Abandoned #oil and #gas wells in US bring fears of leak dangers, ABC News investigation finds - ABC News
▻https://abcnews.go.com/US/abandoned-oil-gas-wells-us-bring-fears-leak/story?id=116764814
40 of 76 “zombie wells” tested in 5 states were leaking.
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The Biden administration is seeking to ease oil sanctions on Venezuela as part of a broader U.S. strategy to temper oil prices that have skyrocketed because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.
U.S. officials began rare face-to-face meetings with Venezuelan officials in Caracas over the weekend, with a view to allowing Venezuelan crude oil back on to the open international market, these people said.
#Russia #War #Venezuela #Oil #jetaimemoinonplus #peoplefamiliarwiththematter
La Malédiction du #pétrole
Le pétrole est devenu indispensable à l’économie mondiale, c’est sa plus grande richesse, mais aussi sa plus grande malédiction. Retraçant l’histoire de ce paradoxe les auteurs se penchent avec acuité sur le sujet.
Depuis près d’un siècle et demi, l’or noir a été le moteur de la croissance et la source des plus grands malheurs. Combien de temps cet état va-t-il durer alors que même la catastrophe écologique du réchauffement climatique ne semble pas peser dans la décision de s’en passer ? Mais à quand remonte cette course à l’abîme ? C’est ce que les auteurs entreprennent de raconter.
▻https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-la-malediction-du-petrole/album-malediction-du-petrole
#Caucase #Russie #Frères_Nobel #raffinerie #Branobel #Bakou #pipeline #steam-tanker #marée_noire #Rotschild #puits_de_pétrole #mer_Noire #Batoumi #Bnito #puits_de_Bibi-Heybat #histoire #compagnie_pétrolière #Mer_Caspienne #industrie_pétrolière #Pennsylvanie #Edwin_Drake #potion_Drake #Oil_Creek #Pithole #Devil_Bill #John_Davison_Rockfeller #Rockfeller #Standard_Oil_Company #7_soeurs #John_Rockfeller #Cleveland #raffinage #Massacre_de_Cleveland #Sumatra #Staline #Koba #grèves #Royal_Dutch_Shell #industrie_automobile #OPEP #moteur_à_explosion #Jamais_contente #Henry_Ford #Ford #Ford_Motor_Company #moteur_électrique #General_Motors #Ford_T #Detroit #USA #Etats-Unis #Indonésie #colonialisme #essence #énergie #progrès #Esso #Stocony #Socal #Gulf_oil #Texaco #Anglo-persian_oil #William_Knox_d'Arey #Perse #Plaine_du_Naphte #guerre #comité_des_vaisseaux_terrestres #tank #Irak #Compagnie_française_des_pétroles (#CFP) #Total #accords_Sykes-Picot #Moyen-Orient #simple_ligne_de_sable #désert_arabique #Rub_al-khali #Standard_oil_of_California #Ras_Tanura #Harry_St_John_Bridger_Philby #Sheikh_Abdullah #Quart_vide #Kim_Philby #Philby #Arabie_Saoudite #Saoud #WWI #WWII #première_guerre_mondiale #seconde_guerre_mondiale #Canal_de_Suez #Red_Bell_Express #Pacte_de_Quincy #Algérie #Sahara_algérien #extractivisme #CIA #Saddam_Hussein #Arabian_American_oil_company (#ARAMCO) #Ghawar #combine_en_or #Venezuela #optimisation_fiscale #Iran #ENI #Libye #Italie #Pier_Paolo_Pasolini #Enrico_Mattei #guerre_du_Kippour #choc_pétrolier #Conférence_de_Bagdad (1960) #Juan_Pablo_Pérez_Alfonzo #Abdullah_al-Tariki #King_Hubbert #Trente_Glorieuses #premier_choc_pétrolier #Exxon_Mobile #BP-Amoco #pétrole_de_schiste #plateformes_offshore #groupe_Carlyle #Carlyle #schiste #fisc
#pétrole #BD #malédiction
The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us (▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/artic...
