24 APR 2023 US crude transferred from bigger to smaller tankers will contribute to pricing of the world’s most important oil benchmark, removing what traders saw as a stumbling block in a long-planned reform. WTI Midland crude loaded onto a smaller Aframax tanker, which received the cargo from a larger …
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23 APR 2023 Research suggests people can generate false memories within the blink of an eye. In a series of four experiments led by the University of Amsterdam, researchers showed 534 people letters of the Western alphabet in actual and mirrored orientations. After some participants were shown an interference slide …
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21 APR 2023 The world’s largest floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) has arrived in Hong Kong where it is set help meet the city’s growing energy needs. The Bauhinia Spirit, with a length of 345 meters and a storage capacity of 263,000m3 of LNG, arrived at the South Cheung …
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20 APR 2023 The Kremlin has said the outlook is “not so great” for extending beyond May 18 a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from some Ukrainian Black Sea ports, raising concerns over what happens next with the U.N.-backed sea corridor. The deal has helped to tackle a global food …
Read More »16 APR 2023 Success 9 was missing for five days with an international search looking for the tanker. The missing Singapore-registered tanker that was boarded at the beginning of the week has finally been located with authorities in Singapore and South Korea. A search had been ongoing since the Success 9 was …
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19 APR 2023 The number of humans on Earth reached 8 billion in November 2022. Now a new report suggests that the world’s population may peak at just 9 billion by 2050, a number far lower than previously thought. Compared to other more well-known estimates, such as those from the United Nations, …
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