Sentences with phrase «triggered by oil»

The bulge in the 1970s reflects the burst of interest in new energy technologies triggered by the oil shocks in that decade.

Just look at the many ecological disasters around the world triggered by oil spills.

The BOS indicator illustrates the slowdown in business activity in late 2014 triggered by the oil price shock.

Not exact matches

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

Won't falling oil prices always trigger a rebound in oil demand (and, by extension, an equally large bounce in carbon emissions)?

EM currencies overall have lost a third of their value since 2013 on a trade - weighted basis, triggered by serial downgrades to EM growth projections, a tightening of global dollar liquidity and falling oil prices.

This «Great Inflation,» as it is commonly known, was triggered by a combination of adverse supply shocks (notably the 1973 and 1979 oil shocks) and an accommodative monetary policy stance, which appears consistent with upward revisions of the Fed's inflation target.

Venezuela is mired in a deep economic crisis triggered mainly by a fall in crude oil prices and a drop in oil production.

While the world's billionaires have been suffering losses, oil prices rose to $ 48 a barrel yesterday as investors took advantage of a two - day slide in crude triggered by Brexit vote.

Never again, they vowed, would the planet be forced to sit by, powerless, while oil execs confessed — after the fact — that stopping a leak at such depths is like performing «open - heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark,» as BP America's chairman and president, Lamar McKay, told ABC News about the early attempt to plug the well by triggering the failed blowout preventer.

While most scientists agree that the surge has been triggered by the injection of wastewater from oil and gas production into deep wells, some have suggested these quakes are natural, arising from faults in the crust that move on their own every so often.

Most Oklahoma earthquakes since 2009 are thought to have been triggered by wastewater produced by oil and gas drilling that has been injected back into the ground.

The researchers report that the oil seep developed after a dramatic drop in water levels in the Gulf, triggered by evaporation and coinciding with the PETM, the previously reported surge in temperatures.

If constipation is the cause and you know it is triggered by stress, a hot Epsom salt bath at night with about 4 - 5 drops of vetiver essential oil and a handful of rock salt can help relax the viscera (intestinal organs).

Parent trigger laws are being pushed by organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which Walden Media owner and oil billionaire Philip Anschutz helps fund.

Also in most cars, the oil warning light is triggered by a drop in oil pressure, which can be caused by your oil level being low.

also in 2007, a call - in was issued on a potential loss of vehicle control due to oil leaks, followed by another campaign triggered by brake failure

«It was well - identified by our models as having a high likelihood of reversing its downward trend from earlier in the year, and the recent catalyst of oil prices stabilizing and improving has triggered the appreciation,» he said.

Allergies can also be triggered and aggravated by proteins secreted by your pet's oil glands.

The game features: • Stunning visuals of the Earth heating - up and facing various disasters • Unleash varying catastrophes that could destroy the Earth by triggering domino effects, including earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, wildfires, draught diseases and more • Invest in wide array of profitable and carbon intensive industries, such as oil, auto manufacturing, housing developments, and more • Reality - based events to provide a deep level of simulation • Several different potential scenarios with three difficulty levels each to explore • Various strategy combinations to win the game

Now Jad Mouawad charts the latest oil price spike, triggered in part by a rumor related to Iran.

Just two days ago, 27 senior statesmen and retired military leaders warned of the national security threat from an «energy tsunami» that would be triggered by a loss of our access to foreign oil.

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

Internal Department of Justice (DOJ) documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that the DEA was instructed by the DOJ (of which the DEA is part) in March of 2000 not to restrict the import of hemp seed and oil: «Hemp products intended for human consumption have THC at levels too low to trigger a psychoactive effect and are not purchased, sold or marketed with the intent of having a psychoactive effect.»

The announcement, which comes as Shell is fighting to maintain its commitments on dividends (which it will increase by 5 per cent this year) and its core oil and gas business in the face of a more than $ 100 slide in the price of crude since last summer, triggered a furious response from green groups.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times in late April 2015, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released a map of earthquakes «thought to be triggered by human activity in the eastern and central United States» — coinciding with the emerging view of officials «that wastewater disposal following oil and gas extraction is causing more earthquakes.»

This can occur through (1) relocation of energy - intensive production in non-constrained regions; (2) increased consumption of fossil fuels in these regions through decline in the international price of oil and gas triggered by lower demand for these energies; and (3) changes in incomes (thus in energy demand) because of better terms of trade.

That rebuttal nicely sums up a lot of the accepted facts of unwavering peakoilers, e.g. that it's been conclusively shown that oil price hikes are linked to recession (not really; e.g. wrong macro policy responses to oil - led inflation often tried to tackle it by raising interest rates, which just compounded the problem and possibly triggered recession by itself; uncertainty in price is often more important to investment decisions that which direction it's going in, given that fuel costs are actually not a large % of overall costs.)

Community Rights Counsel Press Release — For more than a decade, Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil) has waged a comprehensive campaign against punitive damages awards, triggered by the decision of a jury in Alaska to impose a $ 5 billion penalty on the company for the misdeeds that led to the Valdez oil spill, the worst in the nation's history.