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

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

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

I work for an oil company.

I work for an oil company.

Tom works for an oil company.

Tom worked for an oil company.

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.

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) () is a Chinese state owned oil and gas corporation and the largest integrated energy company in China.

The first few years of his rule were dominated by his struggle to gain control of the country s state owned oil company, PDVSA.

The management of 11 high schools, 13 university exam preparation centers and one private university was transferred to SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state oil company.

The oil company BP is discovering that right now.

Beyond oil and gas, Russia s arms export agency, Rosoboronexport, has just seized Avtovaz, the giant dysfunctional Soviet car factory, and VSMPO Avisma, Russia s big titanium company, while all aircraft production has been concentrated in one state company.

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

And, as if this good news were not enough, Brazil s giant state oil company, Petrobrás, is already at work developing two huge deep water oil fields discovered in the sea off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

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.

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

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

Chávez also remained in power after an all out national strike that lasted from December 2002 to February 2003, including a strike lockout in the state oil company PDVSA.

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

Other agreements include a project in which Brazil s state energy company, Petrobrás, and Cuba s Cupet will extract oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and another that involves technological aid from the Brazilian Company Pessquisa Agropecuária for the development of soya production in Cuba.

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

Last December, China s state owned National Petroleum Corporation signed a deal with the Afghan authorities that would make it the first foreign company to exploit Afghanistan s oil and natural gas reserves.

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.

Moreover, Putin s associates wanted Yukos wealth, which was confiscated by the state oil company Rosneft through lawless taxation, leaving Putin s tax reform and judicial reform in tatters and severely undermining property rights.

The agenda includes an expansion of the tax base to reduce dependency on oil, an initiative to increase competition in media and telecommunications, and a constitutional change that will permit the state owned oil company Pemex to enter into joint ventures with foreign firms.

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.

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

Not a single state owned company has an independent chairman.

N. Nwala and Company in Aba, Abia State 1982 1983

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.

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.

Tiny landlocked state. No oil. No diamonds. No natural resources.

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

The practicality of allocating the right of protection of a defunct company to the State of nationality of the company rather than the State or States of the shareholders was questioned.

Among these countries, Brazil has arguably taken the greatest hit recently. The corruption scandal surrounding the flagship state owned oil company, Petrobras, has produced an economic crisis, with the currency tanking and growth grinding to a halt.

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.

Most of the phone lines are operated by Beltelecom, a state owned company.

For example, an the Oil Ministry gave a 1.3 billion no bid contract to an oil company associated with the Revolutionary Guard, and Ahmedinejad appointed his brother in law as cabinet secretary.

This raised issues of State responsibility, both of the State where the violations took place and of the State where the company was registered.

The expropriation of the oil company Yukos, valued at 100 billion, was the signal event, and was followed by rising corruption.