Venezuela’s Chavez arrives in China with eye on oil deals
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing for an official visit that aims to bolster his country’s oil deals with the Asian giant, state media and officials said.
AFP
Gabon: Calls for Fair Division of a Diminishing Pie
An oil rich nation, where a minority is accused of benefiting disproportionately from mineral wealth…Clashes between police and the inhabitants of oil-producing areas that result in deaths…A scene from Nigeria? No – Ndolou, in south-western Gabon.
Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil
Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, could team up with the China National Petroleum Corporation to develop the Yukos oil company’s main production asset, sold to a mystery bidder on Sunday.
One of the last easy-motoring Christmases
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year had a famous father who famously remarked a decade ago that “the American way of life is not negotiable.” To keep the suburban expansion going indefinitely we will need to continue using one-quarter of the world’s oil every day.
Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence
Industry demands tax breaks, regulatory changes to hunt for oil at the bottom of the sea….America’s onshore sources are nearly tapped out… Luckily, the United States holds claim to one of the world’s richest oil deposits: the Gulf of Mexico.
Germany shines a beam on the future of energy
Nation gambles on amped-up push for renewable power
Global cereal output hits record high
A significant surplus in cereal stocks is expected, for the first time since 1999/2000 as global cereal production hits a record 2.04 billion tonnes in 2004, says FAO in Food Outlook.
World scarcity of oil and gas creates chance to accelerate response to climate change
The recent peak in oil prices was due to the depletion of the world’s reserves rather than temporary supply problems in a number of countries, Feasta, an Irish-based research organisation claimed at the COP-10 climate conference in Buenos Aires.
Desperado Days
Apart from pure avarice and ego, the actions of the Bush Administration have the appearance of incredible desperateness. It is that desperateness – their desperado-like, passionate, furious recklessness – which must cause us to ask, does the Bush Administration know something that we do not know? What do they know that makes them act like desperadoes?
Russia may build seven more nuclear plants in Iran at US $10 billion
Head of the Russian Federation`s Atomic Energy Agency Alexander
Rumyantsev said on Saturday that Russia may construct seven other
nuclear power plants in Iran.
Qatar in 12-billion-dollar deal with ExxonMobil to supply gas to Britain
Qatar has reached a 12-billion-dollar deal with ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, to supply liquefied natural gas to Britain by 2007, Energy Minister Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah said.
ESAI: IEA’s Russian oil production forecast ‘optimistic’
“After reaching an absolute post-Soviet peak of 9.49 million b/d in September, Russia’s average daily production has been falling for 2 consecutive months, and November’s drop was the largest single-month decline since January 1999,” said Yulia Woodruff, ESAI’s Russian analyst.
