Daily Archives: May 16, 2012

Trans Alaska Pipeline plans shutdowns

May 16, 2012
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The Trans Alaska Pipeline will shut down briefly on Friday, the first in a series of up to five maintenance shutdowns planned for the summer, operator Alyeska Pipeline Service Co said on Wednesday.

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BC gets Balai Cluster finance

May 16, 2012
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BC Petroleum, the joint venture between Australia’s Roc Oil and Malaysian companies Dialog Group and Petronas, has secured $162 million in finance for work on the pre-development phase of the Balai Cluster risk service contract.

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India Decides to Invest in the Oil Potential of the Falklands

May 16, 2012
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Britain and Argentina have been feuding over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands for 180 years, and 1982 fought a brief but vicious war over them.Much has changed in the past three decades – Argentina has increasingly lined up fellow Latin American nations to support their claim to Las Malvinas, and in the past two…

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Iran’s Green Revolution may come from Energy

May 16, 2012
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Against the backdrop of discussions about pending negotiations over its controversial nuclear program and the upcoming deadline of an European embargo on Iranian oil comes a quiet push by the Islamic republic to become a major electricity exporter. Tehran had said it was expecting to secure electricity deals with Syria and Lebanon and had somehow…

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The Top 10 Green Energy Stories Today

May 16, 2012
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1. The Department of the Interior has given the green light to a power transmission line that is intended to bring power from Google, Inc.- backed offshore wind farms in the Northeast of the US to the mainland. Environmental impact studies will take 18 months to two years. The US, unlike Germany, so far has…

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World Banks have the Power to save the Global Economy, if they want to

May 16, 2012
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The global economy appears to be headed over cliff this year.  The emerging world is experiencing a significant economic slow down, the Eurozone will probably break apart in the next few months, and the United States faces sharp austerity measures at the end of the year.  There are enough bearish developments here to make the…

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