Posts Tagged ‘
Brazil ’
Aug 11th, 2010 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, International
Stefan Zweig pegged it right after all. In the late 1930s, the Austrian playwright and writer sought relief from war-torn Europe and settled in Brazil. He loved it. In 1941, he moved there and wrote his book Brazil: Land of the Future. Brazil, he thought, “was destined to become one ...
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Tags: Brazil, steel
Posted in Commodities, Featured, International |
2 comments
Feb 26th, 2010 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Oil
I logged 9,814 air miles. Took four different flights. Spent a total of 54 hours traveling. All to meet with a man they call “Mr. GO Deep…”
“Mr. GO Deep” is the go to guy in offshore oil development. Oil companies pay him HUGE consulting fees in hopes to identify the ...
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Tags: Brazil, Namibia, oil drilling
Posted in Featured, Oil |
6 comments
Oct 20th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Oil
Marcio Mello, the former explorationist from Petrobras (PBR: NYSE) and now independent petroleum consultant, electrified the Denver meeting of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
In a riveting talk that lasted well over an hour, Marcio detailed the immense petroleum potential of offshore Brazil, as well ...
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Tags: Brazil, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
4 comments
Oct 8th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Featured
Let's take a quick look at what's happening in Brazil, over and above the 2016 Olympics being awarded to Rio de Janeiro.
"I don't know if I will live to see it," said Brazil's president Luiz (Lula) da Silva a couple weeks ago. "But Brazil has to transform itself into a ...
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Tags: Brazil, Energy, Gold, Oil
Posted in Commodities, Featured |
6 comments
Jun 12th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy, Featured, International, Oil
Brazil is making a national commitment to develop energy resources located far offshore in the South Atlantic. Indeed, no nation has ever advanced such an ambitious plan for long-term comprehensive offshore development. And it's being bankrolled by China.
Much of Brazil's South Atlantic development will require drilling wells in waters up ...
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Tags: Brazil, China, Oil, rare earths
Posted in Energy, Featured, International, Oil |
5 comments
May 20th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Oil
I was in Houston this month, attending the Offshore Technology Conference. I have to confess that I’m humbled. Really, for as much as I think I know about the energy biz after a mere 30-plus years… a walk (a LONG walk, to be sure) around the packed floor of the ...
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Tags: Brazil, drilling, Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
6 comments
Jan 17th, 2007 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy
IN PART I, we reprinted a number of thoughtful letters on the subject of ethanol by some of the readers. But we received many thoughtful letters, from our many above-average Whiskey & Gunpowder readers. So this is Part II of your letters, and toward the end it includes some comments ...
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Tags: alternative energy, Brazil, Brazil sugar cane, ethanol
Posted in Energy |
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