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- Diversify or risk unrest, oil producers warned in report Fri, 26 Mar 21, 4:30pmAs world shifts to green energy, Iraq and Nigeria among those vulnerable to ‘wave of instability’
- Extraordinary man builds 25 plastic bottle homes for refugees in Algeria Fri, 19 May 17, 1:12amA Sahrawi refugee in Algeria is rebuilding lives - literally. Born and raised in the refugee camp in Awserd near Tindouf, 27-year-old Tateh Lehbib Breica is constructing disaster resistant homes using discarded plastic bottles...
- Africa could lead world on green energy, says IEA head Wed, 11 Nov 15, 11:08pmWorld Energy Report 2015 predicts Africa could be the first to power economic growth with renewable energy while India becomes one of the world’s biggest energy consumers
- Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games | Nafeez Ahmed Sat, 10 May 14, 12:11amIslamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interestsThe kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala,...
- Sand Dune-Shaped ARPT Headquarters Captures Cooling Breezes for Natural Ventilation Tue, 9 Jul 13, 5:00amMario Cucinella Architects' new ARPT Headquarters is a landmark building that combines tradition and modernity. The design was inspired by the desert, and it has been carefully oriented and positioned with relation to the...
- Oil Watch - OPEC crude oil production (IEA) Mon, 26 Nov 12, 8:24pmExecutive summary OPEC is currently pumping at close to near term and historic highs of 31.2 mmbpd of crude oil. Outside of Saudi Arabia, the majority of spare capacity is deemed to lie in Iran and Nigeria. Iran could certainly...
- Tech Talk - the top 30 oil producers, a review Thu, 7 Apr 11, 11:52pmThese posts have been going through the EIA list of the top oil producers in the world, over the past few weeks, I thought I might just review them collectively, but briefly, before starting to look at individual countries...
- Tech Talk - thoughts on oil production from the MENA countries in turmoil Sun, 3 Apr 11, 6:20pmThe popular protests among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are continuing to roil, and so, rather than the review of the countries that I have been discussing in the posts of the last few Sundays,...
- Tech Talk - Lower second tier oil producers - Norway, Brazil, Iraq and Algeria Sun, 27 Feb 11, 9:52pmThis current series of posts is aimed at an overview of the top oil producing nations, seeking to establish how the ranking of the countries is changing from the original table that EIA put out in 2008, After looking at...
- North African gas supplies to the European gas market Thu, 24 Feb 11, 3:36amWith civil and bloody unrest spreading across North Africa and The Middle East, it is once again appropriate to look at the dependency of Europe upon imports of gas from North Africa...