Sentences with phrase «major oil companies on»

Aside from the astroturf nature of the planned events, which appear aimed at passing off industry employees as independent citizens, the memo also raises questions about the positions of several major oil companies on the issue of climate change.

In 2004, Goldman Sachs unveiled its Energy Environmental and Social Index, which ranked ExxonMobil ranked dead last among the major oil companies on climate change and 12th out of 23 total, behind BP, Royal Dutch Shell, BG, ENI, OMV, Repsol, Amerada Hess, and Chevron Texaco.

Not exact matches

For pipeline companies with major proposals on the table, such as TransCanada and Enbridge, falling oil prices are a game changer of the same magnitude that rising prices were a decade ago.

With exploration budgets down, major oil companies will rely on acquisitions to replace up to half of their reserves, according to energy consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wall Street fell on Monday as healthcare stocks slid and investors worried about rising costs for companies as oil prices rose, although the major indexes eked out a gain in April to snap a two - month losing streak.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters)- Saudi oil giant Aramco will buy an equity stake in Malaysian firm Petronas» major refining and petrochemical project, the companies said on Tuesday, pumping in $ 7 billion in its biggest downstream investment outside the kingdom.

A few years ago we worked on a «future of gas stations» project for a major oil company.

Companies with heavy exposure to Russia, such as steelmaker Evraz PLC EVR, +2.94 % and oil giant BP PLC BP., -0.64 % BP, +0.07 % were among major decliners on Monday, down 7 % and 1.6 %, respectively.

Most of China's crude imports are bought on long - term contracts between China's major oil companies and foreign national oil companies.

Five major oil and gasoline companies made YouGov BrandIndex's ranking of the top 20 consumer perception gainers for the month of May, most likely on the coattails of easing gas prices.

Abu Dhabi's state - owned oil company on Monday announced plans to publicly list parts of its business and seek new partnerships with oil majors.

With lower prices forcing many oil companies to take on more debt, the bankruptcy or closure of one or more major oil companies is not an impossible scenario, and would have major repercussions on oil prices, both in the short and long term.

(Not the one with Down's Syndrome, the one who volunteered to go fight a pointless and shameful war on behalf of big oil companies and other major corporate interests.)

Interestingly, CNPC was bidding against established oil majors; the company not only cleanly outbid every rival, it also paid the cash strapped Kazakh government a generous bonus upfront and conducted feasibility studies on a pipeline to Xinjiang, offering the Kazakhs a non-Russian export line.

The executives of ten major energy companies, worth a combined # 400 billion, are set to take part in the initiative, working together on issues such as environmentally sensitive oil exploration, electricity interconnection, and stable long - term oil and gas supplies.

The activities of the Niger Delta Avengers which have taken an upward trend recently have however been a major source of concern to the country as oil companies had resorted to declaring a force majeure on their operations in the region.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- More oil than previously thought may have leaked into Lake Michigan this week from BP Plc's Indiana refinery, the company said on Thursday, after two U.S. Senators requested a meeting with the British oil major.

Researchers analyzed the finances of a major palm oil company to determine the impacts of conserving land on biodiversity and profits.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

This model is based on the A45 AMG Edition 1 and was built as a tribute to the Petronas oil company, Mercedes - Benz's major sponsor in F1.

Many independent gas station owners have been feuding over prices with major oil companies since the beginning of the Persian Gulf conflict, and a cease - fire on that front appears nowhere in sight.

Instead, the view is much more bucolic, the local Anangu Kichwa have jobs and a future for their kids, the outside world gets to see what is going on instead of the oil companies having free rein, and a major chunk of the Amazonian rainforest has eyes on the river.

Even major oil and power companies are recognizing that the world is moving toward constraints on carbon emissions and planning those constraints into their long range financial plans.

Members of an American Petroleum Institute task force on CO2 included scientists from nearly every major oil company, including Exxon, Texaco and Shell.

In addition, UCS members are calling on Congress to immediately repeal tax breaks for ExxonMobil and other major oil companies and redirect that money to renewable energy programs and energy efficiency technologies that will help fight global warming.

Final word on windfall profits, the US can not tax foreign generated income which is a major component of oil companies revenues especially in the oil services sector.

