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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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Senturin made his remarks during the 25 th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference. Important projects in the offing include the Turkmenistan-China pipeline enhancement, TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India), and others. —Secretary General Sentyurin.

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Lord Stern: A Good Chance for a Serious Deal in Copenhagen

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Representatives from publications from Afghanistan to the USA gathered in Copenhagen October 9-11 for Project Syndicate’s “Kyoto to Copenhagen”, a three-day conference featuring discussions and interviews with figures such as Lord Nicholas Stern, Jeffery Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz. —Lord Stern.

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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They are presenting their results this week at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal. Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gasoline; six others, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, plan to phase it out in the next two years.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. At the 2021 Mine Action Innovation Conference in Geneva, we heard about a researcher named John Frucci at Oklahoma State University who directs the OSU Global Consortium for Explosive Hazard Mitigation.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Denis Khramov, Russia’s deputy Minister of Natural Resources, said September 28 at a conference in Russia’s Far East that Rosneft and Gazprom are delaying some offshore drilling by two to three years because of sanctions and low oil prices. Dalan McEndree has a BA in history, MA in European History, M.Phil.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. After meeting researchers at conferences or reading their papers in IEEE publications, he would send them notes introducing himself and indicating his interest in visiting the researcher’s lab and working there during the summer.

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