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Gazprom to supply coal gasification tech to Vietnam
Russia's OAO Gazprom signed an agreement to supply its underground coal-gasification technology to Viet Nam, Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said. - Read More
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Topics : Coal
Oil reserves in stranger regions
Western firms are now betting their futures on growth in such far-flung frontier regions as the Caspian, West Africa, and the deep waters off Brazil. Their biggest hopes have been pinned on Russia
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Topics : Oil Oil and Gas
Natural gas resources are concentrated in few countries
Like oil, while proven natural gas resources globally are around 180 tcm (60 years of supply - IEA, 2007), they are concentrated in a few countries and regions - Russia, Iram and Qatar hold 56% of world's reserves, while just 25 fields worldwide hold around half the reserves!
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Topics : Natural Gas Oil and Gas
Europe needs to invest more in alt energy after Russian gas crisis
What lessons should Europe take out of the crisis? ?Unless Europe diversifies its energy supplies it will remain a hostage to Russia?s unpredictable relationship with its neighbours,? says The Economist. ?The only rational response is a dramatic acceleration of the European Union?s search for alternative sources of energy,? opines the WaPo. The alt energy source in this case is LNG - Jan 2008
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Topics : Renewable Energy
Russia has second highest amt of coal
The only country that has anywhere near as much coal as USA is Russia (176 billion T - 2006 data), but even that is in remote areas that are difficult to mine
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