Sentences with phrase «oil rich states»

Arsenal doesn't have the near monolpoly it enjoyed; and now, we have oil rich states using state - aid to fund their clubs.

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Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.

«Located at the heart of the United Arab Emirates along the Gulf on the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, there's nothing small nor understated about this former fishing village turned oil - rich city - state.»

Oil - rich states in the Middle East that had planned gigantic new transit systems are putting projects on hold.

cut diplomatic ties with Qatar last June, accusing the tiny oil - rich state of supporting terrorism, which Qatar denied.

Caracas says it hopes to draw investment from oil - rich Middle Eastern countries, Turkey and Western nations, such as the United States.

With huge new amounts of lease condensate coming from America's condensate - rich tight oil fields — the ones tapped by hydraulic fracturing or fracking — the United States isn't producing quite as much actual crude oil as the raw numbers would lead us to believe.

The oil - rich states of the Gulf Cooperation Council may talk about the need to diversify their economies and open themselves up to foreign investment, but any pick - up in the oil price seems to go hand in hand with reforms being put on the back burner

«It leverages state control of the financial system to channel low - cost capital to domestic industries — and to resource - rich foreign nations whose oil and minerals China needs to maintain rapid growth.»

Bonanza Creek Energy Inc (NYSE: BCEI) is a nano - cap independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of onshore oil and associated liquids - rich natural gas in the United States.

At the moment, there is a precarious balance between Muslims and Christians, with Muslims making up some 34 per cent of the population and Ethiopia being courted by some of the oil - rich Arab states.

The multi-million dollar jet — a 10 - seater with a range of 3,900 nautical miles — was presented to Ayo Oritsejafor by members of his congregation, Word of Life Bible Church in the oil - rich Delta state city of Warri.

Those police officers / the state are bringing freedom to that oppressed woman just like the US military brings democracy to unstable foreign oil rich nations.

Recent developments regarding a pre-salt award to US oil company Cobalt International Energy may herald a new era of US regulatory activism with consequences for Angola and other oil - rich states, but it is too soon to tell.

You can have an oil - rich state tick all the boxes and come out on the other side without this having any implications whatsoever for the nature of governance and broad - based development.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

Africa's oil - rich states have been run by many of the same people for decades.

Gordon Brown is in talks with business leaders in the Middle East as he continues to encourage oil - rich states in the region to contribute further to global financial stability.

Nigeria Premier League defender Izu Joseph has been shot dead in his hometown of Okaki in oil - rich southern Bayelsa state, it was reported on Monday.

Amaechi, who is now the minister of transportation, was said to have initiated the importation of the helicopters while serving as the governor of the oil - rich state.

President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Timipre Sylva are currently engaged in a gritty political battle for the control of the volatile oil - rich state of Bayelsa.

The all - inclusive committee, which is to be headed by the first governor of Bayelsa State, Chief D.S.P Alamieyeseigha, our correspondent learnt, would be inaugurated today (Friday), barring any unforeseen contingency, with the mandate to harmonise all warring factions within the major stakeholders of the PDP in the oil - rich sState, Chief D.S.P Alamieyeseigha, our correspondent learnt, would be inaugurated today (Friday), barring any unforeseen contingency, with the mandate to harmonise all warring factions within the major stakeholders of the PDP in the oil - rich statestate.

He said: «Setting the records straight, the idea of siting a tertiary educational institution in the crude oil and gas - rich Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State was first proposed and adopted under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a critical component in the roadmap to peace and sustainable development of the Niger Delta.

Francois Conradie, a political analyst at South Africa's NKC Independent Economistss, said that if Gen Buhari wins, he expects to see the most trouble in the oil - rich Delta region and in the northern states currently controlled by Mr Jonathan's PDP.

The grouse of the ex-militants in the Eagle Strike Camp in Ilaje Local Government area of the state is the perceived marginalization of the oil rich region in the state, despite several pleas by notable indigenes of the area.

Chief Oyegun, the National Chairman cries out everyday that the party does not have money hence their failed effort to snatch the oil rich Akwa Ibom and Rivers States.

Akpabio, who is now the Senate Minority Leader, was accused of embezzling public funds while he was governor of the oil - rich state.

Everything Money Can Buy 05 August 2011 The vast wealth of the oil - rich Arab states is creating opportunities for scientists who can stand the heat.

Pricey distillation plants, for example, are concentrated in the oil - rich states of the Middle East.

But as oil and gas operations have become more controversial in the energy - rich state, Hickenlooper also threw his support behind the stricter air quality rules, calling for «zero tolerance» on methane emissions.

Sens. James Inhofe of oil - and - gas - rich Oklahoma and Roger Wicker of Mississippi separately questioned the EPA's legal authority to require individual states to reduce their power plant emissions.

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April 17, 2018 • North Carolina isn't rich in coal, natural gas or oil, but it has more hogs than nearly any other state.

Rising natural - gas and oil prices have left energy - rich Wyoming in a financial position that state officials usually can only dream of — a $ 1.8 billion surplus projected for this year, and barely enough ways to spend the money in the sparsely populated state.

Grada Kilomba, a Portuguese artist based in Berlin whose parents are from Angola and the oil - rich island state of São Tomé and Príncipe, impressed in 2016 with her dual - channel film, Illusions.

ART ABU DHABI The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) announced late last month that the city - state will participate in next year's 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Art, entitled «Making Worlds,» a first for the oil - rich Gulf... Continue reading →

There are also Shi'ite minorities in oil - rich states in other parts of the Gulf that are susceptible to a whole range of Iranian operations to build influence.

In that climate of fear about the future, ALEC's Rich States, Poor States offers an elixir that purports to cure what ails you — like snake oil salesmen in days of yore.

Under the 2012 Nessergy deal, the Congolese and Angolan state oil companies bought the company and, with it, its rights in oil - rich waters shared by the two countries.

The new biofuel revolution being subsidised by rich countries, led by the United States of America and the European Union could be buoyed by inability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions domestically as well as increased prices of crude oil.

More than 120 million acres of protected land — larger than the state of California — are situated over rich reserves of oil, coal and gas, according to a new analysis by Greenpeace's Unearthed investigations team.

[122] Other countries with fast growing emissions are South Korea, Iran, and Australia (which apart from the oil rich Persian Gulf states, now has the highest percapita emission rate in the world).

The United States is not just energy rich, but according to the Congressional Research Service, the United States has the largest combined coal, oil, and natural gas resources in the world.

In «Enemy of the State,» Portfolio magazine writer Christopher S. Stewart tells the story of how Robert Amsterdam, an attorney from the Bronx, came to be defending Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once head of Russian oil company Yukos and one of the country's richest oligarchs, now confined to a Siberian prison.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.