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Petrolio e migranti. Il « patto libico »
Decine di navi e depositi per il contrabbando attraverso Malta e i clan siciliani. Business da oltre un miliardo. Ispettori Onu e Ue: a comandare sono i boss del traffico di esseri umani.
«Oil for food» la chiamavano in Iraq. Export di petrolio in cambio di cibo. Era l’unica eccezione all’embargo. Le milizie libiche hanno cambiato i fattori: «#Oil_for_migrants ». Dovendo rallentare la frequenza dei barconi, hanno ottenuto cospicui “risarcimenti” mentre imbastivano un colossale contrabbando di petrolio. « Oil for migrants ». A tutto il resto pensano i faccendieri maltesi e la mafia siciliana.
Le ultime tracce della “Libia connection” sono del 20 gennaio. In Sicilia, per questioni di oro nero, sono finiti indagati in 23, tutti vicini ai clan di mafia catanesi. Il 5 dicembre 2019 la Procura di Bologna aveva messo i sigilli a 163mila litri di carburante. Solo due giorni prima i magistrati di Roma avevano arrestato 16 persone e bloccato 4 milioni di litri di gasolio. Abbastanza per fare il pieno a 80mila utilitarie. Secondo la procura di Trento, che aveva chiuso un’analoga inchiesta, nel nostro Paese l’evasione delle imposte negli idrocarburi può arrivare a 10 miliardi di euro. L’equivalente di una legge finanziaria.
Per venirne a capo bisogna ficcare il naso a Malta, che «rappresenta anche uno snodo per svariati traffici illeciti, come quello dei prodotti petroliferi provenienti dai Paesi interessati da una forte instabilità politica», si legge nell’ultima relazione al parlamento della Direzione investigativa antimafia. L’episodio chiave è del 2017, quando la procura di Catania porta a termine l’operazione “Dirty Oil”, che ha permesso «di scoprire – ricorda sempre la Dia – un traffico di petrolio importato clandestinamente dalla Libia e che, grazie ad una compagnia di trasporto maltese, veniva introdotto sul mercato italiano sfruttando il circuito delle cosiddette pompe bianche». In mezzo, però, c’è l’omicidio di Daphne Caruana Galizia. La reporter maltese era stata eliminata con una bomba il 16 ottobre 2017, due giorni prima della retata che da Catania a Malta avrebbe confermato tutte le sue rivelazioni sui traffici illeciti tra la Libia e l’Europa via La Valletta. Messo alle strette, il governo dell’isola aveva chiesto sanzioni internazionali contro i boss del contrabbando di petrolio. Ma è a questo punto che accade un imprevisto. Uno di quegli inciampi che da solo permette di comprendere quale sia la misura e l’estensione della partita. Ad agosto 2019 il Cremlino, a sorpresa, annuncia di voler porre il veto al provvedimento con cui il Consiglio di Sicurezza Onu si apprestava a disporre il blocco, ovunque nel mondo, dei patrimoni della gang di maltesi, libici e siciliani. Un intrigo internazionale in piena regola. Un anno prima il Dipartimento del Tesoro Usa aveva disposto l’interdizione di tutti gli indagati da ogni attività negli Stati Uniti.
