According to Palizdar, Ayatollah Rafsanjani has major financial interests in an oil company in Canada, and also the touristic island, Kish.

I work for an oil company.

I work for an oil company.

Tom works for an oil company.

Tom worked for an oil company.

The oil company BP is discovering that right now.

The state owned oil company, which accounts for a major chunk of government revenue, is hugely inefficient, and invests far too little in new equipment and technology.

State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) is an Iraqi National Company responsible for marketing Iraq's oil.

In 1973, the Norwegian government founded the State oil company, Statoil.

Saudi Arabia s national oil company has achieved homegrown expertise in oil drilling that is widely admired in the West.

The deal between the Bush linked Hunt Oil Company and the Kurdish Regional Government has uncovered a major crisis between the Maliki Government and the US, according to well informed sources. ...

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation () is Kuwait's national oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City.

Nigeria is reorganizing its state oil company, introducing transparency legislation, and launching sweeping audits of the oil and gas sector.

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.

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.

Since 2002, efforts to diversify mining products have gradually borne fruit, with the results of seismic research carried out by a United States company pointing to the presence of major oil and gas fields.

If you are a big oil or coal company, your choice will be nothing.

The oil price goes through the floor. That company goes out of business, and then you can bring the oil price back up.

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

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

Svetlana Bakhmina was a lawyer at Yukos, the oil company formerly run by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Support for oil nationalization Most of Iran's oil reserves were in the Persian Gulf area and had been developed by the British Anglo Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) for export to Britain.

One day a major bank, insurance company, or automaker announces a record loss.

OMV (formerly Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung , ÖMV), is an integrated international oil and gas company, headquartered in Vienna.

In 1937, Pure Oil Company (now part of Chevron Corporation) and its partner Superior Oil Company (now part of ExxonMobil Corporation) used a fixed platform to develop a field in of water, one mile (1.6 km) offshore of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

The Dutch West India Company developed the areas, establishing a major port on Curaçao.

Yukos, once Russia s leading oil company and a favorite of international investors, is in its death throes.

Declining oil prices could provide a major boost, especially to oil importing developed economies. Technological advances could still come to the rescue.

In 1914, before the war, the British government had contracted with the company for oil for the navy.

Until May 2012, she worked as an Internet Security Consultant for Saudi Aramco, the Saudi national oil company.

Bangladesh would be particularly vulnerable to the devastating effects of a major oil spill.

Conoco holdings 1981 to 1995 In 1981, DuPont acquired Conoco Inc., a major American oil and gas producing company that gave it a secure source of petroleum feedstocks needed for the manufacturing of many of its fiber and plastics products.

According to the information received, Ms. Svetlana Bakhmina, acting Head of the Legal Department at Yukos Oil Company since September 2004, was arrested on 7 December 2004 and is held in detention in Moscow, in connection with the charges brought against the Yukos Oil Company.

Major oil exporters could then seek to use their now less valuable oil at home as cheap fuel for an expanded heavy industrial sector.

Maram goes onto to describe attending a recruitment event at Oxford University with the oil company she works for.

In recent years, major reserves of oil have been discovered at various locations across Africa.

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

The country's oil reserves have played a major role in its growing wealth and influence.

A major oil spill could occur at any time in any part of the Mediterranean.

Saudi Arabia has an oil based economy with strong government control over major economic activities.

In September 1994, a 30 year contract was signed between the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and 13 oil companies, among them Amoco, BP, ExxonMobil, Lukoil and Statoil.

Rather than focusing on the major short and long term challenges facing the oil industry, the debate about peak oil diverts attention to the wrong problems.

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.

Together with the Russian authorities expropriation of oil company Yukos, foreigners have been squeezed out of Russia s energy extraction sector.

An example is the company of John D. Rockefeller, who was an important figure in shaping the new oil industry.