Ethanol is Insane and politicians Outside the Beltway are finally fighting it

by: energytribune posted date: July 12, 2013 in: Global News, North America

Of slate

By Ari LeVaux

The fact that most of the ethanol is made from corn means an increase in ethanol-blended gas could create or worsen, a variety of problems, such as rising food prices and high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Ethanol production has also been linked to the spread of a dangerous form of e. e. coli.

But some States have shown that federal support for ethanol seems to be as irresistible as it is erroneous, the kind of the spine which could lead us towards an energy policy more intelligent. In June, Florida repealed its renewable fuels standard, including the mandate of this gasoline containing 10% ethanol. And in may, Maine Lawmakers approved a bill prohibiting the ethanol in gas and has asked the federal Government to do the same thing.

Republicans on the House Maine post the following on Maine.gov:

«[E] vidence that monte ethanol is a failure in almost every sense.» It takes more energy to produce it that provides the fuel. Food supplies from around the world have been disrupted because much of the corn crop goes to ethanol now. It costs taxpayers to billions of dollars in subsidies at a time when our nation is already 12 trillion $ debt. Even environmentalists have turned against her; Research shows that the production of ethanol increases the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere."

Democrat of Maine have voted and denounced ethanol as well. In fact, "bipartisan" begins to describe the diversity of opposition to ethanol. The many problems of fuel ethanol combined an orgy of strange bedfellows, including the oil lobby, environmentalists, gourmets, culinary, auto enthusiasts robots (cars do not like ethanol, either) and citizens of all political bents - basically everyone outside the corn belt and Beltway in D.C..

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More oil than ever shipping by rail

CNN

By Steve Hargreaves

With US oil production pipelines and growing operating at full capacity, the amount of oil transported by wagon jumped in the first six months of the year - jump of 48%.

And in the light of generally more important to put oil on the market - and derailment and explosion a train carrying oil to the Canada earlier this week, which killed at least 24 people, the goal is now on security.

Oil by rail deliveries totaled 355 933 carloads in the first half of this year, according to recent data from the Association of American Railroads. That happened only 5 358 carloads during the same period in 2009.

The rapid increase in rail transport oil is directly related to the boom in American oil production in places like Bakken Shale in North Dakota and Texas Eagle Ford. Most of rail shipments is expected to come from North Dakota. They are usually bound for refineries, along the coast and the Gulf Coast of the United States and the Canada.

Although oil transport by rail is usually more expensive than moving by pipeline or ship for long and the time of construction of pipelines pushed cars into service.

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OPEC sees oil demand down again

Voice of America News

By Joe DeCapua

Demand for crude oil from the OPEC countries is expected to decline again next year, as independent producers, including the United States, increase their supplies.

Times are changing gradually for OPEC, the Organization of the petroleum exporting countries. Its own surveys show how the global marketplace is changing as oil production increases.

"They calculate the supply from non-OPEC producers and they calculate global demand and therefore they calculate what remains of the pie for OPEC. The problem is that rest of the cake decreases next year because supply from independent producers - particularly the United States, but not only - increasing more rapidly that the application. So, essentially the leaves less of the market of OPEC next year, "said Richard Swan, Editorial Director of the new world of oil at Platts, key information providers on energy, petrochemicals, metals and agriculture.

OPEC estimates the demand for its crude oil next year will be around 29.6 million barrels per day. Swan said that it's about 1 million barrels per day below current production.

"That is potentially problematic for them."It implies that, at the current rate of production, they are over-supplying the market, said.

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Oil production of Brazil ANP sees million barrels per day to Libra

The Wall Street Journal

By Paul Kiernan

Studies conducted by the National Office of hydrocarbons from the Brazil or PDA show that peak occurred on the site of the offshore Libra oil nation is expected to reach 1 million barrels of oil per day, Director-general of the ANP Magda Jamil said at a Friday press conference.

The current average production of oil at the Brazil is just below 2 million barrels per day.

Ms. Chambriard Friday reaffirmed the key features of the auction of oil to balance development sites. It auction is scheduled for 21 October in Rio de Janeiro. This will be the first auction of oil development sites in the region known as the pre-salt, offshore area with oil ultradeep reserves.

Balance sites auction will rely on new rules that guarantee greater participation of State oil giant Petrobras (PBR, PETR4.BR) than previous auctions, which have sites outside the pre-salt region.

Ms. Chambriard repeated these recent statements by other Brazilian officials, indicating that the Brazilian Government expects to collect about 75% of all the possible development of balance profit and other sites pre-salt to auctions in the future.

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Japan utilities use less oil on the restart of nuclear power, new coal units

Bloomberg

by Tsuyoshi Yinajima

Utility of Japan has used less crude and fuel oil in June as the operation of two nuclear reactors and new units to coal helped to reduce the reliance on more expensive sources.

10 Regional electricity consumed about Japan 770,000 kiloliters of crude in June, down 27% from the previous year, according to data released today by the Federation of electric power Cos. of Japan. Use of oil has fallen by 37% to approximately 744 000 kilolitres, data show.

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OPEC To Boost Shipments By Most This Year, Oil Movements Says

Bloomberg

by Grant Smith

The Organization of petroleum exporting countries will increase shipments by the most this year that demand for the summer to drive fuel in the northern hemisphere approaches its peak, according to the movement of oil.

The group, which provides about 40% of the world's oil, will ship 24.32 million barrels per day in the four weeks that July 27, upwards by 630,000 barrels, or 2.7%, from 23,69 million in the period to June 29, the oil tracker said today in a report sent by e-mail. It is the largest gain in 2013 and brings exports to near their highest level of the year, according to the consultant. The figures exclude two of the 12 members of OPEC, Angola and Ecuador.

«Wholesale c'est ça, the interval between mid-July and early August, is when the peak occurs,» Roy Mason, founder of the company, said by telephone from Halifax, England. "There are certainly a revival in refining after extended service and weak demand in the second quarter. Much is going to the East, but there are enormously goes West. »

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Oil 'Exploration' work of the India to back Viet Nam

Of The Times Of India

NEW DELHI: Because finally, China agreed to the dialogue for a Code of conduct in the South China Sea, Viet Nam continues to strongly back work "prospecting and exploitation" by the India in parts of the region entering the exclusive economic zone of the Viet Nam.