A perfect example of this was oil major ExxonMobil's March response to shareholders on managing climate risk, which made clear that the company has no expectation of government regulations that would strand its oil and gas reserves in the ground and would spend millions and even billions to continuing digging, literally, for more hydrocarbon reserves.

I started out providing the forecasts to those operating and eventually moved on to manage offshore operations for a major oil company.

«More than two dozen of the nation's biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming.»

NEWS: Leading investor put four major companies on its banned list for links to environmentally destructive palm oil plantations

Most major oil companies have gone on record preferring carbon taxes over increased regulations.

'' Two degree scenarios need to become the new default setting for how companies report on their future business strategy — it's not clear what the oil majors are so afraid of that they resist focusing on a smaller higher margin business.»

But a recent report by the environmental research group CDP revealed that at least 29 major companies, including five major oil producers, are basing their internal planning on the assumption that such policies — specifically, a government - mandated carbon price — will be a reality as soon as 2020.

US District Judge William Alsup has asked lawyers representing San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., and those representing five major oil companies, to conduct research on the science of global warming and present their findings in a federal hearing.

Now ExxonMobil — the only major oil company to deny the reality of climate change — has joined the coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists from 100 countries on the IPCC.

The first, is a major focus on mapping out the implications of the energy transition involved for key stakeholders, with a focus on coal, oil and gas sectors, on capital expenditure by companies and scenario planning around demand and supply.

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine - tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas.

(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.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

He has authored a number of Carbon Tracker's major reports on these sectors, including the Carbon Supply Cost Curves series, scenario analysis of the oil refining industry in Margin Call, and exploring transition risk at the company level in 2 Degrees of Separation.

Besides, oil companies have given more money to fund research on alternative energy than they have to deniers, so why give big money to deniers and hand alarmists a major PR coup?

The Church recently called on two major oil companies, BP and Shell, to be more transparent about their policies on climate change.

In a report last year on how oil majors are addressing global warming emissions, Ceres gave Exxon a 35 the worst of any company.

Wiese told several hundred oil and gas pipeline compliance officers that his agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (PHMSA), has «very few tools to work with» in enforcing safety rules even after Congress in 2011 allowed it to impose higher fines on companies that cause major accidents.

The bill removes taxpayer handouts to oil, gas, and coal companies, places a moratorium on almost all major fossil fuel projects, and phases out fossil fuels from the nation's energy system over the next 30 years.

Pursuing a breach of warranty claim on behalf of a major oil company where damage total in excess of $ 9 million

Alison Wilson Qualified: 2005 Made partner: 2014 Key cases: Advising a major bank on an FCA investigation into its handling of PPI complaints; advising Standard Chartered Bank in its successful claim against the Ceylon Petroleum Company in connection with oil derivatives; advising a major bank on a multijurisdictional fraud perpetrated against it by a hedge fund manager, including civil claims and associated criminal investigations.

Phillip Ashley Qualified: 2004 Made partner: 2014 Key cases: Acting in significant High Court disputes for a variety of major oil companies, including GdF Suez, Shell and Premier Oil (concerning assets in UK); acting on one of the UK's highest profile High Court oil and gas disputes, between subsidiaries of ConocoPhillips and Centrica relating to the purported termination of transportation and processing services for a $ 700m development by ConocoPhillioil companies, including GdF Suez, Shell and Premier Oil (concerning assets in UK); acting on one of the UK's highest profile High Court oil and gas disputes, between subsidiaries of ConocoPhillips and Centrica relating to the purported termination of transportation and processing services for a $ 700m development by ConocoPhilliOil (concerning assets in UK); acting on one of the UK's highest profile High Court oil and gas disputes, between subsidiaries of ConocoPhillips and Centrica relating to the purported termination of transportation and processing services for a $ 700m development by ConocoPhillioil and gas disputes, between subsidiaries of ConocoPhillips and Centrica relating to the purported termination of transportation and processing services for a $ 700m development by ConocoPhillips.

Represented major integrated oil and gas company in lawsuit filed by employee due to injuries sustained in accident on a rig off the coast of Equatorial Guinea.