“I advocated for and helped create the U.S.-EU Energy Council, which has helped to deepen our cooperation on strategic energy issues,” she said of a project that helped bring natural gas from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia to Europe. “We worked with our European partners to build a competitive gas market.”
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Israeli firms Delek and Avner signed an agreement on Monday to acquire a 30 percent stake in exploration rights for gas and oil off Cyprus’s southern shore carried out by US company Noble Energy.
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The solar subsidy program that the Japanese government started in July 2012, in which they offer triple the rates of Germany, is expected to explode in popularity this year, turning Japan into the world’s third largest solar market after China, and either the US or Italy.
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They do not seem to be very concerned by what might happen in Venezuela if Chavez would die in Cuba.
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Only Iran and Iraq are considered more risky than Greece. This is the advice from an US business consultancy (BDO)
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“..Fact is, the US light vehicle fleet is not just old — it’s unreliable, way out of warranty, has 2 air bags (or if it has 4, maybe 2 of them actually work). iPod connectivity? Negative. And just imagine the fuel economy….”
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Private investors will hold at least 55 percent of the vehicle’s equity and subordinated debt, de Guindos told Parliament in Madrid today. Nationalized banks, which include the Bankia (BKIA) group, will be the first to transfer assets to the bad bank starting in December, he said.
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Storing data is knowledge and knowledge is power. Besides, it makes it a lot easier to snoop on the Chinese citizens.
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The city will be the first in the United States to test “social impact bonds,” also called pay-for-success bonds, which are an effort to find new ways to finance initiatives that might save governments money over the long term.
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Tullow Oil is planning to invest in an African oil pipeline, emboldened by a huge profit on the sale of its interest in promising Ugandan oilfields to France’s Total and China’s Cnooc.
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