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...Pilita ClarkScholl’s vision for sustainable supersonic travel has helped Boom raised more than $200mn, and its backers include big Silicon Valley names like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman....
...This represented the first year-on-year increase in mining and petroleum industry investment since the end of a previous boom in 2012-2013, according to Western Australia government statistics....
...Smart reads Politicon Valley LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is attempting to use his billions to bankroll Donald Trump straight out of the White House....
...Commodities Oil prices rose after figures from the American Petroleum Institute showed a drawdown on crude inventories by 5.2m barrels....
...“I remember going into presentations before Macondo and hearing Tony Hayward comparing BP with Exxon,” says Iain Reid, analyst at Macquarie. “That seems like a long time ago.”...
...“With oil prices falling we’re going to see further pressure on the upstream, which is where the results have been most disappointing,” said Iain Reid, analyst at Macquarie....
...Sir Bob became ICE Futures Europe chair amid ICE’s purchase of the International Petroleum Exchange in 2002....
...Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, an oil trade group eager to see controls repealed, said: “I think what [Senator Reid] is signalling is a recognition that the ban is likely to...
...Reid Morrison, the advisory leader for US energy at PwC, the accounting firm, says that up until this summer there was very little focus on efficiency in the shale industry....
...Occidental Petroleum, the fourth-largest US oil producer by market capitalisation, also said it would cut this year’s spending by 33 per cent....
...“This asset is part of Shell’s downstream business, where returns are well below what Ben van Beurden wants to achieve,” said Iain Reid, analyst at BMO Capital Markets....
...“The best way we in Congress can grow our economy is by replacing meat-axe cuts with closing wasteful tax loopholes,” Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate majority leader, said on Friday....
...Scotland appears interested in several policies, not least Norway’s use of an oil fund to ensure its petroleum revenues are available for future generations....
...Shell is a partner in Woodside Petroleum’s $40bn Browse venture, due for final investment decision later this year....
...But petroleum had just been discovered and when the oil boom started, farming was quickly forgotten. Today, 97 per cent of the country’s export revenues come from oil and gas....
...But the shares shed 3.9 per cent to 18¾p following news that Mark Reid had resigned as chief financial officer....
...Marathon Petroleum rose 2 per cent to $41.37 after investment bank Dahlman Rose rated the stock a buy....
...Marathon Petroleum was down 6.9 per cent to $32.58 as the stock’s newness and its dependence on WTI crude weighed on the share price....
...“We estimate WPP derives about 70 per cent of its revenues from the US, Germany and emerging markets,” analyst Alastair Reid said....
...“We are building up to an important ISM,” said Jim Reid, strategist at Deutsche Bank....
...One Democratic proposal that would have required the government to sell 70m barrels of light sweet crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve failed to pass the House last week....
...Sir Bob Reid, chairman, told a congressional hearing late last month that any suggestion that ICE was “operated to take advantage of a regulatory loophole” was “false”....
...Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee. He said, quote, ”I can’t stand John McCain.”...
...“Not filling the SPR [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] and removing environmental restrictions are steps to try and reduce the current high gasoline prices,” says Mr Stanislaw....
...FROM THE UK NEWS STAND Guardian Blair in secret Saudi Mission Tony Blair and John Reid, UK defence secretary, have been holding secret talks with Saudi Arabia in pursuit of an arms deal worth up to £40bn...
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