Sentences with phrase «of oil corporations»

While the majority of top officers appointed into NNPC by Kachikwu during his days as the GMD are from Southern Nigeria, Baru is alleged to have done the same by ensuring that his recent reorganisation of the management staff of the oil corporation favours the North.

Not exact matches

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

In 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwide.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

Marathon Oil Corporation (mro), the upstream division, traded on February 3 at $ 9.27, giving it a market value of around $ 6.3 billion.

At the beginning of 2011, the small integrated energy company voluntarily split into a pure - play upstream company, called Marathon Oil, and a pure - play refiner, called Marathon Petroleum Corporation.

Engineering and consulting services company Logicamms has signed contracts with Samsung C&T Corporation, Chevron Australia and Oil Search for a combined contract value of about $ 15 million.

Neon Energy has backed out of a merger agreement with MEO Australia after Evoworld Corporation agreed to make a revised off - market takeover offer for 50 per cent of the shares it doesn't already own in the oil and gas producer.

A subsidiary of TFS Corporation and a joint venture between a Melbourne oils producer and a local indigenous business have been shortlisted for wild sandalwood oil processing contracts with the state government.

A successful lawsuit last year by Sinclair Oil Corporation led a federal court to order EPA to expand its definition of «economic hardship» - opening the door for more facilities to be eligible.

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 the Gulf.

THE new millennium could mark major hydrocarbon developments for Chevron Australia Pty Limited, a wholly - owned subsidiary of US oil and gas giant Chevron Corporation.

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..

HOUSTON, March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA)(Nasdaq: APA) today announced a significant oil discovery on Block 9 / 18a Area - W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea...

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) recently received the first - ever cargo of Arabian crude oil at its flagship Huizhou refinery in South China's Guangdong ProvinOil Corporation (CNOOC) recently received the first - ever cargo of Arabian crude oil at its flagship Huizhou refinery in South China's Guangdong Provinoil at its flagship Huizhou refinery in South China's Guangdong Province.

I suggest, for a start, that people boycott the BC Chamber of Commerce membership (which includes all the oil and energy corporations), plus several (but not all) banks and credits unions, several public utilities, and other corporations and service providers.

Others in the task force include Koch Companies Public Sector, and Dezenhall Communications Management Group, a public relations company that specializes in media campaigns to defend corporations from progressive groups, and four of the the biggest oil and gas companies in the world — BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell.

The Crown corporation's original government funding of $ 100 - million increased over time to $ 1 - billion, with the objective of developing technologies and processes that would get the private sector back working on the 90 per cent of the oil sands that were too deep to be surface mined.

California Resources Corporation is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, with operating properties within the State of California.

Keeping an eye on the price of oil doesn't hurt either, especially with smaller corporations who are more closely - tied to the price of oil than integrated companies.

Encana Corporation, incorporated on January 1, 2006, is an energy producer that is focused on developing its multi-basin portfolio of natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) producing plays.

Another name that has taken a beating as a result of lower oil prices, stronger dollar and a weaker global economy is Dover Corporation (DOV).

Mubasher: The price of Kuwait's crude oil decreased by 2 cents to settle at $ 68.90 per barrel (pb) on Monday compared to $ 68.92 pb on Friday, according to the latest data by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC).

The North African country is not looking for a production freeze, because, as Mustafa Sanalla, chairman of the National Oil Corporation, said last week: «Without a resumption of exports we could run out of money next year.»

Mubasher: The price of Kuwait's crude oil increased by 3 cents to settle at $ 68.80 per barrel (pb) on Wednesday compared to $ 68.77 pb on Monday, according to the latest data by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC).

Mubasher: The price of Kuwait's crude oil increased by 83 cents to settle at $ 67.64 per barrel (pb) on Wednesday compared to $ 66.81 pb on Tuesday, according to the latest data by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC).

Ms. Baumann is a former BP Amoco executive who currently serves as President and owner of Cross Creek Energy Corporation, an energy advisory firm with investments in the domestic oil and gas business.

This fund tracks the oil exploration and production sub-sector, has an expense ratio of 0.48 %, and contains shares in companies like Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), Apache Corporation (APA), Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC), Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC), and Valero Energy Corporation (VLO).

Back row standing left to right: Tanya Penny, Vice President, Verizon; Carolyn Walsh, Vice President, Southwest Region, UPS; Michael McGranaghan, Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Johnson & Johnson; Scott Buchanan, VP, PepsiCo Global Procurement, PepsiCo Inc.; Robert McCormes - Ballou, Director, Vendor Development & Diversity, Office Depot; Ingrid Saunders Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate External Affairs and Chair of the Coca - Cola Foundation; John Wilder, Chairman and CEO, TXU; Karen Sclafani, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Avis Budget Group, Inc.; Michael Robinson, Program Director, Global Supplier Diversity, IBM Corporation; John Jefferson, Director of Diversity, Shell Oil Company; and Jean Baderschneider, Vice President, Global Procurement, Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Standing Row Left to Right: Laura Taylor, Chair of the WBENC Board and VP, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Operations, Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Tara Abraham, Chair and Co-CEO of Accel, Inc.; Nicholas De Tura, VP, Supply Chain and Logistics, Alcatel - Lucent; Tim Harden, President, Supply Chain and Fleet Operations, AT&T; Al Williams, Chief Procurement Officer, Accenture; Kim Brown, Vice President, General Procurement, Dell; Rob Lidster, Vice President of Supply ChainEnergy Future Holdings; Francene Young, V.P. Talent & Diversity and Inclu sion, Shell Oil Company; Leo Lonergan, Chief Procurement Officer, Chevron Corporation; Bridget Kostelnik, General Manager, Strategic Procurement, ExxonMobil Corporation; Linda MacLean, VP Global Procurement, UPS; Tonya E. Rozier - DeAnda, Director, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Diversity, Quality and Relationship Management, and Metrics & Analysis, Verizon Services Operations, Verizon; Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught; Linda Denny, WBENC President Emeritus

