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The world’s largest gas reservoir is at a turning point

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The world’s largest gas reservoir is at a turning point

Iran is launching a $70 billion investment program to halt the dramatic decline in production at its key South Pars gas field. Failure to do so will result in 40 percent of the country’s oil production from the Persian Gulf Star gas condensate refinery being lost and petrochemical costs increasing by as much as $12 […]

The ISS’s final resting place could one day be a “treasure trove”

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The ISS’s final resting place could one day be a “treasure trove”

Even defunct spacecraft need a final resting place. For the Russian space station Mir and hundreds of other spacecraft from the US, Russia, Europe and Japan, this cemetery is located around the remote Point Nemo in the South Pacific, east of New Zealand – and eventually the International Space Station will be buried there too. […]