oil companies

Even before the turmoil, Iran signalled it had tired of western foot-dragging and was likely to favour Chinese oil companies.

The National Reform and Development Commission announced it had rejected a request for a price hike from four major cooking oil companies.

He said he will force government regulators to make it tougher for oil companies to get drilling permits.

The big western oil companies are trying to expand through acquisitions and investment, but the opportunities do so are becoming scarcer.

John McCain is trying to tie Barack Obama to oil companies while Obama spend part of the day saying McCain will keep economy in a ditch.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president would continue his efforts to cut tax breaks for oil companies.

As a publicly listed company, Statoil was not a political entity like some other national oil companies, he said.

These people had nothing, but they stood up to the oil companies.

But if you compare oil companies by how much they have left in the ground, the American giant ranks a lowly fourteenth.

It makes sense for big Western oil companies to get out of such an unprofitable business and put the capital into exploration and drilling.

State-owned China National Petroleum Corp. was one of the first foreign oil companies to sign a major contract in Iraq.

He called it a "major victory" for powerful interests like big oil companies, Wall Street banks and health insurance companies.

Oil companies in the U. S are already beginning to feel the pressure.

Talking about reducing energy use was one way for the oil companies to deflect some of that anger.

One person said CNPC, one of China's largest oil companies, "came back and said it would like to invest up to $3bn" .

He was a bully always picking fights-Wall Street, health insurers, oil companies, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He took on all comers.

Shares in Imperial have been one of the worst market performers among mid-sized oil companies in London this year.

Major oil companies, with BP prominent among them, have spent twenty years trying to demonstrate their social responsibility.

The oil companies are . . . trying to fend off criticism from the president.

The world's oil companies really are trying to drill in some of the riskiest and most environmentally sensitive areas in the world.

Rodney Schmidt of Standard Chartered suggested that if oil prices continued to fall, oil companies could face growing difficulties.

The theory was that integrated oil companies needed to offer both oil-field development and refining to the countries that owned the oil.

To think I just thought it was a easy way of big defense oil companies to steal tax dollars and to take Iraq's oil!

"For us to be the right partner to national oil companies, we have to be integrated, " he said.

An important area of contention are the terms of any contract Iraq signs with foreign oil companies.

However, the attack follows repeated warnings by members of the ONLF for foreign oil companies to leave their area.

For western oil companies, however, such a dismissive response would be complacent.

"We do not recognize them and we have informed all the oil companies that these contracts have no standing, " al-Shahristani said.

Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax?

Meanwhile oil companies are using private military groups to help scores of staff out of Libya by road to Egypt and Tunisia.

Oil companies would like to see a system that allows them to share the profits from new exploration projects and book reserves.

A ministry spokesman said the kidnappers had demanded that Chinese oil companies leave the region.

They had nothing but wooden spears and moral force to defeat the oil companies -- and, for today, they have won.

Even the major oil companies may be unwilling to put their capital to use if the opportunity cost is too great and the returns too low.

BP reports third-quarter results Tuesday, kicking off a week of results from the world's biggest integrated oil companies.

ON THE face of it the world's big and publicly quoted oil companies should be celebrating some pleasing results this week.

Its operating utility, Huaneng has already signed a commercial deal with Duke Energy, one of the biggest oil companies in the US.

All you've got to do then is link in with the environmentalists, and look at the oil companies.

The project, off Rio de Janeiro, is expected to attract up to $40bn in total investment and should serve both miners and oil companies.

The company's parent company is one of Japan's largest oil companies, Showa Shell Sekiyu KK.

At a White House press briefing, Mr Obama criticised the "scandalously close" relationship between oil companies and the MMS.

It's official: The U. S. is no longer off limits for Chinese oil companies.

One of China's largest oil companies is learning to tread softly when breaking down barriers in the U. S. energy patch.

He said concessions for Chinese oil companies to produce oil in Brazil could be discussed in the future.

FORMER chief economists of giant oil companies do not normally find themselves fighting off comparisons with Karl Marx.

And to help pay for it, I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies.

Nor is there a law to regulate oil companies, although Iraq is about to open its fields to foreigners for auction.

Geophysical industry logistics logistics oil companies both common as well as its geophysical characteristics of the logistics industry.

What happens to the earth, reservoir rock, when oil companies extract millions of barrels of oil out of the sedimentary basin, the earth?

But if the amount of oil at state oil companies' disposal is not much of a worry, the way they manage it certainly is.

