Sentences with phrase «made by oil companies»

Gifts of $ 100M + have been made by oil companies to Stanford and Princeton.

In fact, fully 25 percent of global hydrogen production is made by oil companies themselves at refineries to improve the quality of crude oil.

Not exact matches

Back in 2005 the China Offshore Oil Company, or CNOOC, got burned when U.S. lawmakers made noises to block its US$ 18.5 - billion takeover of integrated Unocal Oil Company, eventually bought by Chevron.

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

Three such examples are Aimsio, a digital ticketing software that streamlines field operations by enabling users to file reports, dispatch resources and track project progress all from one central location; DarkVision, which developed a new ultrasound technology that allows companies to create 3D images of the inside of oil wells, enabling them to make more informed and cost - effective production decisions; and Unsist, which uses artificial intelligence to help oil and gas companies make better production and operational choices.

Additionally, the SEC requires oil and gas companies, in filings made with the SEC, to disclose proved reserves, which are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible — from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and governmental regulations.

Of the 15 companies covered by the Daily Oil Bulletin, nine made no mention of the impact of the new NDP government.

Both companies managed to make a profit during the third quarter, bolstered by refining operations and chemical divisions that are helped by low oil prices.

Rosneft has taken over TNK - BP in a $ 55bn (# 36bn) deal that will make the Russian state - owned oil company by far the world's largest listed oil producer.

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

The ACCC found that Ms Beer's slogan, Maggie Beer: A Barossa Food Tradition, which figured on the packaging of products including ice - cream, aged red wine vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil, suggested that the products were made in South Australia when they were actually made by other companies in Queensland and Victoria.

-LSB-...] During that same weekend I invited friends over for a hemp - themed BBQ to enjoy the nice spring weather and check out some of the hemp products that I had accumulated by then, which included Dr. Bronner's soaps, Hempz lotions, Merry Hempsters lip balm, hemp protein powder; hearts; and seed oil from Nutiva and Manitoba Harvest, a journal made of hemp paper from Green Field Paper Company, various shirts and other examples of hemp fiber, and of course my very own hempcrete blocks.

Nigerian government now seeks a court order compelling the two companies to pay into the Federal government of Nigeria account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the sum of USD 406,751,070 being the total value of the missing revenue from the shortfall / undeclared / under - declared crude oil shipments of the country, made by the companies to United States of America.

Citi News gathered earlier this week that, at least 200 liters of premix fuel had been diverted by Oil Marketing Marketing Companies that claimed to supply the product outside Accra, but ended up supplying mostly within Accra for industrial purposes at a higher cost to make more profit.

However, he alluded to a comment made by host of the show, Kwami Sefa Kayi that heads of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Energy Ministry's recent encounter as well as the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company issue were examples of what was happening.

They were said to have fraudulently obtained the money from the bank on the false claim that their company, Danium Energy Services Ltd, had been contracted by Total Nigeria Plc to make supplies of Automotive Gas Oil.

Governor Ambode who made the declaration when the management of the company led by the Group Managing Director, Mr. Tunde Folawiyo paid him a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Ikeja, Monday commended the firm for their doggedness to achieve the feat after 25 years of hard work, saying that by the provision of Section 162 Sub-Section 2 of the Nigeria Constitution, Lagos has become an oil producing State.

The company has so far made about 10,000 batteries on its prototype assembly lines, most of which are undergoing testing by three industrial partners, including an oil company in Thailand and Japanese heavy - equipment manufacturer IHI Corp..

The companies in March pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, making false statements and failing to maintain accurate oil record books, which are inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Making the PlantBottle has thus far saved roughly 70,000 barrels of oil by the company's calculations — and the plastic resin, indistinguishable from its petroleum - based analog, can be exported throughout the world.

Consumers will pay higher prices for palm oil made by companies that help to protect endangered species, finds a new study by North American and U.K. researchers.

The owner started the company by making pork rinds and selling them to bars but unfortualnlty they are made with rice bran oil which is not an ancestral friendly food.

Likely to be driven by a newly - developed 1.5 - litre i - DTEC Earth Dreams diesel engine, this new car is going to be the first oil - burner model ever to be launched by the Honda camp, which makes it all the more significant for the millions of admirers that the company has earned itself over the years.

The only players that seem to invest heavily in attracting newbies are the sharks, the predators, the «Author Solutions» style companies out there whose business model isn't to make money selling books, it's making money off of the hopes and dreams of authors; by selling them snake oil, selling them unnecessary marketing packages, etc..

Besides the possibility of our applying a similar process to the bituminous coal and tars made therefrom, in this country, the research on hydrogenation has been extended by one of the great oil companies of the United States which at great expense has learned how the method can be so modified as to apply to petroleum hydrocarbons.