Tra le persone che Malta, dopo l’uccisione di Caruana Galizia, avrebbe voluto vedere con i sigilli ai conti corrente ci sono l’ex calciatore Darren Debono e i suoi associati, tra i quali l’uomo d’affari Gordon Debono e il libico Fahmi Bin Khalifa. Nomi che tornano spesso. I tre, con il catanese Nicola Orazio Romeo, sono sotto processo perché ritenuti responsabili di un ingente traffico di gasolio sottratto ai giacimenti libici sotto il controllo della milizia Al-Nasr, quella del trafficante-guardacoste Bija e dei fratelli Kachlav. Dallo stabilimento di Zawiyah, il più grande della Libia, praticamente a ridosso del più affollato centro di detenzione ufficiale per migranti affidato dalle autorità ai torturatori che rispondono sempre a Bija, l’oro nero viene sottratto con la complicità della “ Petroleum facility guard”, un corpo di polizia privato incaricato dal governo di proteggere il petrolchimico. Ma a capo delle guardie c’è proprio uno dei fratelli Kachlav. Il porto di Zawyah è assegnato alla “Guardia costiera” che, neanche a dirlo, è comandata sempre da al Milad, nome de guerre “Bija”, nel 2017 arrivato con discrezione in Italia durante il lungo negoziato per fermare le partenze dei migranti.
A sostenere la connessione tra smercio illegale di idrocarburi, traffico di armi ed esseri umani sono gli esperti delle Nazioni Unite inviati in Libia per investigare. Il gasolio «proviene dalla raffineria di Zawiyah lungo un percorso parallelo alla strada costiera», si legge nell’ultima relazione degli ispettori Onu visionata da Avvenire. Molte foto ritraggono proprio Bija alla guida di gruppi combattenti o impegnato su navi cisterna. Le conclusioni confermano inoltre che l’area di Zuara, dove spadroneggia il clan Dabbashi – a seconda dei casi alleato o in rotta di collisione con i boss di Zawyah – «è stata la principale piattaforma per le esportazioni illecite via mare di prodotti petroliferi raffinati». Nei dintorni ci sono almeno 40 depositi illegali di petrolio. Da questi impianti «il carburante – si legge ancora – viene trasferito in autocisterne più piccole fino al porto di Zuara, dove viene caricato in piccole navi cisterna o pescherecci con serbatoi modificati». A disposizione dei contrabbandieri c’è una flotta ragguardevole: «Circa 70 imbarcazioni, piccole petroliere o pescherecci da traino, sono dedicate esclusivamente a questa attività». Dalle stazioni di pompaggio i trafficanti utilizzano condutture che trasportano il carburante alle navi che sostano «tra 1 e 2 miglia nautiche al largo».
I nomi dei vascelli sono noti e riportati in diversi documenti confidenziali. Impossibile che in Libia nessuno veda. In totale «esistono circa 20 reti di contrabbando attive, che danno lavoro a circa 500 persone», spiegano gli esperti Onu. Manodopera da aggiungere alle migliaia di libici arruolati dagli stessi gruppi per controllare il territorio, gestire il traffico di esseri umani, combattere per le varie fazioni.
Le inchieste, però, non fermano il business. Il catanese Romeo, indagato nel 2017 per l’indagine etnea “ Dirty Oil”, in passato era stato ritenuto dagli investigatori in contatto con esponenti della famiglia mafiosa Santapaola–Ercolano. Ipotesi, in attesa di un pronunciamento dei tribunali, sempre respinta dall’interessato. A confermare l’interesse di Cosa nostra siciliana per le petroliere sono arrivati i 23 arresti di gennaio. Tra gli indagati vi sono ancora una volta esponenti dei clan catanesi, stavolta della famiglia Mazzei, tornata ad allearsi proprio con i Santapaola– Ercolano. «Abbiamo riscontrato alcuni collegamenti con personaggi coinvolti nell’indagine Dirty Oil, dove era emersa proprio l’origine libica del petrolio raffinato», ha commentato dopo gli arresti il procuratore aggiunto di Catania, Francesco Puleio. Alcuni degli indagati hanno anche «cercato nuovi canali di fornitura e sono entrati in contatto con l’uomo d’affari maltese Gordon Debono, coinvolto nell’indagine Dirty Oil».
