Energy Sector Quotes

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

In my district, energy means family-supporting jobs and cutting-edge science.

If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.

I support American energy production, and it will be produced by companies - Exxon, BP, Shell - and continue to support American energy.

Venezuela’s state oil company routinely spends more on social programs then it does on exploration and production.

I think when Donald Trump looks at the energy sector, he sees that as a place to really create wealth for this country and for individuals, to put Americans back to work with good-paying jobs that have benefits.

I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.

My wife is German, so I know something about German energy policy.

Why would we build as unequal a renewable energy sector as we have built a fossil fuel sector? The nice thing about renewables is they're everywhere, so you don't have to have monopoly control in the same way.

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.