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.

Radicals work at oil companies.

So, sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies ,

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.

Through that process of service oriented transformation companies can increasingly leverage third party companies that act as business service providers.

And how about the oil, gas and mining companies?

Oil wells, breweries, trucking companies, hotels, investment companies, such as yours, to say nothing of vice...

(d) Development of private sector energy service companies

We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough.

Even oil and mining companies have reported a less hostile environment.

The top five oil companies last year made 137 billion dollars.

As such it will allow oil companies to release 8.9 million barrels of crude oil from mandatory stockpiles.

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.

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

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.

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

Perhaps, though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian, and Italian companies rather than British and US companies.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies.

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.

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.

Total production of oil did not recover in 1992 but the year was nevertheless characterized by the intensification of oil exploration activities and efforts to improve the investment climate for foreign oil companies.

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.