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Azerbaijan Plans Caspian-Black Sea Energy Corridor

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Azerbaijan next week will garner much of the attention of the climate tech world, and not just because it will host COP29 , the United Nation’s giant annual climate change conference. Azerbaijan and Georgia Plan Green Energy Corridor Generating hydropower can also generate opposition, because of the way dams alter rivers and landscapes.

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

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Last November , w hen Azerbaijan hosted COP29 , the United Nations annual climate summit , i t was a sort of coming-out party for the country. Floating mines used in the ongoing Ukraine war already pose a risk to ships in those waters. Azerbaijan built its economy on its abundant fossil fuels.

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Devon Energy and BP Enter Into $7.0B Property Sales Agreement and Oil Sands Joint Venture

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Devon Energy Corporation has entered into agreements to sell all of its assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and Azerbaijan to BP for $7.0 In Azerbaijan, acquisition of Devon’s 5.63% stake in the ACG development will increase BP’s operating interest in the fields to 39.77%. billion in cash.

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BP closes out 2013 with deepwater finds in Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola; new activity offshore Brazil

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Earlier in December, Cobalt International Energy announced a significant discovery at its Lontra well in the pre-salt play offshore Angola, in which BP holds a 30% interest. In mid-December 2013, BP announced its discovery in the Gila prospect, its latest in the Paleogene in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Click to enlarge. —Joseph H.

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IEEE Young Professionals Talked Sustainability Tech at Climate Week NYC

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Women and girls are often responsible for securing food, water, and firewood for their families, the U.N. Ermakova is an innovation chair for the International Youth Nuclear Congress in Berkeley, Calif. Climate Change Conference , which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November.

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What Airplane Passengers Should Know About Flight Safety Amid Crashes

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Over the last two months, deadly crashes have occurred in South Korea , the United States, and Azerbaijan. All 80 people aboard a Delta Air Lines flight that crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon survived, even after the plane flipped upside down on the tarmac, with its right wing and tail shorn off.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. was the first to apply fuzzy theory to a consumer product, a shower head that controlled water temperature, in 1987. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb.