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Chinese Firms Make Nigeria Oil Bid
Lagos :: Nigeria | 42 minutes ago
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Chinese companies have proposed investing $50 billion to buy 6 billion barrels of oil reserves in Nigeria, the African nation's presidential adviser on energy said Tuesday. "Chinese companies have made proposals to buy reserves in Nigeria. Specifically,...
Tags: Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, Mr. Egbogah, oil companies, Nigeria, Lagos, National oil company, Peak oil, Oil reserves in Nigeria, Business Finance, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Oil reserves, CNOOC, Global strategic petroleum reserves
OIL: A Market Psychology of Fear?
Vancouver :: Canada | about 3 hours ago
Credibility With or without a binding deal at the climate talks in Copenhagen this month, it seems the world may have to cut its oil consumption, as emerging geological and economic trends limit the availability and affordability of petroleum. Back in the 1970s,...
Tags: million barrels, IEA, oil production, world oil, market psychology, oil supply, Jeff Rubin, Canada, Vancouver, Petroleum industry, Futurology, Environmental economics, International Energy Agency, Peak oil, Business Finance, Economic theories, Petroleum politics, M. King Hubbert
Supply shortage helps boost house prices
Halifax :: Canada | about 8 hours ago
Credibility House prices rose for the fifth month in a row during November as the market continued to be boosted by a shortage of homes for sale, figures showed today. The average cost of a home rose by 1.4 per cent during the month to stand at £167,664, the highest...
Tags: house price, Halifax, Canada, Business Finance, Peak oil, Economy of the Republic of Ireland
RAM revises earnings data
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | about 9 hours ago
Credibility The Tulsa company also announced that its 2010 capital budget would grow to $50 million, nearly 50 percent higher than the $30 million to $35 million in expenditures planned this year. The company said it expects to produce about 2.5 million barrels of...
Tags: RAM Energy Resources Inc., net loss, Tulsa, Peak oil, Business Finance, Economy of the Arab League
UK economic figures highlight recovery's fragility
Halifax :: United Kingdom | about 17 hours ago
Credibility British manufacturing remains in a deep slump and consumers continue to spend cautiously, according to reports released Tuesday which underline the fragility of Britain's recovery from a deep recession. Manufacturing output in the United Kingdom was...
Tags: house price, Halifax, House, United Kingdom, Business Finance, economics, Peak oil, Housing market crisis in the United Kingdom, Interest rates, Stock market crashes, Economy of Europe, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Subprime mortgage crisis, Economy of the Republic of Ireland, United States housing bubble, House price index, First-time buyer, Economy of the European Union, Economic history of the United States, Late 2000s recession in Europe
The real climate change villains
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Are households getting a free ride while businesses bear the brunt of the cost of climate change? The trouble is, the above question can’t be asked aloud politically. After all, what politician would tell voters they should be paying more for their petrol...
Tags: Statistics New Zealand, service sectors, energy usage, energy intensity, energy using, New Zealand, Auckland, Environment, Energy economics, Energy policy, Peak oil, Business Finance, Energy conservation, Macroeconomics, World energy resources and consumption, Low-carbon economy
Forget gold, buy food instead
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | about 20 hours ago
Credibility Of late, there are emerging opportunities in the commodities space that have the potential to outpace the returns given by gold over the last 2 years. I am referring to buying food -- grains, pulses and edible oils. These opportunities are for the true-blue...
Tags: India, China, food grains, buffer stocks, commodities markets, buy food, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Energy crops, Economy of Africa, Food politics, Soybean, Peak oil, world food price crisis, Economy of Asia, Commodity market
Hugo Chavez's New Friends in Big Oil
Maracaibo :: Venezuela | about 20 hours ago
Credibility David Gardner's top pick took an epic run of 1,334%! It's frequently hard to tell whether you're coming or going in the South American oil scene...COP ) from operating positions in the Orinoco basin, which produces a heavy oil that's hard to produce and...
Tags: Venezuela, Maracaibo, Petrￃﾳleos de Venezuela S.A., Chevron Corporation, Petroleum, Peak oil, Business Finance, Oil fields, Caracas, Supermajor
White House strongly condemns Baghdad blasts
Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 day ago
Credibility The White House on Tuesday strongly condemned a series of bombings in Baghdad that killed 127 people, a spokesperson said. "We strongly condemn the violence," said spokesperson Robert Gibbs after five massive vehicle-borne bombs rocked the Iraqi capital,...
Tags: iraq, bomb, election, Baghdad, Iraqi, car bombs, U.S, The White House, strongly condemned, Franco Frattini, War Conflict, Politics, Terrorism in Iraq, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Fertile Crescent, Nouri al-Maliki, suicide bombings in Iraq, 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings, Kirkuk, Arab League, Baqubah, Saddam Hussein, Politics of Iraq, Energy policy, Peak oil, Iraqi Police, Iraq oil law, 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings, Bab Al-Sharqi, Petroleum politics, Iraq War
One Frenchman is wrong! --
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as reported in the newspapers sent out mixed signals on T&T’s industrialisation and in particular the building of an aluminium smelter. Listen to him: ’The whole point of Copenhagen is that we are not asking countries...
Tags: carbon emissions, Charles Percy, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Energy economics, Energy policy, Carbon finance, Peak oil, Carbon footprint, World energy resources and consumption, Green gross domestic product, Sustainability
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