After their 15th Commission meeting joint here, the two countries also signed an agreement for a credit line of 19.5 million $ that the India extend to the Viet Nam.

After the meeting with his Indian counterpart, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vietnamese Pham Binh Minh, said both sides discussed South and East China seas, accepting that the right of the United Nations on freedom of navigation on the high seas must be respected.

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Increase in oil Production to the United States from the sparks less Reliance of OPEC

From The Daily Beast

By Miranda Green

The United States is often painted as a nation short of energy dependent on foreign countries for most of its use of oil.  But that image is changing as the country nears full energy independence.

A report released this week shows that more and more to the United States produces more crude oil within its borders. Production rose last week to its highest level since January 1992 according to a recent report by the Energy Information Administration. The week ending July 5, the United States produced 7.4 million barrels per day, up 1.8% from the week previous and the highest weekly level in more than 20 years.

The increase is due in large part to more drilling and the sharp increase in hydraulic fracturing in the United States the technique controversial fracturing, or fracking, involves drilling into rock formations to release oil embedded in shale.  Many of the American crude oil reserves are located in the Midwest and along the Plains region. Two of the largest reserves are Bakken and Eagle Ford oil fields located in the North Dakota and Texas, respectively.

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China wants to end the blackouts with Western aid - and American coal

Forbes

By Ken Silverstein

When The president Obama says the measures that his administration would take to reduce carbon emissions, he spoke eloquently - American citizens "will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we were doing". The biggest test, however, is to get other polluters of the world to join the crusade, namely China.

The China depends largely on coal to power its economy. But inside and global environmental pressures are forcing them to look at other options that include nuclear energy and hydropower. To do this, he needs a heck of a lot more foreign participation. By its own standards, China needs to attract 200 billion $ in privately by 2030 and will require billions all in 20 years, says the International Energy Agency.

The United States and China together produce about 42 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions. In this country, the totals are down due to the transition from coal to gas. But in China, they are on the rise, largely because it is the construction of a generator coal per month. While critics denounce heavy use of coal to China, his supporters are optimistic: is an economy growing at 8 per cent per annum while its energy demand is growing even faster. Facilities of coal, however, do more heavy loads.

The irony is that China entered its economic transformation at the same time, the global community is dealing with climate change. China, too, is trying to cope with some leaders of his ruling party, noting that growth there must be protected until this nation gets the only tools to regulate emissions.

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Beyond coal sale

The Huffington Post

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

The president Obama began the month last with an environmental speech from large-scale summer at Georgetown University. He gave a plan for its administration at the battle of climate change: among other things, the plans of the White House to limit the carbon emissions for power plants to coal and work to double renewable energy sources.

As this plan takes shape, it is important to remember that is most affected by climate change and pollution of coal specifically: communities in low-income and color.

Pollution from coal-fired electric plants is estimated to cause 13 200 premature deaths and 9,700 hospitalizations in the United States each year. She was associated with asthma attacks, lung inflammation, chronic bronchitis, irregular cardiac disorders and birth defects. Nothing of what is called 'check emissions' introduced in the past few years have been far enough to reduce these figures.

If you look more deep, we can see exactly which communities and neighborhoods bear the brunt of the impact. According to census data, the 6 million Americans who live within three miles of a coal plant have an average income of $18,400, compared to $21,857 throughout the country. Thirty - nine percent are people of color. Thus, emissions from the combustion of coal often wrong those who are least able to afford the effects of exposure.

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The rise of natural gas will lead to an increase in exports?

Wall St. cheat sheet

By Curtis Tate

Natural gas storage is a bit this week in the United States while all the stocks are still down from last year as the consumption of natural gas in the United States continues to increase, according to a Report of Energy Information Administration.

The market gas natural develops in the United States, where the abundance of natural gas reserves has dramatically altered the landscape of energy.

Web site explores also the development trends of consumption of energy to the United States the IBD., where new sources have been used, although fossil carbon fuels were a part of the image for more than 100 years.

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Western Group supports the proposal of nuclear reactor

The Seattle Times

By Shannon Dininny

A consortium of Western utilities and a designer of nuclear reactors have submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of energy to build a small nuclear reactor in order to meet the future demand for carbon-free energy.

The proposal seeks millions of dollars in grants for the vigorous project through licensing and permitting processes, which takes years to walk. Earlier a reactor would be built is probably 2023.

Among the participants: Northwest Energy, a consortium of public power which runs on nuclear energy only commercial plant in the Northwest and had once gone to the largest municipal bond default in American history on a project failed to build five nuclear reactors in the 1980s.

Energy Northwest has previously issued the prospect of increasing its production of nuclear 27 public members and municipalities.

The idea has stalled in the past due to the high financial investment required and the backlash against nuclear energy in one of the more environmentally friendly areas of the country.

This time, Northwest energy has partnered with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and modular reactor designer NuScale Power, based in Corvallis, Oregon

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Advocacy group Obama lining upwards behind clean energy

Of USA Today

By Fredreka Schouten

As The president Obama pushes an aggressive national plan on climate change, arms non profit for the defence of his administration becomes active in energy own readers across the country.

Organization of Action also formed a partnership that steers its volunteers to buy wind and solar a single company with links to Liberal groups.

"While we do all this work for advancing the agenda of the President to the Congress, we also want to do everything we can on the spot to help pass clean energy," said Ivan Frishberg, organizing for Action climate change manager.

The Organization for Action, for example, you will recommend that volunteers and activists who want to buy renewable energy for their homes and businesses consider signing with ethics Electric, a company that sells wind energy in four States of mid-Atlantic and the District of Columbia and describes himself as a socially responsible energy supplier. It has also licenses that will allow it to expand in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Ohio.

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Pakistan to build three new nuclear power plants with Chinese aid

Zee News

Executive Committee of the Council of Pakistan National economic (Ecnec) has the value would have been approving 1.4 trillion rupees worth of projects include three nuclear power plants will be built in Karachi, with Chinese aid.

According to a newspaper, the Ecnec, led by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, approve the capacity of 2,400 megawatts nuke plants and study also approve the proposed Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (RPS).