One of the most significant suggestions is to impose incremental taxation on upstream oil companies when oil prices rise above $60 a barrel.

"Generally integrated oil companies do not refine the oil they produce, instead it goes to wherever is closest, " he says.

Meanwhile, growing numbers of countries in which international oil companies operate are wresting back control over the projects.

A number of Russian oil companies have drilled the fields but failed to reach productive layers due to poor technology.

Chinese oil companies have frequently been operating in areas where communities complain of a wide range of abuses.

Somalia has been a no-go area for US oil companies since it descended into anarchy in the early 1990s.

Some oil companies are adding nitrogen to their gasoline. But does it cause pollution as well as boost performance a bit?

Democratic Senator Nan Desi door under a proposal drafted by the British oil companies increase the compensation limit will be 100 million.

Analysts agreed Chinese oil companies were likely to sustain interest in overseas acquisitions as they seek to grow their production base.

"The Iraqis thought that interest would be so big that oil companies would come in no matter the price. "

A few days ago, Fortune pointed out that many big oil companies are undervalued.

But the tussle between oil companies and oil-rich nations has implications far wider than prompting infighting among the companies.

In such a climate international oil companies, despite record profits, are losing the battle.

High oil and gas prices fuelled better-than-expected third quarter results at two of the world's biggest publicly listed oil companies.

Government planners were reported to have asked state oil companies to beef up diesel supplies to meet a seasonal spike in demand.

Many national oil companies (NOCs), notably China's, are also becoming an increasing force to be reckoned with outside their own countries.

And to help pay for it I'm demanding Congress to elimingot the shishi -c costs in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies.

However, ex-factory price, wholesale pricing to the retail price, determined by the state will not delegated to the oil companies.

Prove you will fight as hard for tax cuts for workers and middle-class people as you do for oil companies and rich folks.

The newest chief executive among the international oil companies is facing the biggest challenge.

Analysts say that liberalising natural gas prices will be a key step in encouraging local oil companies to invest more in natural gas.

Some of the biggest American, French and Italian oil companies are sniffing around, with Total apparently nosing ahead.

Share of commercial users, such as oil companies or consumers, was far larger in London than in New York, the data published last week show.

CNPC's hassles could offer important lessons for other big international oil companies jockeying for a role in Iraq's oil industry.

From its inception, the oil industry has gone through countless cycles, with oil companies cutting investments when prices fell.

Oil companies often have to operate in difficult environments, be they the murky waters of the Gulf of Mexico or Russian politics.

American oil companies earn a tax credit at home for royalties (of up to 85% in some cases) paid on oil extracted abroad.

Dr Parsons said data from the research will also be important for oil companies looking to drill in areas where these rivers exist.

Through the research on social responsibility information disclosure, the paper will provide some proper advice for Chinese oil companies.

The American people shouldn't be subsidizing oil companies at a time when they're making near-record profits.

Publicly traded oil companies account for a minority of global oil production; most oil is supplied by state-owned oil firms.

The Republicans could direct them to many advisors and companies. How about one of the oil companies.

As the ice retreats the oil companies want to send the rigs in and drill for the fossil fuels that got us into this mess in the first place.

Oil companies need to work on human resource management plans and inspect the implementation, as a basis for continuous improvement.

As the price of oil fluctuates, as it is wont to do, oil companies will mutate to profit most.

Its trade embargo means that American oil companies are unable to bid for drilling rights.

Shell has established partnerships with other national oil companies, including China National Petroleum Corporation.

It took four months to provide a report that other oil companies typically submit in two weeks.

The demand of consciousness of African oil & gas development will increase the cost of Chinese oil companies.

The oil companies themselves are also likely to become more cautious, especially in their drilling operations.

Barack Obama seldom gives a speech without calling for millionaires, billionaires, private-jet owners and oil companies to pay more taxes.

He voted for the energy bill that was full of goodies for the oil companies that I opposed .

Foreign oil companies, including Spain's Repsol, and dozens of smaller outfits, are operating many of these concessions.

Col Gaddafi demanded renegotiation of the contracts, threatening to shut off production if the oil companies refused.

Now interest from the US is intensifying and not just in the oil industry in which the big US oil companies have long had a huge stake.

A few hotels and oil companies offered them to their customers who preferred to pay on a monthly basis.

Using their own bodies and weapons made from wood, they blockaded the rivers and roads to stop the oil companies getting anything in or out.

