Hints and tips:
...on solar....
...Continental Resources, which shale pioneer Harold Hamm took private last year, is the US’s biggest private oil producer, pumping 280,000 b/d. It’s also a natural gas powerhouse....
...You know, he’s not sort of pro-big state. He’s not been pro this green stuff....
...“I am part of a lucky generation that got great benefit from oil and gas. What I’d like to see is the next generation inheriting at least the same momentum and potential that we had,” Wood said....
...This amounts to growth of 1.7mn b/d for the year....
...A shortage of solar panels is curbing the US’s clean energy rollout. (WSJ)...
...But behind the scenes, Germany was embarking on a historic transformation. “There’s still an incredible momentum for change....
...80mn b/d by 2050....
...the 7-8mn b/d of crude and refined products that Russia exports....
...It’s a change of a few percentage points, but it’s building momentum.”...
...In the Autumn, I said I would return with a more robust R & D tax credit scheme for smaller research-intensive companies....
...Is carbon capture a help or a hindrance? From my point of view, it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B....
...Because both entities are deeply involved in this “space” and now need to a) feel better about themselves and b) guard against people going off crypto on the grounds that it is actually a Very Bad Thing....
...That’s a problem. It doesn’t create a momentum in Switzerland for entering new negotiations with the EU.”...
...1994 — despite Indian public opinion in polls being reliably pro-trade....
...Some consultants believe it is much lower, less than 10m b/d — a level not seen since 2017. The easing of Covid-19 lockdowns has helped oil prices rally in recent weeks....
...By year-end, he predicts, global demand will still be down by at least 5m b/d. “From here it will be a more lengthy process,” he said....
...On the first day of 2022, full customs controls, which were postponed a few times in the past, will be enforced....
...Oil production has fallen from almost 1.4m barrels a day to about 1m b/d since the 2008 global financial crisis. As in many Opec member states, attempts to diversify the economy have not worked....
...In the wake of the pandemic and Brexit there is a case for a strong, pro-growth economic strategy. Ideally, this should form the centrepiece of any post-crisis policy reset....
...For one thing, there is no agreement on how much oil the country is exporting today: estimates start at only about 1m b/d, and range all the way up to 1.9m b/d....
...Mr Rees-Mogg’s pro-Brexit European Research Group met on Thursday but could not agree on a Plan B to Mrs May’s deal or whether it would be desirable to try to topple her....
...No place in our solar system offers an environment as clement as even the Antarctic or the top of Everest. There’s no “Planet B” for ordinary risk-averse people....
...In the month of his inauguration, January 2009, the US was producing 5.1m barrels of crude a day. By the time he left office, that had risen 72 per cent to 8.8m b/d....
...I’d also expect to see fiscal policy loosened. Perhaps a cut in VAT?...
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