China had stopped processing a loan of $ 448 million for this project due to reservations on two other projects namely ' Safe City Islamabad "and a draft communication.

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China, Netherlands best candidates for the generation using coal in the United States

Of gas in the Journal of power

American coal markets of receptors, such as the Netherlands and China should use more coal for electricity production. Imports of us coal worldwide a 14% increase in the first quarter of 2013, thanks to the low global coal prices as producers of electricity in the United States prefer to use the abundant domestic shale gas production, show data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The main markets of ten coal-reception were in European countries such as the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy and France, as well as Asian markets fueled with gas, as the Japan, China, South Korea. The Turkey was also a consumer of coal privileged.

The European country which has been the largest consumer of coal from the United States was the Netherlands, buy two times more than any other European country, 4 074 195 tonnes, although this figure is only marginally up corresponding to the amount that it consumed last year.

In the Netherlands, inherited circumstances are responsible for the construction of new coal-fired power, a UK Department of Energy and climate change (DECC) report found last April.

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India, China Gas reform opens the door to imports more

Reuters

By Aizhu Chen and Nidhi Verma

(Reuters) - measures taken by China and the India to increase local gas price will pave the way for increased imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), then the two nations are trying to ensure that they can meet the demand increases rapidly for fuel.

Price of gasoline in both countries have been kept artificially low to levels well below the costs of LNG traded in the world, which means LNG importers suffer a loss or local LNG users pay a premium of high domestic prices.

India almost doubled last week the price of about $4.20 per million BTU (mmBtu) to a formula which will bring the price to about $8.40 per million BTU starting April 1, 2014.

China is a more modest reform, increasing the price of natural gas non-residential of 15 per cent, but the price will be higher at up to $10-$12 per million BTU in many coastal provinces.

Chinese and Indian gas demand is expected to soar in the next decade, driven by the growth of energy demand and the efforts made by China in particular to increase the amount of cleaner methane in its energy mix.

Gas prices will be more attractive LNG imports and encourage domestic gas developments.

"It is largely positive for LNG, as most LNG (Chinese) players are nervous of small competing gas sources (cost)," said analyst based in Beijing main gas Gavin Thompson of Wood Mackenzie.

"We will start to see a little more of the influence of China in the spot, LNG short-term markets than in recent years."

The cash price of LNG in China are about $14.50 per million BTU, while the India gas imports are $ 13 to $ 14 per million BTUS.

"I expect there will be some changes in the psychology of the consumer (India) and the reason for the request," said R.K. Garg, responsible for finance to Petronet LNG.

Imported from India 15,17 million tonnes of LNG in 2012, which would amount to 50 million tonnes by 2020, while demand in China, which has purchased 14.7 LNG, last year, is expected to reach 60 million tons by 2020, said Tri Zen International consultancy.

"We had assumed in the forecast higher prices, so do not think that recent hikes in both countries will be raises all changes in forecasts," said analyst of Tri Zen Tony Regan.

Gas India demand-supply: link.reuters.com/dec49t

China gas use 2000-2015: link.reuters.com/pyw28t

Price increases will also provide an incentive for investment in LNG import infrastructure.

"A formal indication of an increase in domestic prices will give clarity on potential future supply terminal re-gasification more developers,", said Gautam Sudhakar, senior analyst at IHS in Washington DC.

A few days after the price increase gas, energy Indian firm H called for tenders from contractors of the EPC for the construction of a terminal for LNG 8 million tonnes per year in the State of Maharashtra.

The India has plans for 83 million tonnes of capacity to import LNG on the books at the horizon 2020, the market for LNG prices which much may depend on whether if the developers feel that they can get.

Chinese importers may be more willing to ratify supplies in the short term with export facilities in Africa from the East, at the Canada and the United States, as well as more traditional suppliers such as the Australia and Qatar, experts say.

The lift domestic prices is also trimming losses to PetroChina(0857.HK) (601857.SS) Rudong and Dalian import terminals who contracted Zhanjiang and terminals of Fujian term expensive LNG from Qatar and CNOOC Ltd. (0883.HK) that will import LNG from Australia and Indonesia.

GAIL India Ltd. gas company (GAIL.)NS) has already contracted to about 8 million tonnes of imports of LNG of US, raising concerns about who will pay for the expensive imported gas.

"All the uncertainties have been put to rest now... pay a few more dollars per million BTU, for a more certain profile of 20 years will not be difficult to sell," said Karthik Sathyamoorthy, head of the Asia-Pacific at the energy consulting group of Galway.

(Writing and additional reporting by Rebekah Kebede in Perth;) Editing by Richard Pullin)

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Brazil seeks at least $ 7 billion in the auction of the largest oil find

The global Times

Brazil expects at least 15 billion reais (7 billion$) of any company or group rights for major pipelines found balance, which is put up for auction in October, an official with regulator of the country, said Thursday.

Balance, with about 12 billion barrels of oil recoverable or sufficient to meet a year and a half of use of oil to the United States, perspective is largest of the world to be put up for auction.

Production is expected to start in five years.

Brazil expects more than 1 million barrels per day ((bpj) BPD) of oil out of balance, said the Director general of the national Brazilian Agency of petroleum, natural gas and biofuels (ANP), Magda Chambriard, on the sidelines of a conference of the industry in Singapore Thursday.

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Australian researchers are using computer modeling to help locate oil and gas resources

Xinhua

Australian researchers have used to correct understanding of the movements of tectonic plates, which will allow to precisely locate resources oil and gas in the region of the Australia, old computer modeling a statement of research of the Australian National University (ANU), said Friday.

There are about 165 million years plates Australian, Indian and Antarctic drifted apart from the super-continent Gondwana, but up to now, there is uncertainty as to the exact position and movements of the plates in the past.

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Mafia launders dirty money in clean energy

RT

The Italian mafia is ramp investment in wind farms to launder money and benefit from EU subsidies.

Europol firm reports of wind and renewable energy in general, are the most popular target for money laundering, after analysing the financial activities of four groups of mobsters in the Italy.

