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Shale’s Self-Inflicted Crisis: Wastewater Injection Is Sinking Profits

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The shale industry is facing an entirely predictable consequence of its own making. Across major shale-producing basins, particularly East Texas and the Permian, excessive wastewater injection practices have created areas with extreme overpressure, driving up the cost of new drilling operations and threatening the economic viability of shale production in … [continued]

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Why Hydrogen Won’t Win The Zero-Carbon Steel Race

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Recent adjustments to my projections for global steel demand through 2100, reflecting a significant slowdown in Chinese infrastructure and cement consumption, have sharpened my economic focus on competing new steelmaking technologies. With lower growth trajectories for steel firmly established, every ton produced in the coming decades will increasingly face stringent … [continued]

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Ethiopia Could Open EV Floodgates Across Africa, Asia, And Beyond

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Last year, when Ethiopia decided to ban the import of fossil fuel vehicles, it was a huge and unprecedented move — not just for Africa, but for any country in the world. One immediately had to wonder, is this really going to happen? Were there going to be various concessions … [continued]

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