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

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According to the latest available figures from the GECF Global Gas Outlook 2050, natural gas production in the Central Asian Republic is set to increase by 78% to reach the level of more than 141 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2050, at a remarkable annual growth rate of 1.9%.

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BMW Group Plant Landshut light metal foundry recertified by Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

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Sustainable extraction of raw materials and conscious use of resources play a key role for our in-house component production and our global supplier network. The tens of thousands of tonnes of solar aluminum supplied in this way meet more than a third of annual requirements for the light metal foundry at Plant Landshut.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Similarly, having a distribution line (often illegally rigged) running to a dwelling tells us nothing about the usage of power or the reliability of its supply. Global electrification has risen steadily since World War II, reaching 73 percent in 2000 and 90 percent in 2019 (the pandemic year of 2020 was the.

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RAND reports suggest US DoD use less petroleum fuel to deal with high prices, not count on alternatives

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While the Department of Defense (DoD) is one of the world’s largest fuel users, its consumption of about 340,000 bpd is a small fraction (less than one-half of 1 percent) of global petroleum demand. While DoD and the services will have access to the wholesale fuel supplies they require, the purchase price may be uncomfortably high.

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The Seabed Solution

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A patch of Pacific seabed could supply key metals for batteries for 250 million electric vehicles Still, it would be another half century before a startup, Nautilus Minerals, would try to make a go of large-scale deep-seabed mining. When it ceased operations, it hadn’t mined any metal ore at all. The Metals Company, too, faces headwinds.

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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million in payments to be made to intermediary companies in order to secure improper advantages to obtain and retain business with state-owned and state-controlled entities in West Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Equatorial Guinea. operated a global commodity trading business, which included trading in fuel oil.