Royal Dutch Shell acquired the British multinational oil and gas corporation BG Group last year and has made significant progress by improving free cash flow, streamlining the combined company and realizing synergies.

I also have a position in MFC Industrial, a company with exposure to metals and oil and gas (which, however, I will be selling shortly), a video game developer that is a net / net (Gravity Ltd.), a small position in RadioShack (made even smaller by the decline in share price over the past 2 years), and finally a short - term spinoff trade (Oil States Internationaoil and gas (which, however, I will be selling shortly), a video game developer that is a net / net (Gravity Ltd.), a small position in RadioShack (made even smaller by the decline in share price over the past 2 years), and finally a short - term spinoff trade (Oil States InternationaOil States International).

He poured money into the oil company while it was trading in the mid - $ 30s and made a small fortune in August 2005 when PetroKazakhstan was bought out by China National Petroleum Corp. at more than $ 60 a share.

Born in Woodstock, NY and educated at upstate New York's Bard College, Lee's love of painting the world around him dovetails with his desire to do his bit to save it; to that end, he uses socially responsible and environmentally friendly materials, like walnut oil paints made by a family - owned Oregon company, whenever possible.

The project utilized the company's manufacturing infrastructure, which is the production of hand - made oil paintings for export to create 51 oil paintings (one by each artist).

The work, which takes its title from a speech by a corporate head of one of the world's major oil companies, is made up of carefully factured plaques exhibiting quotes from business executives and important art world figures.

The elusive graffiti artist created the image, which depicts a bird with a head made of a petrol - pump nozzle, as an indictment of world pollution by oil companies.

By working with WWF and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, companies both in Australia and internationally are beginning to make the switch to a sustainable alternative, Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO).

Numerous of such successions have been retrieved by oil exploration and production companies, but generally have not been made publically available.

It is only by consistently demanding higher production standards and transparent palm oil sourcing — and demonstrating these values in the form of what we choose to buy, a.k.a. voting with one's dollars — that companies will make this happen.

There, students can find a section called «Running on Oil» and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record — citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way — but makes only vague references to spills or pollution.

The official, Jason K. Burnett, once a Bush appointee and now an Obama supporter, told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that the argument for putting off any carbon dioxide limits was made by «individuals working for particular oil companies, Exxon Mobil,» as well as oil industry trade associations.

ANDY REVKIN received by email and posted: Hi Andy, in my talks and papers I have mentioned many times that it does not make sense to go after every last drop of oil, and I have noted that one useful thing that citizens can do, in addition to helping block coal fired power plants, is to keep oil companies out of places such as Arctic National wildlife Refuge, deep and off - shore areas.

By the way, I watched CNN news, it said now that Canada and American Exxon mobil, shell and other company make good oil sand business.

There was a time when environmentalists targeted Lego for partnering with oil companies, but from its search for a non-plastic alternative for its bricks to a commitment to run on 100 % renewable energy by 2020, the company has been making significant strides toward sustainability.

Further, despite the federal government = s willingness to make public lands and waters available to energy developers, of the 47.5 million acres of on - shore federal lands that are currently being leased by oil and gas companies, only about 13 million acres are actually Ain production @, or producing oil and gas (Figure 2).

The fuel was supplied by SkyNRG, an aviation biofuels company, and made by Dynamic Fuels, a producer of «next - generation» fuels made from used cooking oil.

Last year alone, the top five oil companies reduced their worldwide workforce by a combined 4,400 employees while making a combined $ 73 billion in profits — and paychecks for senior executives at these companies totaled more than $ 200 million.

And by the way almost everyone who freelances has done work for Petrol companies (possibly Gore at times as well), my old new media company did work for Shell - that doesn't make me a lackey for Big Oil.

«The current understanding of this situation by some IPCC proponents is that the forces of evil (oil companies and all that) are causing problems for scientists because they want to make money.»

Another company, Solazyme, Inc, hopes to get around the problem by feeding algae with renewable resources, such as waste sugars and starches, so they can make oil without sunlight and no matter where they are in a container.

Even as Washington goes into a frenzy over energy, many of the oil companies are staying on the sidelines, balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president, or even straying from commitments they had already made.

When a billion dollar investment by any of the major oil companies could make liquid fluoride thorium reactors a reality in a few years, you have to ask yourselves about whether they really care about producing energy or whether they only care about producing a certain kind of energy.

Mainstream environmentalists, venture capitalists, labor unions, tech chieftains and even some Republicans have all made common cause to oppose the measure, which is backed by two Texas oil companies.

At Chevron, a similar resolution sought to make the oil company's current carbon emissions reduction goals more challenging by syncing the targets with the global emissions limits needed to prevent runaway global warming.