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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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Longer term embedded options include the Wildling (US), Trion (Mexico), Calypso (Trinidad and Tobago) and Browse (Australia) projects. BHP says that Jansen Stage 1 will be low cost and expects it to be one of the world’s most sustainable potash mines, designed for a low carbon footprint and low water intensity. Earlier post.).

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Fuel economy measures could cut Commonwealth countries’ cumulative oil bill by US$3.2T through 2050

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Lew Fulton from the University of California Davis, a GFEI partner, warns that the oil importing countries, which make up the vast majority of the Commonwealth, could face high economic costs given the explosion in the number of vehicles on their roads over the next few decades.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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Costs for a 63,000 barrel (of gasoline) per day system would be approximately $5.2 van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad. billion, he said.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Although technological yield gains had offset the losses, the study established a clear and simple correlation between increasing temperatures and crop yields. Britain will do so, the rest of Europe will do so and I believe America will do so as well. ” —UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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