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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”

 

• Tech Talk - Conditions and Treatments in North Ghawar

  
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  Recent OGPSS talks have focused on the increased use of novel technology in Saudi Arabia, as a means of recovering stranded oil, left during the waterfloods that have successfully sustained production over the past few decades. That technology is being further expanded with the use of carbon dioxide injection as part ...
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• Arizona-Based Company Heliae is Growing Algae on a Commercial Scale for Transportation Fuel

  
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  Algae fuel and other biofuels have gained popularity in recent years to the point that even the US Military has adopted it as jet fuel . Given its recent rise to prominence, it’s not particularly surprising to learn that Arizona-based algae biofuels company Heliae has decided to harness the growth of algae on a ...
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• Photo gallery: The Canada oil sand mines refused us access, so we rented this plane to see what they were up to

  
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  By Robert Johnson 18 May 2012 When reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way — they dont. The open mining most people think of when they picture the oil sands is just one way of extracting crude from the ground, but it is ...
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• Door to 2 degree temperature limit is closing: IEA

  
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  By Nina Chestney and Oleg Vukmanovic; Editing by Keiron Henderson 16 May 2012 (Reuters) – The chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius this century is getting slimmer and slimmer, the head of the International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday. "What I see now with existing ...
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• Heartland Institute’s annual conference against climate science much diminished this year

  
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  By Suzanne Goldenberg in Chicago, www.guardian.co.uk 22 May 2012 It was an odd choice of icon for the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute. But there he was in round glasses, beard, and halo of curls staring out from T-shirts and coffee mugs at their gathering of climate change contrarians this week, the ...
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• OPEC Has Lost the Power to Lower the Price of Oil

  
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  There’s been a lot of excitement in the past year over the rise of North American oil production and the promise of increased oil production across the whole of the Americas in the years to come. National security experts and other geo-political observers have waxed poetic at the thought of this emerging, ...
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• Iraq Purchases US Drones To Keep Watch Over Oil Fields

  
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  Iraq’s navy was given approval in the last week to purchase unarmed surveillance drones from the United States. The move is meant to help the countries Navy keep a better eye on oil fields as tensions continue to mount in the Persian Gulf. According to Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, head of the U.S. Office of ...
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• Obama Administration Fast Tracks Renewables, Slows Oil and Gas

  
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  While the Obama Administration is lollygagging regarding opening federal lands to oil and gas development, its Interior Department has been active in approving renewable projects on federal lands. As part of President Obama’s alleged “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, the U.S. Interior Department approved 27 ...
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• What You Don’t Know About the Keystone Pipeline

  
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  The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline has largely centered on jobs that would be created, oil security that would be provided and suggested environmental concerns. Here are some other facts about the project (rejected earlier this year by the Obama administration): Before this debate, few knew the State ...
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• The age of extreme oil: ‘This used to be a forest?

  
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  By Arno Kopecky 19 May 2012 One grey Thursday at the end of April, a plane touched down in Fort McMurray, Alta., carrying four Achuar Indians from the Peruvian Amazon. They had flown 8,000 kilometres from the rain forest to beseech Talisman Energy Inc., the Calgary-based oil and gas conglomerate, to stop drilling ...
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• “Drill, Baby, Drill” Will Not Decrease Gas Prices

  
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  The “drill, baby, drill” chant may not be heard as often as it was a few years ago, but the sentiment is still very much alive in Washington. However, data shows that the key to unlocking our nation’s energy security isn’t increased domestic production, but rather decreased domestic consumption.
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• Former BP engineer is indicted in Gulf oil spill case

  
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  By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune 2 May 2012 A week after he was arrested by the FBI, a federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted former BP engineer Kurt Mix on two counts of obstruction of justice in relation to the 2010 Gulf oil spill . Mix is accused of deleting hundreds of text messages from his iPhone ...
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• Alaska North Slope Map

  
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  [IMG: http://www.cccarto.com/ANWR/images/large/Prudhoe_bay_s.jpg]
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• Marginal oil production costs are heading toward $100/barrel

  
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  By Kate Mackenzie 2 May 2012 Bernstein’s energy analysts have looked at the upstream costs for the 50 biggest listed oil producers and found that — surprise, surprise — “the era of cheap oil is over”: Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates ...
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• Marginal oil production costs are heading towards $100/barrel

  
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  Bernstein’s energy analysts have looked at the upstream costs for the 50 biggest listed oil producers and found that — surprise, surprise — “the era of cheap oil is over”:...
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• U.S. ‘dirty oil’ imports set to triple

  
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  By Steve Hargreaves 30 April 2012 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – U.S. imports of what environmentalists are calling "dirty oil" are set to triple over the next decade, raising concerns over the environmental impact of extracting it and whether pipelines can safely transport this Canadian oil. The United States currently ...
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• Core industries’ growth slumps to 2 percent in March

  
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  New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Growth in eight core industries, including electricity, coal, cement, steel and crude oil, fell to 2 percent in March as compared to 6.8 percent in the previous month, due to drop in oil and gas output and sluggish performance of electricity segment, official data showed Monday.The ...
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• THE FALLACY OF THE KEYSTONE XL

  
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  The Keystone XL (the KXL) has caused quite a stir – Republicans are weeping and wringing their hands that 20,000 jobs have been lost and that we will never free ourselves from our dependence on foreign energy.  What a misguided fallacy the Republicans and TransCanada – the Canadian energy company seeking to ...
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• This new U.S. oil report could shock you

  
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  From Hard Assets Investor: Oil production in the United States continues to boom. The Department of Energy reported this morning that in the week ending April 20, U.S. crude oil inventories increased by 4 million barrels, gasoline inventories decreased by 2.2 million barrels, distillate inventories decreased by 3.1 ...
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• Libyan oil production boosts ENI first quarter profits

  
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  MILAN – Italy’s largest energy company Eni SpA says first-quarter profits rose 42 percent on increased production in Libya and higher prices. Eni on Friday said net profit for the first three months of 2012 was 3.62 billion euros ($4.78 billion), up from 2.55 billion euros in the same period last year. Oil and ...
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