Sentences with phrase «largest oil company»

Wylie also spoke about Cambridge Analytica's contact with Russia's second - largest oil company, Lukoil, over some questionable project proposals.

Two Colorado counties and the city of Boulder are suing ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy, Canada's largest oil company, to hold them responsible for climate change - related damage to their communities.

Mobil merged with Exxon Corporation in 1999 to form the world's largest oil company.

Leggett, who is also non-executive chairman of London - based financial think tank Carbon Tracker, asked Williams after the dinner if he was concerned the investment would become stranded; that within five decades the world would no longer need what Canada's largest oil company had to offer.

In a welcome bipartisan action, on October 30 Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of the climate change denial campaign.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to call attention to the detrimental effects of industry - funded, so - called «research» in the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) today called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change denial campaign.

So every dollar you invested into the largest oil company in the world (by revenues) would be collecting $ 0.136 in annual income.

With its Canadian division, EnCana is the fifth largest oil company in North America.

Rather, the world's largest oil company maintained that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, will be necessary to meet the future global demand and that the best path toward managing greenhouse gas emissions is through technology advancement and adoption of energy efficiency programs.

President John Dramani Mahama revealed in his state of the Nation Address last year that an oil and Gas deal had been signed with Italy's largest oil company ENI.

The Kuwaiti government gave the go - ahead to a request by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) to create what would be the country's largest oil company, according to ArabianBusiness.com on Continue Reading

Russian equity prices weakened towards the end of October following the arrest of the chief executive of Russia's largest oil company and the freezing of some of its shares.

China's largest oil company, PetroChina, could lay claim to having hit a market capitalization even higher than Apple's, because of the particularities of the Chinese stock market.

Yet a newly delayed initial public offering of the world's largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, has some wondering who, exactly, is in charge.

Even now Saudi Arabia is finalizing its upcoming sale of an intended minority stake in the largest oil company in the world, their Saudi Aramco state oil company.

Buffett's company had about 1.28 million shares of Exxon, the world's largest oil company, as of Sept. 30, Omaha, Nebraska - based Berkshire said today in a regulatory filing disclosing U.S. equity investments.

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia's most high - profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil — at one point Russia's largest oil company — was abruptly released.

EcoPetrol is Colombia's largest oil company and is 445 on the Fortune Global 500 list.

PetroChina is China's largest oil company.

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.

The world's largest oil company by market value had cut even cut its capital budget for the quarter by 38 %, but it wasn't enough.

Investors hoping to a buy a piece of the world's largest oil company may be forced to wait until 2019 at the earliest, amid reports Saudi Aramco's IPO is likely to be delayed.

Investors hoping to a buy a piece of the world's largest oil company may be forced to wait until 2019 at the earliest, amid reports Saudi Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) is likely to be delayed.

The much - anticipated international listing of Saudi Aramco — the world's largest oil company — is likely to be delayed until 2019, but that decision makes sense given that oil prices are expected to head to $ 80 per barrel, a private equity investor said.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

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

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.

Bloomberg Gadfly points out that some large oil companies are trapped between pure - play E&P s and the absolute largest oil companies, offering up a rather unappetizing opportunity for investors.

One of my best friends at the time was a CPA, had been on the accounting team for one of the worlds largest oil companies, and was teaching small business accounting and bookkeeping at the time.

«Over recent months, several of the world's largest oil companies have acquired a variety of companies and projects that have nothing to do with extracting, refining, or distributing hydrocarbons — but that are set to thrive in the low - carbon transition,» the report states.

Over recent months, several of the world's largest oil companies have acquired a variety of companies and projects that have nothing to do with extracting, refining, or distributing hydrocarbons — but that are set to thrive in the low - carbon transition,» the report

For the world's largest oil companies, referred to as big Big Oil, this calls for a 30 % cut to capital expenditures, just to get the free cash - flow generation back to an acceptable level.

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.

Perhaps there is enough oil to first of oil achieve Canadian oil security and then allow large oil companies to pursue profits where ever they can best generate them?

In January 2004, Riverkeeper initiated a citizen suit against two of the world's largest oil companies for the largest urban oil spill — right in the heart of New York City.

«The large oil companies are now under investigation should of course fully cooperate with the European Commission.»

We can picture a large oil company, or oil kingdom, for whom $ 50 million dollars a year would be a small amount to buy enough doubt in Western minds that climate legislation or carbon fees never happen, while new drilling and pipelines do.

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»...

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.

For Ines, business and work are the most important thing in life, dealing with the contracts of a large oil company and the sexist males who seem to value their work over hers.

Jeff is the safety training manager of a large oil company.

Enron was a large oil company based in Houston, Texas who were known for their extremely complicated business model and indecipherable accounting techniques.

A descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, today's Exxon Mobil (XOM, $ 78.09) remains one of the world's largest oil companies and is the single biggest company by market value among the 53 Dividend Aristocrats.

It was the winter of 2010 and Jade, 43 at the time, had just gotten a new job contract with a large oil company in Northern Alberta.

Apparently, large oil companies that spew out profits and either grow their dividends aggressively or have high starting yields doesn't have a place in the Growth Fund portfolio.

Perhaps lesser - known to its millions of US patrons, Shell is the wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest oil companies in the world.

Perhaps lesser - known to its millions of US patrons, Shell is the wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest oil companies in the world.

«I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care,» he said.

The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known.

Large oil companies based in the US, and UK, and France - known as the «oil majors» - cumulatively control, at most, 15 to 20 % of proven global oil reserves, while nationalized oil companies control the remainder.