Spanish companies invested in fields like renewable energy ( Iberdrola was the world's largest renewable energy operator ), technology companies like Telefónica, Abengoa, Mondragon Corporation, Movistar, Hisdesat, Gamesa, Indra, train manufacturers like CAF, Talgo, global corporations such as the textile company Inditex, petroleum companies like Repsol and infrastructure, with six of the ten biggest international construction firms specialising in transport being Spanish, like Ferrovial, Acciona, ACS, OHL and FCC.

US Exxon Mobil Corporation, Petrobras, Spain's Repsol YPF, UK gas and oil producer BG Group Plc, and France's Total are the main gas companies present in the country.

The union of the two companies took on the name Repsol YPF ; YPF would represent 40 % of the new firm's reserves and over 50 % of its production.

Its assets were distributed to the largest private petroleum companies in the Spanish market at the time, principally Repsol, Cepsa, and BP.

CNPC has become increasingly involved in development of Iranian oil fields following Western sanctions that target the Iranian oil and gas sectors leading many European energy companies such as Shell Oil, Repsol, and etc.

Former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner attributed it on lack of investment on the part of the private companies that extract the resource ( such as Repsol YPF ), and the concomitant lack of pressure from past governments on those companies.

It was opened in 1987 by the state-owned oil company YPF, which was later privatized ( see Repsol YPF ).

However, there remain problems surrounding the exploitation of oil and gas fields in the country by Spanish corporations like Repsol.

YPF was privatized in 1993 and bought by the Spanish firm Repsol in 1999 ; the resulting merger produced Repsol YPF.

Repsol YPF CEO Antonio Brufau, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, and other Spanish officials objected to the nationalisation, accusing the Argentine government of driving down YPF shares ahead of the announcement ( market price of the shares declined by over half from February to April ).

Repsol S. A. (; originally an initialism for Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras adding the word Sol ( Sun )) is an integrated Spanish oil and gas company with operations in 28 countries.

Other golden shares ruled illegal include the Spanish government's golden shares in Telefonica, Repsol YPF, Endesa, Argentaria and Tabacalera.

The initiative had the political goal of reinserting the state in an oligopolic market that was completely privatized during the Menem administration in the 1990s ; these privatizations included the state oil firm YPF to the Spanish corporation Repsol, as well as its sister company, Gas del Estado, to eleven mainly foreign-owned firms.

Madrid-based multinational corporation Repsol purchased 98 % of YPF in 1999 in two stages: a 15 % share sold by the national government for US $ 2 billion, and a further 83 % for over US $ 13 billion including all remaining public sector shares ( 10 %, equally divided between the nation and the provinces ) as well as most of the outstanding investor shares.

Market analysts and Repsol blamed the decline in exploration and production on government controls on exports and prospecting lease awards, and price controls on domestic oil and gas.

Both Repsol and YPF shares fell sharply before and after the announcement, and the cost of insuring Argentine government bonds against default rose, as did those of Spain.

Investment in exploration at YPF as a percentage of profits had been far below those in most other Repsol subsidiaries.

The largest minority shareholder, the Petersen Group, who had financed their initial purchase of 15 % of the stock with a vendor ’ s loan from Repsol for € 1. 5 billion.

A majority of the firm's shares ( 58 %) remained under the control of Repsol, while 16 % remained in private portfolios ; the Argentine Government retained the golden share.

The 2008 agreement required Repsol to buy back shares owned by the Group and to assume the loan should the Madrid-based firm lose majority control of YPF.

Second was Valentino Rossi ( Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha ), also from Italy, and third was the American Nicky Hayden ( Repsol Honda Team ).

There are only a handful of people in the business world with the word " reputation " in their titles -- Dow Chemical, SABMiller, Coca-Cola, Allstate, Repsol YPF, Weber Shandwick, and GlaxoSmithKline ( although no longer ).

On January 30, 2008, Joseph Omer Allain, a construction worker, died at the Canaport LNG facility after falling inside a tank ; Canaport LNG is a joint venture between Irving Oil and Repsol YPF.