"The Italian mafia is more invest in renewable energy, particularly wind farms to benefit from generous subsidies, paid by the Member States, enabling them to mix dirty money with legitimate economic activities," the report says.

The industry of renewable energies - is one of the most promising sectors of the country have increased while the rest of the economy has slipped into recession, reports globalpost.com.  Developers built more wind and solar power plants in 2012 than in a previous year and added 5,000 jobs in a country plagued by unemployment, according to article.

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Envoyer à l'arrière et la crédibilité des politiques climatiques européennes

Is it possible to kill a policy trying to save it? July 3, 2013, the Parliament of the European Union had voted in favour of the Commission proposal for the benefit of "introduce" carbon 900 million to support the carbon price - which has been sinking or less €4 per tonne of CO2 for several months now - by withdrawing (in fact, postponing the release of) a huge amount of quotas. The move was welcomed by green campaigners, renewable producers and utilities who received (all or part) of their certificates for free, but it exposes both the deficiencies of market Europe carbonand its underlying political agenda. To understand why, we need to see how the system works in the first place, and what would be the alternatives.

(ETS) emission trading regime has long been considered major success in European environmental policy. In establishing a pan-European carbon market, it is claimed that the EU has introduced a cost-effective, focused tool on the market to treat climate change. Several objections may be made. Policies on the market to treat these complicated issues such as those involving emissions can be divided into two broad categories: instruments (e.g. a carbon tax) price and quantity (for example, a CAP and trade system). In the first case, the regulator sets a price for the pollutant (ideally equal to its marginal social cost) and the market-i.e., economic agents who must pay in proportion to their own emissions - will find the corresponding, 'optimal' amount of emissions. In the latter, the regulatory authority sets a ceiling on the amount of emissions that can be emitted and a corresponding number of permits is issued. Of market agents shall abandon a number of licenses equal to their own cap at the end of the period (say, one year). If they emit less, they can sell the extra-indemnites to other topics that were not able to reduce their emissions as well. In this way, the burden of reducing emissions is offset where its marginal cost is low, and the market found the "real" price of allowances. In perfect condition, both systems are equivalent: an optimal carbon tax will lead to a quantity of emissions equal to the optimal Cap under a CAP and trade system which, in turn, would be the price to the same level as the optimal tax, emissions. Unfortunately, our world is not perfect, and regulators do not have the information to make an optimal decision. Therefore, the choice between a carbon tax and a CAP and trade system is practical: in conditions of uncertainty, that one is more likely to achieve the expected results? Economists hold that a price mechanism is best when the marginal cost curve is steeper than the curve of marginal profit, while a quantity mechanism is best otherwise. It depends on the consequences in the long term of a suboptimal choice, as well as on the need to reduce later adjustment costs.

When it comes to climate change, it is easy to see that a carbon tax would be a more effective instrument than CAP and trade (of course under the bold assumptions that we must "do something" on the climate and that unilateral action makes no sense at all). The marginal cost of reducing emissions curve is fairly steep, to the extent where it requires the flow of emissions that are produced each year to be immediately reduced. On the other hand, the curve of marginal profit is less steep because it does not depend on traffic, but on the stock of carbon which accumulates in the atmosphere each year.

Despite these common sense suggestions coming from almost all climate economists, the EU has decided to set up a CAP and trade system. A feature of the Cap and Exchange system, is that it is very exposed to the vagaries of the economic climate. Emissions depend on overall energy consumption, which in turn depends on the performance of the economy. If the economy goes wrong, as with the recession in Europe - emissions will fall, because the plants will produce less and people and goods will travel less. But given that the amount of allowed emissions has been (and must necessarily be) fixed in advance, the prices will drop. The reason is very intuitive: recession, no policy climate, is resulting in a decrease in emissions. The fact that the price of allowances does not prove that the CAP and trade system is flawed: it shows that it works correctly in this regard. If the provision of one although it is fixed and demand falls for exogenous reasons, its price must also fall.

At least, it should fall under market conditions. But then, politicians arrived. They realized that the price was not "high enough" (to what?) and introduced the measurement of "concentration". In fact, in a first vote in Parliament rejected backloading, but then he the past with minor changes, under enormous pressure from the Commission and powerful interest groups. The result is almost paradoxical.

From the point of view of the mechanism, backloading is to change cap price will be (and already is) go up, of course. What matters, however, is that the underlying idea is that politicians know what the 'real price' carbon. But if they know the 'real price', it is much more logical to introduce a carbon tax: remember, a CAP and trade system is all about to discover the optimal price!

From the point of view of European credibility, backloading should be major reasons for concern. It shows that the rules can be changed at will, regardless of the strength of the initial commitment was. It is almost irrelevant that Parliament has allowed the Commission to withdraw a limited (but not weak) amount of emission "only once." Breaking the rules involves a cost very high, fatal, the first time that you do this: but once you've taken the step, everyone understands that you're ready to cheat - and behaves accordingly. It's like a flag waved at the lobbyists: he suggests that, if they are pretty convincing, nothing is out of reach.

Finally, from the point of view of environmental policy, this vote should be major reasons for concern. She suggested this design good mechanisms for the results in the long term - which is supposed to be the goal of climate policies - is less important that short-term goals, such as keeping the carbon price high enough to please those that policy took that must - be winners.

The consequence short-term backloading allocations will be more likely to support prices, in accordance with its objective. But its long-term effects could be the one to kill the remaining credibility of European climate policies.

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Build Your Own Solar Panel..You Can!

With energy resources dwindling fast and global warming changing climates across the globe, more people look towards renewable energies for reducing their carbon footprint.  However, even the most environmentally passionate person cannot pursue such endeavors without the proper financial resources.  The professional installation of a solar energy system can cost in the thousands, so many resourceful individuals are turning to the many great resources that help you build your own solar panel.

It is possible to completely build your own solar panel, but for the most part, these panels are small and do not produce the wattage necessary to power more than a simple lamp and only for a couple of minutes.  The most effective way to produce power from the sun, when you can’t afford to hire the professionals, would be with a solar panel kit.  These build your own solar panel kits come with everything you need to successfully build your own solar panel in the comfort of your living room, or the garage may be a wiser choice. 

