Tech Talk - an introduction to Iran
Updated: 2012-09-30 18:07:11
The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Comments on Maugeri's Oil Revolution Part I The Oil Drum Tech Talk An Introduction to Iran Posted by Heading Out on September 30, 2012 5:06am Topic : Supply Production Tags : crude oil production iran natural gas production nuclear power south pars list all tags The theme of these posts over the past eighteen months has been to look at the leading producer nations that provide crude oil to the world , and see whether it is realistic to anticipate significant increases in their production . Posts have now looked at North America , Russia , Saudi Arabia and China based on the original list of rankings produced by the EIA in 2009. And , as I noted before beginning the China posts the interesting question at the moment relates to a how much
Published on Sunday September 30, 2012 “The Kiobel case was part of a broader set of legal complaints by Nigeria’s Ogoni people, who argued that Royal Dutch Shell was complicit in murder, torture and other abuses committed by the former military government.” The US Supreme Court is back in session tomorrow to tackle major social [...]
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Oil giant Shell vows to resume exploratory drilling in the Arctic despite rival’s fears a spill would ruin reputation of firms involved Terry Macalister The Guardian, Friday 28 September 2012 17.05 BST Shell has rejected a plea from its French rival Total that the energy industry should abandon its search for oil in the Arctic [...]
By Vincent Warren, Special to CNN September 27, 2012 — Updated 1834 GMT (0234 HKT) (CNN) — An argument before the Supreme Court on October 1 in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum will have enormous significance. The case concerns the torture of Ogoni leaders in Nigeria, but at stake is the future of the law under which [...]
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 9:27 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy Shell has begun anchoring its Kulluk conical drilling unit in the Beaufort Sea as it prepares to begin initial work on an exploratory oil well in the waters north of Alaska. A company spokeswoman confirmed that it had begun connecting the conical drilling [...]
While politicians are trying to figure out how to get the economy growing again, a growing number of energy efficiency experts are working equally hard to bring energy demand growth to a permanent halt. We are, of course, not talking about the developing world, but the advance economies that use large amounts of energy on [...]