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OPEC Economies Doing Fine – Our Double Dip Is Their Double Peak

OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues . Image credit: USEIA Based on projections from the EIA report, September 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $731 billion of net oil export revenues in 2010. The USA is a big OPEC customer. Separately. according to projections by Suite101 , total US crude oil imports will cost an estimated $181 bi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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OPEC Economies Doing Fine – Our Double Dip Is Their Double Peak

Six-Month Deep Water Drilling Moratorium Having Little Adverse Impact On Jobs, Rig Siting

” Tugs slowly move the Noble Frontier Driller into port at Signal International’s east shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., on Saturday. At right is the Transocean Marianas. ” Image credit: Times Picayune , Rusty Costanza. Remember all those dire predictions that the Federally imposed, deep-water drilling moratorium (for just 6 months) would crash the economies of Louisiana and Mississippi, for example? Initial data indicate no such thing is happening. As per a well-prepared sto… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Six-Month Deep Water Drilling Moratorium Having Little Adverse Impact On Jobs, Rig Siting