Sentences with phrase «largest oil producing»

Hackers hit Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producing company, with a cyber attack that disabled 30,000 of its workstations.

This followed strenuous lobbying efforts by some of largest oil producing non-OPEC nations in the weeks leading up to the meeting.

California, the third - largest oil producing state in the nation, on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, sued the Trump administration to reinstate an Obama - era rule governing hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking.

For example, the only large oil producing «shale» formation which seems to be very competitive is the Permian Wolfcamp and nearby zones.

Not exact matches

Large integrated oil companies are known as such because they not only produce oil, but they also refine it into finished products, such as jet fuel, gasoline, heating oil, and diesel, and sell it via a network of gasoline stations.

How could a little - known British firm with two employees and no producing assets end up owning the largest oil lease ever issued in the Canadian Arctic?

The worst storm to hit the U.S. since 2004 and by some estimates the largest rain - storm in U.S. history, Harvey has had a profound impact on the nation's largest oil - producing and oil - refining region.

Murphy has a 5 percent stake in Syncrude Canada Ltd, one of Canada's largest oil sands plants with the capacity to produce 350,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day.

This parched patch of land, under which lies the largest oil - producing rock formations in the United States, is the epicenter of a growth binge that shows just how tight the link remains between low unemployment, rising wages, and upward pricing pressure.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Crude oil price volatility rose significantly, driven by the desire of some large producing countries to capture greater market share by driving prices down sharply.

Canadian heavy oil is perfectly suited for the refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast, which is the largest motor gasoline producing region in the U.S., producing 90 percent of American gasoline exports.

Among commodities, oil prices moved higher as fears about rising US shale production abated somewhat, and market participants began giving more weight to the effectiveness of supply cuts by members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and several other large oil - producing countries.

A drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing in shale rock formations — fracking — in the U.S. produced large amounts of crude oil, natural gas and other petroleum products.

Above, you'll find a list of how many drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC) can be found in our largest oil - producing regions.

Third, government priorities for energy exports have shifted in 2015 with the change in governing parties in Ottawa as well as in Alberta, Canada's largest oil - and gas - producing province.

The region is also a major energy producer, the source of 75 % of the state's oil production and 65 % of its gas production.18 Kern County is the third most productive oil - producing county in the U.S., 19 accounting for one - tenth of overall U.S. oil production and three of the five largest U.S. oil fields.20 Kern is also home to the world's second largest onshore wind farm, the Alta Wind Energy Center, 21 and construction is underway there on what will be the world's largest solar PV installation, at Antelope Valley.22

Following an agreement late last year among members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and several other large oil - producing countries to restrict supplies, prices rose and largely held their gains as participants appeared to be mostly complying with the terms of the deal.

Canada - based Finning International, which is the world's largest Caterpillar dealer, sells, rents and offers parts and services for equipment and engines in Canada, Ireland, Latin America and the U.K. Based in Austria, Schoeller - Bleckmann produces and sells components and parts for the oil and gas industry.

Aramco produces almost 10 million barrels of oil a day — just over 10 percent of the world's total supply — from some of the largest, lowest - cost fields in the world.

For example, as long as there are large pools of oil in the ground, the price of oil will be determined by the policies of oil - producing countries as to how much to pump.

However, rain forests and peat lands in palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.

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Produced from a new variety of oilseed rape — the familiar yellow - flowered crop that is the third - largest source of the world's vegetable oil needs — the new oil, -LSB-...]

Many other brands of eco-friendly diapers aren't always transparent about the materials used to make their products and sadly, still use large amounts of oil - based plastics to produce their diapers.

Ghana was forced to turn to the IMF for a three - year $ 918m loan programme in 2015, after the nation, which began exporting oil seven years ago and produces large amounts of gold and cocoa, was hit by the slump in commodities prices.

Closed vats might produce pure strains of such high - oil species for feeding into large ponds to grow sufficient supplies, says systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, who has been analyzing the fuel potential of microscopic plants.

«Maybe if we can transfer the genetic information to make these oils into quicker growing organisms like other algae that grow a lot quicker or a land plant that can produce large amounts of biomass, we can have them produce oil for us.»

The RSC report, although focused on Canada, is directly applicable to northern U.S. states such as New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Alaska, which either produce or transport large volumes of oil, Boufadel said.

Mark Brownstein, a climate expert at the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund, said the countries, two of the world's largest petroleum drillers, showed real leadership in «setting a mark for other major oil and gas producing nations.»

In 1999 a pair of Indian researchers found that microwaving popcorn in 10 percent oil, 2 percent butter, and 0.5 percent salt produced the largest flakes (that translates to about a teaspoon of oil, a fifth of a teaspoon of butter, and a pinch of salt for every quarter of a cup of kernels).

In 2012, the United States produced oil at record levels and is expected to overtake Russia this year as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas combined, according to the report.

Improvements to U.S. energy security despite rising tensions in oil - producing regions have prompted questions about whether the United States needs to continue enforcing the provisions of the Carter Doctrine that require Washington to maintain a large and costly military presence in the Persian Gulf.

«Steam is the largest cost associated with producing oil in these thermal projects,» says GlassPoint vice president John O'Donnell.

The goal of the research is to alter oilseeds to produce large amounts of modified oil that can be used as improved biofuels or even industrial and food - related applications.

Roughly 40 percent of the oil produced from California's century - old fields relies on the steam technique — and it is the largest industrial use of natural gas in that state.

«We are engaged in the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world, from the industrialized countries into oil producing regions,» FedEx chairman Fred Smith said.

The field, the largest oil formation in the United States, produced over 908,000 barrels a day in November — more than double the rate just two years ago.

Finding ways to treat and dispose of or recycle the large volume of chemical - laden flowback water and brine - laden wastewater that is produced over the lifetime of an unconventional oil or gas well also poses challenges, the researchers noted.

A team led by University of Illinois researchers answered the call by imagining and successfully achieving a way to produce large quantities of oil from sugarcane.

The Smackover formation, a 65 - square - mile Jurassic oil field, was for a few years the nation's largest oil - producing facility.

Because it takes a significantly larger amount of hemp stalks to produce hemp oil, there is an increased risk of contamination of toxins contained within the plant.

Essential oils can be quite expensive, but a high quality essential oil takes a large amount of plant material to produce and is highly concentrated.

No other naturally produced oil has as large an amount of monounsaturated as olive oil (mainly oleic acid) nor confers the benefits to your heart and circulatory system as olive oil.

Even the butter oil used in these capsules is extracted from milk that is produced by Devon and Guernsey cows that are known to graze only on green grasses and provide milk that contains large amounts of butterfat.

It was in the best interest of the large manufacturers of corn and soybean oil (which can be produced cheaply) to give butter (mostly produced by small dairy farmers) a bad rap.

Those individuals who have consumed large amounts of polyunsaturated oils, especially hydro - genated oils, or who have impaired pancreatic function, such as diabetics, may not be able to produce EPA and will, therefore, lack important prostaglandins unless they consume oily fish or take a cod liver oil supplement.

Even though the United States has become the world's larger grower of soybeans (producing approximately 83 million metric tons of soybeans on 75 million acres of land), these soybeans are not being cultivated for human food use but for other purposes (their extractable oil and their processing into animal feed).

Today, nearly 50 countries produce olive oil commercially, even though the largest producers are located in the Mediterranean.

These large pores on the skin are commonly seen in oily and combination skin because such skin types produce more amounts of the natural oil (sebum).