Sentences with phrase «other oil operations»

But environmentalists have criticized the project because the extraction and processing of the viscous oil requires more energy than many other oil operations.

The extraction and processing of a viscous oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of sand just below the surface of Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires more energy than many other oil operations.

Not exact matches

Analysts and investors generally praised the deal as data analytics and other high - technology operations grow in demand among oil producers.

The Russian steelmaker is a big employer in the Saskatchewan capital, and has operations in half a dozen other communities in Western Canada, where it is an important manufacturer of the pipe used in oil and gas pipelines.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The Board has concluded that Mr. Nickerson is qualified to serve as a Director because, among other things, he has over 30 years of experience in oil and gas operations, with a focus on midstream asset development and management, a critical element of the Company's current strategy.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil & gas wells for others & in the ownership, development & operation of commercial real estates.

The commission is also empowered to advise the Minister on fiscal and other issues pertaining to the petroleum industry, establish framework for the validation and certification of national hydrocarbon reserves, undertake evaluation of national reserves and reservoir management studies as well as conduct regular audits of the activities of operators engaged in petroleum operations and oil service companies in order to ensure compliance with Nigerian laws and requirements for petroleum operations.

Other companies, like Falkland Oil and Gas, are pressing ahead with deeper drilling operations as the search for hydrocarbons continues.

He said the other items the task force confiscated during special operations include 9,757 bags of rice, 2,916 cartons of foreign spaghetti, 2,770 cartons of imported vegetable oil and 999 cartons of macaroni.

The mandate is «to protect oil and gas infrastructure, deter and prevent sea robbery, crude oil theft and other criminality within the joint area of operation that could impact negatively on economic activities in Niger Delta»

«A gap in satellite coverage could jeopardize everything from agriculture and aviation safety, to the oil and gas industry, to wildfire response and other search and rescue operations.»

Among his proudest accomplishments: helping the agency develop a set of numbers called emission factors — values that enable regulators to estimate atmospheric discharges from power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and other industrial operations.

At issue are draft rules that require annual greenhouse gas reporting from an estimated 13,000 sites, including refineries, other oil and gas sites, power plants, and many other types of industrial operations, such as cement and metals production.

Murkowski, a Republican, introduced a bill on Wednesday that would create an oil and gas exploration program on the refuge's coastal plain, letting prospectors build any roads and other infrastructure they deemed necessary inside the refuge to carry out their operations.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

Other contributors to its efficiency include smart design packaging, which has reduced its weight and length compared to the six - speed unit, an improved oil pump operation and lower cooling requirements.

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Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil & gas wells for others & in the ownership, development & operation of commercial real estates.

Other activities include: • pushing for stricter environmental standards for offshore oil and gas projects • engaging a local energy company regarding their operations • running a public campaign to raise awareness regarding the threats posed by the Sakhalin offshore oil and gas projects

One produced by British Petroleum (BP — then known as the Anglo - Iranian Oil Company) documents the company's operations in Iran beginning in 1908 and ending with the nationalisation of the oil industry in 1951; the other the collection of modern Western art acquired by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art during the late 1970s and withdrawn from public display for twenty years following the Islamic revolution in 19Oil Company) documents the company's operations in Iran beginning in 1908 and ending with the nationalisation of the oil industry in 1951; the other the collection of modern Western art acquired by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art during the late 1970s and withdrawn from public display for twenty years following the Islamic revolution in 19oil industry in 1951; the other the collection of modern Western art acquired by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art during the late 1970s and withdrawn from public display for twenty years following the Islamic revolution in 1979.

More specifically, do your regional findings give a clue as to how much of what you see from energy sector is from drilling as opposed to other oil and gas operations?

True, the new law states that oil and gas operations in «protected areas» will reduce poverty and contribute to Bolivia's development, and requires «fragile ecosystems» to be taken into account and the use of the most up - to - date technology, among other things.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

A carbon tax will make fossil fuel prices come closer to covering full cost, incorporating some of those fuels» currently - excluded costs: our dependence on and enrichment of oil - country despots, huge military costs of protecting distant oil operations and transport, health costs from emissions other than CO2, etc., etc., etc.....

