Sentence examples for refining venture from inspiring English sources

A state-owned refining venture has flopped badly.

In the past, Mobil reportedly had further talks with British Petroleum about other combinations, as well as talks with Amoco about forming an American refining venture.

Gazprom said it was also planning a joint refining venture with the National Oil Corporation of Libya, and accepted Libya's offer to build pipelines to Europe from Libya, in North Africa.

The global recession and the steep drop in oil prices have now killed many of those large refining ventures.

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Saudi Refining Inc. have agreed to buy the stakes of the ChevronTexaco Corporation in two refining ventures for $3.86 billion.

Moreover, Venezuela's government has announced dozens of oil-exploration and refining ventures with companies from an array of countries including Iran, Uruguay and China itself.

There are some joint refining ventures with foreign oil companies inside the Middle Eastern kingdom, such as the Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Company, which operates a plant in Yanbu on the north-west Saudi coast with Royal Dutch Shell.

A chunk of the $9 billion it is spending on its oil-refining venture will be on plants to make fertiliser and polypropylene, a versatile plastic, from the refined crude.

The transaction is similar to an oil sands-refining venture hammered out by EnCana and ConocoPhillips last year and follows various arrangements by Suncor Energy, Marathon Oil and others.

One big case looming before the court: a Ninth Circuit decision finding antitrust problems with a refining joint venture of Texaco and Shell, even though the Federal Trade Commission failed to find any anticompetitive effect.

The art gallery evolved from the enclosed promenades of aristocratic country houses, the paintings were hung as an artificial prospect for ladies and gentlemen too refined to venture outdoors.