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Topic: Oil Production and Refining

  

Fast Talk: Chevron's Underground Researcher

Don Paul Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Chevron San Ramon, California Don Paul, 61, a former research geophysicist who manages Chevron's R&D partnerships, has teamed up with Los Alamos scientists to use ...READ»

Tar Sands

Could Peak Oil Actually Worsen Climate Change?

A couple of weeks ago the usually conservative International Energy Agency predicted that world oil production would peak by 2020.  Peak oil has moved in a short time from an obsession somewhere between the Warren Commission and the ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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All’s Well That Ends A Well?

The California State Lands Commission recently voted to reject new offshore oil drilling even though the proposal had wide support, both from the “drill, baby, drill” crowd and enviros. There’s a sentence full of enigmas - - the ...READ»

Newt Gingrich: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

  by Kelly Jad'on Book Review: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less—A Handbook For Slashing Gas Prices And Solving Our Energy Crisis (Regnery Pub., 2008) by Newt Gingrich Former Speaker Newt Gingrich follows up ...READ»

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Top 5 Unconventional Brand Campaigns

Biodegradable coffee cup sleeves, hybrid vehicles, consumer-friendly solar panels and many more products are ways in which we are collectively trying to quell human impact on the environment. What about advertising? Direct mail, business-to-business, print space add up to a lot of junk paper. SEA LIFE London Aquarium is doing the opposite of traditional advertising—they’re sea-tagging.READ»

Kenan Samms

Tire Gauges of the World - - UNITE!

Last week, Senator Obama called on American drivers to properly inflate their tires as one of many ways we can cut our energy bills and our carbon footprints simultaneously. Although this simple call to action was caught up in ...READ»

Oily Duck
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Head in the Tar Sands? The New York Times Runs Anti-Peak Oil Op-Ed

Oil-Coated Ruddy Duck in the San Francisco Bay, by wolfpix, on Flickr Earlier this month, the world's chief energy economist told the UK Independent that global oil production was likely to peak in 10 years, with a "global energy ...READ»

Live From Davos: Is It Time to Stop Worrying About China?

China's vice premier Zeng Peiyan told a plenary session at Davos Wednesday evening that his country's development over the next five years will create opportunities for the rest of the world. Specifically, he said China will focus on ...READ»

Brand U.S.A.: New Orleans

Given its rich cultural history, can and should New Orleans embrace the technological demands of the New Economy and down play its Mardi Gras reputation?READ»

Kenan Samms
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Cap, Baby, Cap

Political conventions are largely mass entertainment for the party faithful, punctuated by self-serving interpretations of both current events and history. Like summer big-budget movies, this year’s Democratic and Republican ...READ»

Encouraging Innovation: How Can We Do It Better?

In Tuesday’s New York Times, there was a story about how entrepreneurs have been getting into the game of buying undervalued websites, revamping them, and then selling them for a profit. Read it here. These web-preneurs use home ...READ»

Fast Talk: The Gas Man

Fred Barrett CEO and Chairman, Bill Barrett Corp. Denver, Colorado Geologist Fred Barrett, 46, focuses exclusively on releasing hard-to-extract natural gas from the Rocky Mountains. "The average person consumes 1,000 cubic ...READ»