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Pacific Road To Acquire 10% Stake In UCG Company Carbon Energy Limited from CSIRO

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Pacific Road currently has investments in projects in the Americas (including two projects in Chile), Australia, Pacific and Africa with its primary focus on investment opportunities in resource-rich regions where country risk is manageable. interest in the Company on 30 June 2008. As a result of this transaction CSIRO acquired an 18.6%

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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The latest GFEI research suggests that fuel economy in new light duty vehicles around the world improved between 2005 and 2008 from around 8.1 The Initiative’s new workplan for 2013-15 lays out the challenges which still remain on fuel economy, and outlines the Initiative’s planned response to those challenges.

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BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

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First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent—with 2P (proved plus probable) reserves now estimated at 7 tcf. In early 2008, we announced our first investment in Australia. mtpa of LNG.

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Li-ion Reserve in the World: How it Revolutionised the EV Industry

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The developments and innovations that happened in the Internal combusting engine and the newly found oil reservoirs along with other few reasons made the gasoline cars favourite among the growing middle-class families in the U.S Newly found reservoirs of petroleum and crude oil decreased the oil price. The Great Fall.

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