Sentences with phrase «of oil billionaire»

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a new trailer for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World with Christopher Plummer having replaced Kevin Spacey in the role of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty who famously refused to cough up the money to pay the people who kidnapped his teenage grandson.

The Black List screenplay, written by David Scarpa, centers on the 1973 kidnapping in Italy of J. Paul Getty III — the rebellious teenage grandson of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, who was reluctant to pay the $ 17 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers.

As David Axelrod told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker in her extraordinary investigative article exposing the Koch brothers, «What they don't say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens» movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.»

The Greenpeace Airship A.E. Bates flies over the location of oil billionaires David and Charles Koch's latest secret political strategy meeting, with a banner reading «Koch Brothers: Dirty Money.»

A growing awareness of these oil billionaires» destructive agenda has led to increased scrutiny and resistance from people and organizations all over the United States.

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The VC firm is owned, in turn by Renova Group, owned by Russian billionaire, Victor Vekselberg, who is one of Russia's richest men and dominates the country's oil and metals industry.

A Russian oil billionaire has been ordered by the U.K.'s High Court to transfer a luxury superyacht worth nearly $ 500,000 to his ex-wife in one of Britain's biggest divorce battles, the Financial Times reports.

HOUSTON, April 16 - Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday nominated a five - person slate of his employees and business associates to replace the SandRidge Energy Inc board of directors, escalating his fight for control of the U.S. shale oil producer.

HOUSTON, April 16 (Reuters)- Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday nominated a five - person slate of his employees and business associates to replace the SandRidge Energy Inc board of directors, escalating his fight for control of the U.S. shale oil producer.

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Isabel Dos Santos, the woman listed by Forbes as Africa's first female billionaire, has been unceremoniously fired from her post as head of Angola's national oil company Sonangol, according to newswire reports.

«The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation's top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows,» the billionaire and former three - term mayor of New York wrote ahead of Trudeau's arrival for town - hall event on live television.

The billionaire philanthropist proceeded to compare Facebook and Google to mining and oil companies, accusing them of earning their profits «by exploiting their environment.»

In recent years, Browne has been chairperson of L1 Energy, a company operating out of Luxembourg, founded by Russian Jewish billionaire Mikhail Fridman, that invests in oil and natural gas ventures.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

U.S. shale oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a «toothless tiger,» https://www.reuters.com/article/us-contl-resources-ceo-hedging-idUSKBN0IQ18R20141107 is now crediting the 14 - nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

HOUSTON, May 3 (Reuters)- U.S. shale oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a «toothless tiger,» here is now crediting the 14 - nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.

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The junk low - grade heavy oil or what the Koch brothers accurately call «garbage» (the right - wing billionaires remain the largest buyers of raw bitumen at their Pine Bend facility in Minnesota) is such a complicated and low - grade resource that it requires a complex methodology to grade its market value.

The Canadian oil producer controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka - Shing would support a tax if it's applied broadly and at least includes the rest of North America, Ghosh said Friday on a conference call to discuss third - quarter earnings results.

For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination of emerging Texas oil and natural gas tycoons, billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.

Lakes Oil, part - owned by billionaire Gina Rinehart, has been a vigorous opponent of a ban on unconventional gas exploration in Victoria, and Mr Tonkin said it was similarly bad policy in South Australia.

The club is firmly in the hands of our enemies and though I realised immediately that as a billionaire Kroenke was obviously a self centred and rapacious person — you don't become a billionaire by being caring and empathetic — and I also quickly saw through Gazidis's lies and snake oil sales methods — the hurt done by a man who clearly once loved our club and still professes to, by putting himself and his own power plus his own gross financial pay before the good of the club and fans, (the only honourable ones in this charade) is by far the unkindest cut and wound of all.

To fulfill his pledges to the IOC, Putin has, as Nowak says, enlisted Russia's oligarchs, the opportunists who became billionaires during the collapse of the Soviet Union by taking over vast amounts of oil, gas and metals, reportedly gaining control of some 40 % of the country's GDP.

