Sentences with phrase «oil or gas industry»

There are some occupations that are considered by insurers as high risk than others for e.g. soldiers, pilots, fishermen, miners, off - shore oil or gas industry workers, etc. are considered more dangerous occupations that people working in offices with a desk job, shop workers, teachers, etc..

Pilots, soldiers, anglers, offshore oil or gas industry workers, etc. can expect higher premiums compared to those working in comparatively safer environments like offices, shops, or schools.

Not exact matches

So far, the Obama Administration is giving the agricultural community a pass, even though it emits as much or more methane than the oil and gas industry.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

A provision of Tillerson's ethics agreement says that he must give up any undistributed assets in the trust if he becomes employed by or provides services to «a company in the oil and gas industry or the oil and gas services industry.»

As early as in 2015, Cisco Consulting Services and Oxford Economics said in research that the oil and gas industry adopting IoE has the potential to increase global GDP by up to 0.8 percent — or US$ 816 billion — by 2025.

At times, Pruitt directly coordinated with the Oklahoma oil and gas industry to put pressure on the Obama White House in an effort to weaken clean air and water regulations or squash investigations.

The rules require «resource extraction issuers» to disclose payments that are made to further the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals, and are generally consistent with the types of payments that the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) suggests should be disclosed.

The Energy sector consists of companies involved in the exploration, production, or management of energy resources such as oil, gas, and coal, as well as companies that service these industries.

If all of your stocks are in the airline industry, auto industry, oil and gas industry, or technology industry, and that industry has a problem, your entire portfolio will be impacted.

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.

Most of our business owners have developed oil and natural gas — or provided goods and professional services to the industry in New York — for decades.

The battle for resource is most commonly associated with energy resources such as oil and gas, or base metals indispensible for industries: aluminium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver proposed a bill that would ban companies and individuals that invest in Iran natural gas, oil or nuclear industries from doing business with all levels of government in New York.

This approach often means eliminating entire industries like tobacco, weapons, or oil and gas.

Another fear is that terrorists might strike at the energy industry's computerized systems for controlling the flow of oil or natural gas through pipelines.

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

As a result, many emissions brokers are former traders of the commodities important to the industries that emit CO2 — whether metals or coal, oil, and natural gas.

From spring next year, industries that burn coal or oil will begin to switch to natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

The same can be the case with the oil and gas industry, where differences in equipment or practices might lead to very different methane emissions.

Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»

Nevada lacks a coal, oil or natural gas industry.

Of course, Keystone XL might not be used at full capacity at all times and industry estimates of the greenhouse gases associated with producing and burning tar sands oil can be as low as 482 kilograms per barrel, depending on whether the tar sands were mined or not.

Ultimately, the energy industry won a critical change in the federal government's legal definition of waste: Since 1988, all material resulting from the oil and gas drilling process is considered non-hazardous, regardless of its content or toxicity.

When hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» to access unconventional oil and gas reserves was a hot topic in the fossil fuel industry, Ryerson was tapped to lead a team to develop GEOS — a dynamic computational rock mechanics and hydrologic tool — that can model facture propagation, resulting seismic signals and pressure - driven fluid flow through a rock mass.

The Energy sector consists of companies involved in the exploration, production, or management of energy resources such as oil and gas, as well as companies that service these industries.

The Energy sector consists of companies involved in the exploration, production, or management of energy resources such as oil, gas, and coal, as well as companies that service these industries.

If all of your stocks are in the airline industry, auto industry, oil and gas industry, or technology industry, and that industry has a problem, your entire portfolio will be impacted.

These include firms that operate in the oil, gas, coal or tobacco industries, among others, or that have engaged in any sort of business malpractice, according to the firm.

Indices may also be based on an industry or market segment, such as the NYSE Arca Oil and Gas Index or the Computer and Business Equipment Index.

Additional risks involved with investing in an MLP are risks associated with the specific industry or industries in which the partnership invests, such as the risks of investing in real estate, or oil and gas industries.

Evidently, you have never worked around roughnecks, anyone in the oil and gas industry, lawyers, been in the south, watched TV, listened to any popular music or walked outside your house.

«21 More recently in 2013, on behalf of oil and gas industry groups, JDA overestimated the cost of a revised federal proposed fracking rule by 90 %, or over $ 310 million.22

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

My take is that people working in the the oil and gas industries or who have invested in that sector would be expected to support badly needed drilling.

Once industry is assured that the bottom will not fall out (such as price of oil, gas, or the trading value of avoided carbon, etc., suddenly plummeting) long - term investments will be made.

This crack in my own thinking is heightened by the fact that I am now watching my extended community of plants, animals, rocks, rivers and human beings be ravaged by the oil and gas industry, be it fracking or the razing of vulnerable wildlands.

The decision to ban any economic activity — be it oil and gas development or any other industry — suggests that the process itself is inherently unsafe and can not be done safely.

«I am a geophysicist, all my income for my 30 years of professional life has come directly or indirectly from the oil and gas industry.»

The oil and gas industry uses hydraulic fracturing to enhance subsurface fracture systems to allow oil or natural gas to move more freely from the rock pores to production wells that bring the oil or gas to the surface.»

While natural gas is much less carbon - intense than coal or oil, a burgeoning industry based on cheap shale gas easily could swamp those gains in the long run.

Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.

I can't speak for oil and gas analysts, but I'd be surprised based on past experience in the industry if the risk of a 10 % or greater drop in global demand for oil or gas in the 2030s would have much of an effect on their price targets for companies — certainly not enough to qualify as a bubble.

Seven of the organizations that signed this letter to Pruitt — and five of the actual representatives who signed — also recently penned a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration defending «electronic and heat - not - burn» tobacco products (or vaping products), indicating that this network is defending the tobacco industry as well as oil and gas companies.

Did any of you oil & gas industry promoters read that Mexico City had discovered a new aquifer at 5000 feet of depth that will meet their growth demand for the next 50 years or more, which might very well be a good reason not to pollute our deep depth aquifers too?

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for shale gas is the new wild frontier of the fossil - fuel industry, one they're keen to promote as a low - carbon alternative to high - polluting coal and oil.

The oil and gas industry, industry - funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — as a sure - fire job creator during difficult economic times.

«Weaning ourselves off dirty industries into clean industries... is going to create a lot more jobs than we are going to lose in oil and gas or mining.»

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

¶ Responding to falling oil industry revenues, the government of Algeria unveiled a suite of new programs meant to improve the country's financial situation, including a solar PV facility build = out, and energy efficiency programs, and incentives to convert their vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas rather than petrol / gasoline or diesel.