Sentences with phrase «owned by oil company»

Until the 1990s, the U.S. was the major supplier of rare earths, largely out of one mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., owned by oil company Unocal, now part of Chevron.

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The issue is particularly sensitive for Saudi Arabia, which is transforming its economy ahead of an expected initial public offering by state - owned oil company Saudi Aramco.

• Engineering for the Petroleum & Process Industries, Egypt's state - owned oil company, has picked a consortium led by CI Capital as lead managers and bookrunners for an IPO that could raise about $ 150 million, Bloomberg reports.

With the complicity of corrupt authorities, the oil was then shipped to a refinery belonging to Riolio, a company owned by Domenica Ribatti, where it was leavened with actual olive oil, then packaged and sold to customers as the real thing.

Oil and gas company Zeta Petroleum has launched a proposal to acquire full ownership of Sydney - based Pan Pacific Petroleum by buying all the shares it doesn't already own in the company, in a deal worth $ 29.4 million.

«A DPRK - flagged tanker, SAM MA 2 owned by Korea Samma Shipping Company, conducted a ship - to - ship transfer of oil and fabricated documents in mid-October 2017, loading almost 1,600 metric tons of fuel oil in one transaction,» the United Nations said.

In December 2016, he fled to Canada, where he now seeks asylum from gangs that steal fuel from Salamanca and five other refineries operated by Pemex, the state - owned oil company.

The bill's introduction also comes amid various actions and statements by the Trump administration, including a fourth round of sanctions that restrict Venezuela and Petróleos de Venezuela SA, a state - owned oil company, from issuing new debt or from engaging in other financial dealings with U.S. citizens.

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.

The current $ 2.2 - billion bid by Chinese state - owned Sinopec for Calgary's Daylight Energy marks the first time a Chinese company has attempted a 100 % takeover of a Canadian oil and gas producer.

Under the new guidelines, the acquisition of oil sands companies by foreign state - owned enterprises will only be found to constitute a new benefit for Canada in «exceptional circumstances.»

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

OTTAWA — The Harper government is buying itself some more time to deal with a political hot potato, extending a review of the controversial $ 15.1 - billion bid by a Chinese state - owned company to acquire Calgary - based oil and gas producer Nexen Inc (TSX: NXY).

The offering of the state - owned oil company is a centerpiece of an ambitious economic overhaul of Saudi Arabia led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Over the weekend a pipeline owned by the al - Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was set on fire causing the loss of between 70,000 and 100,000 b / d.

According to the Fortune 500 Ranking, Sinopec ranks 4th among global oil companies by revenue, following Shell (which is in partnership with SaudiAramco, a Saudi SOE) ExxonMobil and BP (formerly state owned), and ahead of China National Oil Company, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Total (formerly state owned) and Gazprom (effectively state owneoil companies by revenue, following Shell (which is in partnership with SaudiAramco, a Saudi SOE) ExxonMobil and BP (formerly state owned), and ahead of China National Oil Company, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Total (formerly state owned) and Gazprom (effectively state owneOil Company, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Total (formerly state owned) and Gazprom (effectively state owned).

Rosneft has taken over TNK - BP in a $ 55bn (# 36bn) deal that will make the Russian state - owned oil company by far the world's largest listed oil producer.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

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Over the past few days, Feronia Inc., a Canadian - based company majority - owned by European and US development banks, has been pressuring local communities to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would endorse the company's continued operation and expansion of oil palm plantations within their territories.

-LSB-...] During that same weekend I invited friends over for a hemp - themed BBQ to enjoy the nice spring weather and check out some of the hemp products that I had accumulated by then, which included Dr. Bronner's soaps, Hempz lotions, Merry Hempsters lip balm, hemp protein powder; hearts; and seed oil from Nutiva and Manitoba Harvest, a journal made of hemp paper from Green Field Paper Company, various shirts and other examples of hemp fiber, and of course my very own hempcrete blocks.

OccupyGhana ® has been observing with keen interest, the matters and issues arising from the sale of some fuels by the Bulk Oil Storage & Transportation Company Ltd. (BOST), a company owned by the Republic ofCompany Ltd. (BOST), a company owned by the Republic ofcompany owned by the Republic of Ghana.

