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Jun 2018
  • Oil

US oil producers have all their DUCs in a row: Fuel for Thought

With all the talk about sanctions, conflict and nationwide implosions, stakeholders could be overlooking a potential sleeper for the US oil market: DUCs--drilled but uncompleted wells

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Feb 2018
  • Oil

Enhanced oil recovery may offer climate solution: Fuel for Thought

As counterintuitive as it may sound to those who want to transition away from fossil energy to combat climate change, the US government has long supported research into technology that could potentially slow or even halt the growth of industrial carbon...

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Nov 2017
  • Coal
  • Electric Power
  • Renewables
  • Oil

Is the science on climate change 'settled?': Fuel for Thought

First, one should be discomfited by that lightning-rod shorthand for certitude; science is never “settled.” Saying so is the antithesis of science

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