Sentences with phrase «oil producing countries world»

International development partners were consulted and lessons were drawn from the best practices in oil producing countries world over.

Not exact matches

Since March 1998, oil - producing countries have been making efforts to restrict supply, but it was not until early in 1999, when world demand for oil began to pick up, that these efforts were successful.

However, rain forests and peat lands in palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.

Providing food, oil, milk and medicine, countries around the world have been producing coconut products for income.

All oil producing countries in the world subsidise and we said if last year we spent half a trillion, this year we are talking about over a trillion, there is a problem somewhere.

Mark Brownstein, a climate expert at the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund, said the countries, two of the world's largest petroleum drillers, showed real leadership in «setting a mark for other major oil and gas producing nations.»

The two Southeast Asian countries produce about 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

«We are engaged in the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world, from the industrialized countries into oil producing regions,» FedEx chairman Fred Smith said.

Fermenting the sugars in the country's abundant sugar cane produced a motor fuel that lowered carbon dioxide emissions, and many saw Brazil as a model for how the world could shed its addiction to oil, creating jobs along the way.

There's even a line comparing Alaska to a third world oil producing country... presumably since the governments are so easy to buy.

Fun fact: The country is best known for producing almost all the rose oil consumed in the world.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, OPEC member countries produce about 40 % of the world's crude oil.

Right now at least, pump prices are falling more or less in tandem with crude because of low demand from world economies and larger crude inventories from oil producing countries.

With two of the world's largest oil and gas producing countries moving ahead toward a 45 - percent reduction, it sets a mark for other oil and gas nations to meet.»

Well, with the global oil exporting countries on track to consuming all the oil they produce by 2025 - 2030 the rest of the world will be back in the dark ages well before we get an ice - free Arctic.

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

Many, mostly oil producing, countries provide their inhabitants with transport fuels below the world price.

Conservatives in Australia, Brazil, and Canada also show a proclivity for climate denial, though not at the same levels as the U.S. Outside of the oil - producing countries in the Middle East, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. have some of the highest per capita carbon emissions in the world.

In fact, the problem in a place like Cushing is that we're actually producing so much oil and gas in places like North Dakota and Colorado that we don't have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it to where it needs to go — both to refineries, and then, eventually, all across the country and around the world.

The area under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia expanded from 673,000 hectares in 1990 to more than 5 million in 2008 and the country expects to produce 21 - 23 million tons of palm oil this year, extending its lead as the world's top producer.

And while civil unrest and anti-American terrorists seem to dominate the headlines in some of the world's largest oil - producing countries, American production has managed to keep the world's crude oil prices in check.

Obviously we do a lot of work in Venezuela as it is a very prolific country in terms of legal issues — either because of the constant change in law or the $ 100 oil — and, being the fifth - largest producing country in the world, there is a lot of investment and a lot of projects here, $ 3 - to $ 4 - billion oil projects going on.

Thanks in large part to geopolitical instability in several of the world's key oil producing countries, including Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, and Venezuela, the price of a barrel of oil has jumped 67 percent over the last 12 months, to above $ 50 in late 2004 from about $ 30 at the beginning of the year.