In 2000, Caputo worked with Gazprom Media, a subsidiary of the Gazprom Oil Company, majority - owned by the Russian government.

Our Gold and oil is owned by foreign companies and we receive less than 12.5 % of revenue from them.

The windpower companies (which are owned by people like Shell Oil rather and not a bunch of earthtones) tried to stick windmills in the Schoharie Valley's mountainous areas.

A rising black hole of state - owned enterprise (SOE) debt, which together with the debts owed by government to the bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) and the lack of adequate supervision of microfinance companies can potentially collapse the banking system.

Gibson has countered Eldridge's accusations of being under the influence of corporate money, especially in regards to his positions on energy, by pointing to his challengers» own investments in oil and gas companies and his acceptance of individual contributions from wealthy corporate executives.

The decision by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST) to compete with the private sector in the downstream petroleum products distribution sector has resulted in huge losses for the state - owned cCompany Limited (BOST) to compete with the private sector in the downstream petroleum products distribution sector has resulted in huge losses for the state - owned companycompany.

Greenpeace also claims that Sud - Cameroun Hevea, a company owned mostly by Singapore's GMG, is developing rubber and palm oil plantations that threaten the Dja Faunal Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the largest and best protected rainforests in Africa.

The rig, owned and operated by the Nabors Drilling company and previously used to find oil or gas, first bit into the reddish soil here in July 2002, drilling a pilot hole 1.4 miles deep, which was outfitted with a string of seismometers.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

Flint Hills, a wholly - owned subsidiary of oil giant Koch Industries based in Kansas, has joined with Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro in trying to block California's landmark climate legislation by funding the campaign to pass Proposition 23.

Or the oil company owned by the brazenly corrupt Edward Balq (Michael Gaston), one of the main financiers of the re-consecration ceremony over which Toller is about to preside.

The film, «A Most Violent Year,» directed by J.C. Chandor of «All Is Lost,» stars Oscar Isaac of «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» as Abel Morales, who owns a heating - oil company.

As the assumed heir to the throne of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, Nasir has recently approved a new drilling contract with a Chinese oil company in favor of the U.S. - owned Connex, thus threatening the pending merger between Connex and Killen, another Texas - based oil company run by executive good - «ol - boy Jimmy Pope (Chris Cooper).

Saudi Aramco is the Saudi Arabian - based successor to the Arabian American Oil Company, once owned by four top American oil firOil Company, once owned by four top American oil firoil firms.

Many car companies provide engine oil under their own branding, but they are manufactured by third parties.

Ixtoc I, an oil well owned by Pemex, Mexico's state - owned oil company, suffered a blowout and spewed an estimated 30,000 barrels of oil per day into the Gulf for nearly 10 months.

Les Ordway Chevron Station (1933) 295 Hemlock Street This service station was owned by Standard Oil and Company and operated by Les Ordway most of its duration.

Born in Woodstock, NY and educated at upstate New York's Bard College, Lee's love of painting the world around him dovetails with his desire to do his bit to save it; to that end, he uses socially responsible and environmentally friendly materials, like walnut oil paints made by a family - owned Oregon company, whenever possible.

By choosing to film the polar opposites of production and distribution, on one side, the Niger Delta and MEND's battle against the oil companies, and on the other side, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he examines two «Belief Systems» that, each in their own way, have metaphysical significance.

Rothko's «No. 21» was owned for more than 40 years by Sao and Pierre Schlumberger, whose family founded the oil exploration company that bears their name.

A mud volcano responsible for displacing more than 40,000 people in Indonesia's East Java province was caused by an oil and gas company owned by one of the country's richest...

Friends of the Earth in the Netherlands, which has carried out its own review of activities by the Anglo - Dutch oil group, said the company often argues that it is moving away from oil towards cleaner gas but has often concentrated on the most carbon intensive forms of gas such as liquefied natural gas.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

Brazil's oil and gas sectors are dominated by the state - owned company, Petrobras.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

Court order mandates the return of oil block OPL245, for which Shell and Eni paid $ 1.1 billion to a company secretly owned by a former Nigerian oil minister.

A sizable portion of Klein's funds come from the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow - based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; Rosneft, the Russian - government - owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield's largest clients; and other Russian companies.