The Cost to Consumers

The events over the weekend in Saudi Arabia are causing concerns throughout the nation.  The oil installations attacked resulted in the removal of six percent of daily world consumption, which will have an impact on motorists and consumers in the United States as early as today.  The attack on Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq plant in Buqyaq […]

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Drone Delivery Is Here

Drone delivery could be part of regular freight transportation by 2020.  Vision Profile Extrusions LTD, a manufacturing company in Vaughan, Ontario, recently teamed with Drone Delivery Canada Corp or DDC. DDC is a drone technology company focused on “the design, development and implementation of its proprietary logistics software platform using drones”.  According to ttnews.com, Drone […]

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Exxon Exits Norway

After more than one hundred years of production experience in Norway, Exxon Mobil has agreed to sell its assets for an estimated $4 billion. Exxon’s Norwegian portfolio consisted of more than twenty oil fields operated by producers Equinor and Royal Dutch Shell. In 2017, the average net production of these fields was about 170,000 barrels […]

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World’s Largest LNG Supplier Pushes Back Project

Royal Dutch Shell has pushed the U.S. Lake Charles LNG Export Project in Louisiana back five years to 2025. According to Reuters, “the project, a 50-50 venture with U.S. midstream company Energy Transfer, envisaged converting an existing import and regasification facility in Lake Charles into a multi-train, 16.45 million tonnes per year facility. The delay […]

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BP Exits Alaska

British Petroleum (BP) announced this week that they are selling their Alaska operations to Hilcorp Energy Co. for $5.6 billion dollars, ending their six-decade existence in “The Land of the Midnight Sun.”  The sale to Hilcorp Energy Co includes BP’s stake in the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the Point Thomson gas field and the Trans-Alaska […]

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Driver Shortages on the Rise

The increase in truck driver shortages could be a serious problem for the U.S. economy in the future. Driver shortages were up 20% in 2018 and this trend is continuing in 2019. Within the next decade, United States industries could see the highest driver shortage in U.S. history.

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Fire Sale at Tesla?

Since 2012, solar panels installed by SolarCity, have caused seven fires on the roof tops of Walmart stores. In 2016, Tesla purchased SolarCity to expand its renewable energy business. The purchase of SolarCity has been controversial since the beginning as it was founded by cousins of Elon Musk, and Musk himself served as chairman of […]

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