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Mexican drug cartels cripple Pemex operations in basin
 LA Times
The kidnappings of five petroleum company workers along with 30 others have terrorized the oil community, paralyzing segments of the business. Months later, families have still heard nothing.
Reporting from Reynosa, Mexico —
The meandering network of pipes, wells and tankers belonging to the gigantic state oil company Pemex have long been an easy target of [...]
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Coal and Oil: The Dark Monarchs of Global Energy
 The formation of modern society has been dominated by coal and oil, and together these two fossil fuels account for nearly two thirds of all primary energy used by mankind. This makes future production a key question for future social development and this thesis attempts to answer whether it is possible to rely on an [...]
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Coal and Oil: The Dark Monarchs of Global Energy
 The secretary of ASPO International Mikael Höök has now made his thesis public by using a nail and hammer and this ”nailing” is an old tradition at Uppsala University, Sweden. The thesis “Coal and Oil: The Dark Monarchs of Global Energy: Understanding Supply and Extraction Patterns and their Importance for Future [...]
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Reconstructing Climate Change
 Through the whole year of 2009, building up to the failed Copehagen “climate summit”, climate change was heavily promoted by a small but powerful group of OECD political leaders and their corporate, press and media elites as a major challenge to the planet and to our way of life. It was [...]
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Unconventional gas resources changing more than markets
The market changes become more obvious every day. Resource potential is a diminishing concern. The main driver of supply is drilling economics.
Only a few years ago, the dominant assumptions were that operators had to drill feverishly just to hold production steady and that LNG imports had to expand to meet whatever [...]
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Federal officials won’t talk about blowout preventer
The Justice Department won’t say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP’s undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.
Spokeswoman Hannah August declined to comment today.
The 50-foot, 300-ton device, which was lifted to the surface Saturday, is expected to [...]
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