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Big Read: Can the world kick its oil habit?

By Anjli Raval
Financial Times·
19 mins to read

A 45-minute helicopter ride over aquamarine waters, 240km west of Abu Dhabi, brings you to the Ruwais refinery. Perched along the coast, the labyrinth of pipes and columns that form the vast oil processing complex seems to emerge directly out of the sand.

The United Arab Emirates, which has some of the world's cheapest-to-extract crude oil, produces about three million barrels a day (b/d), making it one of the world's biggest producers (the US, at number one, produces 13 million).

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