India is urging its oil companies to expand overseas to meet the soaring demands of its growing economy.

Bob Tippee says U. S. oil companies would spend more on development if they could go everywhere oil is to be found .

By purchasing and using these types of lubricants people are contributing to the pollution that the oil companies produce.

National oil companies (NOCs) often lack the skills to do any of this.

Oil companies, mining firms and banks have all been subject to ATCA litigation since the ancient law was unburied in the 1980s.

Oil companies overtake banks as the most valuable sector, with 15 banks leaving the list and the number of oil companies increasing by one.

China's foreign ministry and Chinese state oil companies that have interests in the East China Sea declined to comment yesterday.

But this, the oil companies argue, is barely enough to keep production stable.

As risk increases, however, oil companies demand more profit oil to ensure an adequate rate of return on the capital invested.

With European oil companies still operating and his oil wealth continuing to grow, he financed other terrorist groups.

Tallying Chinese oil reserves must go well beyond the books of its already large oil companies.

"For international oil companies, access is a real challenge, " Mr Mulva said.

Beijing has bluntly warned international oil companies against concluding exploration contracts in areas Vietnam claims as its EEZ.

Oil companies to establish fully automatic production lines with an annual capacity of oil production and reserves of 15 million tons.

The revival of the abandoned wells could help oil companies lower down their investment and risk and also reuse the fixed asset again.

Major assets include oil companies Svenska Petroleum Exploration, which produces crude oil in Africa, and refinery operator Preem.

The recent conflict in Sudan between the north and the south has affected the security of Chinese oil companies and workers.

Once becoming independent, Southern Sudan may skew toward American and West European oil companies in making oil investment policies.

North American exploration-and-production companies have been more popular than the huge integrated oil companies.

Some other oil companies say that they would not have sanctioned all, or even any, of BP's decisions about cementing, pipes and so on.

Shtokman also illustrates the new environment in which global oil companies compete for resources.

And California has adopted a low-carbon fuel standard that will require oil companies to cut the carbon content of their petrol.

Oil companies also have been deterred by heavy taxes that provide little incentive to invest in new production.

By controlling the price at which Chinese oil companies can sell gasoline, China's government has caused heavy losses for refiners .

Other Western oil companies, recognizing Moscow's openness to new ocean drilling, are now having similar discussions with Russia.

But the country's oil companies may have to gird themselves for expensive corrosion repairs in the months to come.

The Senate committee sent investigators to Oklahoma to secretly observe oil companies, including Koch, buying crude on Indian land.

So far as capping the leak is concerned, the relevant expertise resides with BP and the other oil companies.

Human-rights campaigners have increasingly lobbied against investments by Chinese state-owned oil companies.

Nonetheless, China's oil companies have been strengthening their ties to Iran's oil industry in recent months.

Previous attempts have seen China encourage its three largest oil companies to take equity stakes in international oil projects.

Economists blame government regulations that limited the price oil companies could charge for gasoline.

In comparison, the six biggest international oil companies grew in market capitalisation less than 1 per cent.

Mister Paulson said Chinese government aid for state-owned companies, like oil companies and carmakers, will end up hurting China's economy.

Therefore the foreign integrated management system provides reference for Chinese oil companies.

By the end of the trading session shares of integrated oil companies were weaker.

If the speculators are not to blame, what about the oil companies, which have failed to increase output in spite of record profits?

European governments supported NATO strikes, and several European oil companies already have stakes in the Libya's oil production.

The private sector suffers too. Some big oil companies lose more staff to road crashes than to industrial accidents.

National oil companies will often pay prices that would alarm shareholders in the big listed oil companies.

Just because the big oil companies are screwing mother earth does not mean the rest of us have to.

I received attacks, people I know lied to defend the interests of the oil companies, and tried to weaken my position.

Lawsuits financed by the oil companies' critics are wending their way through the courts.

Of course, while rising gas prices mean real pain for our families at the pump, they also mean bigger profits for oil companies.

Nervous Western oil companies give millions to local schools and hospitals to avoid being tarred with the same brush.

Huge investments by foreign oil companies are pepping up the city.

Their global ambitions are strengthening the hand of oil-rich nations in their negotiations with foreign oil companies.

International oil companies (IOCs) are eager to invest in Iraq, but the political, economic and regulatory hurdles are causing delays.

State media reported this week that a fund might be set up using reserves to back overseas investments by oil companies.