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

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.

Pratseyo is now attempting to save the country's peat forests which contain eight times the carbon content of other rainforests by engineering a massive land - swap, essentially by convincing palm oil producers to move their operations to degraded land.

This report detailed organizations including oil companies and tech giants, entertainment companies and others that are holding themselves accountable for the carbon pollution released into the environment as a result of daily operations.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

(Related: «The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom» and Photos: Canadian Oil Sands) Because of the emissions and an array of other environmental concerns, including tailing ponds, water consumption, and risk of leaks, the operations have become a target of environmental activists.

The higher temperature operation may even kill off the bacteria that help to corrode pipelines carrying other types of oil.

No other technology has been proven successfully for oil and gas operations.

The remainder is methane (9 %, from landfills, coal mines, oil and gas operations and agriculture); nitrous oxide (5 %, from burning fossil fuels and from certain fertilizers); refrigerants and other «engineered» chemicals (2 %); and carbon dioxide from other sources (2 %).

Landfills were the major source of CH4 and accounted for about 38 % of total emissions of about 3.7 Mt.. Other major sources of CH4 were: oil and gas operations 29 %, livestock 27 %, coal mining 4 %, and miscellaneous 1 %.

Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.

Source palm oil and other forest products from afforestation / sustainably managed operations.

There are also reports of misuse of non-operative oil - expelling plants availing the government tax rebates to write off expenses in their other operations.

If oil companies like Shell reported the carbon footprint of oil from their operations in Nigeria, the numbers, in comparison to oil from other sources, could be shocking, even to SUV drivers.

The letters from Gates and members of the House call on the SEC to prevent energy companies from diluting the rules, one of which is supposed to require all oil, gas and mining companies reporting to the SEC to disclose their tax and other payments in every country of operation.

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.

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.

Notable examples include acting for accountants in long - running litigation arising out of a failed tax avoidance scheme; acting for the developer and manufacturer of an offshore drilling system following an accident in operation; representing one of the Defendants in Novoship v Mikhaylyuk & Others, concerning allegations of bribery and secret profits; appearing in a substantial LCIA arbitration about the theft of oil stocks in East Africa;, successfully representing a broker in litigation against a former client under a futures brokerage contract in Sucden v Fluxo - Cane [2010] 2 CLC 216; and The «Ekha» [2011] 1 All ER Comm 1077, long - running litigation in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal about an offshore drilling contract.

«In other words the government will have the right to terminate the oil company in certain circumstances such as where there is an unjustified suspension by an oil company of its operations, where the oil company has made an assignment of interest that was not approved by Mexico, or where the oil company failed to comply with its exploration and or development obligations,» he says.

Over the course of his career, Darin has worked on lease priority disputes, surface use agreements, farmout agreements, joint operating agreements, unit operations, royalty disputes, drilling contracts, joint interest accounting, NEPA compliance, and various other aspects of oil and gas operations in the Rockies, in addition to general commercial litigation.

Represented leading oil sands owner in drafting and negotiating master EPCM, turnaround, design - build, temporary accommodation and other agreements for use on new projects and existing operations in the Alberta oil sands.

Acted for Ball on its $ 8.4 bn purchase of Rexam, and advised both companies on the sale of $ 3.4bn - worth of their assets and operations in Europe, Brazil and the US to Ardagh Group; acted for Jacobs Douwe Egberts on its $ 5.8 bn secured, cross-border refinancing; acted for joint global coordinators and joint lead managers in a Rule 144a / Reg S $ 9bn bond offering by the State of Qatar; secured a win for Ukrainian businessman Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the English High Court against Tatneft which brought claims against the client and three other individuals following an alleged failure to pay for oil delivery by a Ukrainian refinery; acted for Endurance Specialty Holdings on its $ 6.3 bn acquisition by SOMPO Holdings.

Specialists also spearhead and coordinate building and operation of drills, oil derricks and other equipment used in the drilling process.

Responsible for chemical operations in hydrogen and lube hydrotreater plants for the manufacturing of gasoline, diesel and others crude oil derivate product.