Sentences with phrase «oil company in question»

That's not to excuse anything the company has done, and it has admitted culpability in a number of ways; but it's hard to imagine good ol' Southern boys being quite so disparaging if the oil company in question had been of good ol' Southern origin.

Not exact matches

Richard Sawaya of the National Foreign Trade Council estimates the provision in question could force American companies to exit more than $ 100 billion worth of offshore oil and gas projects worldwide.

To answer a few of your questions, exporting bitumen from Canada's west coast will not make the country any stronger, only the Texas oil company a little richer, and the earth much more in peril.

Five more executives of Chinese oil companies are being questioned in a spreading anti-graft probe of the industry, a newspaper reported Monday.

For investors in oil companies, though, the recent retreat in global crude prices raises a different question.

But as he urged them then to get down to more concrete work in support of various efforts of appropriate technology research and development, their comments and questions kept skimming past this first priority to the practical pros and cons, the alleged sins of the oil companies, his attitude toward women's liberation, the possibility and desirability of violent revolution.

Imani Africa President, Franklin Cudjoe, has questioned the declaration of GHc 35 million in profits by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST) in 10 months.

Based on the information available from both sides, I don't think it is possible for anyone (short of Green Pastures, the company producing the fermented cod liver oil in question) to know the answers to all of the questions that many people are asking right now.

I would really question, though, if commodities are just 5 % of your investment — simply investing in a S&P 500 ETF or mutual fund will give you about 5 - 10 % exposure to oil and natural gas simply because of the weighting of those companies in the fund.

A broader question overlaying this particulate debate is how much economic incentive companies have to drill in the Arctic, which has notoriously bad weather and is open for drilling for only a few months of the year, when oil production is booming onshore in the lower 48 states.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

In the late 1990s, while many other oil and gas companies were still questioning science pointing to a dangerous human influence on climate, BP pledged to cut its direct emissions of such gases 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2010.

Global Witness wrote to the 47 companies which have been awarded oil and gas blocks in Myanmar in the last year inviting them to answer a series of questions about their ownership.

The majority of companies recently awarded oil and gas blocks in Myanmar have failed to answer questions over who really owns them, said Global Witness as it released its survey of oil and gas company ownership in the country.

Investors in oil and gas companies have been in the dark about their exposure to climate risk, but they will now be able to confront companies with precise information and ask hard questions about how they intend to deal with potentially stranded assets.»

June 1, 1983 Mobil Oil Corporation status report published in the company's environmental affairs and toxicology department discusses the atmospheric greenhouse effect, and asks the question, «is burning fossil fuels affecting world climate?»

However, given that Exxon's Outlook assumes oil and gas use will continue to grow through to 2040 (and that the world will miss it's climate commitments by some margin), we would argue that the question investors are more interested in is «if the company makes investments in projects based on assumptions that subsequently turn out to be over-optimistic, what is the financial risk?»

I remember the oil boom andbubble that became an oil bust in the 1980 ′ Shady and corrupt oil companies hired CPA's to be controllwers so banks wouldn't question their financial statements.

An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?

Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie Soon and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics received more than $ 1 million in funding from fossil fuel companies to deliver scientific reports that called into question the scientific conclusion that climate change is the result of burning too much oil, coal and other carbon - emitting fuel sources.

At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

So apparently the oil companies did not keep any information from the public because the information in question was already in the public domain.

«As the ad in question is the subject of a legal dispute between Ethical Oil and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at the advisement of our legal department we will not accept the order until the matter is resolved,» the company said in a statement.

Link between Angolan president's son - in - law and state oil company raises questions about transparency

While the reforms do provide greater incentives for ejidos to reach agreements with oil and gas operators, the fundamental question of land ownership will remain a thorn in the side of many companies.

The Latham move is among the more spectacular lateral raids of recent years and has raised serious questions about White & Case's London finance practice, its position in the Middle East market, and its relationships with such important clients as Deutsche Bank and Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national oil company.

CA is a normal company in its field in my experience — it exploits the ignorance about marketing, data science, and psychology to sell snake oil to gullible people who almost never have the technical education to question them scientifically.

Reports in the New York Times indicated the firm and its parent company SCL Group had talks with Russian oil executives about political targeting and ran focus groups in the US that included «extensive questions about Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin,» a series of events former employee Christopher Wylie told the paper left him «super confused.»