Chevron to Increase Output at Huge Oil Field in Kazakhstan

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  Kazakhstan delays release of Azerbaijan plane black box data

  Yahoo News - 7h

• FirstFT: US oil output growth to slow despite Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan

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  Financial Times - 8h

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  MarketWatch - 23h

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  MarketWatch - 2d
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  Bessent says US should increase sanctions on Russian oil companies

  Trump Treasury pick tells Senate panel he wants to ratchet up pressure on Putin regime
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 16
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  Financial Times - Jan. 12
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  Investigators receive black box data from plane that crashed in Kazakhstan

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  The Guardian - Jan. 6
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  Climate change is hampering US apple quality and output: Study

  Many of the nation's biggest apple-generating regions are confronting challenges in crop growth and development, due to the impacts of a changing climate, a new study has found. While apple ...
  
  The Hill - Jan. 6

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