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FPSO vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project successfully sets sail for project site

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The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has started its journey towards the project site off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal in West Africa. It is the deepest offshore project in Africa to date. million meters of cable.

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UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

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The FLNG facility will have a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) nameplate production capacity of 1.2 The penetration of FNLG in Africa, which started in Cameroon and expanded to Angola and Mozambique and now to Senegal, Mauritania and Nigeria, highlights Africa’s commitment to unlocking the full exploitation of its gas resources.

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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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The all-stock merger will create a global top 10 independent energy company by production, and will also allow BHP to focus more intently on “future-facing commodities” that are most positively leveraged towards population growth, rising living standards, electrification and decarbonization, the company said. The project will deliver 4.35

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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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It is also ultimately key to social interactions, innovation and productivity. According to this law, the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of the product of their visiting frequency and travel distance. Schläpfer, M., O’Keeffe, K. 2021) “The universal visitation law of human mobility.”

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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This figure includes subsidies to lower the prices of petroleum products, kerosene or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), typically in developing countries, as well as subsidies to the oil, gas or coal industries, provided by many governments in both developing and developed countries. The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies.

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