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• in Politics
  The Politics of Gasoline Prices
  When the price of gas rises, so does the political rhetoric.
  by map0621 / on Feb 28, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oil production”

 

• Orangutans are victims of ‘sustainable’ palm oil as rainforest is razed – ‘All of the animals on the plantation are threatened. The company must therefore stop clearing the rainforest immediately.’

  
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  (Rainforest Rescue) – Perched atop the remains of the last tree, an orangutan looks helplessly on what was until recently the forest he was living in but is now only ruins. Armed with chainsaws and bulldozers, workers of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the rainforest for ...
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• Giant swamp rats are literally eating Louisiana – ‘I just don’t know how these people who love their home so much are going to go on living here’

  
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  By Joanna M. Foster 7 May 2013 (Takepart.com) – On the southern edge of Louisiana, there is almost as much water as land. You cant drive to anyones house, you have to travel by boat, and sometimes there are hours of water between neighbors. It takes a special breed to make a home here, in the swamp , amongst the ...
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• ExxonMobil oil spill in Arkansas shatters American dream of families still displaced from new homes – ‘People feel like that dream is shattered due to the uncertainty’

  
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  By Maria Gallucci 2 May 2013 (InsideClimate News) – It has been more than a month now, and Amber Bartlett has had enough of hotels and apartments and trailer homes. Of crowded rooms whose thin walls amplify the bickering of her four children. Of piles of toys and clothes overflowing from drawers and suitcases. Of ...
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• Tapping US oil reserves will not lower gas prices, Obama says

  
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  Oil industry analysts and the Obama administration say tapping the oil reserve would do little to slow rising gas and oil prices. Image: CC Michael Parry/Wikimedia Commons Rising gas and oil prices tied to Middle East unrest have compelled politicians to demand that the Obama administration tap into the U.S. ...
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• Why Oil Prices Will Remain High Despite the U.S. Oil Boom

  
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  The U.S. is experiencing a boom in the production of oil. Only since the beginning of 2011, oil production in the U.S. has gone up by 30%, from 5.5 million barrels per day (mbd) to 7.2 mbd. Just this week, the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the amount of technically recoverable oil in North Dakota was tripled ...
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• Oil Shale Development in the United States and Abroad

  
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  We all know of the shale oil boom in the United States that has produced an explosion in domestic oil production primarily on private and state lands and helped to decrease our dependence on oil imports. Hydraulic fracturing and directional …
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• The Energy Industry’s Production Challenge: 100 Million Barrels Per Day

  
  Consumer Energy Report — Authority: 133
  In last week’s note: 2013 Crude Oil Outlook: Supply & Demand, we looked at the more immediate trend in global supply and demand. But this week, I want to examine the long-term oil production challenge facing the industry. Current global oil consumption is running just under 90 MM b/d, with wellhead production ...
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• An American Fortune – Wasted by Obama and the *Greenies*

  
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  An American Fortune – Wasted by Obama and the *Greenies* I have been writing about the Bakken Oil formation for several years now, has anyone heard anything about that from the Lamestream Media? From this blog in 2008: Ever heard of the Bakken Oil Formation? . Do you think the Obama regime has ...
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• Is the Typical NDIC Bakken Tight Oil Well a Sales Pitch?

  
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  In this post I present the results from dynamic simulations using the typical tight oil well for the Bakken as recently presented by the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC), together with the “2011 average” well as defined from actual production data from around 240 wells that were reported to have started ...
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• Tech Talk - OPEC and EIA Short-term Projections

  
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  Just this month, Saudi Aramco announced that production had begun at their Manifa oilfield , and by July would be supplying up to 500 kbd to the new refinery that is being built at Jamail with the collaboration of Total . The first oil from the refinery is expected to ship in August, and both projects are ...
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• What would the Koch brothers do to the Los Angeles Times?

  
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  By Harold Meyerson 23 April 2013 (Washington Post) – On May 21, Los Angeles voters will go to the polls to select a new mayor. Who will govern Los Angeles, however, is only the second-most important local question in the city today. The most important, by far, is who will buy the Los Angeles Times . The Times ...
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• Test Your International Oil IQ

  
  Consumer Energy Report — Authority: 133
  In last week’s column , we examined some oil production trivia involving US states. This week, we look at some international oil trivia covering the 5-year period 2007-2011, as well as some individual trivia from 2012. In this case, the data sources are the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy  and the ...
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• What BP doesn’t want you to know about the 2010 Gulf oil spill – ‘These are the same symptoms experienced by soldiers who returned from the Persian Gulf War with Gulf War syndrome’

  
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  By Mark Hertsgaard 22 April 2013 4:45 AM EDT (Newsweek) – “It’s as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP ...
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• EPA releases harsh review of U.S. State Department’s Keystone XL environmental report

  
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  By Neela Banerjee 22 April 2013 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – The Environmental Protection Agency issued a sharply critical assessment of the State Department’s recent environmental impact review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, certain to complicate efforts to win approval for the $7-billion ...
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• How do we know that humans are responsible for global warming?

  
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  By Michael E. Mann, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University [Text excerpted from chapter 2 of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars , by Michael E. Mann, Columbia University Press, New York, 2012, 395pp] (wunderground.com) – By the mid-1990s, it was possible to investigate the causal ...
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• Indonesia Market Summaries 22 April 2013

  
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  Lippo Karawaci booked Rp1.15tn 1Q13 marketing sales LPKR has reported a 1Q13 marketing sales of Rp1.15tn which is 16% of their full year target of Rp6.8tn where township development still became the major contributor of 64.5% followed by condominiums which contributed 35.2% of total 1Q13 marketing sales. Within LPKR, ...
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• Libertarian Koch Brothers in bid to buy biggest U.S. newspapers

  
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  By AMY CHOZICK 20 April 2013 (The New York Times) – Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift ...
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• Tech Talk - The BP View of the Future

  
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  I suspect I should apologize. Here I am talking about the future projections for energy production made by companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell , as though they were still the key and only players in the world. Yet in reality , Saudi Aramco (12.5 mbdoe), Gazprom (9.7 mbdoe) and National Iranian Oil (6.4 mbdoe) ...
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• U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear EPA greenhouse gas challenge – Virginia Supreme Court revives epic suit against Massey Coal

  
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  By Valerie Volcovici; editing by Xavier Briand 19 April 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top industry groups and a dozen states have asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding the Obama administrations plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions generated by power plants and vehicles. The parties, ...
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• 2013 Crude Oil Outlook: Supply & Demand

  
  Consumer Energy Report — Authority: 133
  Oil Demand Shift From 2000 the increasing industrialization of the developing world has been the primary catalyst driving the demand for global crude oil. Among non-OECD nations, China and India have led the charge, with Chinese oil demand growing at a torrid 6.7% per annum rate and India’s oil demand growing at ...
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