Sentence examples for offshore license from inspiring English sources

But Rockefeller does not have the expertise to determine whether the bank where Environment Tobago has its account is a shell bank, whether it has any connection to money laundering or even whether it operates under an offshore license, another of the things that the guidelines recommend checking.

In the US, this Oxfam-supported regulation will give Gulf communities a picture of how much BP pays the Federal government in royalties and taxes for each offshore license in the Gulf.

The Government's 26th offshore licensing round – postponed from early 2009 on account of the financial crisis – finally concluded.

Reuters is suggesting that Starbucks use offshore licensing, transfer pricing that routes profits to Switzerland and intra-group funding to reduce their UK profits.

The agreement allowed for offshore licensing in the previously disputed zone, and energy groups are beginning to cooperate there — including a recently announced joint venture between Rosneft and Statoil.

The company seemed poised to secure access to the Arctic at a time when lawsuits and regulations in the United States and Canada were delaying drilling, and when in particular BP's chances of winning new offshore licenses in North America appeared dim.

But the decision to withdraw from the Greenland offshore licensing round shows that the company is still considered a liability, at least in very environmentally sensitive areas such as the Arctic.

Meanwhile, Energy Minister Edison Lobão said an auction of offshore oil licenses scheduled for October would continue as planned, contending there was no risk that data related to the auction had been leaked.

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Mr. Oettinger also was expected to propose that the E.U. agree on new laws that would require governments that license offshore drilling sites to check whether companies had the ability to pay to clean up a spill and to repair any damage to the natural environment.

French energy giant Total is a partner with Adenuga's oil exploration firm, Conoil producing, in the prolific oil block OML 136 license, offshore Western Nigeria.