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Kuwait Researchers Forecast Global Conventional Crude Oil Production Will Peak in 2014; New Multicyclic Hubbert Model

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World crude oil production model. Scientists from Kuwait University and Kuwait Oil Company are forecasting that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014—almost a decade earlier than some other predictions. Credit: ACS, Nashawi et al. Click to enlarge. Nashawi et al.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. —Goldthau et al. Technology breakthrough. ?A

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Ethanol Producers Group Calls for Congress to Repeal International Indirect Land Use Provision in RFS2

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According to Buis, the peer review underscores Growth Energy’s position that there is no universally-accepted scientific model for measuring indirect land use changes. In only singling out biofuels in their analyses of indirect effects, both EPA and California have overlooked the enormous secondary impacts of our continued dependence on oil.

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