Il collegamento tra mafia libica e mafia siciliana per il tramite di mediatori della Valletta è confermato da un’altra rivelazione contenuta nel dossier consegnato al Palazzo di Vetro a fine 2019. A proposito della nave “Ruta”, con bandiera dell’Ucraina, sorpresa a svolgere attività di contrabbando petrolifero, gli investigatori Onu scrivono: «Secondo le indagini condotte dal Procuratore di Catania», il vascello è stato coinvolto in operazioni illegali, compreso il trasferimento di carburante ad altre navi, «in particolare la Stella Basbosa e il Sea Master X, entrambi collegati alla rete di contrabbando di “Fahmi Slim” e, secondo quanto riferito, ha scaricato combustibile di contrabbando nei porti italiani in 13 occasioni ». Quello di “Fahmi Slim” altro non è che il nome di battaglia di Fahmi Musa Bin Khalifa, il boss del petrolio di Zuara, in affari con Mohammed Kachlav, il capo in persona della milizia al Nasr di Zawyah.
A ostacolare il patto tra mafie dovrebbe essere l’operazione navale europea Irini «che ha già dimostrato l’utilità in termini di informazioni raccolte, e per l’effetto deterrenza anche sul contrabbando di petrolio», ha detto nei giorni scorsi il commissario agli affari Esteri Josep Borrel. E chissà se l’aumento del 150% delle partenze sui barconi sia solo una coincidenza o non sia uno degli effetti di «Oil for migrants».
▻https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/petrolio-e-migranti-il-patto-libico
#pétrole #migrations #Libye #pacte #extractivisme #accord #Malte #Italie #contrebande #mafia #Libia_connection #Dirty_Oil #Daphne_Caruana_Galizia #Darren_Debono #Gordon_Debono #Fahmi_Bin_Khalifa #Nicola_Orazio_Romeo #Al-Nasr #Bija #Kachlav #Zawiyah #Petroleum_facility_guard #gardes-côtes #Dabbashi #Zuara #Zawyah #Romeo #Santapaola–Ercolano #Cosa_nostra #Mazzei #Ruta #Stella_Basbosa #Sea_Master_X #Fahmi_Slim #Fahmi_Musa_Bin_Khalifa #Mohammed_Kachlav #Irini
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Donald #Trump envoie des navires de guerre dans la #Caraïbe - Martinique la 1
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#maduro #venezuela
Aujourd’hui, les américains offrent une récompense de 15 millions de dollars pour l’arrestation du président vénézuélien, accusé de trafic de drogue avec ses complices colombiens, les #guérilleros des #FARC.
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Trump’s Baffling Plan to Pillage Syria’s Oil | The New Yorker
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“In a major policy flip-flop, the President said that he is not only keeping American forces in Syria to «secure» its oil fields, he is willing to go to war over them. «We may have to fight for the oil. It’s O.K.,» he said. «Maybe somebody else wants the oil, in which case they have a hell of a fight. But there’s massive amounts of oil.» The United States, he added, should be able to take some of Syria’s oil. «What I intend to do, perhaps, is make a deal with an ExxonMobil or one of our great companies to go in there and do it properly,» he said. The goal would be to «spread out the wealth.»”
Damage At Saudi Oil Plant Points To Well Targeted Swarm Attack (htt...
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Damage At Saudi Oil Plant Points To Well Targeted Swarm Attack
#Abqaiq #Saudi #Arabia #Yemen #Oil #Plant #politics #international #MoA ......
"The targeting for this attack was done with detailed knowledge of the process and its dependencies.
The north arrow in those pictures points to the left. The visible shadows confirm the direction. The holes in the tanks are on the western side. They were attacked from the west.
The hits were extremely precise. The Yemeni armed forces claimed it attacked the facility with 10 drones (or cruise missiles). But the hits on these targets look like neither. A total of 17 hits with such precise targeting lets me assume that these were some kind of drones or missiles with man-in-the-loop control. They may have been launched from within Saudi Arabia. (...)
Audio admite versión iraní sobre detención del petrolero británico | HISPANTV
▻https://wwww.hispantv.com/noticias/politica/433592/audio-radio-iran-petrolero-reino-unido-golfo-persico
Intercambios de radio entre los iraníes y un buque británico confirman la versión ofrecida por Irán sobre la incautación de un petrolero en el estrecho de Ormuz.
