Sentences with phrase «with the oil companies»

«I don't think there's any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you're going to kill someone, it's first degree murder; I think it's the same thing with the oil companies,» he said.

Bloomberg Gadfly suggests Anadarko's predicament is illustrative of a broader problem with oil companies of similar size, who are posting disappointing cash flow figures as they drill more and grow larger.

Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.

I have recently changed industries and a few months ago took a job with an oil company.

Also a Bible teacher who left his job as a geologist with the oil companies to teach Bible full time.

At one point the mayor even tried to paint his battle with Uber as something akin to doing battle with oil companies.

Once the tax bill passes with this important language in it, Trump needs to sign 75 year drilling leases with oil companies for the Democrats can't undo this in the future.

«So he is discussing with some oil companies and looking for some innovative financing which might pick up some of the financing so that we reduce our financial output and contribution by the Federal Government, that will be a major saving which can be used to plug the gap particularly with falling oil prices.

The bad air quality has prompted the Ministry of Finance and NDRC to negotiate with the oil companies about subsidies in order to encourage high - quality fuel.

Pruitt has joined with oil companies in suing EPA, Booker noted.

I would prefer to work with the oil companies if they will be careful how they work.

The plot sounds simple enough: Winfried (Peter Simonischek), a lonely senior divorced father prone to pulling childish pranks and assuming invented personas, decides to stalk Ines (Sandra Hüller), his career - obsessed 30 - something consultant daughter, in Bucharest as she tries to pull off an important contract extension with an oil company.

His daughter is Ines (Sandra Hüller), a thirty - something who works for a consulting firm, and is currently on a long term assignment in Bucharest with an oil company that needs outsourcing.

Like you find with oil companies, for instance.

After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries» financial relationship with oil company and Tate sponsor BP; the institution has been ordered to give those very details of its BP sponsorship between 1990 - 2006, in a case brought by environmental campaigners.

Tate gallery management have appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries» financial relationship with oil company and Tate sponsor BP.

They have been accused of having relationships with oil companies, including contributions and presence on their Boards.

There was a time when environmentalists targeted Lego for partnering with oil companies, but from its search for a non-plastic alternative for its bricks to a commitment to run on 100 % renewable energy by 2020, the company has been making significant strides toward sustainability.

In other words, to demonstrate that the Republicans motivation has more to do with oil companies» profits than gas prices.

Protesters fear environmental damage, especially from possible oil spills; are frustrated with oil companies» grip on US politics; and condemn the impacts of tar sands exploitation on the boreal forest and First Nations in Canada.

«I don't think there's any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you're going to kill someone, it's first degree murder; I think it's the same thing with the oil companies.»

According to the green crusaders, we were all in cahoots with oil companies in their attempts to obscure the dangers of climate change.

As this narrative goes, right - wing politicians and their fellow travelers among the ranks of denialist political conservatives are conspiring with the oil companies to keep America from playing its proper role in the worldwide fight against climate change.

The fourth example shows how, during the Bush presidency, White House officials worked with oil companies to remove regulators they didn't like, and doctor official documents about climate change.

I strongly doubt they all were «petroleum geologists», as I suppose for a geologist to be able to work with an oil company is like winning the lottery.

Adherence to the Kyoto Accord has much less to do with oil companies and much more to do with you and I as individual consumers.

Mann has an axe to grind with oil companies (they provide fuel for my car), Hansen has an axe to grind with coal companies (they provide fuel for the electric plant that powers my house and office), Lacis has an axe to grind with Bush Sr (He been out of office for 18 years)

There is nothing wrong per se with oil companies funding research or information on climate change — it is an area in which they have a legitimate interest.

We are not to believe any papers written by scientists who are associated with any oil companies due to their obvious conflict of interest!!

With oil companies benefiting from lower service costs, Shell reckons it can drill a well today for about $ 5.5 million, down a whopping 56 percent from 2013.

I believe the more important victory here is that the strategy of sue - and - settle with the oil companies, or any private sector institution with money that disagrees, may have taken a big hit.

Yes, Obama has gotten a good deal of money from BP; yes, without a doubt, several government agencies have been too cozy with oil companies; and yes, there does seem to be a concerted media push to make it seem like the clean up is going well.

Activists have also targeted companies that have partnerships with Shell, such as Lego, which eventually dumped its partnership with the oil company.

Why, it's the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, which was just revealed by the department's inspector general to have engaged in drug use, gifts, and illicit sex with oil company executives.

The reason that the Alberta and Canadian governments, along with the oil companies, desperately want the Keystone XL pipeline is because it will encourage more capital investment in new oil sands projects, effectively locking in a revenue stream for decades.

Before moving into the brokerage field he spent three years as an appraiser and consultant at Collingwood & Associates, where he worked mainly with oil companies in an advisory role valuing land and service stations.

Not exact matches

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

The strategy illustrates how companies are coping with Western Canadian Select bitumen blend oil prices that have largely failed to keep up with higher prices for New York - traded West Texas Intermediate, leading to wider - than - usual differences between the two.

Her $ 8 billion division has 23,000 employees whose main business is partnering with Chinese companies across 34 joint ventures in China that manufacture everything from wind turbines to oil pipeline equipment.

But when oil companies cut down production in response to depressed prices, the money stops flowing along with the crude.

U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has evacuated executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to four sources familiar with the matter.

As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

In June the company received the first - ever FAA commercial license for unmanned aircraft operations over land and water for its work with BP on Alaska's North Slope, part of a big push to develop oil and gas in remote areas with the help of UAVs.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

Formerly an integrated oil company with interests in transportation and refining, Hess in 2013 spun off many of its businesses in order to focus on E&P.

Phil Davidson sees the company's prospects rising with those prices, so much so that if oil has a very long rally, «we will probably be out of the stock,» selling to take profits.

The planned initial public offering (IPO) of state oil giant Saudi Aramco (London is competing with New York to be the stock exchange where the company is listed overseas) is also expected to be discussed, the EIU's Abdelmeguid said.

How he did it: «I began negotiating with Shell Oil Company to buy their polystyrene plant in Belpre, Ohio.

The company tells Beth that it uses a locally - sourced lubricant made of 100 % medical - grade silicone oil to coat its condoms, and claims that some suppliers use lubricants mixed with other additives, including industrial - grade silicone.

Faced with falling oil prices, companies are turning to technology startups to make their rigs more efficient