Sentences with phrase «oil industry giant»

In 2016, oil industry giant ConocoPhillips acquired 594,972 acres in the reserve in a single lease sale.

Two days after his activity was revealed in 2005, he left the administration and was hired by oil industry giant ExxonMobil.

The oil industry giant is in the midst of trying to create biofuel from algae.

According to one such globally accepted metric for oil industry giants — enterprise value vs. earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)-- in order for Aramco to reach a company valuation of $ 2 trillion, it needs to report an EBITDA of around $ 130 billion next year, according to Reuters estimates.

Not exact matches

Executives of Chinese oil giant PetroChina Ltd. have been told to hand in their passports as an anti-corruption investigation of the industry spreads, a newspaper said Tuesday.

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The oil and gas industry may not be in the best shape at the moment, but a company with clear - cut advantages within the industry is midstream giant Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI).

Sunita Narain, well - known for her exposure of soft drink giants Pepsi and Coca - Cola for the high pesticide content in 2003, has now found the edible oil industry, especially the vanaspati sector, guilty of selling their products with high trans fat levels.

Flint Hills, a wholly - owned subsidiary of oil giant Koch Industries based in Kansas, has joined with Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro in trying to block California's landmark climate legislation by funding the campaign to pass Proposition 23.

But if you stray from the industry giants, buying into the oil & gas / mining sectors is like entering the lion's den.

The measure, launched six months ago by Texas oil giants Valero Energy Inc. and Tesoro Corp., comes as the industry has fallen under intense scrutiny in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

Lobbyists representing industry players including natural gas giant EQT, Antero Resources, TransCanada, and multiple oil and gas trade associations wooed state lawmakers with thousands of dollars» worth of food and drink throughout 2017, according to lobbying records obtained by DeSmog.

The good news for wind energy fans comes right on the heels of yet another giant setback for the oil and gas industry.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

In and of themselves these developments represent the U.S. oil and gas industry's use of innovative technologies to take a giant leap forward at a time when it risked a significant decline in domestic production.

Led by global paper giants APP and APRIL, the pulp, paper and palm oil industries are driving Riau's Sumatran tigers and elephants to local extinction in just a few years by destroying their habitat, the study found.

In a blockbuster story, The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed oil and gas industry giant ExxonMobil to «determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business.»

In Southeast Asia, the palm oil industry was stung by the decision by Unilever, the world's largest buyer of palm oil, to suspend its contract with Sinar Mas, the world's second largest producer of palm oil, after an investigation commissioned by the consumer products giant found allegations made by Greenpeace about the palm oil producer's environmental record to be true.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

Fraser has received annual grants from oil - giant ExxonMobil and has a long history of opposing environmental laws and regulations, mainly by throwing seeds of doubt on the seriousness, consequences and solutions to global warming on behalf of the fossil - fuel industry.

There, a new combination of old oil industry technologies has unlocked a giant resource geologists thought was unattainable for 75 years.

The documents, unveiled by Dutch newspaper De Correspondent on Thursday, show that the oil giant's researchers flagged that climate change could have major implications for the fossil fuel industry as far back as the 1980s — and predicted that environmental groups could sue following damages from extreme weather.

Indian companies likely to benefit from the focus on solar energy include Tata BP Solar — a tie - up between Tata Power and BP Solar, a subsidiary of the British oil giant — and Reliance Solar, part of the country's largest private sector firm, Reliance Industries.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

They bravely undertake the risky endeavor of going up against insurance companies, business giants, the health care industry, drug companies, big tobacco, oil and chemical conglomerates — need I go on?

Seasoned chief executive officer with a stellar history of success building oil and gas industry companies into global giants with a solid market presence and a sustainable strategic plan for long - term business growth.