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Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.

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Last week, as Victoria Sahami , the owner of Sirius Travel , was preparing to guide a group of tourists in Mazatlán, Mexico, for Monday’s big event, she was also planning for these other upcoming eclipses. Sahami joined the ranks of the eclipse-obsessed when she witnessed one in Venezuela in the 1990s. Like many people, I was hooked.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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Venezuela, an OPEC member, has even proposed an emergency summit meeting. However, as deficits deplete reserves and events occur that threaten the peg and Saudi oil-related export revenues, this comfort quickly could dissipate. Their suffering has led some to call for a change in strategy to “balance” the market and boost prices.

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Are The Saudis About To Reveal The Best Kept Secret In Oil?

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The IPO will be a monumental event, one that the Wall Street Journal says could offer Wall Street some of the largest fees in history. The decision to bring such important data to light comes as Saudi Aramco is preparing to partially privatize its assets, an IPO that could bring in some $100 billion.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. However, actively managing these different groups beyond a few annual peak events is a challenge for top-down approaches.

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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Glencore also admitted to bribery of officials in Brazil and Venezuela. In Venezuela, Glencore admitted to conspiring to secure improper business advantages by paying over $1.2 Between approximately 2007 and 2018, Glencore and its subsidiaries caused approximately $79.6

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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A growing share of output comes from natural gas liquids (more than 18 mb/d in 2035) and unconventional sources (10 mb/d, largely from Canada and Venezuela). The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 billion, around 20% of the world’s population. trillion in subsidies over the projection period.

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