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Sunday, 4 December 2011

2 December 2011

Covering every corner of the globe, we profile the most promising offshore oil discoveries. Nicholas Newman charts a course, covering finds in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's North shore, The Levant Basin, The Sea of Okhotsk, a treacherous find offshore of Angola and news of a massive find in Brazil's Santos Basin. http://www.offshore-technology.com/features/featurestriking-it-lucky---most-promising-new-offshore-oil-discoveries/

GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY:ENERGY CHALLENGES

MICHAELMAS TERM 2011

16 November	Howard V. Rogers Senior Research Fellow OIES	*LNG and unconventional gas:* *potential impact on gas markets in* *Europe*
23 November	Angus Miller, Caspian Energy Advisor, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK	*The Geopolitics of Caspian Energy:* *A View from Britain*
30 November	Gregg Muttit, a recognised international expert and a critically-acclaimed author	*Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq*

Wednesdays, 5 p.m.

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College,

62 Woodstock Road, Oxford.

The Arctic is facing many threats to its environment and including problems posed by human activities, including resource exploration and exploitation. The trouble is many of the current Arctic environmental laws, guidance and regulations can be best described as dysfunctional. http://www.offshore-technology.com/features/featurearctic-oil-enviromental-disater-waiting-to-happen/

For more about Nicholas Newman
http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Freelance-Journalist.html