Few consumers are willing to pay extra for their goods to reduce the amount of sulphur emissions they are personally responsible for - their own ‘Sulphur Shadow,’ as in the USA, UK and Russia, more than 35 per cent of consumers are unwilling to pay anything extra for a car to reduce their ‘Sulphur Shadow’
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Wood wins FEED contract for East Africa’s crude oil pipeline
Tullow Kenya BV has awarded Wood a front-end engineering design contract (FEED) for the design of the proposed Lokichar to Lamu crude oil pipeline project located in Kenya
GNPC signs natural gas supply agreement with Russia’s Rosneft
Russia’s Rosneft has signed a preliminary 12-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal with Ghana National Petroleum Corp (GNPC), a move that will see delivery of natural gas to Ghana’s Tema port, thus meeting the energy demand of the West African nation
Process oil demand to grow fastest in Africa and Middle East region
Global process oil demand is forecast to grow 1.4 per cent per year to 7.2 mmt in 2021, according to the Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based international business research company
APC to increase West Africa’s palm oil production
The US-based African Palm Corp (APC) has announced to extend palm oil production to Congo and Guinea-Bissau, a move that aims to increase the sustainable extraction, processing and commercialisation of products derived from African palm trees, mainly palm oil