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Douglas-Westwood: oil & gas industry need to push High-Pressure - High Temperature envelope

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There are many technological challenges that must be overcome for downhole service and completion tools to operate successfully in the Ultra-HPHT environment. HPHT issues are not new; Schlumberger’s quarterly publication Oilfield Review examined HPHT issues in 1998 and again in 2008. Click to enlarge.

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With oil prices low, early signs of a pullback in drilling activity

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For the third quarter, ExxonMobil reported a 3 percent rise in earnings compared to quarter three in 2013. Other companies that are not as large or integrated across various subsectors of the oil industry are not as shielded from the current soft price environment. And there are signs that a slowdown is beginning to take shape.

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USC Professor’s Simulation Software Teaches Systems Engineering Topics

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He led a team that was designing a program to train soldiers and allow them to complete practice missions in safe, virtual environments. Since 1980 he has held several leadership positions and has presented papers at IEEE conferences worldwide. In 1980 he began working on a distributed simulation technology for the U.S.

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UK study finds low carbon policy has bolstered UK automotive sector, but trucks neglected and biofuels stalled

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A major new report published at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s Annual Conference shows the UK automotive sector has been revitalized by consistently applied policy centered on cutting carbon. billion (US$110 billion) in 2013 compared with £46.3 Value of low carbon investments by year and cumulative. Click to enlarge.

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UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

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How much of the variation in the plant traits are driven by genetics or the environment or the interaction between genes and the environment? The result is a grass that has adapted to a wide variety of environments throughout North America, from the hot and dry landscape of Central Mexico to the snowy climes of Canada.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.