Sentences with phrase «major oil companies which»

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But companies are still feeling the pinch of the massive glut of oil worldwide, which has brought down markets and remains a major policy discussion among international producers.

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The U.S. major confirmed the arrests, which are believed to be the first to affect a foreign oil company's direct employees.

Riley was working in Houston for a major oil and gas company, putting in 10 - hour days and a three - hour commute, which kept her from spending time with her young son.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in thcompany's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in thCompany — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

All major gas and oil companies were measured with YouGov BrandIndex's Buzz score, which asks respondents: «If you've heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?»

However, Major General Manuel Quevedo has only accelerated the decline of PDVSA, which once held a reputation as one of the better managed state - owned oil companies in the world.

The loss mirrored those of other major oil companies, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which reported a third - quarter net loss of $ 7.42 billion Thursday, the most in more than a decade.

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.

The Tema Chemu Lagoon has served as an industrial sink through which almost all the major industries including textiles, oil industries among other companies channel their waste into the sea over the years.

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

«So he is discussing with some oil companies and looking for some innovative financing which might pick up some of the financing so that we reduce our financial output and contribution by the Federal Government, that will be a major saving which can be used to plug the gap particularly with falling oil prices.

I look at the major oil companies and they all seem to be levering up, which is unusual given the recent trajectory of crude oil prices.

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.

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.

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.

Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

Some of the same people who have deplored this would doubtless have been pleased to see material similarly «stolen» which discredited a major oil company or, indeed, a group of sceptical scientists.

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.

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

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But basically, I believe that the only reason there's so much resistance — including at this exact moment while the US Senate for the third time now since the Democrats have taken over, is trying to pass a bill that will get the tax subsidies away from the most profitable corporations in the history of corporations ever, which are the major oil companies and move those tax subsidies.

The numbers are consistent with a Carbon Tracker report released in May which argued that seven major oil and gas companies could create $ 100 billion (U.S.) in value by avoiding high - cost development.

(07/25/2012) A campaign run by environmental activists has helped lead to a 87 percent reduction in palm oil use by eight major food companies in Norway, reports Rainforest Foundation Norway, which led the effort.

Represented a major independent oil and gas company in defending claims by family members claiming an undivided mineral interest to lands in Brooks County, which interest is claimed to be derived from land titles over one century old.

Recently he successfully tried a claim for a major oil company in which the other side was claiming damages in excess of $ 700 million.

She was a member of the legal team representing Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) which was named «Attorneys of the Year» for Environmental Law in 2001 by California Lawyer (Daily Journal Corp.) for the resolution of a precedent - setting case requiring major oil companies to clean up more than a thousand sites contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE.

Considered to be the energy capital of the world, five of the six super major energy companies maintain a large base of operations in Houston which www.resumewritingservice.biz wants to draw your attention to (international headquarters of ConocoPhillips; US operational headquarters of Exxon - Mobil; US headquarters for international companies Shell Oil (US subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell located in London and The Hague, Netherlands), and BP whose international headquarters are in London, England.