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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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bp has successfully started oil production at its Argos offshore platform, strengthening bp’s position as a leading producer in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Argos is the centerpiece of bp’s Mad Dog Phase 2 project, which extends the life of the super-giant oil field discovered in 1998. Earlier post.) bp is the operator with 60.5%

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. Higher education is free in Norway, but the global job market in 2010 was still in the doldrums following the 2008 financial crisis. She was hired to clean offices, and her boyfriend found a job washing the inside of oil tankers.

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US BLM issues draft PEIS for oil shale and oil sands; significantly scales back public land available for commercial leasing

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The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Possible Land Use Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

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Eni licenses EST technology to Sinopec to convert residues to high-quality light products; eliminating pet-coke and fuel oil

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EST completely converts refinery residues, heavy oils and bitumen into high-quality light products, eliminating the production of both liquid and solid refinery residues (for example, pet-coke or fuel oil). Eni slurry technology: A new process for heavy oil upgrading.” Delbianco, A & Meli, S & Tagliabue, Lorenzo & Panariti, N.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Peugeot to show 2008 HYbrid Air at Geneva show; more detail on operation

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Peugeot 2008 HYbrid Air. Like its group partner Citroën ( earlier post ), Peugeot will display an application of the new Hybrid Air technology ( earlier post )—the 2008 HYbrid Air—at the upcoming Geneva show. The platform is the modular construction component at the heart of the design and manufacture of any new model.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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ExxonMobil Corporation announced positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels. Wood Mackenzie currently expects around 350,000-400,000 b/d of oil production (just oil, not factoring in natural gas) by 2026 from there.

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