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Is North Korea Shopping For Oil in Libya?
There Could Be an Iran Deal This Weekend, But Don't Expect Oil Prices to Plummet
Why Letting Foreigners Invest in Mexico’s State-Run Energy Giant Is About More Than Oil
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Is North Korea Shopping For Oil in Libya?
The bizarre tale of the North Korean-flagged oil tanker that has been trying to escape the clutches of Libya's fragile central government has prompted days of conflicting news coverage , precipitated the fall of the country's prime minister, and...
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Tue, Mar 03 2014 8:21 AM
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There Could Be an Iran Deal This Weekend, But Don't Expect Oil Prices to Plummet
If the West makes a deal this weekend with Iran -- one of the world's largest oil producers -- the price of crude will almost certainly fall on Monday. But after that? Don't count on it. "The assumption that a deal was coming had put some...
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Fri, Nov 11 2013 4:21 PM
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Why Letting Foreigners Invest in Mexico’s State-Run Energy Giant Is About More Than Oil
It was not shocking news, exactly, when Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed Monday that foreign companies like ExxonMobil and Shell be able to invest in Petróleos Mexicanos, the troubled national oil company more commonly known as Pemex. Peña...
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Tue, Aug 08 2013 4:00 PM
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Chávez Rides Again - Michael Albertus
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Make no mistake: Hugo Chávez's victory in Sunday's election marks another step in the erosion of Venezuela's democratic institutions. Read More...
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Saudi Arabia: an oil importer by 2030?
Saudi Arabia is home to less than half a percent of the world's population -- and fully 16 percent of the world's proven oil reserves. Nonetheless, Citigroup projects that the desert nation may become an oil importer in the next 20 years. "If...
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Thu, Sep 09 2012 8:29 AM
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Canada: The world’s newest petrostate isn’t playing nice anymore.
Nearly 24 hours of voting, 425 pages of legislation, over 800 defeated amendments: This is the marathon from which Canadian members of parliament (MPs) emerged on June 15. The session, characterized by the Globe and Mail as "22-plus hours of consecutive...
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Fri, Jun 06 2012 3:22 PM
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Two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP's business is booming
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Two years ago today, British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded, causing the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Though BP reached an " estimated...
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Fri, Apr 04 2012 8:55 AM
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China's push to woo South Sudan
Wow, that was fast. Just days after South Sudan achieved independence, the Chinese government has already established a vocational training program for welders in Juba. From Chinese state media outlet Xinhua : JUBA - China has started a welder training...
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Tue, Jul 07 2011 11:06 AM
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Russian oil giant tests West African waters
The U.S. and China have been vying for West Africa's sizeable and largely untapped oil reserves for years, but less well-known has been Russia's growing interest in the region: The president of LUKoil Overseas, Andrei Kuzyayev, met Ghana's...
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Mon, Jan 01 2011 9:10 AM
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Iraq paying U.S. citizens $400 million Saddam's ‘traumatizing’ - By Jared Mondschein
Iraq is still paying the world back for Saddam's actions -- literally. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Iraqi government has agreed to pay $400 million to American citizens who claimed to have been tortured or traumatized by the Iraqi...
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Fri, Sep 09 2010 2:14 PM
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Quiz: The world's deepest offshore oil-drilling platform sits in how many feet of water?
This week's quiz question: The world's deepest offshore oil-drilling platform sits in how many feet of water? Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE a) 5,280 feet (1mile) b) 6,600 feet (1.25 miles) c) 8,000 feet (1.5 miles) Answer after...
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Wed, Jul 07 2010 3:21 PM
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Why is Tony Hayward in Azerbaijan? - By Joshua Keating
Hillary Clinton wasn't the only high-profile visitor to stop by Baku for some "reassuring" this week. BP CEO Tony "embattled" Hayward was there as well: BP's embattled chief executive on Tuesday visited oil-rich Azerbaijan...
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Tue, Jul 07 2010 9:35 AM
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Medvedev's BP-bashing
No love for BP from Russia's oil man-turned-president: On the eve of his first state visit to the U.S. next week, Mr. Medvedev also questioned whether the Gulf oil spill might lead to the "annihilation" or breakup of BP, as the company faces...
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Fri, Jun 06 2010 12:03 PM
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Echoes of Bhopal
As Congress reconvenes the most recent of the BP executives' unenviable appointments in Washington this afternoon, a word about Tony Hayward's current inquisitor: California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce...
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Thu, Jun 06 2010 11:53 AM
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The legacy of Ixtoc
I wouldn't say that Glenn Garvin's look back at the 1979 Ixtoc 1 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico makes one more optimistic about the current prospects for recovery, but it's at provides some useful perspective: Soto, who followed the fish...
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Mon, Jun 06 2010 11:13 AM
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