Sentences with phrase «oil majors moving»

-- Scott Sklar, Solar Energy Industries Association, 1986, quoted by Robert Bradley in «Getting Real: The Oil Major Move Away from Political Energy,» MasterResource web site, Apr. 9, 2009

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The move to 100 % of the Montney project is a major coup for Calima that will be sure to raise its profile with the oil and gas heavyweights of North America who are eager to get a share of the action in the liquids - rich basin.

1) China's emergence as a dominant player in the low - carbon market, 2) global oil majors» shift to renewable energy, 3) big corporate brands moving to 100 % renewable power, 4) the rise of electric vehicles and expiration dates for gas - fuelled cars, and 5) energy getting smarter through digitization.

The Bakken oil deposits, which are often drilled through hydrofracking, have become a major source of oil for the railroads to move because the deposits lack direct pipeline links.

** Russian oil major Rosneft is seeking a stake in Azerbaijan's Absheron gas project, sources close to the talks said, in the latest move that may help it become a competitor of Russia's gas exporter Gazprom.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

In 2008 Unilever announced that it will make a shift to using sustainable palm oil, as soon as the first supplies become available.This major initiative is one that will have a significant impact, not just on climate change but also on the sustainability of the rainforest.Unilever's intention is to move to 100 % certified, sustainable palm oil by 2015, and we will also support an immediate moratorium on any further deforestation in Indonesia linked to palm oil cultivation.

Engine oil leaks may not always be where the oil appears, engine compartments have several reasons to move oil around with fans being a major contributor.

The major changes are the use of twin - scroll turbochargers, a wider powerband and the oil / coolant heat exchanger being moved to within the «V» of the engine.

Gene moved from the U.S. to Calgary 12 years ago to take a job with a major oil company, earning more than $ 300,000 annually.

There he met his wife and, once rent became far too expensive, he moved back to his home state of Texas where he now works as an inspector for a major oil company.

Even major oil and power companies are recognizing that the world is moving toward constraints on carbon emissions and planning those constraints into their long range financial plans.

As we have seen in late 2014 (and 1986 and 2008), even small shifts in the supply / demand balance can cause large and quick moves in oil prices, moves that oil majors have no hope of reacting to given their current business models.

I started out providing the forecasts to those operating and eventually moved on to manage offshore operations for a major oil company.

The North Sea, a relatively mature oil and gas basin with a thriving renewable electricity industry, is already seeing some crossover between the sectors: some large oil and gas companies are major players in offshore wind; one former oil and gas company, Ørsted in Denmark, has moved entirely to wind and other renewables.

As for those other setbacks for the oil and gas industry, in a moved that «stunned» supporters and opposers alike, last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency denied permission for the construction of a major natural gas export terminal and pipeline in Oregon.

It's not based on a numerical model of how oil would likely move and disperse if a well off Delaware really did have a major problem; that's a function of wind, tide, current, the properties of the oil, the rate and quantity of spillage, and of course the effectiveness of our efforts to contain the oil in such an incident.

Written essentially in the style of a textbook, Morgan Downey's Oil 101 moves systematically through the major areas of knowledge required for a basic understanding of the global petroleum industry.

Make the major moves necessary NOW to reduce our use of Foreign Oil and Oil in general.

They come at a vital time because for every major city like New York or Paris moving huge amounts of money and using their political power to take on Big Oil, we need dozens of successful divestment campaigns on our campuses, and hundreds of grassroots organisers to win arguments in our communities.

Experts agree that a shift in our energy and consumption is necessary to avert catastrophe brought on by global warming, yet there is strong resistance to a major move away from a coal - fired electricity and oil - based economy to one based on alternative sources of renewable energy.

The move is likely to stir up criticism from environmentalists that fear palm oil production could soon become a major driver of deforestation in the region.

Oil and gas major ExxonMobil said new reserves in the Arctic and Canadian tar sands must be exploited, moves scientists deem incompatibe with tackling global warming.

NEW YORK - Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations and has stopped funding groups skeptical of global warming claims moves that some say could indicate a change in stance from the long - time foe of limits on heat - trapping gases.

But basically, I believe that the only reason there's so much resistance — including at this exact moment while the US Senate for the third time now since the Democrats have taken over, is trying to pass a bill that will get the tax subsidies away from the most profitable corporations in the history of corporations ever, which are the major oil companies and move those tax subsidies.

However, the country has taken major steps to move away from coal and oil - fueled power, and towards renewables — particularly solar.

But one of the major purposes of motor oil is to work as a cleaner, picking up small debris from your engine's moving parts.

Australia's oil and gas sector is playing a waiting game for major LNG projects to move to next phases.