Surprisingly, build your own solar panel kits are not difficult to find.  With large companies like GE producing these kits, the build your own solar panel sets are very affordable and offer quicker return on your investment than purchasing and professionally installing a solar energy system.  In general the instructions are easy to follow, even for teens and children, and in no time you are on your way to your own solar power system. 

If you are looking to build your own solar panel there are a numerous resources and guides available to help you through the process.  By involving the whole family in the building process, every one will learn how a solar power system works and exactly how the components are put together.  Also, when you build your own solar panel you are giving yourself the knowledge to expand your system on your own, without calling back the installers, and the ability to adapt your current system to meet new design needs. 

Making the choice to build your own solar panel is a great investment for your future and the world’s future.  Start making your own power at home and take advantage of this great way to educate yourself while saving money and helping the environment and learn how to build your own solar panel today.

Could US oil trends changing the definition of the price of oil?

The oil prices were not always defined by a transparent global market. Current pricing mechanisms from precursors much less transparent.Resurgent American production, combined with restrictions on exports of oil, could disconnect the world market for oil, with unexpected results in the United States.
Editor's Note: this piece appeared on the Energy Outlook, Geoffrey Styles blog'.
If you follow the energy closely, you probably lost the number of times that you have heard an economist, Executive or Government representative explained that the oil prices are defined by the global market and not by the oil companies or the Government of the United States.  Although a little too simplified, this statement was valid for about 30 years.  However, it has not always been the case. Current trends in the American production, as well as the regulations in force, make me wonder if it remains accurate in the future, as the United States inches closer to what is commonly called energy independence.
The system based on the market price of oil, with its transparency and easy exchange between the regions, did not the day after.  Until the beginning of the 1970s, Texas played a role similar to the role of producer current swing of Saudi Arabia within OPEC.  Limiting production wells of oil from the State, the Texas Railroad Commission has actually determined the global price of oil - to the extent that it was one-until Texas had no spare capacity left.  That pave the way for OPEC, a succession of oil crises and the controls on oil prices which have been imposed in the 1970s to help manage inflation. Is there also no unique, representative of the oil price.  Instead, the prices were set by the contractual terms of the manufacturers and discounts large refiners could negotiate, or federally.  The current system has emerged in a series of developments in the 1980s.
When U.S. oil price control ended in 1981, oil futures became just underway on the New York Mercantile Exchange.  Heating oil contract was launched in 1980, followed by the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude contract in 1983. This combined large-scale oil trader with a level of unprecedented transparency.   It was also important that the United States, most large consumer of oil in the world, became a major oil importer after domestic production peaked in 1970.  Because the refineries on the sides competed for oil supply with refiners on other continents, the price of WTI could not get too far out of proportion to gross imported without creating opportunities for arbitration for traders.  And any part of the United States connected by pipeline to the Gulf Coast was actually linked to the price of oil in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
After that OPEC miscalculated the response to the very high price of that its members claimed in this period-reaching $100 a barrel in oil demand of today $-global decreased 10% from 1979 to 1983, then the non-OPEC production increased by more than 12%.  Price soon collapsed, and the domination of oil from OPEC markets faded during the major part of the next two decades, during which the futures markets and trade relations of the modern market oil seized.
Which could undermine the current system of oil prices?  He has already resisted recessions, wars in the Middle East, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the explosive growth of Asia, with China, only addition request oil comparable to that of the five largest EU economies.  However, given that the current system relies on the free movement of oil between the regions, everything that prevents this stream could undermine the way in which the price of oil is currently set.
Rejecting the scenarios of conflict, consider the potential impact of sustained growth in the U.S., combined production to flat or declining demand and no change in the current ban on exports of crude oil to the United States most.  The roundabout differential between WTI and Brent crude UK, reflecting the increase in production in logistical bottlenecks from the centre of the continent and graves, gives an overview of what it could be like.  A good part of new U.S. production come in the form of oils lighter than those to which most Gulf Coast refineries have been optimized, keeping the increase we gross production bottled here could result in us divergent crude prices still further world prices, while forcing U.S. refineries to function less effectively and import and export of the finest products.  With oil drastically imports and still banned oil exports, oil US price could be influenced more by the global market of refined products, with its different dynamics and the players, as the global crude oil market.
In some respects, this looks a lot like what many politicians and hawks of energy"have sought for years: a U.S. is no longer subject to requirements of price of foreign oil producers.  However, this scenario could yield all kinds of unintended consequences, including a less competitive us refining industry and higher or at least more volatile prices for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.  And just as we saw with cheap natural gas, less expensive oil could undermine the economy of non-conventional oil and gas production which makes it possible in the first place.
American oil export policy deserves thorough re-assessment and soon, because a regional impact on a continuous no-export position could become pronounced, even if the United States has never reached global oil self-sufficiency. Such a review should include related regulations, such as the Jones Act shipping restrictions. With oil crude exports to Canada - virtually the only one authorized to export destination for our newly abundant already types of crude growing, some Canadian refineries can be placed to supply the markets of fuel aside East of the United States at less cost than refineries in New Jersey.  Of course, which is considered to be an unintended consequence.

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Bracing of the Pentagon for public dissent during energy shocks

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The National Security Agency (NSA) Top secret documents revealed by the Guardian have shocked the world with the revelations of a global surveillance system established in the United States with direct access to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants. New Zealand Court records suggest that data collected through the prism of the NSA system introduced in the alliance's intelligence five eyes whose members include also the UK, the Canada, the Australia and the New Zealand.

But why Western security agencies have developed such an unprecedented ability to spy on their own domestic populations? Since the economic crash of 2008, security services have increasingly touted by political activists, especially from the environmental groups, on behalf of the interests companies. This activity is related to the last decade of planning by the defense, which has been increasingly preoccupied by the risk of civil unrest at home triggered by catastrophic events related to climate change, energy shocks or economic crisis - or all three.

Last month, unilateral changes to military law U.S. officially granted the extraordinary powers of the Pentagon to intervene in an Interior "emergency" or "public disorder":

"Federal military commanders have the power, in exceptional circumstances of emergency where a prior permission of the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to temporarily carry out activities needed to suppress civil large-scale, unexpected problems."

