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Platts: June OPEC output of 32.73M barrels of crude per day, highest since Aug. 2008

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A spike in air-conditioning demand has traditionally boosted the volume of crude burned directly in the kingdom’s power plants during the summer months. Nigerian production hit 30-year lows in May as militancy continued in the country’s oil rich Niger Delta. Last summer, Saudi Arabia produced as much as 10.45 million b/d.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. He left the company in 2008 to become lead engineer and scientist at the Lockheed Martin research facility in Cherry Hill, N.J.

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