal.
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.»
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political,
and capital markets conditions
and other factors beyond the Company's control,
including natural
and other disasters or climate change affecting the
operations of the Company or its customers
and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings
and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions
and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates
and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing
and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability
and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials
and energy (
including oil and natural
gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (
including those caused by natural
and other disasters
and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures,
and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions
and other evolving business strategies,
and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches
and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension
and postretirement plans;
and (11) legal proceedings,
including significant developments that could occur in the legal
and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017,
and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
NE is an offshore drilling contractor for the
oil and gas industry with
operations all over the world
including operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico
and Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia,
and Australia.
PDC's
operations include production, development, exploration
and marketing of crude
oil, natural
gas and natural
gas liquids («NGLs»).
The Company's
operations also
include the marketing of natural
gas,
oil and NGLs.
The Company's
operations in the United States
include oil and natural -
gas exploration
and production in the United States onshore Lower states, deepwater Gulf of Mexico
and onshore Alaska.
Anadarko's international
operations include oil, natural -
gas and NGLs production
and development in Algeria
and Ghana, along with activities in Mozambique.
If the listing on the stock exchange is successful, MTN Ghana would be exempted from the capital market local content policy which enjoins companies operating in specific areas
including telecom, mining,
oil and gas to list a minimum percentage of their shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange within 5 years of commencement of
operations in Ghana.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States
and Canada agreed joint steps on Thursday to fight climate change,
including cutting methane emissions from
oil and gas operations and signing last year's Paris climate deal «as soon as feasible.»
At issue are draft rules that require annual greenhouse
gas reporting from an estimated 13,000 sites,
including refineries, other
oil and gas sites, power plants,
and many other types of industrial
operations, such as cement
and metals production.
Highlights for me
include mentions of the new experiments Michael Faraday was conducting with zinc wires, speculation about the coming of the «electro - magnetic light as a substitute for
oil or
gas,»
and the beginning of the information age: Samuel Morse's telegraph was then in
operation only between Washington
and Baltimore, but the editors predicted «this wonder of the age» would come into «general use through the length
and breadth of our land.»
For
oil and gas operations, those things
include tightening valves on
oil and gas operations, replacing equipment before it wears out, or making sure all of the
gas makes it into the pipeline.
Other activities
include: • pushing for stricter environmental standards for offshore
oil and gas projects • engaging a local energy company regarding their
operations • running a public campaign to raise awareness regarding the threats posed by the Sakhalin offshore
oil and gas projects
Previous projects have
included environmental, oceanographic
and geophysical survey
operations for the
oil and gas industry.
In the United States, methane regulations established under the Obama administration are currently slated for elimination or modification,
including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) rules for managing methane from new
oil and gas sources as well as the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) rules for reducing methane from
oil and gas operations on federal land.
Over his 25 - year career at Heerema, Chris was involved in all aspects of offshore
oil and gas marine construction
including engineering,
operations, procurement, contracting, equipment management, planning, logistics,
and project management.
Key state regulations
include: Review
and approval of permits; well design, location
and spacing; drilling
operations; water management
and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health
and safety;
and inspection
and enforcement of day - to - day
oil and gas operations.
At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that
included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an
oil and gas drilling
and production subsidiary, a natural
gas trading subsidiary
and various other diverse
operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing
and even a large pistachio farm.
Sources of methane emissions in the U.S.
include the waste management
and operations industry, the agricultural industry, as well as leaks
and emissions from the
oil and gas industry itself.
The analysis also
included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring
and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel,
and fugitive emissions of methane from
oil and gas operations and coal mining.
Dirty energy lobbyists,
including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural
gas, deny permits for liquefied natural
gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants,
and prohibit new coal mining,
oil drilling,
and oil /
gas pipeline
operations, among others.
Examples
include a dispute between joint venturers over the
operation of a gold mine, a dispute charging an
oil and gas lessee with failure to prevent drainage from an
oil and gas lease, litigation over water rights, a dispute over title to sand
and gravel
and a claim for trespass by the surface owner against the operator of a sand
and gravel mine.
Demonstrated consulting expertise in industries
including Oil and Gas, Hospitality
and Water Park
operations.