Word: opec
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...handled a great deal of what Gazprom's ceo was supposed to do." Such confusion of roles finds its echo in Europe's approach to Russia. A green paper published by the European Commission in March called for a common external energy policy to coordinate relations with Russia and opec, but that quickly ran into objections from E.U. governments which want to make energy policy themselves. Poland, for example, is extremely nervous about Putin's Russia, partly due to historical fear of its giant neighbor to the east, and partly because it worries about losing out if Russia and Germany...
...wonder briefly if I am meant to splash it on my face) and a detailed questionnaire about my skin type. Surprisingly, "dull and pasty" isn't an option, but I fill out the rest. Do I have oily skin? Check-during adolescence my forehead was practically a member of OPEC. Enlarged pores? You bet-I've named some of them after lunar craters. Of course, I hadn't realized large pores were a bad thing. Now I'm paying $150 for professionals to tell me just how imperfect...
...under such silent lands as these that the boundless riches lie, awaiting the power shovel and the drill. Energy developers first began arriving in droves in 1973, when OPEC hiked its prices fourfold and jolted the nation's oil and gas companies into searching for additional supplies. Jimmy Carter gave the developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation to funnel public...
...Ram?rez, widely recognized as one of OPEC's most hawkish, and hard-working, energy ministers, insists Americans are committing "a gross simplification" if they want to blame Ch?vez for $3-a-gallon gasoline this summer. "Consumers, especially Americans, have to start taking their share of responsibility for this situation," says Ram?rez, whose country is the U.S.'s fourth-largest foreign crude supplier. "The U.S.'s reckless oil consumption is turning into its own suicide. The Americans have a lot of work ahead of them with regard to energy policy." At the same time, he adds, "Americans should remember that when...
...Venezuela may have another reason to celebrate at this week's meeting, which will be held on Thursday before Ch?vez takes OPEC delegates to El Salto Angel, the world's highest waterfall, in southeast Venezuela. The country, which has about 78 billion barrels of proven crude reserves, also sits atop an estimated 275 billion barrels of heavy crude, which new technology has allowed to become more refinable and, as a result, a more legitimate addition to a nation's reserves. Should OPEC ratify Venezuela's heavy crude as bona fide reserves, the country would eclipse Saudi Arabia (260 billion barrels...