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US Navy completes sea trial with ARA’s 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel

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ReadiDiesel was developed by Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Chevron Lummus Global, as a drop-in replacement for petroleum F-76 marine diesel. The renewable diesel fuel powered the Self Defense Test Ship’s General Electric LM-2500 gas-turbine engine and a Rolls Royce 501 K-17 gas-turbine generator. Earlier post.). The ex- Paul F.

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It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

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The Greenius Decade will be all now and totally happening. And since I am indeed The Greenius and I have legally laid claim to this decade, preempting all others, I can confidently lay this on you and you can take comfort knowing I’m on the case and will not let you down. It’s not going to be very hard at all.

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DOI approves 1GW solar power project; largest yet on US public lands

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The tubes carry heated oil to a boiler, which sends live steam to a turbine to produce electricity. The decision authorizes the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to offer Solar Millennium a right-of-way grant (ROW) to use these public lands for 30 years if all rents and other conditions are met.

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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. But during one of those internships, he visited some of the oil company’s facilities in a rural area and was shocked to see that people living nearby had no access to electricity. Winning the competition, he says, changed his life.

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Statoil greenlights $7B Mariner heavy-oil project in UK North Sea

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All production wells will have stand-alone sand screens and electric submersible pumps (ESPs) for lifting. Statoil acquired 44.44% and operatorship for Mariner from Chevron in 2007. Statoil acquired a further 20.6667% of Mariner from Nautical Petroleum in 2010. who will cooperate with UK-based company SNC Lavalin Ltd.on

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Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

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to 9.3%) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon the supply scenario. The latter estimate appears to reflect, in part, the assumption that the entire refining sector processes nothing but high density, high sulfur crudes to the exclusion of all other crudes, domestic or imported. In 2010, US crude imports comprised: About 1.8

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Canada and Alberta to Invest C$865M in Athabasca Oil Sands Carbon Capture and Storage Project

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The province signed a Letter of Intent with Shell Canada Energy, on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project—a joint venture among Shell Canada (60%), Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Sands L.P. (20%)—to Two injection wells are in the test phase until early 2010. The total cost of the project is projected to be C$1.35

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