Sentences with phrase «of upstream oil»

The Global Projects group includes our energy projects practice (representing sponsors in the development of upstream oil and gas, LNG, pipeline, petrochemical, refinery and electric power projects, as well as in the acquisition and divestiture of interests in such projects), our project finance practice (representing both sponsors and lenders on energy and infrastructure projects), our energy regulatory practice (representing regulated entities; investors and customers / ratepayers of regulated entities, including electric generation, transmission and distribution; and LNG and natural gas production, gathering, transportation and distribution companies on U.S. federal and state regulatory and permitting issues), our real estate practice (representing developers and lenders on real estate projects, and acquisitions and divestitures of interests in such projects) and our international trade practice (representing clients in matters involving U.S. federal regulation of exports, imports, overseas investment and financial transactions).

While the World Bank's decision to finally end the financing of upstream oil and gas after 2019 is long overdue, it is certainly worth celebrating.

$ 300,000 of it is from a failed investment in a handful of upstream oil producers.

Not exact matches

Total upstream production came in at 689,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter, compared to 725,100 boe / d in the prior year quarter, as oilsands output fell to 404,800 barrels per day from 448,500 bpd.

Based on a sum - of - the - parts analysis, integrated oil companies traded at a discount to their pure - play competitors, whether they were pure - play upstream, like an Anadarko or a Chesapeake, or downstream, like Valero or Tesoro.

At the time, many investors forgot why the upstream and downstream segments of the industry were ever united, threatening the raison d'etre of Big Oil.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oOil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oiloil.

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.

«Shell's strong earnings this quarter were underpinned by higher oil and gas prices, the continued growth and very good performance of our Integrated Gas business, and improved profitability in our Upstream business,» Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said in a statement.

One of the things Pardy likes about the Calgary - based oil and gas company is its upstream growth and potential free cash flow once its Horizon oilsands expansion bears fruit in late 2017.

Marathon Oil Corp. completed the spinoff of its downstream business, Marathon Petroleum Corp., making Marathon Oil an independent upstream company based in Houston.

Wellsite, a professional network and collaboration platform for the upstream oil and gas industry, today announced a major blockchain initiative for its flagship platform, Wellsite.com, with the launch of a token sale for its cryptocurrency designed for the oilfield services market, Crudecoin.

When asked about Canadian oil sands production, Mulva said those operations would be part of the upstream company.

Seven Lakes Technologies is a vertically focused analytics & technology solutions firm offering products and services for the Upstream (E&P) Oil and Gas sector; focused on improving business drivers and enhancing execution of customer business strategies.

Proven Track Record EnCap has been a significant source of capital to the upstream and midstream sectors of the oil and gas industry since 1988.

However, clear price trends in respect of crude oil, natural gas, products like gasoline & diesel augur well for both upstream & downstream companies.

In July 2017, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) published A competitive policy and regulatory framework for Alberta's upstream oil and natural gas industry.

The combined oil and natural gas entity was renamed Alta Mesa Resources and boasts upstream assets of around 130,000 net...

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

Contamination from upstream tar sands / oil sands development is causing higher levels of cancer and other serious disease for members of the Athabasca Chipewyan and...

In addition to the direct effects of high oil prices, broader upstream inflationary pressures were apparent, including further increases in building construction prices.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

The November Statement identified the pick - up in world oil prices in the second half of 2004 as the major risk to the inflation outlook, and the higher level of oil prices did contribute to the upstream inflationary pressures in producer prices in the December quarter.

PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a drilling rig or production operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.

Mr. Chase spent 39 years with BP plc, a large, international oil and gas company, holding positions within the upstream and downstream segments of the industry in Australia, Europe and North America.

Exxon said its upstream, or exploration and production sector, suffered «significantly» during the market downturn as crude oil prices continue to starve companies of revenue.

Capital spending is rebounding, new upstream projects launch weekly and several major integrated oil companies (IOCs) have posted consecutive quarters of profitability for the first time since 2014.

First, the Board had ruled that it would not consider the environmental and socio - economic effects associated with upstream activities, the development of the Alberta oil sands, and the downstream use of oil transported by the pipeline.

Upstream oil companies have been watching the election closely to determine the levels of political stability and compliance in the country.

At the sectoral level, the Industry Sector recovered from a negative growth of 0.5 percent and is expected to grow by 17.7 percent in 2017 due to increased production in upstream oil and gas.

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.

'' The innovations that we have developed and started implementing in the downstream, upstream, policy generation and Niger Delta security have enabled the sector to aggressively pursue out of the box ideas of rejuvenating this sector, getting the best yield and increasing our earnings from Oil and Gas.

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

«ensure the passage of the Right to Information bill if the present Parliament delays in doing so» and (a) under Petroleum Upstream and Mid-Stream Sector «improve transparency in the management of our oil and gas resources.

Speaking on the positive development in the oil industry, the NUPENG chairman said both the upstream and downstream sectors of the industry had witnessed growth under the present administration.

Data from the GIPC, which registers all the formal FDI inflows, indicates that about 90 % of it (excluding investment in the solid mineral mining and upstream oil and gas sectors) ends up in just three of Ghana's 10 regions: Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western.

The emissions from consumer products also dwarfed those from the production of oil and gas, called upstream emissions.

Instead of regulating carbon at the many smokestacks where emissions occur, the group recommends regulating by cap - and - trade permits directed «upstream» at the wellheads, mine mouths, and import points where oil, coal, and natural gas enter the economy.

I recently sold out of all my positions that have any involvement in upstream oil exploration and production.

Upstream activities include exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas.

BNP Paribas scored well as it has a comprehensive palm oil policy covering both upstream and downstream palm oil companies and it applies to all of the bank's offerings and entities.

If you are an upstream company, your business results are strongly tied to the price of oil and natural gas because upstream companies are the ones that find oil and natural gas and pump it from the ground.

TransGlobe Energy Corporation is a $ 550 million upstream oil and gas company headquartered in Canada, but with the vast majority of its operations located in Egypt.

Third, there were some asset purchases and rationalizing of assets between the portfolio companies during the past 4 months; Several oil / gas well drilling companies / assets were acquired by different affiliates within the portfolio, then the companies / assets were consolidated under Steel Excel (the shell of the old ADAPTEC), presumably upstreaming some cash from Steel Excel to the holding company for further investments.

-- Actions to halve expected methane (a potent greenhouse gas) releases into the atmosphere from the upstream oil and gas industry in 2020 provide 18 % of the savings.

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

To the west of the oil slicks and fleets of vessels working to seal the BP well, another less invisible stain, mainly the result of vast amounts of nitrogen and other nutrients washing down the Mississippi River from agricultural lands upstream, has spread beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their extraction - related finance.

It finds that across the oil and gas industry $ 2.3 trillion of upstream projects — roughly a third of business as usual projects to 2025 — are inconsistent with global commitments to limit climate change to a maximum 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies.