Helping secure Africa from turmoil would go a long way toward opening up a non-terrorist-funding oil supply chain on our way to a more ecologically-savvy future.
Last year a Dutch study found that draining Indonesian swamps to make way for oil-palm plantations resulted in 33 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions for each tonne of palm oil produced, by speeding up the decomposition of the peaty soil.
Net oil exporters, like Iran, will meanwhile have much bigger populations consuming energy resources, which could lead to an energy famine for net oil importers like the U.K. "There just aren't enough big projects in the pipeline to keep up with demand, " said John Miles, chairman of Arup, who coordinated research into oil-extraction projects currently under way.
South Africans regard Sasol--originally the South African Coal, Oil and Gas Corporation--in the same way Brits do BP, Norwegians Statoil and Italians AGIP.
It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
One of these realities is the energy system -- hydrocarbons in general, and oil and gas in particular -- that undergirds our modern way of life.
My concerns are that we now use oil and gas in a low-tech way, to generate thermal energy.
The origins of long-term contracts and oil-linked pricing go back a long way.
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Yet these tracts "give way to rubber and oil-palm plantations owned by untouchable companies, " just as the Kapuas river teems with logs felled by similarly connected operators.
He may not have then predicted the way in which cod liver oil - rich in an essential fatty acid called omega-3 - would be seized from the shelves of health shops and supermarkets by a later generation of parents convinced it would help their child excel at school.
Hundred-dollar oil prices, creeping inflation in food and other commodities, gold behaving the way it did in 1979--could we be in for a repeat of stagflation?
It smelled of motor oil and friction heat, the way a nineteen-forties Spitfire might.
Russia has been touting its proposal to produce nuclear fuel for Iran as a way of defusing Western worries that oil-rich Tehran is secretly developing an atomic weapons program.
Here's a late-cycle performer that, should oil prices work their way higher again, could benefit.
Anti-BP sentiment has grown as oil has made its way to or near coastal areas.
Most big oil companies have active hydrogen and carbon-sequestration efforts under way.
The grab by Argentina for control its national oil company, YPF, should throw the fear of God into investors round the globe about the way revenue-hungry politicians are trying to cash in on the global boom in natural resources like oil, gold, copper, iron ore.
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As a result, Petrobras is well on its way to the A-list of Big Oil.
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Within days, he said, he would add measures paving the way for telecoms and electricity privatisations and more oil-industry changes.
There is a risk that price rises will peak after the first quarter of next year, if the past effects of higher oil prices start to work their way out of the consumer-price index.
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"I have a message for the influence peddlers, for the polluters, the HMOs, the big drug companies that get in the way, the big oil and the special interests -- who now call the White House their home, " Kerry said.
All those kids in inner cities, small farm towns -- kids dreaming of becoming scientists or doctors, engineers or entrepreneurs, diplomats or even a President -- they need a champion in Washington, because the future will never have as many lobbyists as the status quo -- children don't have lobbyists the way oil companies or banks do.
There's oil there, says the elder Gokongwei, but no cost-effective way of recovering it.
The way we live our lives would dramatically change if oil-based energy becomes economically out of reach.
Yet while the statements about aspirin have to be cushioned in the vaguest generalities, snake oil flim-flam can be huckstered in the most truth-defying way, thanks to a 1994 law coaxed through Congress by the people who make these drugs.
The US has approved the sale of Canadian oil firm Nexen to China's state-owned CNOOC, clearing the way for the deal to be completed.
Fish oil and statins are a safe and effective way to improve cardiovascular health -- more so than the use of statins alone, he says.
The usual suspects--rising global demand, declining production and foreign oil cartels--have all played a role in the reversal in one way or another, but the primary reason is more complicated.
We've found, through a leaked Scottish government document, that there's cross-party agreement that dependence on offshore oil and gas revenue is no way for a small country to plan its budgets.
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