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ofo and SoftBank enter basic agreement to collaborate on bike-sharing in Japan

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In addition, ofo and SoftBank C&S plan to launch initially in Tokyo and Osaka in September 2017. Existing backers, including ride-sharing firm Didi and DST Global, also took part. Ofo currently serves markets in China, Singapore, the UK and Kazakhstan; service in some US cities begins this year. Ofo has more than 6.5

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Russia’s KAMAZ to create artificial city as autonomous driving testing ground

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Amendments to the law are planned for 2017, the same time when the pilot program should be launched on the roads of Tatarstan. It has assemblers in Vietnam, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. It is being developed in cooperation with the Russian software developer Cognitive Technologies.

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Opinion: Uranium Prices Set To Double By 2018

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Mining Weekly expects “the period from 2017-2020 to be a landmark period for the nuclear sector and uranium stocks, as the global operating nuclear reactor fleet expands.”. 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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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. The completion of Chevron’s Big Foot project in the Gulf of Mexico will be pushed back by a few years because of equipment problems. 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. Without further action by 2017, the energy-related infrastructure then in place would generate all the CO 2 emissions allowed in the 450 Scenario up to 2035. trillion in subsidies over the projection period.

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