Sentences with phrase «oil and gas industries»

And the expertise and technology required for transporting, injecting and monitoring the gas can be directly derived from the oil and gas industries.

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

The oil and gas industries are beset with labour production problems.

The company formally opened its Ghana office in Accra last week and will offer support to the marine and oil and gas industries in the country.

They both claim that incumbent Republican Congressman Chris Gibson took donations from the oil and gas industries and has since «voted to continue billions in tax subsidies for his oil and gas donors.»

New Yorkers from Buffalo to Long Island decided that allowing the oil and gas industries the rights to large scale mining of natural gas reserves was simply too much of a public health and environmental threat.

Corruption in the Ghanaian oil and gas industries has been a concern since the discovery of the Jubilee oil field in 2007.

Alex DeMarban is a longtime Alaska journalist who covers the oil and gas industries and general assignments for ADN.

In 1995 a bloodless coup in which Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa deposed his father set the stage for the modernization of the country's oil and gas industries and for stunning economic growth.

If this really does spell the end of NAFTA, the Canadian auto, pulp and paper, chemicals, mining, aerospace and oil and gas industries are likely to be most affected, according to BMO chief economist Douglas Porter.

It's also one of the top manufacturing centers for rubber products, insecticides, fertilizers and petrochemicals, which are all by - products of the oil and gas industries.

«32 Degrees knows and understands the energy technology and oil and gas industries,» said Barry Heck, Alberta Enterprise's Vice Chairman and CEO.

October 31, 2017 Fueling a Future of Women Leaders in the Energy, Oil and Gas Industries WBENC Energy Executive Program Launches Inaugural Class November 5 - 10, 2017 at Shell's Robert Training Center in Louisiana

The effect was to make the oil and gas industries — and indeed, mining in general — tax - exempt.

ONE man's vision to provide a value - added pressure - testing service to the construction, resources and oil and gas industries, has led to the emergence of a leading Australian company poised to expand offshore.

Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

A new report from the US Geological Survey has revealed that the oil and gas industry is causing earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States at an alarming rate.

In Ottawa this past June, the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico pledged to work together to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry between 40 % and 45 % by 2025.

When Easton Wren arrived in Canada in 1968 to work for Amoco, Calgary was a small town with a tightly knit oil and gas industry.

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry is being welcomed by environmentalists and, with some reservations, by industry players, as a key step in fighting climate change.

So far, the Obama Administration is giving the agricultural community a pass, even though it emits as much or more methane than the oil and gas industry.

Not unexpectedly, the oil and gas industry has countered our findings with pointed criticism.

Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry's biggest lobby, told Fortune in an interview at the Republican National Convention.

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Ian MacGregor entered the oil and gas industry in 1969, splitting his time between studying mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary and doing shifts as a night watchman at the machine shop where his father worked.

For its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.

The rollbacks have been so sharp that some within the oil and gas industry have quietly suggested they could be setting the stage for safety failures.

The oil and gas industry and its products account for half of global carbon dioxide emissions.

It's among a host of new startups developing technology for the oil and gas industry, which finds itself desperate for innovation in this era of low commodity prices.

This Calgary - based business provides camp accommodation and equipment rentals to the oil and gas industry.

Businesses founded on the North Sea oil and gas industry are looking to replicate that success here.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

• Clearlake recapitalized Knight Energy Holdings, a Santa Monica, Calif. - based firm focused on the oil and gas industry.

Cenergy International Services provides specialized energy personnel, safety services, inspection services, logistics optimization, and vendor management to the oil and gas industry.

The share price of the Netherlands - based construction company, which specializes in the oil and gas industry, was halved in 2014.

He finished his courseworklast February and has been workingin the oil and gas industry in Calgary eversince.

«The biggest sectors of steel consumption are in the construction industry, the auto industry, oil and gas industry, all of which need these products to produce competitive products,» warns Yerxa.

U.S. President Barack Obama has made clear that when it comes to «fracking,» he is siding with the oil and gas industry.

Wayne Sim, the founder of Calgary - based 3esi Innovation Inc., had worked with clients in Russia's sprawling and inefficient oil and gas industry for almost two decades.

Matt Bell, president of Houston - based GeoDynamics, which manufactures equipment for the oil and gas industry, experienced this as part of Shell's GameChanger program last decade.

As a vice-president of parent company China National Petroleum Corp. explained at an oil and gas industry conference in Calgary, the company felt it was being shut out of Canada's oilsands by political pressure from the U.S. and had lost confidence in Enbridge's ability to manage aboriginal opposition to the line.

But when it comes to fracking — the oil and gas industry's technique to tap into harder - to - reach fossil fuels — the two have similarly negative yet slightly divergent view points, which were highlighted at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday night.

«It's exciting, because the research can make a huge impact in energy storage and the oil and gas industry,» she says.

«The oil and gas industry is a small but significant player,» said Jon Monson, director of the city's water department, which has designated 35 fire hydrants where haulers may fill up their tanks to truck to gas wells.

Alcoa's tale is held up as a wee candle flicker of hope in an otherwise depressing report on gender inequity in tech - driven sectors, including the oil and gas industry, automotive manufacturers and telecommunications companies.

• Black Bay Energy Capital invested in Downhole Chemical Solutions, a Texas - based provider of stimulation and completion chemical products and services to the oil and gas industry.

But developments in the oil and gas industry and an influx of new residents are putting pressure on local amenities, as Alison Birrane reports.

First, the spill seems to have led to decreased trust in the oil and gas industry generally, and foreign companies specifically in the eyes of the U.S. public.

McKinsey found that 14 % of millennials say they would not want to work in the oil and gas industry because of its negative image — the highest percentage of any industry.

Mount Gibson Iron has moved to establish a logistics base on Koolan Island, in partnership with Qube Holdings, to service the offshore oil and gas industry.