To be sure, most big oil companies have shown no sign of trimming their investments.

Most oil production is now controlled by national oil companies.

The oil companies are competitive and jealous, so they try to outdo each other by building new stuff for the city.

Margaret Farrow says Oasis was opened to offer a sustainable option to the petroleum-derived diesel offered by big oil companies.

Several major oil companies have expressed interest in the system .

John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't help hostage to the profits of oil companies or sabotage of foreign oil fields.

Uganda's parliament has suspended all pending oil deals following allegations that oil companies paid bribes to ministers.

The banks and oil companies and billionaires never stop putting on their pressure, waving their cheques, and making their threats.

In a closed meeting session, the Panel discussed with oil companies and the Administration the competition aspects of the fuel market.

International oil companies routinely team up with state-owned national oil companies to bid for undeveloped assets.

I am being seen to be siding with the oil companies, but I am not.

It clearly shows that oil companies are willing to pay handsome salaries to new geologists .

Eyeing Libya's huge, largely untapped energy reserves, foreign oil companies are scrambling for concessions.

That may not bother state oil companies much, but it ought to worry private-equity firms.

Although big oil companies have been making record profits, they have also had high levels of capital expenditure.

Daimler and others have been doing their own research on direct methanol fuel cells, as have major oil companies.

That compares with an average of 10 times forecast earnings for big oil companies listed internationally.

It had all kinds of breaks for the oil companies, I mean, billions of dollars worth.

The oil companies hope the plan will placate the intense official and public criticism of the oil industry.

This system also provides an effective means for seismic contractors or oil companies to manage seismic project teams in any outlying area.

Big oil companies are funding major advertising campaigns, suggesting consumers use less energy.

After China's entry into the WTO, China's oil enterprises stand in competition with worldclass oil companies.

In addition to the OPEC supply cuts, international oil companies have delayed some of their most expensive projects.

Sulfonic acid is a foaming acid available from some of the oil companies.

There are now three oil companies, three phone companies, two electricity distributors -- all majority owned by the state.

The the oil companies can tell you why: it's because drilling straight down is a lot easier.

Even compared with the historically-good profitability of oil companies, Apple stands apart.

So when oil prices dipped during 1980s, then stayed low through the early 1990s, it spurred a mega-merger trend among major oil companies.

In the Senate, Republicans blocked a bill that would have imposed a new tax on profits from oil companies.

India 's oil companies have often lost out to China in the past while bidding for overseas assets.

Most oil companies have evacuated non-essential personnel and have shut down some of their operations.

Oil companies say they have little control over soaring crude-oil prices, which they point to as the main cause of higher gasoline prices.

As they move abroad, U. S. oil companies exacerbate methane emissions in the tropics.

Q: According to US media reports, Chinese hackers attacked some American oil companies to obtain project information.

Emmanuel and Rahall have introduced legislation to force oil companies to use land already under lease .

Governments and oil companies in Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia spent billions of dollars to develop new oil fields.

Zhu Feng, of Peking University, says that the oil companies have "hijacked" the country's foreign policy on Sudan.

In return, the oil companies must bear reciprocal corporate obligations to national security, he says.

Energy security is a sensitive topic in Beijing -- one reason its oil companies busily buy up assets overseas.

That should allow Chinese oil companies to continue working in Iran, and China to continue consuming Iranian oil.

In other countries, oil companies limit their exposure to oil's volatility by locking in a long-term price.

Recent conditions have bolstered oil companies' confidence.

That heat, produced carbon free, has gotten the attention of chemical, fertilizer, and oil companies.

Oil companies fell after a pipeline in Alaska was shut Saturday after a leak was discovered at a pump station.

Chinese oil companies have subsequently been cautious about investment in US resources.

Under a service contract, oil companies are paid a flat fee for their services, rather than gaining a share of the profits.

Meanwhile, it is getting harder for Exxon, like all the big oil companies, to get access to resources.

international oil companies are left battling out for more costly prices where the expertise and technology remain in demand.

Money has flowed into the U. S. and Australia because they offer the best incentives to oil companies, he says.

It was the first time in more than 35 years that Iraq has allowed foreign oil companies to do business inside its borders.

Oil companies are dealing with the depletion of reserves in western Siberia by diversifying.

The largest growth is predicted by consulting and oil companies, which both anticipate almost a 50 per cent increase in graduate jobs.

