Sentences with phrase «oil deal struck»

A major oil deal struck by ExxonMobil with the Nigerian Government is being investigated by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a law enforcement agency that investigates high - level corruption, Global Witness reveals today.

Abuja, Nigeria — A major oil deal struck by ExxonMobil with the Nigerian Government is being investigated by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a law enforcement agency that investigates high - level corruption, Global Witness reveals today.

Not exact matches

American oil and gas players struck more deals but targeted more modest acquisitions in the third quarter, PwC reports.

Others have made the same point, and suggest that President Barack Obama may have exceeded his authority when he struck a deal for BP to cancel its dividends and set up a $ 20 - billion (U.S.) oil spill fund.

Arguing that OPEC «has not failed at all» in its attempt to drive oil prices up, Oreshkin said that the price of oil is now much higher than it was this time last year, before the cartel and 11 non-OPEC producers led by Russia struck the initial output cut deal.

Takeover target Santos has struck a $ US221 million deal to sell its non-core Asian oil and gas assets to UK - based Ophir Energy.

Oil major BP's ambitions to purchase Woolworths» chain of petrol stations has been struck a major blow with the rejection of the deal by the competition watchdog.

Turkish businessmen struck lucrative deals with Isis oil smugglers, adding at least $ 10m (# 6.6 m) per week to the terror group's coffers, and replacing the Syrian regime as its main client.

In 2010, East Resources struck a $ 4.7 billion deal to sell its leases and assets to Royal Dutch Shell, the oil - and - gas giant that had taken an interest in the Marcellus.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has struck a deal to buy back oil rights from a secretive offshore company for a sum likely to be hundreds of times the price the company paid several years earlier, Global Witness says in a report published today.

The deal was struck by the then Republican governor, Tom Corbett, who received over $ 1m in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry.

In the period around both the 2006 and 2011 elections, mining magnate Gertler secured mining and oil assets at prices that were often well below market value, before later striking lucrative deals for those assets with the likes of London - listed giant commodities trader Glencore.

Until now, these contracts were not available to the public, so people were unable to see if their government had struck a good and fair deal for their oil.

In 2004, the SFO started an investigation into suspected accounting irregularities relating to BAE and a government to government deal struck in 1985: Britain signed the Al - Yamamah arms for oil deal with Saudi Arabia, the biggest ever UK export contract involving the sale of 120 Tornado fighter jets.

A few years ago I was doing some work for a professional association on guidelines for dealing with litigants without counsel and I was struck by the extent to which some legal professionals regard litigants without counsel as interlopers who gum up the finely tuned, well - oiled machine that is their justice system.

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