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CompactGTL announces 3,000 bpd commercial small-scale GTL project in Kazakhstan

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CompactGTL will build a commercially deployed small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan offers considerable potential for CompactGTL’s proven small-scale GTL technology, the company said. Kazakhstan offers considerable potential for CompactGTL’s proven small-scale GTL technology, the company said.

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

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By 2017, the company says it will cease deepwater exploration and will sell off its offshore leases that it does not plan on developing. Maintaining access to finance can come at a price. Bond markets have essentially been ruled out as a new source of finance for high-yield producers. Conoco has the rights to 2.2

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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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