Other documents that comprise 'extraordinary emergencies', that the Pentagon is concerned about a range of environmental and related disasters.

In 2006, the American national security strategy warned that:

Destruction of the environment, whether caused by human behavior or cataclysmic mega-disasters such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis. Problems of such magnitude can overwhelm the ability of local authorities to react and can even overtax national military, which requires a greater international response. »

Two years later, the Department of the army modernization strategy defense (DoD) describes the arrival of a new "era of persistent conflict" because of the competition for "depleting natural resources and overseas markets" refuelling "resources future wars on water, food and energy." The report predicted a resurgence of:

'anti-Government and radical ideologies that potentially threaten the stability of the Government.'

The same year, a report by the Institute of strategic studies of the U.S. Army warned that a series of national crises could cause problems on a large scale of civilians. The path to the 'disruptive domestic shock' could include traditional threats such as the deployment of weapons of mass destruction, alongside "natural and human disasters" or "ubiquitous health emergency" which coincides with "unforeseen economic collapse." These crises may lead to "loss of functioning political and legal order" leading to "purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency...".

"DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its vast resources at the disposal of the civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to inner peace. Under the most extreme circumstances, this may include the use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. "In addition, DoD would, by necessity, a hub enabling essential for the continuity of political authority in a civil conflict in several U.S. States or disruption or across the country."

This year, the Pentagon had begun to develop a 20,000 strong troop force that would be on-site to meet "household disasters" and civil unrest - program would have rested on a 2005 homeland security strategy that emphasized "preparing multiple incidents, simultaneous injured."

The following year, a study funded by the U.S. Army RAND Corp. called for a US force presence specifically to face civil unrest.

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Exxon CEO: US Losing Ground in Natural Gas Exports

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By Matthew Rocco

ExxonMobil (XOM) Chief Executive Rex Tillerson criticized delays in approving more natural gas export projects, saying U.S. companies are losing millions of dollars a day and the nation is losing ground to other countries.

On Thursday, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told lawmakers in Washington that he plans to “expeditiously” begin evaluating more than a dozen applications that are awaiting approval. The applications would allow for the export of liquefied natural gas.

“It’s a very competitive marketplace. It’s not like people are just going to stand at our door like panting dogs just waiting for us to give this (LNG) to them,” Tillerson said, according to Reuters.

Tillerson added that he met with Moniz on Wednesday but left with no clear indication of when Exxon’s Golden Pass LNG project, a $10 billion joint venture with Qatar Petroleum, will receive approval.

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Godawari Starts Asia’s Biggest Solar-Thermal Power Plant

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By Natalie Obiko Pearson

Godawari Power & Ispat Ltd. (GODPI) started Asia’s biggest solar-thermal plant as India limps toward clean-energy targets with prices almost half the global average.

The 50-megawatt plant in northwest Rajasthan state boasts 5,760 mirrors that concentrate the sun’s rays, generating steam to drive turbines, project Managing Director Siddharth Agrawal said in an interview. Output started a month behind schedule.

India, beset by blackouts as coal-power stations are idled for lack of fuel, plans to install 20,000 megawatts of solar capacity by 2022, up from 1,700 megawatts now. The Godawari plant, delayed by slow U.S. supplies and desert dust clouds, is symptomatic of an industry where soaring costs and technical hurdles have set back all projects from an inaugural auction.

“It’s a bit soon to declare this an engineering success,” said Jenny Chase, Zurich-based chief solar analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “Whether it can be commissioned is not the same question as whether it will work as predicted, never mind whether it will make money.”

Godawari’s plant and the other six projects that prevailed in the 2010 auction won licenses by pledging to sell power at an average of 11,480 rupees ($197) a megawatt-hour. That’s 43 percent below the global average of $344, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The lower price may weigh on finances at the Godawari project, which already overshot its budget by almost 20 percent. Costs were pushed up by a lack of local components, a weakening rupee and a 28-month deadline that restricted its ability to negotiate terms with lenders and contractors, Agrawal said.

“I paid more so that my work wouldn’t stop,” the director said, estimating he paid 25 percent more for imported components because of the lack of time. “We took the hit.”

Supplier Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) almost doubled the price for its critical heat-transfer fluid to $5.67 a kilogram in the months following the bid, according to Agrawal. The project was further set back when a dust storm caused a building at the site to collapse, delaying construction by a month, while the rupee depreciated 23 percent against the dollar since the auction.

Godawari’s plant is the first to be completed of the auction’s seven projects, which total 470 megawatts in capacity and require about $1 billion in investments.

Reliance Power Ltd. (RPWR)’s 100-megawatt plant is about six months behind deadline, while the remainder are stalled by rising costs and technical setbacks, according to Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

Godawari has fallen 34 percent this year in Mumbai trading. The shares rose as much as 3.9 percent today, and were up 2.2 percent at 78.05 rupees as of 3:04 p.m. local time, compared with a 1.8 percent gain in the benchmark Sensitive Index.

India is pressing ahead with its plans to expand the solar-thermal industry in a bid to reach grid parity, where the cost of power from clean-energy turbines equals that of electricity from the national transmission network.

“Solar thermal is the only solution for grid parity” Agrawal said. “Photovoltaic can’t take you to that scale.”

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Jordanians protest intend to go nuclear

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As Jordan is working on plans to build its first nuclear power plant, the demonstrators still criticise decision in the country to go nuclear in the first place. They say it wastes water and ignores the renewable energy potential country.

Safa Al Jayoussi, an activist with Greenpeace in Jordan, became concerned when she begins to explain why the Jordan will not be able to cope with the impending turn of the country to the nuclear power plant. She said that the Jordan is one of the five poorest countries of the world and that new power plans will simply put the nation under the pressure even more.

"Nuclear power plants require large quantities of cooling water, usually from a large river or a Lake," she told DW. "But in Jordan, we have really not all sources of water."

She is also concerned about a potential nuclear disaster similar to what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

It is proposed to use greywater from a plant of wastewater for cooling,"says Al Jayoussi. «All this facility, which is likely to occur, water shortage will cause a huge problem looks a lot like what we saw in Fukushima.»

