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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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They include bans on financing for and the supply of critical equipment and technology to important Russian energy projects. Novatek and its partners Total and Chinese National Petroleum Company still lack $15 billion of the $27 billion needed to finance the Yamal LNG plant. Live by Energy….

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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Of the non-Saudi, non-Gulf Arab ally OPEC members, only Libyan per capita resources exceed the average. As we have pointed out, RBC Capital’s fragile five , Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Venezuela, the pain is intense. in Russian and Soviet history, Soviet economics, and International economics, and MBA in finance and marketing.

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Opinion: Oil Megaprojects Won’t Stay On The Shelf For Long

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Often these megaprojects projects were only the purview of the largest oil companies, as smaller players did not have the resources—financial or technological—to make them work. Maintaining access to finance can come at a price. It is not a total win for the companies that are trying to hang on.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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for example, has ended fuel subsidies, thereby essentially, increasing its budget revenues, while Saudi Arabia recently floated a $4-billion domestic bond offering to help finance its budget. They are fighting a multi-front war with Iran directly (in Yemen) and indirectly (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq).

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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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The largest increase in oil production comes from Iraq, followed by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Canada. Key challenges for Russia are to finance a new generation of higher-cost oil and gas fields and to improve its energy efficiency. Biofuels supply triples to the equivalent of more than 4 mb/d, bolstered by $1.4

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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