Sentences with phrase «require oil companies»

Two Senate committees separately approved bills that would strengthen the government's regulation of offshore drilling, require oil companies to be better prepared to cope with a spill, and lift federal spill - related economic liability limits.

The proposal calls for laws that could require oil companies to make cleaner domestically produced fuels and car companies to offer less polluting and more efficient cars and trucks.

Note that Congress has voted to kill at least eight different Obama - era regulations, including a rule that would require oil companies to disclose payments to foreign governments.

The California state Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill requiring oil companies to report how much water they use in their drilling operations and the water's source, a move that comes amid a severe statewide drought.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- The California state Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill requiring oil companies to report how much water they use in their drilling operations and the water's source, a move that comes amid a severe statewide drought.

Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.

«Requiring the auto industry to phase in alternative fuel cars and then requiring the oil companies to make alternative fuels available to the consumer, will help curb our oil appetite and create new jobs and economic development.»

Not exact matches

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

Killing an energy anti-corruption rule Feb. 14 Trump and congressional Republicans repealed a rule that requires oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to foreign governments in order to prevent corruption in oil - producing nations.

Congress has passed legislation ending an Obama - era regulation that's required oil and gas companies to disclose payments to the U.S. or foreign governments for commercial development.

Additionally, the SEC requires oil and gas companies, in filings made with the SEC, to disclose proved reserves, which are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible — from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and governmental regulations.

If Alberta doesn't change how it requires companies to finance their own oil and gas well cleanup costs, the energy industry and, ultimately, taxpayers in Alberta face cleanup costs of up to $ 8...

It is therefore crucial that the Canadian government require Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating overseas to conduct enhanced human rights due diligence, especially in regions where human rights and environmental laws (and enforcement of those laws) are lax.

Oil companies using this method are required to return the area to its original environmental condition once the mining is completed, adding further to costs.

The powers conveyed by Bill 12 are much broader than that: since these proposed licenses could be instituted such that they are only required by certain firms, the Minister could stipulate that a particular oil company was no longer able to export crude - by - rail (the method of export) to BC (the point of export), for example.

Likewise, Joel Johnson, CEO of Borusan Mannesmann Pipe USA, in Baytown, Texas, said the company requires imports from Turkey to produce tubular goods for oil and gas wells.

Ending the tax breaks to energy companies so as to finance the switch to clean energy is nice but oil explorers will lobby or else move to exploring in nations that require the advanced technology that U.S. energy companies thrive on and they will entice them with all types of incentives.

A potential partial privatization of Saudi Arabia's state oil company, Saudi Aramco, would require the company to remove its veil of secrecy.

Capital Markets Equity Offering A potential partial privatization of Saudi Arabia's state oil company, Saudi Aramco, would require the company to remove its veil of secrecy.

The mozzarella sticks we whipped up required no oil and the company says that for a little over 2 pounds of potatoes, cooks just need to add one tablespoon of oil.

The company is sharing its experiences to help others understand what is required via www.palsgaard.com/sustainable-emulsifiers/ After having supplied sustainable palm - based emulsifiers for some years, Danish - based, globally active Palsgaard now can deliver a broad range of emulsifiers based on segregated certified palm oil.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

However, Ghana is a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which requires countries with a heavy dependence on oil, gas, and mining industries to accurately report taxes, royalties, and fees paid by extractive companies.

Minister Hector Timerman used a press conference in Buenos Aires to outline his country's plans to take «the required legal, administrative, civil and criminal actions against oil companies currently involved in drilling».

Tracking Rep. John Faso in the Age of Trump from fivethirtyeight.com Disapprove Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers Rule — Vote Passed (235 - 187, 10 Not Voting) The measure would disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule issued in July 2016 that requires resource extraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas or -LSB-...]

«These transactions werenot required to be presented as contracts to the Board of NNPC and, of course, the monetary value of any crude oil eventually lifted by any of the companies goes straight into the federation account and not to the company.

