Sentence examples for petroleum unit from inspiring English sources

Her mother is the chief information officer for a Houston-based petroleum unit of BHP Billiton, the Australian mining company.

The makeshift digits are legal as long as they are similar to the neighboring numbers, said John Browne, the assistant director of enforcement for the city's Department of Consumer Affairs' petroleum unit.

On Monday the EU was preparing to impose new sanctions focused on the fundraising capabilities of Russian oil companies Rosneft and Transneft, and the petroleum unit of the gas company Gazprom, diplomatic sources said.

"With all petroleum products, it's such a leap of faith for the people sitting there," Mr. Browne, the assistant director of enforcement for the department's petroleum unit, said as he nodded to the line of drivers waiting to fill up.

The boss of its petroleum unit quit the third top executive to leave and the share price plunged.Wayne Huizenga's acquisitive Republic Industries, which has grabbed several American car-hire businesses recently, is heading for Europe with an agreement to buy EuroDollar, which operates mainly in Britain, for £95m ($150m).

"Petroleum crude oil unit trains transporting heavily loaded tank cars will tend to impart higher than usual forces to the track infrastructure during their operation," the safety board said in a report this year.

He built his oil unit, Addax Petroleum, from scratch before selling it in 2009 to Sinopec, the Chinese oil company, for 8.4 billion Canadian dollars, or $8.6 billion at current exchange rates, taking $3.5 billion himself.

REUTERS Itochu Joint Venture to Invest Further in Philippine Oil | The Itochu Corporation's joint venture with Philippine company Isla Petroleum and Energy is to purchase Royal Dutch Shell's liquified petroleum gas unit in the Philippines for about $131 million, the Japanese trading house announced on Tuesday.

BP had already agreed to similar settlements with Anadarko Petroleum; a unit of Mitsui Oil Exploration, MOEX, which had stakes in the well; and Weatherford International, which made a part of the well.

Such devices are required by Brazil and Norway, but not by the United States, where the oil industry successfully resisted a proposal years ago to require its use, according to Oystein Noreng, who heads the petroleum studies unit at the Norwegian School of Management.

The restructuring includes cost-cutting consolidations in Dun & Bradstreet's petroleum-information unit, which handles drilling and production data, the company said.