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5 extreme trends that will affect oil in the next 5 years

12/06/2019 by Theo Priestley

The Oil & Gas industry is synonymous with the word ‘extreme’ but in many ways that term doesn’t translate well when it comes to keeping up with the latest of technology trends.

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) employees fix power lines in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. For longer than most can remember, Puerto Ricans have paid some of the highest energy costs in the U.S. to a notoriously unreliable utility that neglected their grid for years and runs fossil-fuel plants that may be damaging their lungs. A month after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, power lines still lay slack along roads, utility poles are snapped clean in half, and most Puerto Ricans remain in the dark. Photographer: Xavier Garcia/Bloomberg

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Blockchain will help Puerto Rico keep the lights on

08/05/2018 by Bloomberg

Solar panels. Batteries. Emergency fossil fuel-fired generators. They’ve all been deployed across Puerto Rico to help get the lights back on in the months following devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Oils sit on water inside a cleaning pond at the Mari Petroleum Co. (MPCL) plant in Daharki, Sindh, Pakistan, on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg

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Oil buyers ditch paper for blockchain to track tanker sales

27/02/2018 by Bloomberg

Every day, dozens of oil tankers -- some as long as five football fields -- set sail for ports around the world carrying millions of barrels of crude and a piece of paper that generations of sea captains have held as dear as their cargo.