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Platts: June OPEC output of 32.73M barrels of crude per day, highest since Aug. 2008

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Venezuela acted as a check on the overall level though, as the crisis-hit country’s production continues to hit fresh lows. Polish refiner Grupa Lotos bought a one-off test purchase of 2 million barrels of Iranian light crude recently, and Europe has returned as a key destination for Iranian crude.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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Venezuela, an OPEC member, has even proposed an emergency summit meeting. The Association of European Businesses in Russia recently announced that sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles contracted 29 percent in August year-over-year and forecast a 37 percent decline for all of 2015.

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Electric cars to account for 64 per cent of car sales by 2030

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‘Electric Cars in the United States: A New Model with Forecasts to 2030′ is authored by Thomas Becker, a Berkeley economist who specializes in international and environmental economics. light-vehicle fleet by 2030. The study also attempts to quantify how the electrification of the U.S.

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US Lifted The Crude Oil Export Ban, And Exports Went Down

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oil, purchasing some 300,000 barrels of U.S. crude oil is Venezuela. In early February, Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA imported a 550,000-barrel cargo of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) through its U.S. In Asia, even China’s state-run Sinopec—the world’s second-largest refiner—has imported a consignment of U.S.

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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 International Energy Agency (IEA) last week launched the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the current edition of its annual flagship publication assessing the threats and opportunities facing the global energy system out to 2035. Click to enlarge. Oil demand for road freight grows fastest, by 1.7% —WEO 2011.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

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To answer these questions, we collaborated with Envirostrat to investigate some of the most common questions and concerns about the environmental impact that increased EV uptake will have on NZ, and in particular, how they really compare to ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles). In 2021, Global EV purchases jumped to 6.6

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

Drive Electric

To answer these questions, we collaborated with Envirostrat to investigate some of the most common questions and concerns about the environmental impact that increased EV uptake will have on NZ, and in particular, how they really compare to ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles). In 2021, Global EV purchases jumped to 6.6