The China National Petroleum Corporation holds a 40 stake in the Greater Nile Petroleum Company and has invested 3 billion in refinery and pipeline construction.

The case of the Great Lakes Business Company Compagnie Aérienne des Grands Lacs

Politically, America is still the land of Big Oil.

His government's most notable policy, however, was the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC ) (later British Petroleum and BP).

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.

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

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

Prior to the rise of the corporation, there were mainly family firms, such as the Rothschilds.

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.

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

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.

In May and November 2004, the Chairman again requested, by telephone, the Managing Director of the same parastatal to give 20,000 for national security purposes, even though nearly one fifth of the total NTGL budget was meant for Security Services Sector.

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

The number of developing country firms among the Fortune 500 companies rose from 29 in 1998 to 45 in 2005.

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

In 1961 Iraq passed Public Law 80 whereby Iraq expropriated 95 of the Iraq Petroleum Company's concessions, and went on to announce the intent to form the INOC in 1964.

Ibrahim too shares the following suggestion to oil giant Saudi Aramco, which is celebrating its centennial this year فيها مطار وفيها كل شئ .. ولا راح يحتاجون انهم يقفلون طرق ولا شئ

Oil is extracted and processed by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), with proven oil reserves holding approximately steady, although oil production has been declining.

These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.

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.

One company is responsible for producing and distributing electricity in the Niger and it covers only the main urban centres.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is a Houston based oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America.

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

So petrodollars exacerbate poverty in sub Saharan Africa, not cure it.

A subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation Hafei Motor, is one of the major automobile manufactures in China.

In December 2004, Dokubu s militias took 75 oil workers hostage and forced Shell to shut down about 10 of the country s oil supply.

Upon reasserting political control in 2003, Chávez fired 40 of PDVSA s staff.

The Bahrain National Gas Company operates a gas liquefaction plant that utilizes gas piped directly from Bahrain's oilfields.

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

For instance, the number of developing country firms among the Fortune 500 rose from 29 in 1998 to 45 in 2005.

An oil rush is underway in the continent, because all developed countries' national security depends on a steady oil supply, and sub Saharan Africa owns 8 of the world's known reserves.

In addition, Gazprom produced about 32.3 million tons of crude oil and nearly 12.1 million tons of gas condensate.

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

The Monrovia Oil Transport Corporation is also owed by the Taylor Government ( 2.7 million), but it has not received any payment from the National Transitional Government of Liberia.

Examples include the China National Overseas Oil Company s failed effort to buy the US energy firm UNOCAL, and Dubai Ports failed bid to buy a firm managing major US ports.

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.

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

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

In 1938, before the beginning of the Second World War, Gulbenkian incorporated in Panama a company to hold his assets in the oil industry.

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

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.

Brazilian firms have been investing mostly in primary industries such as energy and mining, led by Petrobras in oil and energy (UNCTAD 2004a).

Moreover, outside of the oil and electric power sectors, state owned enterprises in Iraq have never been major employers.

Big business won't stand up for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, singled out by the Kremlin as a political enemy and imprisoned since last year.

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