Sentences with phrase «of oil start»

But even then: Perhaps with improved fuel efficiency we can just keep stretching oil company profits out longer and longer as the world's finite supplies of oil start really dwindling down and prices just rise.

The town turns out to be a great oil find, but the discovery of the oil starts a chain of events that lead a successful and ambitious man down an inevitably dark path.

Not exact matches

It all started in March, 1942, when Harry S. Truman, Chairman of the Senate War Investigation Committee, implied that the relationship between Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Germany's I.G. Farben hindered the war effort.

OPEC's largest producer and de facto leader — Saudi Arabia — is the most closely watched oil nation for hints about an unofficial oil price target, and speculation has been ripe since the start of the deal in January 2017 as to what price the Kingdom is aiming for.

For the full year, Exxon reported profits of $ 19.71 billion, its highest annual earnings since the start of an oil price slide in 2014, when it earned $ 32.52 billion.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Oil and gas stocks were slightly down as the starting date for the implementation of the lastest OPEC deal nears.

That logic is another reason why OPEC countries have less of an incentive to cut back production: renewable energy sources is starting to give fossil fuels some serious competition, and oil - exporting countries have an interest in keeping oil a cheap alternative.

The reason why GDI started trending above GDP is the same reason wages have been growing faster than productivity: the surge of commodity prices, and of oil prices in particular, since 2002.

Oil trader Andy Hall last year closed his main Astenbeck Capital Management fund after betting oil would more quickly pull out of a rout that started in late 20Oil trader Andy Hall last year closed his main Astenbeck Capital Management fund after betting oil would more quickly pull out of a rout that started in late 20oil would more quickly pull out of a rout that started in late 2014.

OPEC's supply curtailments and the threat of new sanctions are occurring just as demand in Asia, the biggest oil - consuming region, has risen to a record as new and expanded refineries start up from China to Vietnam.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

And yes, there is a fantastic well - oiled network of smart VCs and investors here, but the vast majority of start - ups (even in Silicon Valley) are still funded by second mortgages and family friends.

Oil investor hopes were raised at the start of the year by a deal to cut production between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and some non-OPEC producers.

After months of higher input costs for manufacturers, the simultaneous spike in food and oil prices is a double whammy that is now starting to hit consumers.

Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude oil fell last week by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a market OPEC has been relying on for decades.

Mesa Vista Ranch is the fullest expression of the man who started out in the Oklahoma oil patch and rose to become an energy titan.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, April 30 (Reuters)- The term «demand destruction» is again entering the lexicon of the current crude oil market as the sharp rise in prices raises concerns about when do consumers start cutting back on their fuel consumption.

As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.

Investors have started to lead the way in putting an end to the age of oil and coal.

Started by serial entrepreneur Shai Agassi, the electric - car company seeks to improve the world by weaning it off of oil.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

It started with the creation of Fusion Oil and Gas PLC and the raising of seed capital at 5 pence a share in the UK in 1998.

Before starting $ 19 - million Oil Changers, a California chain of 37 oil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, FlOil Changers, a California chain of 37 oil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, Floil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, Fla..

This follows a stark warning from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said at the start of February that sanctioning Venezuela's oil or prohibiting the crude to be sold in the U.S. was something the White House was continuing to mull over.

But from the start of this year, Marathon's cargoes have been sold on to oil trader Vitol via NOC, the Libyan oil source and trading sources said.

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

Total and Samsung Heavy said it was also not clear how the incident might affect delivery of the platform, which was expected to start producing oil and gas in the North Sea in 2018.

Before branching out on his own, he was one of legendary investor Julian Robertson's first so - called tiger cubs, responsible for some big market calls during the 1990s such as the collapse of oil prices after start of the Persian Gulf War and the plunge in the British pound.

Ecuador has started drilling the first oil from Yasuní National Park, a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest.

Oklahoma has been a huge oil - producing state, and while drilling - heavy states have tended to do well in previous editions of our rankings, the collapse in oil prices and in active drilling rigs is starting to hurt.

Edmonton - based Fluid Life started some 35 years ago as a modest lab that tested used oil to diagnose the health of large industrial equipment.

Jason Kirby at Maclean's wrote about a fellow who foresaw the collapse of oil prices and now predicts future assessments of current data will show the U.S. was in a recession at the start of 2016.

Even if the U.S. starts to charge for every barrel of Canadian bitumen that crosses the border, the fee is so small that oilsand producers, who shoulder a price discount of around $ 60 - a-barrel on headline oil prices, might not even notice.

«I'm simply saying nope; they are rallying because when oil goes higher, this market's clinically depressed mind starts to believe that the consumer might live to spend another day instead of being mired in the coming Chinese - inspired, Fed - induced recession,» Cramer said.

Then he did just the opposite, taking on series of favorite conservative targets like government regulations («It's oil and water» between start - ups and bureaucrats, he said).

The group behind the «ethical oil» play can't really expect the rest of us to start using the term to differentiate Canadian from other oil.

Having the North American headquarters of a major Chinese oil company might just be a good start.

Each player starts with a certain amount of cash, which is turned into securities - either gold, oil, bonds, technologies, industrials or grain.

This improvement even comes before Teck's multibillion - dollar investment in the Fort Hills oil sands project starts up by the end of the year.

Public records show that at the start of 2014, the Foundation held $ 1.4 bn of investments in major coal, oil and gas companies.

Does anyone know of a source where they keep track of oil sands projects and when they're supposed to start production?

And unless that economy started to wean itself off an ever - depleting supply of affordable oil, there would be other recessions to follow as economic recoveries would simply push oil prices right back into triple - digit range.

This followed a tumultuous period from 1966 - 1982 in the economy / housing / equity markets / Oil and geopolitics and was the start of a resumption of the long term uptrend.

A supply curve is an ordered list of all the oil production opportunities globally, sorted by the cost of extraction or, probably better for this example, the potential free - on - board price at a global trading hub — take every oil play in the world and ask what it would cost delivered to the US Gulf Coast as a starting point.

A poll conducted by Associated Press - GfK in late March — when oil prices had already risen 26 per cent since the start of the year to US$ 108 a barrel — revealed that two - thirds of Americans expected rising gasoline prices to cause hardship for them or their families in the coming months.

S&P Platts said at the start of this week that analysts it polled had forecast a 2.4 - million - barrel build in crude oil stockpiles, with the agency warning this would pressure prices, along with a surge in oil imports.

The recent surge in domestic oil and gas production signals «the start of a new era of cheap energy,» he said, while less expensive online education programs could open the door to millions of people who have been priced out of more traditional academics.

Soon, Lake explains, he'll start looking for a lifestyle increasingly on offer to mobile young people like him: work at a northern Alberta oil sands project, but live further south, either flying in and out of a camp or driving up once a week.

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.