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SOUTHERN AFRICA PUSHES AHEAD TO EXPAND REFINERY CAPACITY
BY GEORGE STONE
SOUTHERN Africa has always been rich in natural resources, but its ability to process and manufacture them has not always matched this bounty. Oil refining capacity is a case in point and the governments of South Africa, Angola and Mozambique are trying to push forward.…
GULF STILL A MAJOR MARKET FOR BIO-BASED OILS AND FATS, DESPITE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
BY PAUL COCHRANE
THE MIDDLE East and North Africa region (that economists like to award the acronym ‘MENA’) consumes 6% of the global vegetable oil market and sucks in 15% of global imports, with strong growth across the board on the back of rising per capita GDP and a burgeoning population.…
SAUDI FIRM INVESTS IN PAKISTAN GAS PLANT WITH HELP OF IFC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SAUDI Arabia firm committed to developing energy projects in the Middle East, north Africa and south Asia is investing in a Pakistan 585-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle power project with the help of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.…
WHERE IS THE BEST CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH FOR THE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR?
BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas
Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…
GROWTH IN ISLAMIC GREY ECONOMY POSES RISK TO BANGLADESH'S FLEDGLING MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
BANGLADESH’S fledgling anti money laundering and counter terrorist financing regime faces an uphill struggle, with the country ranked as one of the most corrupt on earth and money laundering equivalent to 13% of the country’s GDP. Furthermore, Abul Barkat, Professor of Economics at Dhaka University told the Money Laundering Bulletin, an estimated US$7 billion flows into Bangladesh through illegal alternative remittance systems, and there is an ‘economy within an economy’ generating some US$300 million in profits every year for Islamist political parties linked to fundamentalist and terrorist activities.…
POLICY BATTLE LINES FOCUS ON CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE IN POST-KYOTO TALKS
BY ERIC LYMAN
BATTLE lines have been drawn in negotiations to renew the Kyoto Protocol over the future shape of energy policy within future United Nations efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At December’s climate change summit, in Poznan, Poland, a key power industry issue has emerged as a primary point of discord: whether or not carbon capture and storage technologies should be allowed in a revised Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).…
EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY OFFLINE UNTIL DECEMBER AS TECHNICIANS EXPAND SERVER CAPACITY
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LONG-AWAITED European digital library Europeana was launched last Thursday (November 20) but you had to be quick off the mark to learn anything from it: within hours the site had to be closed after its on-line servers proved unable to cope with the volume of demand.…
EUROPE: European digital library still on track after launch flop
By Alan Osborn
It lasted less than a day and it ended in apparent humiliation but believe it or not the launch of the European digital library Europeana has been hailed as a success story. The site collapsed on 20th November because the servers couldn’t cope with the torrent of demand but all being well it will be back before Christmas "bigger and better than ever" according to a spokesman for the European commission which is behind the idea.…
SYNTHETIC FUELS TO SHAPE FUTURE BIOFUEL SECTOR
BY MARK ROWE
THE FUTURE of the oils and fats sector globally may be shaped in the coming years by the emergence of synthetic biology, which is enabling scientists to create oils and fats with enhanced properties.
This new technology has been developed in the wake of advances in biofuel manufacture, as the United Nations, major energy companies, scientists and environmental organisations all seek to identify the sources of energy that will sustain a post-oil world.…
OIL INDUSTRY KEEPS MAKING PROFITS IN SRI LANKA, DESPITE CIVIL WAR
BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ
DOING business in a country wracked by civil war is never easy, and involves extra cost, but with care and good management, oil and gas companies can still turn profits in such circumstances. Sri Lanka is a good case in point: multinationals Shell, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Chevron Lubricants are trading successfully in this country, even as its government’s armed conflict with Tamil Tiger separatists reaches an expected military climax.…