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These BUILDER types put the dump trucks on the road and carpenters and iron workers to work and interrupt the bulldozers long and extended recent bulldozing nap and put the dozers back to work too.But the price of oil is not their key indicator- their key indicator is their overall belief...
Downtown Houston is 50 miles north of Downtown Galveston, and the beach houses are 10 to 22 miles west out the island. The owners are mostly second homes for the Houston big rich, and Houston has some real fortunes. There are quite a few of that crowd who have restored a lot of the...
That compares with the RCA Dome's 57,890 seats and 104 suites. • The arena would have a fixed roof instead of a retractable roof -- like the kind in use at Houston's Reliant Stadium. The letter, however, suggests designers should provide a retractable-roof alternative. • The ...
On Thursday, WTI and Brent contracts prices settled 2.35 percent and 1.99 percent lower, respectively. On Friday, Baker Hughes reported that the number of active drilling oil and gas rigs in the United States increased by 7 to 1055. The oil rigs in the country increased by 7 to 867. ...
The $CAD750 million carbon offset credit fund provides up to 75% of project costs and is said to ‘help onshore and offshore oil and gas companies invest in green solutions to reduce GHGs* and retain jobs in the sector’. There are many opportunities for further emissions reductions in ...
The following 4 charts were produced directly by Dean, output for Oil + Condensate, Oil, and Condensate are in barrels per day, and Total Natural Gas is in thousands of cubic feet per day. The chart above shows how Dean’s estimate for Texas Oil and Condensate has changed from August 201...
of Baghdad - which for the neo-cons would signal the advent of the US as "the new OPEC" - a meeting in the tiny Gulf emirate of Qatar may be signaling the birth of a new cartel: a "gas OPEC", grouping countries controlling 73% of the world's gas reserves and 42% of production....
The agency that oversees oil and gas drilling on federal lands has no immediate plans to try to force companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico to pay royalties on flawed offshore leases. Mexicans pay price at the pump Ordinary Mexicans must wonder sometimes where the benefit is in having...
Finally, if we did all of these things and were able to successfully bring the price down, would there not be a strong urge for people to try to backslide into old behaviors? The other day I saw someone say this in regards to boycotts: I suggest you just don't buy gas for a month...