Now these people aren't ordinary people, they are the higher echelon of campaign staff — the kind of people who can put together a successful ground operation, but for one reason or another these folks were left hanging in a lurch by the billionaire oil baron.

The Adirondack Council is calling on billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett to remove his oil tanker railroad cars from the fragile, protected public forests of New York's Adirondack Park.

While the world's billionaires have been suffering losses, oil prices rose to $ 48 a barrel yesterday as investors took advantage of a two - day slide in crude triggered by Brexit vote.

«Short of a major problem, Andrew will win by maybe 60 percent,» said billionaire businessman and real estate mogul John Catsimatidis, the chairman of oil, gas and real estate firm Red Apple Group and a big Cuomo supporter.

According to the report on Wednesday, Dangote lost $ 4.9 bn or one - third of his wealth as the combined effect of falling oil prices and the June devaluation of the naira pushed him to No. 112 on the billionaires» list with $ 10.4 bn.

The 21 - year - old daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari is getting married to Ahmed, the son of Nigeria billionaire and an oil tycoon, Mohammed Indimi.

REAL ESTATE • Oil and auto billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who fled his native Russia in 2001 after he was found guilty of embezzlement, sold his 30th - floor apartment in the Trump International building on Central Park West for $ 7.55 million.

The New Hampshire branch of Americans for Prosperity, a group co-founded by oil billionaire David Koch, has weighed in with radio ads slamming Hassan for supporting the «RGGI tax.»

The US oil billionaire Robert Hefner III, known as the «father of deep natural gas», had offered me a lift to discuss a book he was planning.

In fact, the $ 1 million from the oil billionaires is only one tentacle of the oily Kochtopus.

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies.

Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies to deny the science of climate change!

Last year, I wrote a book that was published in Australia called Laid Bare: One Man's Story of Sex, Love and Other Disorders... She'd have put her picture on a dating site, married a Texas oil billionaire and blocked me on Facebook.»

Oscar winner Christopher Plummer will replace Spacey in the role of famed billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

Following director Ridley Scott's decision to recast and reshoot all of Spacey's scenes in the upcoming J. Paul Getty biopic following multiple allegations of sexual harassment against Spacey, Plummer stepped in to take on the role of the infamous billionaire oil tycoon.

All the reshoots in the world enabled Christopher Plummer to have an infectiously high old time replacing disgraced Kevin Spacey as disgraceful billionaire J. Paul Getty in this film about the 1970s kidnapping of the oil mogul's grandson.

Written by David Scarpa and based on John Pearson's book «Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty,» 80 - year - old director Ridley Scott's («Alien: Covenant») All the Money in the World tackles such an explosive story, the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, «The Dinner»), grandson of oil tycoon John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, «The Man Who Invented Christmas»), and a billionaire said to be the richest man in the world.

Against her better judgment she accepts an assignment from a Texas oil billionaire, to find news of his daughter who has gone missing in Africa.

Against her better judgment she accepts an assignment from a Texas oil billionaire, to find news of his daughter who has gone missing in...

«Gallerinas» finds Jim chasing leads and investigating the death of a billionaire oil tycoon and art collector on the eve of Art Basel Miami Beach.

Auctioneers mentioned that the increase in oil prices was creating more billionaires in Moscow who were able afford such works of art.

The Scaife Foundations consist of a trio of foundations that had been directed by the late billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, whose wealth was inherited from the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum and banking fortune.

In doing so, the paper dismissed mounting evidence linking underground injection of wastewater to earthquakes at large, continuing its attempt to cast doubt on science and shut down policy debates that could affect the paper's owner, billionaire oil and gas tycoon Philip Anschutz.

Just over a year ago, oil billionaire David Koch used to joke that the company he owns with his brother Charles, Koch Industries, was «the biggest company you've never heard of.»

One of the most prominent is Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a New York City - based, pro-market, anti-government think tank backed by ExxonMobil and Charles Koch, the billionaire co-owner of the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries.