Sentences with phrase «other oil companies»

The firm grew over its 57 - year history with safe investments in legacy assets from other oil companies.

The leading force behind the $ 3 billion project is British Petroleum (BP) in consortium with other oil companies including California - based Unocal.

Chevron, working with a consortium of other oil companies, recently drilled an exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico in waters 7,718 feet deep, a distance five times the height of the Empire State Building.

As industry job cuts top 200,000 worldwide, Exxon has kept its 75,300 - strong workforce intact with none of the sweeping layoffs seen at other oil companies, including its biggest U.S. rival Chevron Corp. «Exxon is just stronger financially than anyone else out there,» Brian Youngberg, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, said in an interview.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al - Falih has said it would be a risk to list in New York because of liabilities and litigation, including the climate change lawsuits against other oil companies by New York City.

Whitehouse has been a leading proponent of federal racketeering charges against Exxon and other oil companies over allegedly fraudulent statements to shareholders about the financial impact of climate change.

Other oil companies including European majors Eni, Statoil and, most prominently, Total are diversifying into renewables, albeit less emphatically.

And when BP scientists failed to develop better plans, Chu invited other oil companies — Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell — into the effort.

Proxy access resolutions have won a majority of shareholder votes at many other oil companies so far this year, including ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Marathon Oil Corp., Hess Corp., Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Murphy Oil Corp. and others.

The proceeding, scheduled for March 21 by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies pitted against those for San Francisco and Oakland — California cities that have accused fossil fuel interests of covering up their role in contributing to global warming.

(For reference, EEI was on board with the House climate bill while API and other oil companies savaged it to high heaven.)

So while the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund will be tapped to clean up spills of tar sands oil, like the Arkansas spill, because of this loophole, ExxonMobil and other oil companies dealing in tar sands dilbit are not helping replenish these funds.

What About Other Oil Companies?

Beyond the two spills for which Shell has just accepted responsibility, the UNEP report notes that Shell and other oil companies operating in Ogoniland have systematically contaminated 1000 square kilometers of land.

What this shows is that ExxonMobil and other oil companies piping heavy, tar sands oil down from Canada just do not have the technology needed to deal with these spills, which are so frequent to feel inevitable.

As the 1990s progressed and the rear - guard action against restrictions on smoking faded, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk science» website began to carry material attacking climate change science.

In 2012, Deighton Pierce Glynn protectively filed a damages claim case in the High Court which included a claim for false imprisonment, torture and assault against BP and 6 other oil companies registered in the UK and OCENSA in Columbia.

I was looking to buy more Shell, but even that has run up quite quickly (along with other oil companies).

While a few of the groups say they also receive some money from other oil companies, it is only a small fraction of what they receive from Exxon Mobilâ ¦

New York City sues Shell, ExxonMobil and other oil companies over climate change (Washington Post, Jan. 10, 2018)

At present, most of this rent has been relinquished to companies that have been privatized: the large fuel companies (Gazprom, Yukos and other oil companies), mining companies (Norilsk, etc.), and the telephone, electric power and other monopolies.

In fact, Young Living has a Seed to Seal guarantee that surpasses any other oil company's guarantee of the quality and purity of their oils.

A compelling point also we must not forget is the call by stakeholders on all other oil companies to emulate the Chevron Nigeria Limited template in community engagement.

For more than half a century, 17 millions of gallons of oil have been oozing beneath Greenpoint, Brooklyn, courtesy of ExxonMobil and other oil companies.

For a system of enhanced oil recovery fed by coal plants designed for carbon capture to pay off, Denbury, Tellus and every other oil company must survive current low oil prices.

Right now, Tellus gets its CO2 from a deposit called the Jackson Dome in western Mississippi, and other oil companies are using a similar approach at hundreds of old wells around the country.

Anecdotal reports about seeing the captain at a bar prior to leaving port, confirmed by a blood test revealing alcohol in his body hours after the accident, also spoke to the lack of staff oversight at the time by Exxon and other oil companies with supertankers on the high seas.

We have already seen a few of the other oil companies cutting their dividend a few years back.

Question — Alsup asked for the other oil companies to file their own responses so that there would not be post hoc differences with Boutrous» presentations that emerged.

We might have to narrow that down to coal (or a Koch), given that even Exxon Mobil and other oil companies have supported a carbon tax.

ALEC's ties to the Kochs and other oil companies are well - documented, and ALEC has had close ties to utilities, which are key drivers of its model legislation.

Several cities and counties in California have filed lawsuits against Exxon and other oil companies, alleging they conspired to cast doubt on climate change science and delay restrictions on greenhouse gases.

As the refining of bitumen from tar sands mines creates particularly dirty fuel, Valero and the other oil companies crawling around northern Alberta aren't happy to see California's Global Warming Solutions Act survive Proposition 23.

Exxon Mobil and other oil companies have destroyed boreal forests, water quality, and public health in order to mine and process this dirty fuel.

The State Department is already facing legitimate criticism for contracting companies with ties to TransCanada and other oil companies for its environmental impact estimates, which the Environmental Protection Agency has slammed for being «insufficient.»

More than 3,000 people attended the lunchtime rally — many employees bussed in by Chevron and other oil companies.

Valero, Tesoro and the other oil company supporters of Prop 23 are part of a $ 50 billion - a-year California refining industry that employs thousands of Californians and fuels more than 99.9 % of the state's 33.6 million registered motor vehicles.

The other four defendants had representatives in the room but declined to present, which San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera read as a signal that the other oil companies did not even want to recognize that the court has jurisdiction in such a case.

Those three lawsuits sued the same five plus other oil companies and coal producers.

McKitrick: «No, I have never sought or received funding from Exxon or any other oil company.

Sonangol's website does report that a subsidiary of Exem Holding has been pre-qualified by Sonangol to bid for oil licences in Angola as a «non-operator» - that is, as a minority shareholder in a joint venture with other oil companies.18 However, there appears to be no information on this website about tenders in relation to Exem Holding's other interests.

This so - called «BTC Pipeline» is estimated to cost about $ 1.4 billion, with major investors including BP Exploration (38 %), SOCAR - Azerbaijan (25 %), and six other oil companies, including TPAO.