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SweetCrude: A New Documentary on the Niger Delta by Sandy Cioffi
Filmmaker Sandy Cioffi will preview SweetCrude and discuss her experiences making the film in a Filmmaker Workshop at the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival Saturday afternoon, March 31, 2007 in Seattle.
As SweetCrude moved into post-production, the Niger Delta became – and remains – increasingly volatile.
This high quality, low sulfurcrude oil is commonly used for processing into gasoline and is in high demand, particularly in the United States and China.
Crude oil is the world's most actively traded commodity, and the NYMEX Division light sweetcrude oil futures contract is the world's most liquid forum for crude oil trading, as well as the world's largest-volume futures contract trading on a physical commodity.
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