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New Zealand Bans New Offshore Drilling, Citing Climate Change
New Zealand will stop issuing permits for offshore oil and gas exploration as it moves to combat climate change. “When it comes to climate change,...- new zealand
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OPEC Sees Oil Markets Tighten Further Even As U.S. Shale Boost
The global oil stocks surplus is close to evaporating, OPEC said, citing healthy energy demand and its own supply cuts while revising up its...- damirUSBiH Replied
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Is Current oil spike is just because of situation derived by geopolitical tension?
Oil prices are now touching the magical figure of $72. But is this sudden spike in oil prices are fundamental or it is just...- Harsh vardhan singh Replied
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India's Bad Oil Habit
India has become hooked on oil too quickly and now needs to break this habit, some people believe. Really, when you think about it, all...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Oil company hit with $12.5M fine
California regulators have issued at $12.5 million fine to an oil company with a long history of safety violations and regulatory lapses. The Department of...- CMOP Replied
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The future of oil and gas exploration in New Zealand
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Climate Change Minister James Shaw are due to make the announcement at 9am. Ms Ardern...- new zealand
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Oil Prices Hit Highest Level Since 2014
Oil prices hit their highest level since December 2014 after US President Donald Trump warned of strikes on Syria and cautioned Russia against backing...- Pavel Replied
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Trans Mountain Not Dead Yet
Kinder Morgan may have threatened to pull the plug, but Alberta is considering buying up the whole Trans Mountain bailiwick just to keep it...- Rodent Replied
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New Oil Movie Released Tonight
Pop that corn, oil peeps! Who doesn't love a good movie about crude oil? Deepwater Horizon? Check. Syriana? Yup. There Will Be Blood? Ah.. no. How...- Rodent Replied
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Oil Theft Up 50% in Nigeria
crude oil theft back on the rise, according to Shell: Nigeria crude oil theft 2015 25,000 bpd Nigeria crude oil theft 2016 6,000 bpd Nigeria crude oil...- Rodent Replied
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Motives Behind Moving OPEC Goalpost?
OPEC has discussed changing the way the "average" is calculated, which would make goal harder to achieve. One proposal considered measuring the OECD commercial stocks against the...- Rodent Replied
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Abu Dhabi launches first-ever bidding for 6 oil and gas blocks
Adnoc will make available 6 new onshore and offshore blocks for competitive bid within Abu Dhabi. Our estimates suggest that these new blocks contain...- CMOP Replied
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Total, Aramco To Build $9B Petrochemical Complex
France’s oil major Total and Saudi Aramco signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding to build a giant petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which will...- aramco
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Oil-Eating Bacteria
New research on oil-eating bacteria. I couldn't help but wonder what will happen to all those oil-everything opponents if there's bacteria that can degrade...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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More Signs Saudi Arabia is Ready to Give Up On Foreign IPO for Aramco
Saudi Arabia is making a play to woo foreign money into its Tadawul ahead of the Aramco IPO. Looks more and more like Saudi...- Rodent Replied
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Is Exxon Taking Advantage of Tiny Guyana's Huge Oil Wealth?
I guess this is another resource curse story ... The IMF is calling on Guyana to rewrite its tax laws because of an Exxon...- cryptocurator Replied
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If Oil Price Falls, Blame It on U.S. Exports
So says Tom Kloza from the Oil Price Information Service. And if China slaps tariffs on U.S. oil imports... Okay, I'm rubbing my hands...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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trade war
a good read about this trade war stuff, I have my doubts that trump would do much at this time because the way this...- cattleman Replied
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north sea oil rig shuttered on protests
tools downed by protesters citing safety issues https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/breaking-workers-said-to-have-downed-tools-on-north-sea-oil-rig/- Rodent Replied
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russia to trade oil in other currencies
not just El petro, but Iran and turkey too http://iran-daily.com/News/212827.html- Rodent Replied
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bosphorus strait shutdown
entire strait shut down after tanker crash https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2707088&Language=en- Rodent Replied
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Don't Worry, Oil Spills = Jobs
Just when you think you've heard it all, in comes an oil major, focusing on the positive side of oil spills (more jobs!). If...- Rodent Replied
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China's growing influence in Venezuelan oil
interesting report on China's influence in Venezuela by csis https://www.csis.org/analysis/when-investment-hurts-chinese-influence-venezuela can Venezuela ever break free now?- Rodent Replied
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sure be nice if trump would just shut his mouth
this whole ego feeding is producing a lot of unnecessary market volatility- cattleman Replied
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Tesla Glitch--2nd Time in Same Spot
"Tesla driver using the car's Autopilot retraces the route of a fatal Model X accident in California - and almost crashes in the exact...- Rodent Replied
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Saudi Raises Arab Light Prices to Asia??
Saudi raises Arab Light prices. I think the general thought was that they were going to lower prices? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-05/saudi-arabia-unexpectedly-lifts-key-oil-price-for-asian-buyers- Rodent Replied
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Trudeau on the Oil Tightrope
PM Trudeau is heading to western Canada, where he will have to face opponents to the Trans Mountain project as well as the oil industry...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Busted? Shell Knew about Oil's Role in Climate Change
An internal document from 1988 reveals Shell knew about climate change and about the effects of the oil industry on the environment. Okay, no...- shell
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Conoco: The Great Trend-Bucker
I'm adding Conoco to Shell in my brand new list of Smart Oil Companies. Instead of boosting spending to grow production, Conoco is selling non-core...- conocophillips
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