Sentences with phrase «oil companies do»

If the oil companies don't get the hydrogen fueling stations built because they want to keep us addicted to oil, then companies like Wal Mart and car dealerships will start building hydrogen stations.
Oil companies don't care about carbon taxes because they will simply incorporate the costs into what consumers pay.
The oil companies do make a valid point that consumers share the blame for causing climate change.
so if oil companies do this, then the cost of their borrowing increases, they develop less fields, lower oil and gas is recovered, prices rise, people cut back, unemployment rises and the left rejoices.
I continue not to understand why these oil companies don't fully disclose the money they spend on bolstering skeptics in some way, as for example contributions to the H.I. (If any), and the money they spend on «Green» causes.
That oil companies don't have to fund attacks on climate science very much because there is a ideologically motivated base of people willing to do it for free.
The oil companies do have skills that transfer to geological CO2 sequestration and it's very much in their interests that this be part of the mix, as it retains some of the value of their reserves and most of the value of their physical capital and intellectual capital.
These other options involve complex engineering and would require significant capital investment — something Refineries clearly don't want to do (and as Jim2 and stevepostrel also don't understand, oil companies don't own many U.S. refineries any more — they got out of that business).
He does repeat the Democrat line that we can't get out of this mess by drilling, until the oil companies do more drilling.
The oil companies do have control of the liquid fuels market, however — so at the end of the day, what the biofuel folks are looking to do is to take market share away from probably the most powerful industry in America, and arguably in the world.
A good example is that many oil companies don't abandon wells drilled in the 50's 60's and 70's because they know some nasty stuff including radioactive isotopes have been tossed into mud pits and sumps and that it will cost them a small fortune to clean up.
In short, oil companies don't want to pay as much for drilling or shipping oil when the price of oil has fallen so sharply.
Of course, if oil companies don't take steps to reduce emissions, then their prediction that governments won't meet their targets is self - fulfilling.
counts debt as income but the IRS wouldn't look too kindly on oil companies doing the same.
It was reported to me that an oil company doing seismic studies of this area in quest of oil discovered a gigantic fault running east and west precisely through the center, of the Mount of Olives.
If your favorite oil company does not carry it, you may try Mountain Rose Herbs.
The other four defendants had representatives in the room but declined to present, which San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera read as a signal that the other oil companies did not even want to recognize that the court has jurisdiction in such a case.
Now oil companies did increase political lobby funding following climategate, that would be when «Climate Science» showed it ugly political underbelly.
So apparently the oil companies did not keep any information from the public because the information in question was already in the public domain.
The judgement also awarded US$ 8.6 billion in punitive damages if the oil company did not issue an apology within 14 days.
The oil companies didn't want their employees living in their trucks in sub zero ND weather.

Not exact matches

Amid oil's current decline, he expects company owners to turn to mergers and acquisitions, like he did.
Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.
How he did it: «I began negotiating with Shell Oil Company to buy their polystyrene plant in Belpre, Ohio.
He showed early entrepreneurial promise selling candy and doing odd jobs for neighbors, eventually going on to become the founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Oil and gas company Zeta Petroleum has launched a proposal to acquire full ownership of Sydney - based Pan Pacific Petroleum by buying all the shares it doesn't already own in the company, in a deal worth $ 29.4 million.
The increased deployment of drones to the Arctic this year doesn't just spell economic opportunity for global shippers of oil and gas companies but also for drone manufacturers.
But if support this year exceeds 50 percent, the oil company likely would do more to explain potential business impacts from having to meet the Paris agreement's temperature goal.
Venezuela's Information Ministry and state oil company PDVSA did not respond to a request for information about the...
One way to do so would be relaxing restrictions on drilling for oil and gas companies, the CEPR's Baker suggests.
The suit did not mention Chevron's other partners in the oil field, a Japanese financial company and Petrobras, and did not say how the fine would be divvied up between Chevron and Transocean.
But it's not just about savings — it's about reminding managers they don't work for an oil company or investment bank.
PetroChina's purchase of the 40 % of the McKay River oilsands project it doesn't already own from Athabasca Oil Sands is just the latest example of China's national oil companies snapping up Canadian energy reservOil Sands is just the latest example of China's national oil companies snapping up Canadian energy reservoil companies snapping up Canadian energy reserves.
In 2014, the mining and crude oil production company with headquarters in Irving, Tex., did just that, with a $ 1.8 billion boost that brought their profits to $ 930 million, all while oil prices has dropped to historic lows.
Oil and gas companies in some states haven't been compelled to say what's in their brew, so some don't.
In contrast to a commodity such as oil, though, a company can produce more chips at will, and they often do.
Westech stood by its employees even when the price of oil fell to $ 26 a barrel, with Lapp proudly noting that the company did not lay off a single person.
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.
However, stopping embezzlement from state oil companies is easier said than done.
The Calgary - based company, which specializes in analytical instrumentation and process control equipment for industries including oil and gas, pipeline, wastewater and petrochemical, did $ 11 million worth of business that year.
I believe the oil companies are doing that and, believe me, they are getting plenty of oversight as they do it.
«Oil industry companies would do well to be cautious and stop assuming that good relations with PDVSA can last forever due to a common interest in pumping oil,» said Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control RisOil industry companies would do well to be cautious and stop assuming that good relations with PDVSA can last forever due to a common interest in pumping oil,» said Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risoil,» said Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risks.
If they did try to use it we would be in court immediately seeking an injunction to stop them from using it, but we would probably have to get in line behind oil companies that would be concerned about contracts that they have with companies in B.C. to deliver product.»
«Anyone who uses a bunch of oil and has invested a lot of money in their equipment is a potential customer,» explains president Heather Hunt, a 22 - year veteran of the company who has done everything from answering the phones to managing the books to running daily operations.
«I don't think there's any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you're going to kill someone, it's first degree murder; I think it's the same thing with the oil companies,» he said.
«The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people's lives, that it would kill,» Schwarzenegger said in the podcast.
What they do: An engineering company focused on mining, oil and gas, and power equipment.
That suggests that more companies could find themselves in a distressed position if oil prices do not rise.
«Oil industry companies would do well to be cautious and stop assuming that good relations with PDVSA can last forever due to a common interest in pumping oil,» Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risks, and author of Crude Nation, a book about how oil ruined the Venezuelan economy, said in an interview with ReuteOil industry companies would do well to be cautious and stop assuming that good relations with PDVSA can last forever due to a common interest in pumping oil,» Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risks, and author of Crude Nation, a book about how oil ruined the Venezuelan economy, said in an interview with Reuteoil,» Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risks, and author of Crude Nation, a book about how oil ruined the Venezuelan economy, said in an interview with Reuteoil ruined the Venezuelan economy, said in an interview with Reuters.
Things didn't pan out well the last time a Chinese company bid for a sizable western oil company.
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