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The 5 Countries That Could Push Oil Prices Up

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That is because it has nearly tripled its output from about 300,000 bpd in August 2016 up to about 850,000 bpd currently, down a bit from a recent peak at over 1 mb/d. But Libya’s restoration of output coincided with a similar reduction in violence in the Niger Delta. mb/d last year, back up to 1.8 mb/d currently.

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The Technical Failure That Could Clear The Oil Glut In A Matter Of Weeks

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Between 2012 and 2016, Maersk had been working on field development, slated to have cost $1.5 Growing political instability in Libya, as the LNA is targeting control of the country, or the re-emergence of the Niger Delta insurgency, will put a cap on increases. billion, to sustain output at current levels.

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Tohoku researchers develop efficient hydrodynamic reactor for pretreatment of biomass

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For their study, the researchers used corn stover as the feedstock for the new HD-SP reactor as well as the US-SP process they had developed earlier, subjected the output to enzymatic saccharification using a mixture of cellulase from Trichoderma reesei and β-glucosidase from Aspergillus niger , and characterized the results. 5b04375.

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