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Marcus Bleasdale
“Oil dependence is a threat to US national security, its economy and its environment. With a 21-million-barrel-per-day oil habit, the United States consumes a quarter of the world’s annual oil production. Oil imports now ... |
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Marcus Bleasdale
A year after President Chavez seized control of the oil assets from its foreign owners, the oil wealth is being distributed amongst the people. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., PDVSA, generated incomes to facilitate cheap ga ... |
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Donald Weber
The Sakhalin II project, a $20-billion oil-and-gas development project on Sakhalin island, is the largest foreign investment ever made in Russia. It’s the most expensive project to produce and transport energy ever undert ... |
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Marcus Bleasdale
On the outskirts of the Baku in Azerbaijan, is the beginning of the $4 billion Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, that has just begun to pump oil on a 1,093-mile journey from the Caspian Sea to the ... |
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Donald Weber
Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, sits on the edge of the largest oil reserves outside of Saudi Arabia, a fact that has attracted big money and big city problems. Schools are overcrowded, drugs are rampant, doctors are ... |
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Christopher Morris
America's love affair with its cars (and obsession over the cost of petrol) is well known. There are 220 million cars in a country of 290 million people. And the average US family makes 10 car trips ... |
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Joachim Ladefoged
At night, the North Alwyn oilrig is a beacon of light on a sea of darkness. The two massive steel skeletons tower above the frigid North Sea waters; inside a few dozen men are hard at ... |
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