Industry-Ratios-Oil-Gas-Producers-Vs-Gasoline-PricesMargins dropped by nearly half in 2009 after a precipitous drop in oil prices left companies scrambling to slash spending in exploration and production.
The oil-gas play was the brainchild of Cope's partner, Edgar M.
And finally energy-retail firms lack the expertise to run gas-storage sites, and oil-and-gas production companies are not usually interested (Centrica, which both extracts gas and sells it to consumers, is an exception).
Moreover, critical US national security interests, such as the stability of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, Egypt's 35-year strategic alignment with America following Sadat's pivot away from the Soviet Union, and the fate of the Arabian Peninsula's oil-and gas-producing regimes, justifiably weigh in the balance for Washington's decision-makers, and the West as a whole.
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New York s HESS CORP. (HES, 59) is a solid second-tier integrated oil-and-gas firm with scores of gas stations across the eastern U.S. It s got 1.5 billion barrels of oil-equivalent reserves (versus 17.2 billion at Exxon).
For long-term investors, the oil-to-gas ratio is indicative of a paradigm shift in the markets.
He says he wants the private sector to make up 70% of non-oil-and-gas GDP by 2020.
They account for only 6% of non-oil-and-gas exports and 14% of the value added by local manufacturing.
Third, and most important, Timor-Leste's oil-and-gas income is relatively modest, and started to flow only after independence.
Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.
Devon, as an energy play, is a well-run independent oil-and-gas producer with its management very focused on enhancing shareholder value.
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Gone are long-time Hess family cronies like Nicholas Brady and Tom Kean and seven other incumbents who had precious little oil-and-gas experience.
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Dresser-Rand equipment, used at nearly every stage of the oil-and-gas supply chain, is well positioned to take advantage of the global investment increase in energy infrastructure.
Lee Iacocca, for example, was only one of several auto-industry heavyweights to get caught in an oil-and-gas tax shelter that ran into trouble (FORBES, June 4).
This goes beyond an earlier tax attack on a public offering by the Blackstone Group, and would slam into all private partnerships, including buyout funds, hedge funds, venture-capital firms, real estate partnerships, and oil-and-gas deals.
We know that under his leadership and during his presidency domestic production of oil and gas -- natural gas -- has increased, and our reliance on imports of foreign oil has decreased to its lowest level in I think something like 16 years.
His faculty appointment followed a 31-year career at Mobil Oil where he was Vice-President of the U.S. oil and natural gas business, and then Vice-President of oil and natural gas in Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
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In America, the energy index rose a whopping 3.8% in September as petrol, heating-oil and natural-gas prices all shot up.
The three big efficiency stories--oil, gas and electricity--are all remarkable.
This aid will undoubtedly benefit another small group of interested parties -- namely the U.S. oil and gas equipment manufacturing sector -- but in so doing could also provide state-owned Russian oil and gas companies with the capacity to generate hard currency revenues, monies which in the past have largely gone to enhance military-industrial activities.
Oil- and gas-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Zambia are among the 12 African countries to benefit.
Thanks to this flood of shale gas, the oil-to-gas ratio has risen to almost 17 on average.
The products it sells are used by oil- and gas-drilling companies, pipeline companies, refineries and other energy-sector firms.
Specially formulated lubricants are used in fracking, which involves pumping water, fine sand and fracking fluids underground to split open oil- and gas-bearing rocks.
The dramatic migration pattern can be chalked up to the rapid development of an oil- and gas-rich shale formation in the western part of the state.
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Given that the oil- and gas-related sectors account for only 2.5% of GDP, they have contributed just 0.6 percentage points (ppts) to the 7.6% rise in GDP.
You start with a pretty basic feed stock - oil or natural gas - but with a little work you can turn out a whole bunch of flavors.
In February, the heads of China's three state-controlled oil and gas majors -- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) -- met one of Russia's most influential players in the energy sector, Igor Sechin, chief executive of state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Hogne Pedersen, an 18-year company veteran and project manager who identifies and develops oil and natural-gas resources, says the training has helped to refine leadership skills he needs for developing oil fields in challenging -- and sometimes violent -- locations.
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