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Oil prices have become something of a contrarian indicator for alternative energy. While the surge above $145 a barrel this summer seemed to promise a golden age of investment in cleaner power, now that prices are back near the $37-a-barrel range and...
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What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
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It’s no secret that Arab power in the world, such as it is, is based on oil. What people don’t realize (or blind themselves to) is that the strength of Israel is...
made popular Oct 29 2009
“Since its establishment in the 70s, the NTPC has been run professionally. But at stake today, are huge sums that will flow from the balance sheet of NTPC, and...
made popular Aug 27 2009
What could turn an enemy into a trade partner respectful recently?
Perhaps, rocky relations with Col. M. Khaddafi is a classic example of smoothing Western stand on...
made popular Aug 24 2009
A top militant commander in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region will surrender rocket launchers and gunboats Saturday in the biggest hand-over of weapons since a...
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Faced with the world’s most important oil discovery in years, the Brazilian government is seeking to step back from more than a decade of close cooperation with...
made popular Aug 19 2009
Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Only two letters separate “pre-salt” from “pre-school,” but between these two options is an immense separation for the future of Brazil. Diverse...
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The case, in which the company was accused of backing a campaign of repression conducted by Nigeria’s former military government in the oil-rich Niger Delta...
made popular Jun 9 2009
“Peru, a mining country” is a government slogan which can be seen emblazoned on official buildings and heard repeatedly on state media broadcasts.
It is...
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It has become an American ritual: kissing the Saudi King’s rear. We all know why. Saudi Arabia has the oil and America the thirst. That is why U.S. president show...
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It has long been known that Saudi Arabia uses its oil money to spread its vile, grotesque, obscurantist, misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic Wahhabi doctrine to...
made popular Mar 28 2009
I’m just having new carpets put in my condo, so all the furniture is out of the bed rooms and office and piled up in the living room.
As a result, I had to...
made popular Mar 18 2009
This is not the new word for today. The recession duration and prediction are increasing day by day. But the good thing which I observe in the market is the mediocre...
made popular Jan 28 2009
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When President Musharraf took over, Pakistan was on the verge of default and bankruptcy, with less than a billion dollars in its foreign reserves and...
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I watched it live on my afforded cable transmission on 14th August 2008 as the federal minister of Justice Hon. Andoakaa exchanged a signed document with the Cameroon...
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Oil prices are getting a big boost today, as...
made popular Dec 16 2008
Power companies are under increasing pressure to pass on the benefit of the plummeting price of oil.
Watchdogs are angry that domestic energy bills have continued to...
made popular Dec 6 2008
A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level - turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas.
All that is needed, claims Global Resource...
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Fears the global economy will get worse dropped oil prices to levels not seen in 4.5 years.
Investors shrugged off Wednesday’s record production cut by OPEC, the...
made popular Dec 19 2008
International markets, Forecasts, Rumors, Products and services, Middle East, Economic data, Oil, Financial Crisis
Oil prices are getting a big boost today, as...
made popular Dec 16 2008
I could not believe my eyes today, gas at $2.87!
I remember this summer I was driving home from the beach and noticed the rural (which is always lower than suburban)...
made popular Oct 25 2008
The world undergoes a major financial crisis resulted from credit crisis. Some financial analysts and experts have said that it is the major crisis since the...
made popular Oct 21 2008
All of us prayed, some of us wept, and some of us thought it would never happen.
But check out this headline in The New York Times : Oil Prices Slip Below $70 a...
made popular Oct 20 2008
To win allies and forge an anti-American front, Mr Chavez sells oil to friendly countries at low prices. Ironically, the only big customer buying Venezuelan oil at the...
made popular Oct 14 2008
Oil prices jumped more than $1 a barrel on Wednesday, rebounding from a five-month low after OPEC surprised traders with a deal to effectively cut production by just...
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A few weeks ago, the idea of offshore drilling was starting to be seriously considered. Many officials were realistic, saying that the oiled obtained would not come in...
made popular Aug 8 2008
Oil rose over $1, climbing back above $126 a barrel, on Monday lifted by jitters about Iran’s nuclear activities and violence in OPEC member Nigeria.
US light...
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I used to be an energy correspondent of a newspaper in Nigeria’s business capital, Lagos. In that role, I covered the oil industry in Nigeria. As the country with the...
made popular Jul 12 2008
OPEC president Chakib Khelil warned Sunday that oil prices will continue to rise because of the falling dollar, in an interview in the Algeria-News.
made popular Jul 7 2008
The 4th of July is here and America is celebrating our independence, freedom and fortune. You know where I’m going with this right? First off let’s talk about the...
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Oil soared to a record above $145 a barrel Thursday, fueled by concerns over a larger-than-expected drop in U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran
made popular Jul 3 2008
Oil slipped from a record high above $143 a barrel on Monday as weak U.S. demand countered mounting tensions between OPEC nation Iran and Israel.
U.S. crude settled 21...
made popular Jul 1 2008
It was predictable that the oil men in the White House, one’s Bush and Cheney, would try something irrational to fill their coffers before leaving office. So to go...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Leading oil exporters have acknowledged the need to boost supplies to curb soaring prices but stopped short of specific commitments on extra output.
Following their...
made popular Jun 23 2008
The oil market is plentifully supplied and the rally to record high prices is fake and imposed. Iran’s president said on Tuesday, blaming a weak U.S. dollar which...
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Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has increased its output to meet rising demand and to compensate for declining production from other...
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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working...
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Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Ali Ibrahim Naimi, right, welcomes Algeria`s Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil, left, during the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, seminar at Vienna’s Hofburg...