Boehner and its cronies in the republican party are just puppets of the oil companies and other corporations to help them ensure they keep ripping off the american people.

You're buying into the lie, because there are and have been people in power who want us to continue to decimate our economy and our nation, pouring all of our wealth into the hands of a few weapons manufacturers and oil corporations.

That there is still great resistance to the needed changes was shown by the concerted opposition on the part of American oil and automotive corporations to any significant agreement at Kyoto.

Hercules, Caesar, Colleoni: there is symbolized brute strength, military power, political power, economic power, the power to enslave and destroy; the power of international arms sales, nuclear stockpiles, oil cartels and transnational corporations; the spiritual power of imposed belief and religious triumphalism demanding obedience and maintaining an uncertain peace by the balance of terror, whether by threats of hell or atomic apocalypse.

While claiming to promote food security and benefit small farmers, Grow's focus on a few high - value commodities — like potatoes, maize, coffee, tea and palm oil — exposes the programme's real objective: to expand the production of a handful of commodities to profit a handful of corporations.

About Global Agri - trade Corporation Global Agri - trade Corporation (GATC), a privately owned company located in Long Beach, Calif., is one of the largest importers of origin packaged palm oil and coconut oil products sold in North America under the brand names Olera ® and Copia respectively.

Olera ® Shortenings and Oils, the food products division of Global Agri - trade Corporation (GATC), is taking another major step in its commitment to be a competitive supplier of 100 % RSPO certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) products in North America.

Metallized Carbon Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture of oil - free, self - lubricating, carbon - graphite materials for severe service lubrication applications, announces that its Metcar Grade M - 58 has received approval from the FDA so that it can be used in food contact applications.

Nipco's investment subsidiary bought 60 % of Mobil Oil Nigeria shares from Exxon Mobil Corporation in October, when the latter pulled out of downstream fuel distribution in Nigeria.

NIPCO Investments Limited and Exxon Mobil Oil Corporation executed a Share Sale and Purchase Agreement detailing the terms and conditions of the acquisition,» a publication on the Nigerian Stock Exchange website read.

Nigeria has lost over 1,500 megawatts of electricity as a result of the ceaseless attack on oil and gas installations by the Niger Delta militants, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has disclosed.

Longer answer: OPEC was developed as a way for under - developed economies with oil wealth to fight back against the power of multinational corporations mostly from Britain and the U.S. Norway didn't have that problem, and so wasn't really concerned with the same issues of OPEC.

They will read this election as a positive indicator that the incoming government is willing and able to work with them on their own terms, offering stable contracts and a «hands - off» relationship between private firms and public bodies such as the National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

Late December, the PPPRA had on behalf of the Federal Government announced that effective January 1, 2016, Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, would be sold at N86 per litre by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) retail stations, while other oil marketers would sell at N86.50 per litre.

[108][109] The 100 % state - owned filling station company of Ghana, Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) is the number 1 petroleum and gas filling station of Ghana and the 100 % state - owned state oil company Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) administrates hydrocarbon exploration and production of Ghana's entire petroleum and natural gas reserves and Ghana aims to further increase output of oil to 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) per day and gas to 34,000,000 cubic metres (1.2 × 109 cu ft) per dOil Company (GOIL) is the number 1 petroleum and gas filling station of Ghana and the 100 % state - owned state oil company Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) administrates hydrocarbon exploration and production of Ghana's entire petroleum and natural gas reserves and Ghana aims to further increase output of oil to 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) per day and gas to 34,000,000 cubic metres (1.2 × 109 cu ft) per doil company Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) administrates hydrocarbon exploration and production of Ghana's entire petroleum and natural gas reserves and Ghana aims to further increase output of oil to 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) per day and gas to 34,000,000 cubic metres (1.2 × 109 cu ft) per doil to 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) per day and gas to 34,000,000 cubic metres (1.2 × 109 cu ft) per day.

Third, every country, state, and region has resources — extremely valuable resources — but we don't think of them the way we do of gas and oil because we're so used to governments giving them away to corporations who sell them back at a profit and pay very little in taxes.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over Sea Petroleum Oil and Gas Limited and other assets belonging the Senator representing Anambra North, Stella...

In a statement by its Executive Secretary, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retd), the Centre also called for consultations and negotiations among stakeholders in the region especially the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Traditional rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities, TROMCON, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Joint Task Force, JTF and youth leaders in the region with a view to identifying the real cause of the recent monumental economic sabotage and to proffer solutions.

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru has advocated for increased and sustained synergy between Nigerian universities and the oil and...