Europe's new sanctions on Iran unlikely to bring oil trade to a halt Daily Star Lebanon | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | - Powered by | Analysis | Barbara Lewis | Reuters | DUBAI: Sanctions on Iran tightened their grip on Monday with European measures making business with the OPEC member even harder, but no-one expects its oil trade to cease as high profits and energy needs inspire ingenuity...
Company expands project footprint in Middle East Mining Weekly | Engineering and project delivery company Amec Minproc is currently carrying out several development reviews for Saudi Arabian gold and base-metals-mining company Ma’aden. | The project is part of the company’s strategy to increase its footprint...
The Motley Fool: What about goodwill? Houston Chronicle | ASK THE FOOL | The worth of goodwill | Q: Can you explain what "goodwill" is? - S.C., Greenwood, S.C. | A: You'll typically find "goodwill" on a company's balance sheet if it has acquired another company and paid more than the acquiree's appraised ...
'You can't blame me for being a Zuma' Business Report | By Agiza Hlongwane | Massive, multimillion-rand business deals just keep pouring in for Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of President Jacob Zuma. | But the younger Zuma, a resident of Umhlanga Rocks, has shot down claims that his uncle has brought his in...
China turns on demand power Asia Times | Jul 24, 2010 China turns on demand power | By Sreeram Chaulia | American journalist Matt Taibbi employed a grotesque analogy last summer to describe the Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs as a "great vampire squid wrapped arou...
The End of Capitalism? Part 2A. Capitalism and Ecological Limits Energy Bulletin | The following exchange between Michael Carriere and Alex Knight occurred via email, July 2010. Alex Knight was questioned about the End of Capitalism Theory, which states that the global capitalist system is breaking down due to ecological and soci...
Exporting Broadway Wall Street Journal By ELLEN GAMERMAN | When the musical "Tarzan," based on the Disney movie, opened on Broadway in 2006, critics were merciless and the show closed after little more than a year. Then the musical moved to Europe and everything changed. Ten percent of th...
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Oil wealth may hold Iraq together NZ Herald By 4:00 AM Thursday Jul 8, 2010 Email Print | As the American withdrawal gains speed, there are fewer American troops in Iraq than in Afghanistan for the first time since 2003. | B...
Peak oil review - July 5 Energy Bulletin | 1. Oil and the global economy | Oil prices fell 8 percent last week from a high of $79 on Monday to close on Friday at $72.14. After it became apparent that hurricane Alex would ...
'You can't blame me for being a Zuma' Business Report | By Agiza Hlongwane | Massive, multimillion-rand business deals just keep pouring in for Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of President Jacob Zuma. | But the younger Zuma, a resident of Umhlanga Rocks, has shot down claims that his uncle has brought his in...
Aramco extends bids for Yanbu refinery unit Gulf News | Khobar: State oil giant Saudi Aramco has asked firms to extend the deadline for bids to build one of the units at the 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) Yanbu refinery, industry sources said on Thursday. | The Yanbu project accounts for just under a qua...
China turns on demand power Asia Times | Jul 24, 2010 China turns on demand power | By Sreeram Chaulia | American journalist Matt Taibbi employed a grotesque analogy last summer to describe the Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs as a "great vampire squid wrapped arou...
The End of Capitalism? Part 2A. Capitalism and Ecological Limits Energy Bulletin | The following exchange between Michael Carriere and Alex Knight occurred via email, July 2010. Alex Knight was questioned about the End of Capitalism Theory, which states that the global capitalist system is breaking down due to ecological and soci...
It's a race to failure between rogue states and global oil output Energy Bulletin | Dwindling global oil supplies are leaving the world ever more reliant on a group of unstable countries – many of which are themselves facing major domestic problems right now. | Believe it or not, many of the world’s major oil exporters cannot ...
Oilwatch Monthly July 2010 Energy Bulletin | Latest Developments: | 1) Conventional crude production - Latest figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that crude oil production including lease condensates decreased by 100,000 b/d from March to April 2010, resulting in tot...
Do Iraq's politicians believe in Iraq? Gulf News | Nearly five months after parliamentary elections were held, Iraq is still without a government. Unfortunate as this may be, it is not entirely surprising because Iraq, seven years on from the 2003 war, is still a country in transition. Post-2003 Iraq is somewhat akin to post-1958 Iraq when Abdul Karim Qasim and other military conspirators overthr...