La cadena británica BBC ha publicado este domingo una grabación de los intercambios de radio que se produjeron entre una fragata de la Marina Real del Reino Unido, buques de las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes y el petrolero británico Stena Impero, momentos antes de que el Cuerpo de Guardianes de la Revolución Islámica (CGRI) incautara, el viernes, el referido buque cisterna en el estrecho de Ormuz.
Según se escucha en la reproducción, las fuerzas iraníes le comunican a la fragata británica HMS Montrose —que escoltaba el petrolero— que quiere inspeccionar el Stena Impero por razones de seguridad.
El barco iraní exigió, además, a la embarcación petrolera, que cambiase de rumbo, lanzando la advertencia de que “si obedece estará a salvo”, conforme indica el registro de sonido obtenido por la empresa Dryad Global.
#Exclusive VHF audio HMS Montrose & MV Stena Impero: ’If you obey you will be safe, alter your course . . .Under international law your passage must not be impaired, impeded, obstructed or hampered’ #Iran #oil #tanker @tombateman @PatrickSawer @AP @AFP @Reuters pic.twitter.com/3fizOedeBe
— Dryad Global (@GlobalDryad) July 20, 2019
Sin embargo, el HMS Montrose le señaló al petrolero que “mientras atravesase el paso de tránsito en un estrecho internacional reconocido, según el derecho internacional, su travesía no debía ser impedida u obstaculizada”.
Luego, la fragata le pidió al barco iraní que confirmase que no estaba “intentando violar el derecho internacional” al intentar abordar el petrolero.
El audio ha salido a la luz después de que los medios de comunicación occidentales afirmaran que el petrolero retenido no contaba con una escolta militar. Esto mientras el portavoz del CGRI, el general Ramezan Sharif, dijo el sábado que un buque militar británico custodiaba la embarcación y trató de abortar el operativo de los comandos navales iraníes.
Petrodollar warfare - Wikipedia (▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr...
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Petrodollar warfare - Wikipedia The term, petrodollar warfare, refers to the alleged motivation of US military offensives as preserving by force the status of the United States dollar as the world’s dominant reserve currency and as the currency in which oil is priced. The term was coined by William R. Clark, who has written a book with the same title. The phrase oil currency war is sometimes used with the same meaning. #oil #war #usd #iraq #iran #libya #venezuela
Public Invention Project #40: A Wheel for #painting Very Thin Lines
▻https://hackernoon.com/public-invention-project-40-a-wheel-for-painting-very-thin-lines-5d596c6
“Oyarsa”, by Robert L. ReadI probably should not have taken up oil painting; I have always admired #art done with pen-and-ink, which produces very thin, precise lines.It is possible to make thin lines with oil paint, but it is difficult. One must either have a terribly steady hand with a very fine brush, or use a ruling pen, which are themselves tricky and require very thin paint.Following some other artists, I bought a cutting wheel, and used it to make the painting “Oyarsa” above, an attempt to depict the archangel, or genius locii, of Malacandra, from C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. I jammed a wad of cotton against the wheel in the handle, to make the loading of the wheel with paint last a little longer. I put paint in a little tray, and loaded the wheel by rolling it back and forth. I could (...)
Norway Supreme Court hears #snow_crab case with implication for #oil | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-eu-snowcrab-idUSKCN1P9003
Norway’s Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday on whether EU ships can fish for snow crab off Arctic islands north of Norway without permission from Oslo, a case that could decide who has the right to explore for oil in the region.
At stake is whether the snow crab - whose meat is considered a delicacy by gourmets in Japan and South Korea - is a sedentary species living on the seabed or a fish stock that moves around - and who gets to decide about it.
If it is seen as a sedentary species, then it is a resource belonging to the #continental_shelf of Norway. If the EU can stake a claim over the snow crab, then it could be harder for Oslo to secure its claim over potential oil and gas resources.
