Tag: crude oil

  • After Oil: Money, Food and Polymers – New Business Activities for the Middle East

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    A billion dollar future secured by shrimps? Read on… I wrote this article for the Al Jarida newspaper and it was published on Saturday 7 February 2015. This article took a full page as I was developing an argument for Kuwait and other oil rich countries after demand for crude oil declines. It is published here:…

  • The End of Oil? Oil Pricing for 2015 and the Rise of Solar Energy

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    An Arabic prophesy half way in the making? of a monetary glitch in the status quo? I wrote the article for the Al Jarida newspaper of Kuwait and it was published on Saturday 24 January 2015. It’s a further development of my previous blog on how technology is changing the way the energy market operates…

  • 2015: The Year For the Downside of Solar Energy and the Upside of Banking

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    How financial success for some doesn’t equate to project success for others. Photographer: Chris Sattlberger/Getty Images Downside of Solar? Yes, downside.  The side where you slide down and things get easier and more efficient, and lower priced, and better, and people want more of it. That’s what is happening with solar power.  Look at this…

  • Leveraging Resources – Saving the Whales, and Dugongs

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    How team work and leadership is vital for protecting fragile environments. Not just dollars. At the same time as I building my butane sphere I was also “Saving the Whales” or rather the dugongs. You see, the BP refinery was sitting at the mouth of the Brisbane River on a small peninsular of reclaimed land…

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