Plans taking shape

In 2009, the Jordan newly formed Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) said its plans to build five nuclear reactors in the country. The first would be operational by 2020, they said, and would generate 44% of the energy mix of the Jordan.

A warm country and arid sandwiched between Israel and the Syria, the Jordan is not to boast of its own substantial oil reserves. In fact, according to the Government officials, in 2012 the country imported 95 percent of its energy. It is this addiction that the country hopes to resolve with nuclear reactors.

"Currently, we pay about 1.8 billion $ (1.35 billion euros) per year for electricity additional imports from Jordan," says Kamal Araj, Vice President of the JAEC.

Araj argues that nuclear energy will make energy security in Jordan, something he struggled with in the past.

"Nuclear runs for 60 years and although there's lots of fluctuations in the price of oil or gas and diesel prices, for nuclear, the price is set for a lifetime," he says, in an interview with DW. Araj said that, according to him, are not viable renewable energy sources because "they do work for 25 to 30 years."

At the opening of the first factory, Jordan plans to buy electricity from the power plant operator at a price fixed, considerably cheaper than the price the State pays now for electricity.

What about solar?

But Safa Al Jayoussi and Burgan Basel organization ecologist, Jordanian Friends of the Environment, both are disagree with the assessment of Araj of renewable energies. The Jordan has 330 days of sunshine per year and is, according to Burgan, the ideal candidate for solar.

"European Union recruits land in North Africa for solar energy projects," he said. "Then why are we turning to nuclear without exploring the possibilities of using solar energy? On the one hand, solar has become cheaper. »

Professor Steve Thomas, an expert on nuclear policy of the University of Greenwich, London, also questioned the argument that renewables are not a realistic option for the Jordan.

"Although the Government have said that they are not sustainable, what is not really viable is their nuclear plans," he told DW.

Thomas doubt if Jordan will be able to get funding for the nuclear project due to the low credit ratings of the country. And he worries whether he will have comments and design the appropriate plant safety.

"They have not the slightest chance to reach their deadline of 2020," he said.

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Oil chased in Mozambique after the discoveries of the world largest gas

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By Eduard Gismatullin

Statoil ASA (STL) and Tullow Oil Plc (TLW) complete a well aimed at achieving the first discovery of commercial oil in Mozambique, is the East African country where explorers have made the most important natural gas of the century.

Cachalote partners worse off Mozambique is drilling beyond potential gas fields and searching for crude later discovered under the bottom marine, Director of Exploration Tullow, Angus McCoss said in an interview yesterday. The well is expected to be finished this month.

"We believe that some of the most plays" may have oil, said McCoss. "This is the goal of this campaign is trying to find the elusive offshore oil East Africa".

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) and Eni SpA (ENI) found more than 100 trillion feet cubes of gas off the coast of Mozambique, enough fuel to build the second largest natural gas liquefied in the world. Oil explorers prefer because it is easier and less expensive to ship to customers, has been harder to find. In 2010, Ironclad of Anadarko shows signs of oil even without making an economically viable discovery.

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Rolls of Britain wind power Offshore Stimulation plan investment

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Britain this week, announced the beginning of a plan of offshore wind investment at a time when some are questioning his commitment to the development of the industry.

British enterprise and Energy Minister Michael Fallon, speaking at a conference of the wind power industry Wednesday in Manchester, England, announced the creation of an Offshore wind investment organization to "stimulate more jobs" in the industry.

"Offshore wind is a major success for the United Kingdom and we want to increase the levels of foreign investment," he said. "This will be an important part of our industrial strategy for the sector later this year, and we create the Offshore wind investment organization to lead this activity."

Touting the record of Britain's 3.3 gigawatts of offshore wind energy installed - more than in the rest of the world put in place - Fallon predicts new industry-led partnership would contribute to 'further improve the benefits of the offshore wind energy sector can bring to the U.K. economy.'

The Government, in partnership with the wind energy industry, is developing an industrial strategy of offshore wind power to be issued this year, designed to help to achieve the potential of Great Britain for 18 gigawatts of wind turbines at sea installed by 2020.

Fallon says that the aim is to provide a vision in the long term to "help bring companies to the United Kingdom, competitiveness of the U.K. supply chain, create jobs, improve skills and stimulate the economy, as well as provide an essential contribution to our energy mix."

But it also comes at a time where the British coalition Government and members of Parliament rejected the idea of setting binding targets for wind energy and installations of solar energy by 2030, as requested by the European Union under its objectives long-term decarbonization.

Instead, they opted for a "technologically neutral" CO2 reduction goal that embraces an expansion of nuclear energy, the gas-fired power plants and the development of shale gas – bringing warnings that without firm targets for renewable energy, investors in the industry will be shy away from Britain.

For example, manufacturers such as General Electric and Vestas turbines are held rebate on commitments in Britain until they are more certain of the policy of the Government. GE UK had published plans for a factory of 157 million $ in Britain.

Simultaneous with the announcement of Fallon, RenewableUK British trade group issued a report stating that unless the Government and the industry coordinate their efforts to attract investment from wind power, the country will allow a "an once-in-a generation" escape second-hand manufacturing.

"If it don't seize, factories of the future large scale wind energy supply chain, making the huge blades, towers and foundations that we will need to retain the lead of the United Kingdom in the offshore wind, will be found elsewhere," said RenewableUK director general Maria McCaffery.

"There is potential to create tens of thousands of green manufacturing jobs in the balance. We are committed to working with the Government to ensure that the United Kingdom takes advantage of this opportunity to build an industry that will be the envy of the rest of the world. »

The industry group said that, in order to achieve the goal of 18-gigawatt, British offshore wind farm sector should up to seven plants turbine tower, seven blade, seven plants of nacelle, six plants to build foundations, six plants to build substations offshore and six cable plants.

Need more 20 vessels huge install offshore wind turbines and another 230 ships to transport workers and to the turbines as soon as they become operational.

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Pakistan Focus shifts to coal Central

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Angry, the cost of rising power generation and a grant to the uncontrollable, the Government of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz decided to launch four new patterns in its power generation policy which will see two oil or Central gas from coal and the establishment of two new coal-fired plants.

Budget documents for fiscal year 2013-14 unveiled plans, cost PKR 252,23 billion, will receive the support and financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank.