“The question of the snow crab is a proxy for oil. Because what is valid for the snow crab is valid for the oil industry,” Oeystein Jensen, a senior research fellow in law at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, told Reuters
#crabe_des_neiges #plateau_continental
#forage_pétrolier #offshore
US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years (►https://www.bloo...
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US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years
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AI in Action : #mining & #energy
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This is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting the many applications of Artificial Intelligence.The “extractive industries” as they’re sometimes called, Mining and Energy, were the first truly global vertical, and continue to span the globe in the pursuit of access to natural resources. AI can be of great service in innumerable ways in this field. Here’s a few examples:Risk ManagementI was talking to a pipeline company last year about risk management. At the time I was selling a tablet-based inspection system. “Data collection is not our problem” I was told. “we have lots of data automatically collected via SCADA — our need is to interpret this data effectively.” They had a great deal of data being collected along the hundreds of miles of pipeline, but were having trouble processing it (...)
#Trump Wants to Expand #Oil Drilling to 90 Percent of Our Seas. We’...
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#Trump Wants to Expand #Oil Drilling to 90 Percent of Our Seas. We’re Marching on June 9 to Stop Him. ▻https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-wants-to-expand-oil-drilling-to-90-percent-of-our-seas-were-marchin Trump is a 100% black president: coal and oil
Bahrain strikes biggest oilfield since 1932, dwarfing current reser...
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Bahrain strikes biggest oilfield since 1932, dwarfing current reserves
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Bahrain has discovered its biggest oilfield in more than 80 years. The ‘highly significant’ oil and deep gas resource is thought to dwarf the Gulf kingdom’s current reserves, according to an official announcement on Sunday. It is located in the Khaleej al-Bahrain basin, located off the country’s west coast.” (04/02/18)
▻http://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/2139899/bahrain-strikes-biggest-oilfield-1932-dwarfing-current
#bahrain #oil Originally posted at: ▻http://rationalreview.com/archives/292169
#Oil & #Gas #Map of Caspian Sea Region.
The Caspian Sea has its own species of seal, among other interesting fauna, and has a maximum depth of 3,360 feet or 1,025 meters. It can be technically called the largest lake on earth by area, but it should be noted the southern 2/3 is brackish (slightly salty) rather than freshwater. The shoreline on the east is desert, on the north is steppe, and to the south and west is temperate and humid.
Norway’s push for Arctic oil and gas threatens Paris climate goals – study | Environment | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/10/norways-push-for-arctic-oil-and-gas-threatens-paris-climate-goals-study
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They focussed on Norway because it has long been a supporter of ambitious global reduction targets and has used part of its oil revenues to develop renewable technologies and tackle deforestation. If it cannot leave fossil fuels in the ground and make the transition to a carbon-free economy, the authors ask, then how can any of its rivals in less developed nations be expected to do so?
“This is uncharacteristically irrational behaviour for Norway,” said Hannah McKinnon of Oil Change International. “The Paris climate goals mean the world has to stay within a finite carbon budget. Norway’s current plans for fossil fuel production, expansion, and exploration are dangerously out of line with these budgets. Norway can’t be a climate leader at the same time as depending on new oil and gas production.”
The government says such accusations are unfair because they run against the convention at international climate talks for the responsibility for emissions to lie with consumers rather than producers. In this regard – of purely domestic carbon use – it is doing better than most nations because it gets 97% of its electricity from renewable sources, has a high carbon tax, is a leader in promotion of electric vehicles, and is pioneering carbon capture and storage at waste plants and cement factories.
It also notes that oil and gas output is flat, it is unrealistic to assume that all exploration will be successful and the trend for overall production is away from carbon-heavy oil and towards cleaner gas, which is important as a “transition fuel” for countries that are trying to move away from coal. Officials point out that without Norway’s gas the UK would be far further behind in meeting its climate goals.
