Sentences with phrase «state against an oil company»

Representing a Mediterranean state against an oil company, in an ad hoc arbitration in regard to an oil sales contract (amount in dispute: more than 900 million USD).

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CARACAS, Venezuela — ConocoPhillips says it won $ 2 billion arbitration award against Venezuela's state oil company over asset seizures.

HOUSTON / CARACAS, April 23 - Two Chevron Corp. employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to two sources familiar with draft charges against the U.S. firm's executives.

Two Chevron employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to two sources familiar with draft charges against the U.S. firm's executives.

Two Chevron employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to sources familiar with draft charges against the executives.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

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.

The Venezuela state oil company PDVSA, which has borrowed more than $ 6bn from Kremlin - controlled Rosneft, caused consternation in Washington last year after putting up a 49.9 percent stake in its US - based refining subsidiary, Citgo, as collateral against a portion of the loan.

It also said it may appeal Wednesday's ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) against Venezuela's state - run oil company PDVSA.

To get there, the state would use a tax it already levies against companies that transport oil through New York.

For 5 hours, opposing sides in a closely watched climate change lawsuit pitting the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against some of the world's biggest oil companies offered Alsup their accounts of the history and current state of climate science.

We consulted closely with him prior to our 2013 expedition, and when he gave us the green light that it was safe to return to the country — thanks largely to his logistical arrangements with a local oil company — we felt safe about going back, despite State Department warnings against travel to Libya.»

Last night the Louisiana House approved a bill that retroactively kills a lawsuit by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East against 97 oil and gas companies for the industry's pollution and damage to the state's wetlands.

Epstein avoids the scientific issues but emphasizes the difference between what the cities have stated in securities offerings, using Oakland as the primary example, and what they claim in the filings against oil companies.

-LSB-...] to be hopeful, Colorado is joining the wave of climate lawsuits against big oil companies, and the libertarian Niskanen Center is supporting the suit, the top five wind producing states in the US are all red states, and a nascent practice called -LSB-...]

Greg Dalton: Are they more on board than the oil companies which is constantly litigating against the state?

These suits, which were filed in state court, are part of «a growing body of legal action against oil companies over climate change,» Reuters notes.

The proposed ALEC model «Environmental Impact Litigation Act,» based on a law passed in North Dakota in 2015, would allow coal, oil, and gas companies to pay into a fund for the state to sue against a number of key federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act.

Many of David's cases relate to the energy sector and in particular he has considerable experience of litigating for and against state oil and gas companies, typically in confidential arbitration proceedings (see the Arbitration section above for more details).

-- LMAA Arbitration against major state oil company: See International Arbitration section above.

Party Appointed Arbitrator in UNCITRAL arbitration (Zurich seat but held in London) where an oil company claimed against Eastern European state for alleged wrongful termination of concession.

In addition GML, the company that controlled a majority of Yukos Oil Company's shares, is pursuing enforcement action against Russia in six other countries: Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, India and the United company that controlled a majority of Yukos Oil Company's shares, is pursuing enforcement action against Russia in six other countries: Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, India and the United Company's shares, is pursuing enforcement action against Russia in six other countries: Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, India and the United States.

Through careful navigation of the regulatory requirements, we developed an innovative solution that avoided pitting state and federal authorities against each other and ultimately allowed the company to refocus its strategy to increase oil and gas production at its Elk Hills Oil Field while improving efficiency and lowering operating cosoil and gas production at its Elk Hills Oil Field while improving efficiency and lowering operating cosOil Field while improving efficiency and lowering operating costs.

representing an international oil company in an AAA / ICDR commercial arbitration (New York seat) relating to rights and remedies pursuant to an agreement governed by New York law to share costs and monetary awards of investment arbitration against a South American state (claim US$ 500 million)

Mishcon de Reya's Fraud Defence Group has successfully struck out a High Court claim brought by Russian state - owned oil company PJSC Tatneft against four Ukrainian businessmen over allegations they misappropriated more than US$ 334 million owed from a major oil transaction.

against two oil and gas companies after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake, the strongest in state history, struck in 2011.

The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.

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.

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.