Still, Iraq has vast oil and natural gas reserves, to which all of the major oil companies wanted access.

This, and the contemporaneous failure of major pricing and production negotiations between the exporters and the major oil companies both led to the 1973 oil crisis.

Recently, six major European oil and gas companies offered to collaborate on a carbon price.

Many major companies, including in the oil industry, have expressed their readiness to support sustainable development goals.

By making use of national and international oil companies and contractors, that group can exploit new oil fields, expand secondary fields and or redevelop major infrastructure.

If Kenyans know exactly how much oil is being produced, how much royalties oil companies pay this would already be a major step in the right direction. (...)

Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.

Major oil companies and other big corporate interests also are playing this game, and have financed disreputable public relations campaigns against climate science.

The same is true of oil companies.

But oil companies awkwardness is more substantial.

Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.

American, British, and French oil companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly of Nigeria s oil industry.

A consequence of the embargo is that U.S. corporations cannot invest in the Sudan oil industry, so companies in China, Malaysia and India are the major investors.

In 1938 twenty eight years after the revolution began Cárdenas provoked a major confrontation with the US and Britain by expropriating their oil companies and nationalizing Mexico s petroleum.

As such it will allow oil companies to release 8.9 million barrels of crude oil from mandatory stockpiles.

Even oil and mining companies have reported a less hostile environment.

The United Nations must protect the territorial integrity and natural resources of Western Sahara, a territory that multinational companies and major Powers coveted because of its natural riches, particularly oil.

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands. This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity or did before the oil companies got there and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.

Major companies need to accept responsibility for their actions.

Major companies are already seizing on water risk data.

The war has had only two winners oil companies and defense contractors.

On the technical side, the Bush administration hired the world's best oil service companies to revamp Iraq's technologically challenged oil fields.

Instead, Bush pushed for subsidies to oil companies to encourage more domestic production.

But Turkey has no reason to attack the assets of foreign oil companies.

Perhaps, though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian, and Italian companies rather than British and US companies.

Major oil fields Although Saudi Arabia has around 100 major oil and gas fields, over half of its oil reserves are contained in only eight giant oil fields, including the Ghawar Field, the biggest oil field in the world with an estimated 70 billion barrels of remaining reserves.

Following the 1973 oil crisis oil companies used their higher profits to start solar firms, and were for decades the largest producers.

Today, ExxonMobil and other major oil companies are much more honest and constructive in their discussions of the issues. They could not, in the long term, beat the science without gravely damaging their reputations.

Local development projects in oil production areas should apply a participative approach involving major stakeholders civil society, State and local authorities, youth movements and local private companies to identifying needs and defining implementation strategies.

High skilled migrants employed by Western oil companies, for example, were airlifted to safety.

In addition, there should be a windfall profits tax on oil and gas companies.

Oil companies continue having scientists on their payroll who are willing to sow doubts.

The airport is also serviced by various oil companies with corporate and charter flights.

Assets in the oil industry, on the other hand, were divided among several companies.

South African companies have emerged as major international players in certain sectors.

State owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters.

Rents from oil production impede reforms in the major exporting countries.

The state owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.

Now it's gone. They have become the king of the forest, just like oil companies.

Some major pharmaceutical companies have already undertaken initiatives in this regard (box 1).

Right now today, in Oslo as it happens, oil companies are fighting to keep secret their payments to governments for extracting oil in developing countries.

They have the right to know whether Enron and the oil companies are shaping energy policy.

Gazprom is buying up oil (Sibneft), gas, and power companies at knockdown prices, reinforcing its monopoly.

A similar process had taken place with American oil companies in Venezuela a few years earlier.

They were the leading companies globally in providing systems and equipment for oil and gas drilling.