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

Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.

The same is true of oil companies.

But oil companies awkwardness is more substantial.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Driven by the internationalization of the country's oil and gas companies, Russian OFDI is becoming substantial.

The private sector includes various business interests, including large and small companies, service providers and users, national and international enterprises, and established companies as well as companies attempting to enter new markets.

Likewise, international oil companies sell most of their oil in dollars, but they operate in various countries and pay some of their costs in local currencies.

Of the large oil companies, only one France s Total has argued against Arctic oil exploration and exploitation on the grounds of environmental risks and economic costs.

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.

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.

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

The Alberta government and the oil companies that influence it would upgrade tar sands to oil sands, apparently thinking that a better name somehow silences environmental critics.

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. (...)

The agreement involves partnerships between the State owned oil companies of the three countries in projects on oil prospecting, refining and transportation as well as ship construction.

Service companies such as airlines could ask employees to collect feedback, but it was overly complicated.

In the long run, however, statistical analysis of various oil industry variables indicates that a weaker dollar affects supply by reducing production, regardless of whether oil is owned and produced by national or international oil companies.

When oil companies misbehave in Nigeria or elsewhere, they are protected by the power of their home countries.

Britain offers generous tax concessions for oil and gas exploration, including bumper deals for companies involved in fracking.

New rules to require end users (such as oil companies using derivatives to guard against unexpected oil price changes) and others to put up good collateral are being developed.

Yet, the foreign oil companies get 82 of the increase in the case of oil, this would amount to a windfall for them of 32 a barrel or more.

Oil and gas companies are taxed 46 percent on income derived from the sale of hydrocarbons and derivative products.

Industries such as oil, banks, tobacco, (and companies like General Electric), along with labor, formed the New Deal Coalition.