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...training center. Just one day after Lesar's announcement, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced he will attend a three- day celebration marking the opening of permanent buildings at the Texas A&M University at Qatar, set to graduate its first engineering class in 2007 - evidence that the oil and gas industry will be relying on engineers trained in the Middle East as the number of U.S. petroleum engineers continues to fall...
...Many of the city's oil and gas companies have a long symbiotic relationship with the Middle East. Indeed, Emirates Airline announced last month that it would set up daily direct flights between Dubai and Houston by the end of this year. The flights will utilize several of the Emirates' 44 recently purchased Boeing 777s and will come equipped with eight private first-class cabins. But that still places top energy executives 17 hours away from what is becoming the new center of the oil industry. Lesar's move shows Halliburton is aware of business customs in much...
...Halliburton's move is a clear sign that American consumers will be relying more and more on oil and gas produced by nationally owned companies, some in emerging democracies like Indonesia where bureaucracies are often unwieldy, others in strife-torn African nations or corrupt former Soviet republics. The move also puts Halliburton's CEO closer to emerging markets in fast-industrializing China and India...
...more members than at any time in institutional memory. This past fall, we aired “An Inconvenient Truth” to over 1,000 people. We then passed another referendum with almost 90 percent of the vote, this time to pressure Harvard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our subsequent meetings with administrators have been promising, and with the clout “sustainability” has garnered in business and popular culture, we may be getting somewhere. While some might find such acquiescence antithetical to “activism,” I’ve found that...
...Driving through Baghdad one afternoon before hostilities started, I pointed to an imposing-looking building and asked my driver what it was. To my surprise, he grew wide-eyed in terror, hit the gas and simultaneously reached across and grabbed my hand, yanking it away from the window. "Don't point at that building, don't even look at it," he said, his voice cracking in fear. "I will explain later." After we had driven out of that neighborhood, he told me the building was the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, the dreaded internal spying agency, and my driver feared that...