Sentences with phrase «oil industry took»

Exxon Mobil and the Oil Industry Took a Big Hit In addition to displacing over a million people and inflicting catastrophic damage and destruction to all economic sectors in the region, Hurricane Harvey had a crippling effect on the US oil industry that continues today.

Environmentalist have done a pretty good job of sounding one alarm, but the Republicans, back in the 1970's, actually did much better on the policy - economics front, although, in the end, the oil industry took them over.

When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.

Lard can be a wonderful source of vitamin D. Traditionally, lard has been used and enjoyed for pastries and frying potatoes — until the vegetable oil industry took over.

John Browne, who led BP from 1995 to 2007, and pushed for the company's one - time slogan «Beyond Petroleum,» knows how long the oil industry takes to change.

In states like Alaska and Texas, where the oil industry takes center stage, high gas prices keep the wheels turning smoothly.

Ms. Redford needs to propose a carbon price that actually leads to overall emissions reductions so that the oil industry takes on its share of Canadian emissions reductions, just like everyone else does.

Not exact matches

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The oil industry crashed, and he took a buyout last year.

As one of the country's largest independent refiners, Phillips 66 hasn't taken as severe a beating from the cheap - oil shocks that shook the rest of the energy industry.

Tensions between PDVSA and foreign oil companies have steadily risen since Quevedo took charge in November and appointed military officers who had little or no oil industry experience to senior jobs.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis takes a look at what's at stake for the energy industry if the U.S. imposes an import tax on oil.

First of all, anything that boosts productivity is a positive for both the oil industry and the environment — if DOE has indeed found a better recipe for upgraded heavy oil, Alberta's producers will be happy to take it up (if the economics and P.R. opportunity of using more efficient, cleaner technology weren't enough, the province's carbon price gives them a further incentive).

The little industry that could take a big bite out of oil demand Shell warns of liquified natural gas shortage

I took snapshots from 1995 (the earliest year available) and 2010 (the latest) and edited the graphics to highlight the industries in question: transportation manufacturing (light blue) and oil and gas (dark brown).

Or Harper might prefer to take the loss, the better to portray the oil - sands industry as a victim of global nanny - statism at the next election.

Instead, B.C. agreed to take demands for financial compensation directly to the oil and gas industry.

The oil industry might have taken a hit from falling crude prices, but the Texas economy has proven resilient.

The shale oil industry was scam by the big private equity funds who took a flier on the shale business because the bond market gave them access to dirt cheap capital thanks to the Fed's ZIRP.

To run the Department of Energy, Trump chose former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who took the job «believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.»

The recommendations of that report were taken up by key members of the petroleum industry through the auspices of the Oil Sands Leadership Initiative (now superseded by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance).

I have recently changed industries and a few months ago took a job with an oil company.

High labor costs and the falling price of crude oil have contributed to the industry's dark days, but environmental activists can also take a bow.

PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a drilling rig or production operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.

New York City is taking on the oil industry on two fronts, announcing a lawsuit Wednesday that blames the top five oil companies for contributing to global warming and saying the city will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city's...

While the oil industry waits for the worldwide petroleum glut to decrease — something the International Energy Agency believes might occur by the end of the year — frack sand investors can take comfort in the knowledge that 70 %, 88 %, and 87 % of US Silica's, Hi - Crush Partners», and Emerge Energy's respective current and medium - term production is protected by highly profitable contracts.

While there, we'll be announcing the new rule and the palm kernel expeller opportunities, as well as calling on manufacturers and retailers around the world to take urgent steps to help make positive change in the palm oil industry.

Despite the lack of evidence, this notion took off throughout the healthcare world and was fueled by the vegetable oil and food processing industries that sought to benefit from this finding.

The exact position is unclear, but Bradford is taking a job in the oil industry, he told Kansas» Rivals site, Jayhawk Slant.

His signs loan contracts on behalf of the state, his daughters, brother and nephews have taken over the oil industry, his nephew has been offered of lucrative contract to review all contracts signed under the previous administration, his former wife appointed appointed an ambassador, his «Nigerian in laws» have been offered juicy contracts etc..

When the NATO countries meet in Paris last week with the «Libyan Contact Group» to discuss the next steps to be taken in consolidating Libya's revolution, the reconstruction of the oil industry was high on the agenda.

Minister of Petroleum Emmanuel Armah - Kofi Buah has given the assurance that bold steps have been taken to drive the oil, gas and power industry forward and emphasised Ghana was on its way to prosperity with its oil wealth.

The Government will be urged to take action to save jobs in the North Sea oil and gas industry during a House of Commons debate on the situation today.

President Mahama said many industries and businesses such as the oil and gas sector were looking for graduates with middle level technical skills, and encouraged the students to take up such courses to enable them to get jobs after school.

They both claim that incumbent Republican Congressman Chris Gibson took donations from the oil and gas industries and has since «voted to continue billions in tax subsidies for his oil and gas donors.»

The industry employs hundreds of thousands of individuals in Scotland; the cut in the PRT and supplementary charge signals that the Government has taken a long - term view to protect the industry in recognising that its role is to mitigate as best it can against the natural fluctuation of the oil and gas commodity prices.»

One little - discussed subsidy the oil industry enjoys is the military protection in the middle east, the argument being that without a strong naval presence, many tankers would be taken by pirates.

It is strange that GNPC which was formed in 1983 and which has all the expertise one can think of in the oil industry could not find a partner to discover oil but it took a two - man company with no experience or track record in the oil industry to find a partner for us.

It will take action by AG's like New York's Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts AG Maura Healy and others to hold the oil industry to account and hope that those revelations finally break the stranglehold over climate change policies.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee of academic and industry engineers to take a technical look into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill.

Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

«It may take a number of tries but you can do it,» says Ken Arnold, an oil industry consultant based in Houston, Texas.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

«The new rules approved by Colorado's Air Quality Control Commission, after taking input from varied and often conflicting interests, will ensure Colorado has the cleanest and safest oil and gas industry in the country and help preserve jobs,» Hickenlooper said.

People kind of take that for granted, but the oil industry didn't have the magic of big data, machine - learning type stuff in the past, and now they do.

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.

However, researchers believe that loss would have occurred at a much slower rate — perhaps taking centuries to reach their current state — without the oil and gas industry's canals and extraction.

Take for instance, the common Canola oil, the beauty queen of the vegetable oil industry.

So why does it seem that so many attempts over the years have tried to lay the blame on saturated fat... do you think it might have anything to do with the muli - billion dollar vegetable oil industry, which has taken over for cooking oils for what used to be mostly animal fats and tropical oils in decades past...