Politically, America is still the land of Big Oil.

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

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

In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the subsequent US drilling embargo, the approval of Shell s drilling operations off the Alaskan coast received considerable media attention.

But oil companies awkwardness is more substantial.

Radicals work at oil companies.

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.

I'm so angry about it. The oil companies are ripping me off.

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

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.

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

Second, CO2 is dangerously changing the world s climate, even if many Big Oil interests would have us believe otherwise.

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

Oil, the main engine of growth, is privately controlled.

The oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world.

Energy Lobby, an umbrella term for the representatives of large oil, gas, coal, and electric utilities corporations that attempt to influence governmental policy in the United States.

Mars One paid visits to major aerospace companies around the world.

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.

On the business side, the major international extractive companies have started to acknowledge the value and necessity of greater transparency.

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

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

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.

quot (f) To prevent South African corporations from maintaining or expanding their holdings in oil companies or properties outside South Africa

Big companies, from banks to airlines, are contributing as well.

So why is there always enough money for the dinosaur economy, from big oil to bailouts for big banks, but when it comes to building a better future we're supposedly broke?

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. (...)

There is considerable potential for investment in oil exploration in Sub Saharan Africa.

like the enormous tax breaks granted to oil and gas companies even in times of record profits.

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

One hears this argument for many modern industries, from big food to big pharma to big finance.

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.

The Kingdom of Libya, from 1951 to 1969, was heavily influenced and educated by the British and American oil companies.

They were talking about Exxon Valdez, and that there was going to be a glut of oil tankers because of the insurance industries.

Cleaning up the Niger Delta would provide the strongest possible example of a new age of accountability. 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.

As Western oil companies are able to tap deepwater oilfields untouched by the Soviet exploitation, Azerbaijan is considered one of the most important spots in the world for oil exploration and development.

Easy applause can no longer be had by attacking big business or the IMF.

To be noticed by those professional production houses, you'll need a little more, I think. 23 !

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.

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

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

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

Second, CO2 is dangerously changing the world s climate, even if many Big Oil interests would have us believe otherwise. (So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)

oil sands is a P.R. created term so that the oil companies wouldn't be trying to promote something that sounds like a sticky tar like substance that's the world's dirtiest oil.

Worse, service industries are falling further behind large manufacturers in terms of productivity and wages.

Digital economy is characterised by two concurrently opposing forces one is the creation and spread of small firms and the other is the growth and expansion of larger structures.