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Russia to cut export duty on ultra-heavy oil to stimulate production

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Kazakhstan and Russia have the largest amounts of bitumen after. 2007, Heavy oil and natural bitumen resources in geological basins of the world: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1084. Natural bitumen is oil having a viscosity greater than 10,000 cP. billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil and 33.7

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Declining Aral Sea

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By the end of the 1980s, it had split into the Small Aral Sea (north), located in Kazakhstan, and the horse-shoe shaped Large Aral Sea (south), shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The whitish area is white salt terrain (the Aral Karakum desert) left behind by the evaporation of the Aral Sea. Source: ESA Click to see animation.

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Opinion: Uranium Prices Set To Double By 2018

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Uranium analyst David Talbot of Dundee Capital Markets is forecasting 6 percent compound annual demand growth through 2020, which is enough, he says, to “kick-start” uranium prices up to and beyond 2007 levels. Morningstar analyst David Wang predicts prices will double within the next two years. Considering that nearly half of the U.S.’

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EIA Estimates 2.1% Growth in Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in US in 2010; Still Below 1999-2008 Levels

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The largest source of growth in 2010 is the United States, followed by Brazil, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. Before 2008, the United States was typically a net importer of distillate fuel, averaging 160,000 bbl/d over the summers of 2000 through 2007. US crude oil production averaged 5.32

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