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Analysis: SCOOP/STACK operators scale back rig activity by 40% so far in 2019

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Highlights Producers subject to stricter earthquake rules Production still on track for steady growth Denver — Operators in Oklahoma’s SCOOP/STACK, once one of the hottest US onshore plays outside the Permian, have scaled back on the number of rigs by 40% year to date, while earthquake have caused producers to halt activity in some areas. Read More

Refinery News Roundup: Turnarounds in Asia-Pacific coming to an end

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London — Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. has begun to restart its crude distillation unit after fixing damage caused by heavy rain, company officials said. The refinery shut Phase-III process units during the third week of August as a precautionary measure after a landslide caused by heavy rain. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber Read More

Japan regulator to launch new investigation into Fukushima nuclear disaster

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FILE PHOTO: A Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) employee, wearing a protective suit and a mask, walks in front of the No. 1 reactor building at TEPCO’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s nuclear regulator said in Wednesday it would Read More

Japan regulator to re-investigate Fukushima nuclear disaster

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Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, the environment minister said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) Read More

Japan will have to dump radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific, minister says

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment minister said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Read More

Storm-ravaged Bahamians seeking entry to U.S. may face immigration hurdles

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NASSAU, Bahamas/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Emitte Bootle spent 25 years driving school buses on the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island, but now that Hurricane Dorian has devastated his home, there are no students to drive – and nowhere to take them. A man searches for belongings amongst debris in a destroyed neighborhood in the wake of Read More

UK shale gas driller mulling sale due to fracing challenges

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By Kelly Gilblom and Dinesh Nair on 9/9/2019 LONDON (Bloomberg) – Investors backing closely-held Cuadrilla Resources, which pioneered UK shale gas drilling before becoming mired in red tape, are exploring options including an outright sale of the company. Shareholders including private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC, which has a direct 45% holding, and Kerogen Capital, Read More

Japan tells diplomats no decision yet on contaminated Fukushima water

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FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 18, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese government officials on Wednesday told diplomats they were still considering options for handling contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Read More

Sleepy to sleepless? Indonesia’s future capital in the forest

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SEMBOJA, Indonesia (Reuters) – By day, the unforgiving sun glares off the road beside Ipah’s wooden home with blinding brightness as a passing motorbike stirs a swirl of dust. FILE PHOTO: A worker pushes a trolley next to a park decoration at Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan province, Indonesia, Read More

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Chinese officials to visit U.S. farmland as trade talks continue -U.S. agriculture chief

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue speaks during an event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump with workers on “Cutting the Red Tape, Unleashing Economic Freedom” in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo WASHI [.....]

Microsoft nudges S&P 500 toward record high

(Reuters) – Microsoft and healthcare companies lifted Wall Street on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected and left the door open for further monetary easing. FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., September 1 [.....]

‘In Russia, deepfake creates you!’ Even fake Putin won’t admit to meddling in US elections

A real-time deepfake construct of Vladimir Putin was interviewed live on stage by the MIT Technology Review editor, who ducked into a booth to play the Russian leader. Perfect? Not quite, but rapidly crossing the uncanny valley. The computerized Putin was asked about (what else) the ‘Russian meddlin [.....]

Explainer: U.S.-China trade talks – where they are and what’s at stake

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. and Chinese officials are meeting in Washington on Thursday and Friday in an attempt to settle their ongoing trade war, but a lasting peace seems elusive. FILE PHOTO: A Benjamin Franklin U.S. $100 banknote and a Chinese 100 yuan banknote with late Chinese Chairman [.....]

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‘When free speech is under attack, bitcoin is a weapon to resist’ – Keiser Report

With fiat currencies losing reliability worldwide, digital coins are changing the public mindset, giving their owners the means to store wealth safely and use the “free money” to exercise other freedoms, an expert tells RT. “Bitcoin changes people, the time horizon changes, people start thinking abo [...]

ECB’s Coeure says ‘stablecoins’ pose risks amid resistance to Facebook’s Libra

FILE PHOTO: Benoit Coeure, board member of the European Central Bank (ECB), is photographed during an interview with Reuters journalists at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) – A new breed of asset-backed cryptocurrenc [...]

Germany’s Scholz: We cannot accept parallel currencies such as Facebook’s Libra

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday policymakers could not accept the emergence of parallel currencies such as Facebook’s (FB.O) planned Libra, adding that Berlin would reject any such plans. Facebook’s planned Libra is the most well-known of the stablecoins, a cer [...]

AI can’t offer protection from ‘deepfakes,’ new report says

Artificial intelligence-based solutions may not be able to save us from deceptively altered videos, known as deepfakes, according to a new report from Data and Society. In the report, authors Britt Paris and Joan Donovan put deepfakes on a long continuum of media manipulation and say that they requi [...]

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