The ADB will provide PKR 77.6 billion, the total cost of PKR 97 billion, for a change of plant oil/gas oven charcoal. These include units 1 to 6 of the Muzaffargarh power plant, which have the capacity of 1,350 megawatts (MW) energy generation, and 1-2 units of Jamshoro power plant with capacity of 450.

In the new budget, the Government allocated PKR 2.7 billion for these two systems.

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Rosneft to Partner with Norway’s Statoil in Arctic

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Statoil de la Norvège et la compagnie pétrolière russe Rosneft sont associent dans une entreprise après avoir reçu une participation de 20 pour cent dans le plateau continental de la Norvège dans la mer de Barents.

La Norvège a estimé les blocs, qui s'étendent de 1 213 kilomètres carrés, contiennent un potentiel de 400 à 600 millions de barils de pétrole récupérable.

RN Nordic Oil AS, une filiale indirecte de Rosneft, travaillera avec la Statoil norvégienne, qui agira à titre d'exploitant, de développer les quatre blocs de « prometteurs et prolifiques » près des zones de Skrugard et Havis récemment découvertes dans les domaines de Casberg.

« Ce prix de licence constitue pour Rosneft une entrée ferme prometteuse dans le plateau continental norvégien dans la mer de Barents. Il marque également une étape importante dans le développement de la coopération à long terme avec Statoil,"Rosneft a déclaré dans un communiqué.

Partenariat de Rosneft avec Statoil est clé dans le développement de l'entreprise et influence dans la région.

« Nous sommes heureux d'avoir obtenu la licence et hâte contribuent de manière active au programme de travail de licence. Nous sommes convaincus que demande la plus récente technologie conjointement avec notre partenaire stratégique Statoil vont nous permettre de développer ces superficies le plus efficacement possible,"a déclaré le vice-président de Rosneft pour Runje de Zeljko projets Offshore.

Lukoil, qui n'a pas reçu tout Arctique forage permis de Russie, a également reçu une licence par le biais de Statoil pour développer conjointement des hydrocarbures.

Magnat du pétrole de la Norvège a annoncé les résultats licence mercredi, et un total de 24 blocs ont été attribués à 29 entreprises différentes. Vingt des licences sont pour la mer de Barents et quatre pour la mer de Norvège.

Les sociétés d'enchères posé leur candidature en décembre 2012, et développement commencera pas avant dix ans.

Rosneft a aussi collaboré avec Statoil pour l'exploration de gisements de pétrole de schiste dans la Formation de Khadum dans la région de Stavropol et champs sous la mer de l'Arctique de la Russie.

La Norvège et la Russie sont en étroite concurrence pour le marché de l'énergie de l'Allemagne. La Norvège s'est vanté record des exportations hautes en 2012, tout en premier exportateur européen de la Russie, Gazprom, a subi ses pires chiffres en 10 ans.

La Norvège a augmenté ses exportations de 16 % en 2012 pour atteindre les 107.6bn mètres cubes, selon l'office des statistiques clés de l'Europe Eurostat

Après avoir repris TNK-BP, en mars, Rosneft a été ramasser des projets de joint-venture dans le monde entier.

Sechin vise à puce loin au monopole de Gazprom et de doubler sur le marché de Rosneft en 2020, passant de 9 % au moins 19 %, dans les plans clairement à une réunion à Londres mardi des investisseurs.

En mai, Rosneft a signé un accord de coopération avec INPEX, le plus grand explorateur de l'énergie du Japon, d'explorer conjointement pour le pétrole et le gaz dans la mer d'Okhotsk, dans laquelle il détiendra une participation de deux-tiers.

En mai, Rosneft s'associe la compagnie pétrolière nationale vénézuélienne PDVSA pour explorer le delta de la rivière Orinico, une ceinture de pétrole lourd de 342 kilomètres carrés. Part de Rosneft s'élèvera à 40 pour cent.

En mars, Rosneft subsidiaires Neftegaz Amérique étagère LP a acquis une participation de 30 % en 20 blocs d'exploration des eaux profondes dans le golfe du Mexique, qui s'est tenue par Exxon Mobil. Les blocs ont une superficie totale de 450 kilomètres carrés.

"Rosneft" envisage une offre publique initiale, mais n'a pas fait aucune annonce publique finale à ce sujet.

Si Rosneft est privatisée, il a tout à gagner de capitalisation boursière et profits plus élevés. Le public à l'épargne, semblable à de VTB, ferait probablement à la bourse de Moscou, et le Kremlin garderait une part majoritaire de la société, au moins 60 %.

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Obama quietly raises "Carbon price" as to the climate, the costs increase

Bloomberg

By Mark Drajem

Buried in a rule little noticed on microwave ovens is a change in the accounting of the U.S. Government for carbon emissions, which could have far-reaching consequences for all, power plants for the Keystone XL pipeline.

The increase of the social cost of carbon, $ 38 per metric tonne in 2015 of $23.80, supposedly adjusts the calculation, the Government uses to weigh the costs and benefits of the proposed regulations. The figure is supposed to bring losses of the warming of the planet such as flooding and reduced damage crops.

With the change, governmental actions which lead to reductions in emissions - anything, new standards for mileage at the energies own loans - will appear more valuable in its cost-benefit analyses. On the flipside, environmentalists urges that it be used to judge projects that could lead to more carbon pollution, such as the pipeline Keystone TransCanada Corp. (TRP) or the coal companies such as Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) on public lands, which would be considered as more expensive.

"As we learn from climate damage is worse and worse yet, there is no direction, they could go but upwards," Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist for the Natural Resources Defense Council climate, said in an interview. Johnson said that the administration should go further; It considers that the cost of carbon could be as much as $266 per tonne.

Even supporters questioned the way in which the administration has slipped out policy without opening it to the public comments. The change was buried in the afternoon announcement may 31 on efficiency standards for the microwave ovens, a rule, not considered revolutionary.

"It is a very strange way of doing politics for something this important," Frank Ackerman, an economist at Tufts University, who has published a book on the economics of the global warming, said in an interview. Administration Obama 'has not always leveled with us on what happens behind closed doors."

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