KLM Dutch Airlines is flying partially on used cooking oil between NY and Amsterdam over the next 25 weeks, Reuters reports. The pilot is a partnership between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Delta Air Lines, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Schiphol Group, which operates airports. The purpose of the pilot is …
Category: Energy
Mar 11
Oil price trends
Mar 03
Lower estimates of 2013 global oil demand
The estimate of global oil demand has been slithly lowered to 90.7 (mb/d) in 2013, following downward revisions to the International Monetary Fund’s forecast of economic activity, the IEA said in its February Oil Market Report. Crude oil futures breached nine-month highs in early February, propelled by stronger economic signals from China and the United …
Oct 18
Europe: calls
Environment Financial support for New Knowledge for an integrated management of human activities in the sea. Open call for proposals PP/ENV/SEA 2012 in the framework of the Pilot Project “New Knowledge for an integrated management of human activities in the sea”. Finance available: EUR 2.000.000. Deadline for applications: 19 December 2012, 17:00 hrs (Brussels time) …
Oct 01
Will high oil prices permanently cap economic growth?
The answer to this question is positive, Jeff Rubin said to Bloomberg past week. “For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies.” See also our recent posts …