Recent Articles
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Getting green and energy independent: Nice try?
Stefanie Heerwig"We'll continue our march towards energy independence and address the threat of climate change," President Barack Obama announced ambitiously April 10, 2013. According to his proposal, the U.S. should half its oil imports by 2020 and double its energy productivity by 2030. A high aim, but possible as some experts like Christine McEntee, executive director and CEO of the American Geophysical Union, suggest, especially because the plan is carefully tailored and radically wide-ranging.
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Can Egypt have a serious impact on the international oil market?
Stefanie HeerwigWithout doubt Egypt is one of the strategic hotspots when it comes to transporting fuel between the Middle East and the Mediterranean. But are fears about possible supply disruptions justified? And if they are, would these disruptions have a major long-term impact on the international oil market?
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Are your staff members committed — to their space?
Michael J. BerensAll organizations, be they for-profit or not-for-profit, have a mission. It may be to create the coolest technology, serve the best pizza or eliminate world hunger. Not all organizations, however, are mission-driven.
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US as leading subsidizer of fossil fuels? Do estimates matter?
Stefanie HeerwigIf you want to know the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies in the US, you might think you can just have a look at the U.S. budget and that's it. No, sorry, it's not that easy, because major organizations like the IMF, OECD or the IEA have not agreed upon a uniform methodology to measure subsidies yet, nor on a definition of subsidies.
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US Department of Energy pessimistic about energy independence?
Stefanie HeerwigVery pessimistic, the EIA foresees in its main prediction (or reference case) that U.S. net imports will decline only till 2020 making up 34 percent of petrol consumption by 2019, and then increase again to a share of 37 percent by 2040.
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Tweaking your tweets for repeat
Emma FitzpatrickIn the realm of social media, we're still learning how to best measure our business success. The medium is still new, so the best way to see how we're doing hasn't been fully established yet. But we are learning.
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Making sense of oil pricing and price manipulation
Stefanie Heerwig Natural ResourcesThe prices oil companies like Shell, BP and Statoil report to Platts are based on their amount of physical trades, mostly forward contracts. And here is where one of the major loopholes in the assessment of the Brent benchmark already arises.
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Iran’s influence on the oil market and the fate of the US oil industry
Stefanie HeerwigThe first question, of course, is whether Iran would throw a 1 million barrels a day on the market in the short-term future. This depends mostly on whether sanctions by the U.S. and EU will be lifted.
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Even downtown remodeling projects are bigger in Texas
Bambi MajumdarDowntown remodeling is a hot topic now. Increasing number of local governments and municipalities are focusing on changing the face of their downtowns and converting them into modern areas of work and leisure.
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Etihad to establish Belgrade hub through Air Serbia
Matt FalcusBelgrade Airport in Serbia is set to see its operations change as the country’s reimagined national carrier looks to establish its new network and fleet hub under the guidance of Etihad Airways.