Obtaining the images usually requires a strong bond between individuals at a university and in industry to persuade to companies to release the data for scientific purposes, observes senior exploration geologist Richard Davies of the 3DLab at Cardiff University in Cardiff, U.K. «Individuals that are presently spearheading it in academia have usually worked in the oil and gas industry in a previous life,» says Davies, who worked for ExxonMobil for eight years.

Enbridge Energy Partners, the U.S. unit of Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc received an order from the EPA in March requiring more containment and recovery of oil from the spill.

«The arrangements were hard to put in place, because we had to coordinate among a team of four different nationalities, and we required the consent and active participation of our colleagues working at Zuetina Oil Company in Zallah,» he said.

By 1973, however, oil company scientists had turned up evidence of a large offshore fault 2.8 miles west of the plant, requiring PG&E to spend $ 2.2 billion on re-engineering to withstand a 7.5 - magnitude quake.

It also boosted the government's ability to respond to spills; provided up to US$ 1 billion to deal with individual accidents; increased penalties for oil companies responsible for spills; and required businesses to draw up exhaustive plans for handling spills.

Oil companies have also combined to create a Center for Offshore Safety in Houston, Texas, which is developing the environmental safety management systems now required by drilling permits.

Many gasoline rebate credit cards are issued in partnership between banks and oil companies that require the cardholder to use a particular gasoline retailer in order to earn and redeem their free gas.

The agency also took an overdue step to clarify how to curb emissions of methane from the hundreds of thousands of wells, compressors and other leaky parts of the nation's sprawling oil and gas industry, issuing an «Information Collection Request» requiring companies, among other things, to describe the types of technologies that could be used to reduce emissions.

While the Obama administration has delayed issuing rules requiring oil and gas companies to tally the amount of methane escaping around the country, other forces are likely to start pressing industry to move more aggressively to cut such emissions.

This law requires U.S. - listed oil, gas and mining companies to publish details of their tax and revenue payments in each country where they have operations.

These other options involve complex engineering and would require significant capital investment — something Refineries clearly don't want to do (and as Jim2 and stevepostrel also don't understand, oil companies don't own many U.S. refineries any more — they got out of that business).

Global Witness is calling for Myanmar's EITI process to require oil and gas companies to open their true owners up to public scrutiny, and for the World Bank and other international donors backing the scheme to support such disclosure.

Months later, BLM finalized a similar rule requiring oil and gas companies to reduce wasteful venting, flaring and leaks from both new and existing operations on public and tribal lands.

A ProPublica investigation into oil and gas money received by members of the Natural Gas caucus found that they received 19 times more money on average than members of Congress who signed a letter in support of a proposal to require fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they use when drilling on public lands.

Well, they just passed a law here in Texas stating that shale oil companies will be required by law to disclose the ingredients in their «fracking» fluids.

The new rules require oil and gas companies to check local seismic data from the U.S. Geological Survey before opening a new waste disposal well.

Brands seems to have good intentions with this commitment, which will require the company to buy palm oil exclusively for cooking purposes that protects all forests and peatlands, swampy areas of carbon - rich soil.

These upstream emissions are expected to increase as the world's conventional fields get depleted and companies turn to fields that require more energy to extract, such as oil sands.

So those people working for oil companies can work hard to maintain their myths, especially when the «truth» requires a lot of work to understand, and «authoritative sources» keep giving them fodder.

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When the number of hydrogen fuel cell cars hits around 10,000 in a California neighborhood, oil companies and fuel providers will be required to install hydrogen fuel pumps.

«As a result,» Climatewire explains, «obligated parties — oil companies required to show EPA that they blend biofuels in their fuel supply — won't need to provide information on their compliance.

Greater revenue transparency on the part of the government is needed to match the new EU and US laws which require companies to publish payments to make sure Ugandan's can account for their oil money.

«Oakland Asked State Court to Require Oil and Gas Companies to Fund Climate Adaptation Program.