«We are going to have a lot of oil research scientists,» she predicts. (scientificamerican.com)
The Obama administration's budget cuts funding for oil research and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as it increases money to renewables, carbon capture and storage (scientificamerican.com)
There is also some preliminary evidence that India's appetite for crude oil is levelling off, with imports trending lower so far this year, according to vessel - tracking and port data compiled by Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts. (cnbc.com)