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...Prime minister Imran Khan announced a moratorium on further coal-fired power plants at the Climate Ambition Summit in December....
...There is growing optimism that a “V-shaped” rebound — which had been widely dismissed only a month ago — could be on the horizon....
...See European Oil Services & Drilling: Future postponed, again, 20/3/20, for example....
...The company has raised $171m from shareholders to do so, drilling four dry wells and generating precisely zero dollars of revenue....
...Portraits such as of the poet Tennyson and “Madonna and Child” are on display in a new exhibition at London’s V&A. Forwarded Source code poetry Programmers are artists too....
...His comments echo that of his predecessor Greg Page, who called for greater transparency at the FT Commodities Summit in 2013....
...Mr Stamos said that any attempt to build backdoors into encryption systems would be “like drilling a hole in the windshield”....
...The number of active US rigs has more than halved since October, with up to 300 workers leaving the industry for every drilling rig idled in the US....
...Patrick and Tamar haven’t seen a great deal of each other in the past 25 years; one hopes that the playlist that accompanies their future trek is more Africa than D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...Noble Energy of the US and Israel’s Delek Drilling initialled the deal – an anchor for their $6.5bn Leviathan project – with Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (Nepco) in September....
...His comments went beyond the neutral remarks Asean leaders made at a recent summit....
...Abe, speaking at a summit held by a business lobby, said he will mobilize all possible measures to accelerate reforms....
...At a summit last month, heads of government asked the European Commission to look at how the bloc could reduce its reliance on Russian hydrocarbons. But kicking the addiction will be a Herculean task....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...(Financial Times) Shell has to provide more information before resuming Arctic drilling: Company “will need to provide more detailed plans before it can make another attempt to drill off the coast of Alaska...
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...New techniques of exploring and drilling in very deep water and tar sands have been developed....
...Rowan, another drilling company, said on Monday it would divest its LeTourneau Technologies unit and possibly buy back up to $400m of its own shares, which climbed 8.7 per cent to $41.18....
...Foreign companies such as Tesco, Wal-Mart and Woolworths that sell multiple brands of products are not yet permitted to own stores in India....
...But some companies, such as Cinergy, have called for greater regulatory certainty....
...It "can contribute to reducing the health impact of tobacco", says the company. But has the multinational gone a step further in Taiwan? The company has registered the trademark "health cigarettes"....
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