Multi-Billion Dollar Ventures at Risk: UK’s Largest Untapped Oil & Gas Partners Face Setback, Yet Shell, Equinor, and Ithaca Stay Optimistic
Multi-billion projects at stake: Another blow for UK’s largest untapped oil & gas duo but Shell, Equinor, and Ithaca remain upbeat In the wake of a new court ruling, the development of two hydrocarbon projects – said to be the largest undeveloped oil and gas fields off the coast of the United Kingdom (UK) – has […]
Proximity to Active Oil and Gas Wells May Elevate COVID-19 Mortality Risk
Living Near Active Oil and Gas Wells May Have Increased Risk of Dying from COVID-19 On Feb. 6, 2020, a week after the World Health Organization declared the global coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency, the first Californian died of COVID-19 in San Jose. The next month, cases ballooned around the San Francisco Bay Area, […]
Sam Altman is quoted as saying that leaving Stanford was not a risk
Sam Altman says dropping out of Stanford wasn’t risky For OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, dropping out of college to launch his first startup, Loopt, wasn’t as big a risk as it might seem. In fact, in Altman’s telling, the decision to leave Stanford in 2005 was not particularly calculated, but rather somewhat unexpected. “This was […]