“We are part of the solution, not the problem,” the deputy minister for petroleum and energy, Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde, told the Guardian. “This government is investing more in renewables and energy efficiency than any other. But renewables are not yet at a level where we can switch off oil and gas. We need a bridge.”
The government argues that its oil and gas reserves are the most efficiently extracted in the world and that, so as long as there is demand for these fuels, it is better that they come from Norway. It also puts the number of newly offered exploration blocks closer to 50.
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#Norway #climate #Arctic #oil and #gas #Paris #climate goals – #study #Environment
#GreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ParisClimateAgreement
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#macron #banques #rotschild #goldman_sachs #petrole #oil
Le fiasco de la #fusion de #Technip, dans l’indifférence générale - Arrêt sur images
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Unusable Nigerians
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Oloibiri is a town located a few kilometers away from the city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, #Nigeria. It is known for sharing the same local government, of Ogbia, as the town of Otuoke where Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan was born. Perhaps more noteworthy is that the small Niger #Delta town of Oloibiri…
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #INEQUALITY #corporations #economics #Extraction #multinational #Neo-colonialism #oil
Caspian Sea Platform Collapses in High Winds; 1 Dead, 9 Missing – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/caspian-sea-platform-collapses-high-winds-1-dead-9-missing
One person has died and a search and rescue is underway for 9 others missing after a part of an oil installation collapsed in strong winds in the Caspian Sea.
The platform is operated by Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR.
The company said it was notified of the incident at about 5 a.m. Thursday morning. According to reports, a 150-meter section of a trestle bridge connecting offshore installations collapsed in winds reaching up to 91 m.p.h. Part of an accommodation unit is believed to have also collapsed.
Ten people were missing, SOCAR said, but an update from the company said one body has been recovered from the scene.
Sortie des énergies fossiles : pourquoi les demi-mesures ne suffiront pas
▻http://multinationales.org/Sortie-des-energies-fossiles-pourquoi-les-demi-mesures-ne-suffiront
Dans la foulée de l’Accord de Paris sur le climat, les grandes multinationales de l’énergie et les acteurs financiers qui les soutiennent n’envisagent, au mieux, que de cesser d’investir dans des nouveaux projets d’énergie fossile particulièrement polluants, comme le charbon, tout en laissant l’essentiel de leur modèle commercial intact. Un nouveau rapport d’Oil Change International vient illustrer l’insuffisance de cette posture. Pour réellement mettre en œuvre l’Accord de Paris, il faudrait non (...)
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Russia plans to halt exports of oil products through Baltic ports
Latvian Latvijas Dzelzceļš is preparing for the moment when Russian Transneft will halt transit of oil products through Baltic ports until 2018, LDz manager Edvins Berzins said in an interview to Rīta Panorāma programme on Tuesday, 13 September.
The news about Transneft’s plans to halt transit of oil products was announced on Monday, 12 September, according to information from lsm.lv.
Berzins said this announcement was not surprising. Russia has been investing funds into the development of its own ports for years. With that, it is only logical that the country would want to return its investments.
«We experience declines year after year,» – Berzins said. Estimates suggest Latvia may lose nearly ten million containers annually.
▻http://bnn-news.com/russia-plans-to-halt-exports-of-oil-products-through-baltic-ports-150969
#LDz #Latvia #Export #Russia #oil_export
Africa’s petrostates are imploding (and East African powers are rising)
▻http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-africa-oil-7f427086-fb4b-11e5-886f-a037dba38301-20160405-stor #Africa #oil
Sharing the Arctic
▻http://visionscarto.net/sharing-the-arctic
Title: Sharing the Arctic Keywords: #Arctic #Borders #United-States #Russia #Denmark #Norway #Transport #Maritime_transport #Natural_resources #Oil #Energy Published: in “La Cité” (Genève), 2015 and in various publications in 2007, 2008, 2009,2011 et 2013 Author: Philippe Rekacewicz Date: 2007, updated in 2015