Sentences with phrase «oil executives»

This seems to be the number that oil executives use to illustrate world oil usage.

The electric car has been the dream of many environmentalists and car designers for many years and the secret nightmare of many oil executives.

London (CNN)- The Church of England named former oil executive Justin Welby as the next archbishop of Canterbury, making him the titular leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans.

It's like a Playboy photographer who doesn't look at Playboy magazines, or a Tobacco Company CEO who doesn't smoke, or a BP Oil Executive who drives a hybrid.

«The military guys arrive calling the engineers thieves and saboteurs,» said a Venezuelan oil executive at a private company who frequently works with PDVSA.

His career has gotten a boost from the likes of oil executive Harold Hamm, who was co-chair of Pruitt's reelection campaign.

BERLIN — A Vietnamese man charged with involvement in the kidnapping of a former Vietnamese oil executive in Berlin went on trial Tuesday in the German capital.

The libertarian group, which is funded in part by the foundation of billionaire oil executive Charles Koch, convened its own panel of scientists — who represent a small minority of opinion — in Rome this week to oppose the Vatican summit.

So far, just weeks into his campaign Cuccinelli has received $ 10,000 from Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan. - based energy conglomerate run by billionaire oil executives Charles and David Koch, according to the Virginia Public Access Project, which tracks campaign donations.

Eventually Mature is made to realize that the plight of the Condor is worthy worrying about, and he is able to dissuade the agreeable oil executives from drilling on the bird's territory.

«With his silver hair, dark suits, and deep Texas drawl, Tillerson is the very picture of a big oil executive,» O'Keefe writes.

It's not surprising that Millennials are not as attracted to the opportunity to use new tech as oil executives believe they are - Millennials generally don't see technology as a perk, they take it for granted.

The surge in earthquakes over the past week comes as a June 23 report from E&E that showed that the University of Oklahoma sought a $ 25 million donation from famed oil executive Harold Hamm, head of Continental Resources.

It was only yesterday that we were posting on oil executives» warnings about the consequences of peak oil, and looking at the solutions that are out there.

Not only are Millennials snubbing oil and gas because of its negative image, they also seek different job perks than previous generations sought, and in this regard, the oil industry will need to do more as it becomes increasingly obvious that Millennials want different things than what oil executives think they want.

A senior oil executive is urging federal and provincial governments to put a significant price on carbon dioxide to encourage the industry to reduce emissions even as it increases production and accesses new and growing markets.

His pre-ordination career as a top oil executive means Welby can't be dismissed as another «unworldly vicar».

In June a much - touted report by Leonardo Maugeri — an Italian oil executive now at the Geopolitics of Energy Project, based at Harvard University and part - funded by BP — forecast that far from running out of oil, this decade will see the strongest growth in production capacity since the 1980s and a «significant, stable dip of oil prices».

A majority of oil executives surveyed by the consulting firm Deloitte agree.

The University of Louisiana Alumni Association will honor oil executive Kenneth Blanchard Sr. and transplant surgeon Dr. J. Keith Melancon as Outstanding Alumni for 2011.

This powerful new BBC miniseries, starring Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), addresses these issues within the context of a drama where oil executives, politicians and environmental activists collide.After the president of Arrow Oil suddenly retires, Tom McConnell is thrown into the hot seat.

The film is as contemptuous of the rapacious and deceitful Texan oil executives who have put Peter's company out of business as it is of the rebel kidnappers, a band of Marxist revolutionaries so thoroughly corrupted by their drug and kidnapping operations that they now spend much of their time getting high.

Mixing wry comedy and unexpected pathos, and featuring music by Mark Knopfler, this stirring ode to Forsyth's native Scotland follows a Texas oil executive (Peter Riegert) whose life is changed when his boss (Burt Lancaster) sends him to a Scottish village to buy up land for a new refinery.

During his stint as chief curator at the Hammer, Garrels» combination of scholarly acumen and an affinity for new art enlarged its reputation as more than a continuation of the legacy of the late oil executive Armand Hammer, who founded it in 1990 mostly as a repository for his own collection of Old Master, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and 19th century drawings.

This is a smokescreen to give advantages to our politically well - connected oil executives (cf. the Cheney Energy Task Force).

But that hasn't deterred oil executives, nor their beneficiaries in Congress.

«Radicalism: In another example of junk science run amok, NASA scientist James Hansen wants oil executives put on trial for giving «misinformation» about his global warming theory.

With this in mind, the only explanation for a line like this is that it was written by some coal or utility or oil executive for whom carbon capture is the only way to stay in business in a world with tightening greenhouse - gas standards.

In fact, he raised more than one million dollars from big oil just last month, most of which came after he announced his plan for offshore drilling in a room full of cheering oil executives.

Expanding extreme offshore energy development marks a new chapter in Trump's reckless overreach to give away public lands and waters so oil executives can profit.

The audience of oil executives reacted rapturously.

Oil executives getting jail time.

The Washington Post is giving free media to what it calls «some of the country's most respected environmental groups» — helping them spin absurd street theater like CarnivOil into «educational» programs about saving Planet Earth (with vile oil executives bribing boxing referees and knocking out crab - costumed activists).

Passing Proposition 23 would simply leave California more polluted and less prosperous, while oil executives and lobbyists would continue to rejoice at their personal profit at the expense of a healthy planet and healthy people.

Allowing himself to fantasize out loud for a bit, the embattled oil executive painted a picture of a world without plaintiffs lawyers, litigation holds or over-zealous attorneys general.

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.»

The National Energy Board was tarred by conflicts of interest and the Alberta Energy Regulator was chaired by a former oil executive, while millions of oil dollars flowed to universities.

It ignores the pipeline's significant risk for toxic spills, ignores its catastrophic impacts on our climate, and ignores the clear consensus among financial analysts and oil executives who agree Keystone XL will make the difference in tar sands development.»

George W. Bush, the oil man from Texas (but really from Connecticut), had brought Halliburton executive Dick Cheney with him to the White House to serve as his V.P. and had handed out proverbial keys to White House back rooms to Big Oil executives, essentially invited to come and go as they pleased.

For my book on the troubles of oil, I traveled through Nigeria, meeting oil executives, oil warlords and immiserated fishermen whose livelihood has been destroyed; it was a journey into the carbon hell on the other side of our gas pumps.

The Tea Party's ascent has been bolstered by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a political action committee founded and funded by oil industry interests, including billionaire oil executives Charles and David Koch.

President Nicolas Maduro since last year has overseen the arrest of dozens of oil executives, including the former energy minister and PDVSA president.

Elites — princes, oil executives, military chieftains, rich foreigners — win.

The majority of oil executives and industry analysts still believe that $ 50 - $ 60 oil will continue as the new normal, with U.S. shale supply growing stronger every time oil prices rise above $ 50.

Mining and oil executives have seen their cash flow confiscated by value - added taxes, leading to drops in capex and job creation.

Graham has already announced that he plans to oppose secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson if the oil executive does not come out for new sanctions against Russia.

On Friday, the Right Reverend Justin Welby, a former oil executive, was confirmed as the next archbishop of Canterbury, and as such will become head of the 77 million - member worldwide Anglican Communion.

Fifty - six - year - old Welby is thought to have beaten challengers like John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, to the appointment because of his unusual background as an oil executive.