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Iran, Iraq, Syria sign $10B gas pipeline deal

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Iran, Iraq, and Syria have signed a deal for the construction of the Middle East’s largest gas pipeline, which would carry gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field to Europe via Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Iraq has said that it needs 10 to 15 million cubic meters of Iranian gas per day.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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This in turn would intensify competition among these crude exporting countries for share in those markets. Most recently, in the beginning of September, Putin told Maduro that the two countries “must team up to shore up oil prices”. In regard to natural gas, its explosive output growth in the U.S.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The new IEA publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Estonia 2013 describes how the country is trying to slow its mining of oil shale amid environmental concerns. However, the National Development Plan for Oil Shale Use for 2008-15 calls for reducing annual extraction while preserving the country’s strong energy security.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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The Japan Trench, which runs north to south along the coast of the country, was created over millennia by the Pacific tectonic plate subducting (or bending) beneath the North American-Okhotsk plate at the rate of 2 to 12 centimeters per year. The ring is known for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

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These include the Eleron-3SV and the Orlan-10 drones, both of which have been used extensively in Syria and Ukraine. For contrast, the combined industrial base of the countries supporting Ukraine in this war is massive and has invested heavily in counter-drone technology.

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The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare

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That Russian troops would ditch the heart of such a valuable EW system was surprising in March, when Moscow was still making gains across the country and threatening Kyiv. And with more exposure to NATO-supplied radios, experienced Russian EW operators who cut their teeth in Syria are beginning to detect and degrade Ukrainian communications.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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In October, Saudi sources first prepared the market with statements that the country would be comfortable with oil prices as low as $80 per barrel for “a year or two.” That has oil exporting countries, including OPEC members, Russia and others, focusing their sales on Asia, particularly China. Daily output from Saudi Arabia (10.5