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Carola Hoyos Moscow’s decisions to strip the oil company Yukos of its biggest asset and to give initial blessing to ConocoPhillips of the US to broaden its investment in Russia have drastically altered the most important strategic playing field of the big international oil companies.
The report explains that Mohamed Atta, who piloted one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center, “considered targeting a nuclear facility he had seen during familiarization flights near New York.”
Oil sands plants make or lose money on labour costs and the cost of the energy they need to drive the plants — both of which are only marginally important to conventional oil.
Look for more future increases and don’t expect prices to roll back to past levels.
The Chinese government plans to triple China’s energy supply over the next 15 years. That means adding enough new power stations to supply the entire energy needs of Sweden each year.
July’s price pop is nearly as bad as June’s; analysts think it may hurt less, but could still sting.
Drilling of an exploratory well in Cuba’s virgin Gulf of Mexico waters that could make the Communist nation an oil exporter and undermine the U.S. embargo has been completed, a senior official said.
Book Review: Craig Unger’s notably intelligent piece of investigative reporting, House of Bush, House of Saud, uncovers the corruption and greed that continues to hinder peace in the Middle East
Cars running on coal? It could happen in this country – some day.
Energy crisis could loom, experts say. Politics, corporate moves are factors.
If volatile natural gas prices persist and the country continues without a policy to encourage more production, jobs will be exported and the country will continue to lose its core manufacturing business
BP seeks to maintain this myth that current reserves are sufficient today to support current production for forty years. By perpetuating this misleading notion, I think one has to conclude that BP seeks to mislead—this is not just an accident.
