Sentences with phrase «more oil at»

Now, meeting the goal of cutting our oil dependence depends largely on two things: first, finding and producing more oil at home; second, reducing our overall dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency.

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The recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

As she worked at a startup in 2015, she raised more than $ 9,000 through Indiegogo for an avocado - and - oil deep conditioner for black women with frizzy or unruly curls.

Oil has dropped more than six per cent since closing at a two - year high of $ 110.53 on Sept. 6.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

It is redesigning its deepwater oil platforms and onshore shale - gas projects to simplify them, a major cultural change at a firm that has long prided itself more for engineering prowess than for economic discipline.

Pipeline outages in Iraq and Nigeria have removed more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the market for at least the next two weeks.

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

In the oil markets, that means that if traders will pay more to lock in a shipment at a given price several months away than they would for delivery next month, the market's in contango.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum is considering growth opportunities in Papua New Guinea, announcing today it was evaluating a takeover offer for Oil Search through an all - scrip deal valued at more than $ 11 billion.

At a time when tech analysts tended to be exuberant bulls while bankers were more skeptical, «Ruth was the oil in the machinery» that helped the team agree on which transactions to back, says Joe Perella, then head of Morgan Stanley's investment banking.

It reports that in Bologna's Eataly World you can do things like watch pasta or olive oil is made, meet cows and pigs that are treated more like pets at the facility than food, and snack on freshly cut prosciutto.

Foreign oil companies would refuse to dish out any more money to develop the country's resources if it knew that it could be kicked out at any moment by overzealous prosecutors in small towns.

U.S. crude oil exports rose to 2.175 million barrels per day, or more than 15 million a week, at the end of March.

High demand for diesel and home heating fuel in particular means refineries are willing to pay more for crude oil, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Servioil, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information ServiOil Price Information Service.

In contrast to a commodity such as oil, though, a company can produce more chips at will, and they often do.

Yet as production there declines — Saudi Arabia is pumping out its oil at more than four times the rate of the oilsands, Talwani noted in a New York Times op - ed titled, «Canada: the next oil superpower?»

Rive argues that it should stay underground, that the oil majors look at the world through petroleum - coated lenses, and that the benefits of solar are so obvious that once the price becomes more competitive, fossil - fuel use will plunge.

Citi's comments come as oil prices have recovered from a plunge in 2014 with the bank seeing the first stop for the rally at about US$ 65 a barrel, around 25 % more than current price levels.

With approval of the Keystone Pipeline it could mean more Canadian crude oil is coming to the U.S. CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis is in Nebraska, at the pipeline pumping station with a look at its impact on oil prices and exports.

With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. and Imperial Oil Ltd. announced Tuesday they have signed a deal that will allow PC Optimum members to earn points at more than 1,800 Esso gas stations effective June 1.

Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands recently analyzed oils from the aforementioned creepy - crawlies and, per their findings, they have more than a hunch that oil from crickets is likely the most consumer - friendly option in the bunch.

Prices of both oil and gas are trading at more than seven - year lows.

On the energy front, major oil producers sounded more confident about rebalancing in the markets at a Friday meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC producers.

As they put more money in the smaller, pure - play companies that focused on one industry vertical, Big Oil began to trade at a discount.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

«We believe the bias for stock prices in general remains to the upside, underpinned by a growing economy, low interest rates and increasingly, cheaper oil... With operating margins at elevated levels, top line growth is poised to more quickly bleed through to the bottom line, thus supporting earnings.»

Of course, Marathon and COP were trading at different places when they announced their decisions to split up, with Marathon (MRO) trading at around a 20 % discount to other integrated oil companies, while COP was trading more or less on par with its peers.

And cheaper gas at the pumps, courtesy of lower oil prices, will come as a form of fiscal stimulus for consumers in both the U.S. and Canada, leaving more money in their pockets to spend on other things.

Sales at gasoline stations rose 0.9 %, but that had more to do with higher oil prices than stronger demand.

With the prospect of serious Chinese investment in Canada now a reality, however, Harper is signalling that American environmental concerns about our oil are «all the more reason» for Canada to look at trade diversification, particularly diversification of energy exports.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

Veteran U.S. investor Jim Rogers is looking at possible investments into Russian oil firm Bashneft and diamond miner Alrosa as he aims to add more Russian assets to his portfolio, he told Reuters.

On Monday, WTI closed at US$ 52.22 a barrel, up by 3 percent, while Brent crude settled at US$ 59.02 — its highest since July 2015 — on the back of growing optimism that the OPEC production cut deal is finally having a palpable effect on global supplies of crude oil, and the equally growing worry that the Middle East could be in for more tensions — this time between the Kurdish nation and the countries it inhabits, following an independence referendum in the Kurdistan autonomous region in Iraq.

Oil prices dropped more than 3 % but later recovered somewhat, with Brent crude futures 0.6 % lower at $ 125.2 while US crude was down 0.4 % at $ 113.46 a barrel.

Funding its ballooning deficit, which can't be plugged with asset sales and debt issuance alone, and improving its economic situation are partly why Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the OPEC oil cartel, disagreed to any cut in production at the December OPEC meeting, and more recently has been discounting the price of oil to its customers.

«Following Russia's recent acceptance of the renminbi as payments for oil, we expect more record high oil imports ahead to China,» Gordon Kwan, the Hong Kong - based head of regional oil and gas research at Nomura Holdings Inc., said in an e-mail, referring to the Chinese currency.

Ann Hailey has accumulated more than 30 years of finance, retail and operations expertise through executive leadership positions at companies such as Mobil Oil Corporation, Pepsico, Inc., Duggan Consulting Associates, Inc., Nabisco Holdings Group, Inc., Pillsbury Company, Limited Brands, Inc. and Gilt Groupe, Inc..

By comparison, the supertankers that will be loaded at the Westridge Marine Terminal will each carry about 575,000 barrels of oil — more than double the Exxon Valdez spill.

U.S. oil production peaked in April at 9.6 million barrels per day, and since then oil imports have started to move up, jumping more than a half million barrels per day.

Let me give you a simple example — suppose the marginal barrel of oil globally is, in fact, an oil sands barrel, and so an increase in oil sands supply (i.e. more barrels available at a lower price) would increase world oil production and consumption.

Helped by a more than 4 percent jump in oil prices, the S&P 500 ended Wednesday with a 1.2 percent gain at 2,064.

Such significant inflows mean the amount of oil stashed at Cushing has nearly tripled to more than 50 million barrels.

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).