Shares of Repsol, SA became listed on stock exchanges in Spain and in New York.

The highest speed for a MotoGP motorcycle in 125 cc category is by Valentino Rossi in 1996 for Aprilia and the top speed in the history of MotoGP is, set by Dani Pedrosa riding a Repsol Honda RC212V 800 cc during Free Practice 1 at the 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix.

Aznar also announced the sale early in 1997 of the nation's remaining minority stake ( golden shares ) in the Telefónica telecommunications company and the petroleum group Repsol.

These golden shares in Telefonica and Repsol YPF, as well as in Endesa, Argentaria and Tabacalera, all presided over by people close to Aznar, have since been declared illegal by the European Union.

The Petersen Group ( property of the Eskenazi family of Buenos Aires ) entered into a partnership with Repsol in 2007 by acquiring a 15 % stake in YPF ; the group bought another 10 % of the company for US $ 1. 3 billion on 4 May 2011.

Repsol Chairman Brufau estimated the company ’ s potential loss at € 5. 7 billion ( US $ 7. 5 billion ).

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

2-Pilus attaches to recipient cell and brings the two cells together.

* Agriculture and Fisheries ( Agrifish ): One of the oldest configurations, this brings together once a month the ministers for agriculture and fisheries, and the commissioners responsible for agriculture, fisheries, food safety, veterinary questions and public health matters.

* Justice and Home Affairs Council ( JHA ): This configuration brings together Justice ministers and Interior Ministers of the Member States.

Complementing these, the Political and Security Committee ( PSC ) brings together ambassadors to monitor international situations and define policies within the CSDP, particularly in crises.

In Family Group ( c. 1950 ) Alston's use of grey and ochre tones brings together the parents and son as if one with geometric patterns connecting them together as if a puzzle.

This school of thought also brings together some unlikely political allies.

Cyberspace also brings together every service and facility imaginable to expedite money laundering.

Churches Uniting in Christ ( CUIC ) is an ecumenical organization that brings together ten mainline American denominations ( including both predominantly white and predominantly black churches ), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, TN on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

The Group runs its own think-tank, the European Ideas Network, which brings together opinion-formers from across Europe to discuss issues facing the European Union from a centre-right perspective.

The Agility Alliance brings together strategic solution providers to build and deliver end to end IT solutions for HP ES customers.

The Technology Alliance brings together technology partners focused on collaborating with HP ES to develop, implement and jointly market services.

Food marketing brings together the producer and the consumer.

In 2010 IMU formed the Commission for Developing Countries ( CDC ) which brings together all of the past and current initiatives in support of mathematics and mathematicians in the developing world.

This approach frequently brings an offender and a victim together, so that the offender can better understand the effect his / her offense had on the victim.

The Board brings together key stakeholders, including relevant government agencies, as well as representation from private sector and urban specialists and economists, with cooperation from the government of Japan and French Private sector, the board prepared a master plan for the city in the context of Greater Kabul.

Learning brings together cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one's knowledge, skills, values, and world views.

FATF is a policy-making body, which brings together legal, financial and law enforcement experts to achieve national legislation and regulatory AML and CFT reforms.

This critique associated his name, together with that of Edmund Phelps, with the insight that a government that brings about greater inflation cannot permanently reduce unemployment by doing so.

Nāgārjuna's primary contribution to Buddhist philosophy is in the use of the concept of śūnyatā, or " emptiness ," which brings together other key Buddhist doctrines, particularly anātman ( no-self ) and pratītyasamutpāda ( dependent origination ), to refute the metaphysics of Sarvastivāda and Sautrāntika ( extinct non-Mahayana schools ).

CISQ brings together industry executives from Global 2000 IT organizations, system integrators, outsourcers, and package vendors to jointly address the challenge of standardizing the measurement of IT software quality and to promote a market-based ecosystem to support its deployment.

2-Pilus attaches to recipient cell, brings the two cells together.

The Rosetta Project brings language specialists and native speakers together to develop a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1, 500 languages, intended to last from AD 2000 to 12, 000.