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bp starts oil production at Argos platform in the Gulf of Mexico; first new platform since 2008

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With a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 barrels of oil per day, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008. In the early 2010s, bp and partners simplified and standardized Argos’ original design, reducing the overall project cost by about 60%.

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BP announces significant resource extension of Mad Dog Field in deepwater Gulf Of Mexico; total hydrocarbons estimated at up to 4B barrels of oil equivalent

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The well results confirm a significant resource extension for the Mad Dog Field complex, which includes the existing field, in production since 2005, and appraisal drilling of the Mad Dog South field in 2008 and 2009. interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% —Bob Dudley.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Source: Reaction Design. Reaction Design is introducing the first volume of the industry’s most well-validated available Model Fuel Library, the result of seven years of research and validation under the Model Fuels Consortium ( earlier post ). —Bernie Sanders, CEO, Reaction Design. Click to enlarge.

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Shell launches commercial operation of Quest carbon capture and storage in Alberta oil sands

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Quest is designed to capture and safely store more than one million tonnes of CO 2 each year—equal to the emissions from about 250,000 cars. As part of its funding arrangements, Shell is publicly sharing information on Quest’s design and processes to further global adoption of CCS.

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Shell sets world record for deepest subsea oil and gas well in Perdido Development: 9,627 feet in Gulf of Mexico

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Tobago is jointly owned by Shell (32.5%, as operator), Chevron (57.5%), and Nexen (10.0%) and is one of three fields producing through the Perdido drilling and production platform. The system includes five specially designed 1,500-horsepower electric pumps embedded in the seafloor to boost production to the surface. Click to enlarge.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. Perhaps I would have been an engineer working in either Chevron , Shell, or ExxonMobil today.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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