Members of the US Congress have accused major oil companies of being no better prepared than BP to prevent environmental disasters.

A decade ago Mr Vicente forbade foreign oil companies in Angola to publish even routine data, on threat of ejection.

The big pulp-and-paper and palm-oil companies have several lines of defence against attacks from greens.

State oil companies from both countries have expressed an interest in exploiting reserves in the region.

The records of the world's many large oil companies where governments retain a large or controlling stake, are not encouraging.

Oil companies generally dislike service contracts because they do not allow for much upside potential.

Analysts said that many of the oil companies involved in the bidding believed they would struggle to break even under the terms on offer.

Once in power, the Shah used the revenues from an agreement between Iran and Western oil companies to solidify his authority.

But Sinopec also has been broadening its reach along the lines of Western oil companies.

Two oil companies, Suncor and Petro-Canada, combined to create Canada's second-largest firm by market value.

Most oil companies take there standard passenger car oil and increase the Zinc content, and call it Racing oil.

But Big Oil companies need to consider many more factors than short-term shareholder perks before making such drastic decisions.

But even national oil companies within Opec are not investing as much as international oil companies.

We have a government car company, government banks, we're talking about government oil companies, government is hiring all the workers.

Oil companies, coal miners and farmers don't apologize for the prices of their goods.

Mr. Singh told delegates that India 's state-owned oil companies will search for energy assets overseas.

As the commission's co-chair, William Reilly, has pointed out, there are oil companies with exemplary safety records.

America's government is doling out grants and loan guarantees, and oil companies are investing, too.

But they would do better targeting even more highly geared independent oil companies instead.

Chinese oil companies, which spent more than $24bn on overseas acquisitions in 2010, have increasingly emphasised natural gas production.

In El Dorado, Arkansas, a few oil companies provided it.

Taiwan and Kazakhstan each just bought a foreclosure property in the "WESTERN" . No wonder they are "Western oil companies" now.

The data collected by oil companies has formed the basis of interest in Somalia today.

Oil traders said that Chinese-state owned oil companies were selling the petrol through intermediaries.

The administration also wants to raise taxes substantially on oil companies.

Oil Companies Institute for Marine Pollution Compensation Ltd.

Financial regulators typically have oversight of traders and oil companies in this area.

First, the Iraqi auction continues the shift of power in the global oil industry to national oil companies.

The politicians in Washington can get more votes by holding televised hearings where they vilify the oil companies.

Democrats have vowed to protect those sorts of things, and have instead proposed eliminating a tax break for oil companies.

Foreign oil companies, including Italy's Eni SpA and Spain's Repsol YPF, said they had suspended some operations.

Cutting deals with whimsical governments is par for the course for oil companies.

So are lots of other investors, from private-equity funds to oil companies, such as Thailand's PTT. Chinese firms are among the most eager.

One option under consideration in the White House is ending certain subsidies, such as for oil companies, and tax breaks.

Governor Palin has challenged the influence of the big oil companies while fighting for the development of new energy resources.

Annual earnings at big oil companies were dragged down by their oil-refining operations.

U. S. oil companies aren't allowed to operate in Sudan because of U. S. government-imposed sanctions.

State-run PetroVietnam and other international oil companies are already producing several major fields in the area.

Libya looks like a promising possible supplier of both oil and natural gas that is unusually open to foreign oil companies.

Pemex is one of the world's leading oil companies with revenues of $104 billion in 2010.

Not all national oil companies suffer from stunted growth and lack of investment.

Others prefer to blame the oil companies, who have long been the favorite villains of the left.

This month, oil companies were called to hearings in Congress to explain the record price rises.

When Iraq took over Kuwait and oil prices went up, President Bush wouldn't let oil companies pass costs on to car owners.

Both Valero and Tesoro are super Enrons. Since when did the oil companies start to show a concern for the unemployed and their families?

Oil companies are being pressed by the Government to cut prices and ease the public's burden in the current economic climate.

I hope that i am wrong. that the average citizen of the world is dumber then a Smart bomb. WE must not be deceived by Oil companies.

National oil companies are estimated to control about eighty percent of the world's oil supply.

All three countries have large oil companies that are seeking deals in Africa.

Analysts also say the country's weak legal system has discouraged oil companies from investing here.

The government has also given heavy financial backing to its oil companies.

An amendment to end a tax loophole for major oil companies, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass. ), failed in a 251-174 vote on Friday.