Sentences with word «oilman»

A little something about the movie: When Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet...
And many of the pipeline operators (virtually all of which are based in Texas) really lived up to the reputation of Texas oilmen as gun - slinging risk takers.
Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens says the United States ought to be producing vehicles to take advantage of domestic shale gas and break its foreign oil dependence.
Day - Lewis, 50, won his second best actor Academy Award for his towering performance as a ruthless, malevolent oilman in There Will Be Blood.
When Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater, they help Kermit reunite the Muppets to stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $ 10 million needed to save the theater.
In nearly three decades on the PGA Tour, Thompson, the son of a Texas oilman who long financed his career, won just $ 141,096 and failed to win a single tournament.
It was a walloping four - wheeled, six - passenger vehicle which had been brought West by a prosperous oilman from Houston named D. B. McDaniels.
I've long thought that an administration chock - full of billionaires, active and retired military officers, and a former oilman would be itching for a war somewhere, and with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump associates getting hotter by the day, the president may well be tempted to wag the dog.
From a recent article in The Weekly Standard: «Last Friday, McCain had breakfast in Aspen, Colo., with Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, who has taken out television ads to promote his efforts to end American dependence on foreign oil.
URL Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that...
Big Oil must thwart the movement to leave fossil fuels in the ground, the world's most powerful oilman said on Tuesday.
I said I was curious to hear his opinion on drilling and on oilman turned clean - energy man T. Boone Pickens.
At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen.
Finally it was time for Corbin Robinson, introduced as a third generation oilman and one of the nation's largest coal owners.
An exchange - traded fund that reflects the investment philosophy of legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens launched on Wednesday.
Istook, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, took 55 percent of the vote to 31 percent for oilman Bob Sullivan, who spent liberally from his own pocket on this his first political race.
Munroe's best friend, marketing consultant Kate Breeden, refers her to Miles Bradford, a high - stakes security pro, who believes she's the perfect choice to help Houston oilman Richard Burbank find his adopted daughter, Emily, who vanished four years earlier at age 18 while vacationing in west central Africa.
Texas oilman George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing, but, through much trial and error in the»80s and»90s, he demonstrated the technique was a commercially viable way of squeezing oil from otherwise impermeable rock.
And the four Tulsa oilmen who sold the Roughnecks last January — three months after they'd won the 1983 Soccer Bowl — said they had dropped $ 8 million over four years.
Depicts the experiences of a down - and - out wildcat oilman who believes in hitching his wagon to a star.
Daniel, 50, as predicted, won his second best actor Oscar for his towering performance as a ruthless, malevolent oilman in -LSB-...]
While Redemption did borrow that name — Plainview — from There Will Be Blood «s oilman antihero, this scene certainly looks more in line with the tone of Coen brothers film.
In Ridley Scott's fact - based «All the Money in the World,» criminals kidnap a grandson of billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, played by Christopher Plummer.
Woodcock's demeanor, if not his nature, lies in stark contrast with that of Day - Lewis» last Anderson character: Daniel Plainview, the ruthless oilman of There Will Be Blood.
Along with the cursory inclusions of the movie's teaser and theatrical trailer, there are two unprocessed deleted scenes and a dailies reel, the latter featuring an alternate take of the explosive restaurant scene between Plainview and other oilmen.
Sayles became a stockbroker, dating many wealthy men before meeting her Texas oilman husband through a friend.
To pay their legal costs, [12] the majority of Caire's descendants were compelled to sell the remaining 90 percent of the island to Los Angeles oilman Edwin Stanton in 1937.
Other family members sold the remaining 90 percent of the island to Los Angeles oilman Edwin Stanton in 1937.
George P. Mitchell, the son of a Greek goatherd who capped a career as one of the most prominent independent oilmen in the United States by unlocking immense natural gas and petroleum resources trapped in shale rock formations, died on Friday in Galveston, Tex..
The suit's lead plaintiff is a Buffalo leader of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political action group supported by oilmen David and Charles Koch that is linked to the tea party movement.
Of course, the 37 - year - old New Orleans oilman does not play in all the tournaments.
With oilmen like Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, and Forrest Lucas, the founder of Lucas Oil, named as potential candidates to lead the departments of energy and the interior, respectively, in a Trump administration, the mostly likely historical analog for the next few years could be the start of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when he appointed senior officials who were often hostile to the policies of their own agencies.
In recent films, Paul Thomas Anderson has specialized in monsters, in unforgiving, controlling males with horrifying, exacting appetites: Day - Lewis's oilman Plainview in There Will be Blood, cult leader Lancaster Dodd in The Master.
If people saw enough movies and slide films and paintings and photographs of oil and oilmen perhaps they would begin to understand (and like) the industry.
There was difficulty, for instance, when John Vachon made pictures of poverty - stricken families and barefoot workmen in Venezuela, and again when Edwin Rosskam showed oilmen drinking beer in a saloon in Cut Bank, Montana.
That's what those Texas oilmen once did, and that's what EnCana is trying to do today.
Jeffery Immelt, the CEO of GE, was a Phi Delt, as were a number of other prominent trustees, among them Morgan Stanley senior adviser R. Bradford Evans, billionaire oilman Trevor Rees - Jones and venture capitalist William W. Helman IV.
Ernest Bothi, creator of the sign and the organizer of the Big Country Oilmen's Association golf tournament, initially told reporters he had nothing to be sorry about.
The number of rinks participating in the annual Sundre Oilmen's bonspiel was down slightly this...
This year, Aurelio's sausage was sold at the Joliet, Ill., Slammers and Whiting, Ind., Oilmen minor league baseball parks on buns with toppings like hot jardinière or tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese.
The expedition that found this one significant medal was sponsored by a Fort Worth oilman, F. Kirk Johnson Jr., who, though a novice on the Banner Reef scene, has a certified curiosity — in 1957 he led an expedition into the Himalayas to search for the Abominable Snowman.
Oilmen bring pumping stations for offshore oil.
The deep pockets of filthy - rich oilmen, rules be damned, financed it.
Obama's political guru, David Axelrod, ripped the Koch brothers as «billionaire oilmen secretly underwriting what the public has been told is a grassroots movement for change in Washington.»
The lifelong oilman now leads the State Department, which oversees international climate change negotiations, programs to alleviate energy poverty and environmental treaties
But while several Democrats emerged from office meetings with the veteran oilman early this month saying they were reassured by some of his positions — like his belief in man - made climate change — none supported Tillerson in committee.
The plot begins in the late 1980s, when the original owner, Texas oilman Ed Bass, spent $ 150 million to create a model of the first biosphere (Earth) near Tucson, Arizona.
On fourteen dry, flat square miles of California's Central Valley, more than 8,000 horsehead pumps — as old - fashioned oilmen call them — slowly rise and fall as they suck oil from underground.
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