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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015. Reducing water use.

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MAY 13, 2014

GE Oil & Gas and energy exploration and production company Devon Energy signed a new technology collaboration agreement (TCA) to drive innovations that will enhance the performance and economics of unconventional oil and natural gas projects as the demand for energy grows worldwide.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

ExxonMobil made two oil discoveries at Fangtooth-1 and Lau Lau-1 in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. These discoveries will add to the previously announced recoverable resource estimate for the block, of 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels. The Stabroek block is 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometers).

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JANUARY 7, 2018

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. The well was safely drilled to 21,161 feet (6,450 meters) depth in 8,973 feet (2,735 meters) of water.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. A Water Revolution Takes Root.

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APRIL 6, 2017

On a global level, 2015 and 2016 marked the lowest level of new conventional oil discoveries since 1952. billion barrels of conventional oil were discovered, roughly 45 days of global crude consumption or 0.2 Globally, exploratory drilling fell by almost 20 percent in 2015 and fell even further in 2016. In 2016, only 3.7

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

A team at Kyoto University in Japan has investigated the production of renewable diesel hydrocarbons from rapeseed oil using hydrothermal hydrogenation and subsequent decarboxylation in a batch-type reaction vessel. mol% on rapeseed oil. mol% on rapeseed oil. 2015.10.117. 2015.10.117.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Chevron Corporation announced a significant oil discovery at the Anchor prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. 20%), Samson Offshore Anchor, LLC (12.5%); and Venari Resources LLC (12.5%). 20%), Samson Offshore Anchor, LLC (12.5%); and Venari Resources LLC (12.5%). Appraisal drilling will begin in 2015.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Water usage per engine will be among the lowest at any Ford manufacturing facility worldwide, delivering an anticipated annual saving of 17.5

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Proposed oil sands monitoring by 2015. The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled “The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring” in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region with a program that will sample more sites for more substances more frequently.

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JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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JULY 24, 2015

A team at South China University of Technology has developed a one-pot process to convert the diesel distillate and residual oil fractions in bio-oil into high-quality fuels by catalytic hydrocracking with combined CoMoS/Al 2 O 3 and HZSM-5 catalysts. The light fraction is mostly water. of saturated naphthene; 23.4% 2015.05.002.

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MARCH 13, 2015

Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of June 30, 2015 from a lofty national average just under $3.70, tumbling almost every subsequent week before bottoming and bouncing from $2.02 the end of January, according to gasbuddy.com.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Exxon Mobil has started production at its Kearl oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada ahead of schedule; the expansion is expected to double overall capacity to 220,000 barrels of bitumen a day, with the expansion itself ultimately expected to reach 110,000 barrels per day. billion barrels of resource for more than 40 years.

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6 Source: Maugeri 2012.

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MARCH 17, 2013

PetroJunín, joint venture formed by PDVSA (60%) and Eni (40%), has started production from the Junín-5 giant heavy oil field, located in the Faja del Orinoco—the area with the largest untapped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, according to Eni. Junin 5 block in the Orinoco. Deepwater Angola. Eni is operator of Block 15/06 with 35%.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Second, LNG is, and has been, less expensive than MGO and is now in some regions cheaper than heavy fuel oil (HFO). Moreover, to comply with IMO’s 2020 global sulfur limit, ships must either switch from HFO to more expensive very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) or use HFO with a scrubber, if they have one installed. Olmer et al.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Left: distribution of mining leases and forests in 2015. Mining leases are shown as white polygons overlying Landsat imagery for 1985 and 2015. Green areas indicate forests, bright white areas indicate non-forested ground, and blue areas are water. Resources Sonter, L.J., Right: case study mining operations. Herrera, D.,

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JUNE 25, 2011

The carbon capture process at the Scotford oil sands upgrader will capture about 35% of emissions. water vessels, the triethylene glycol dehydration unit, and. Quest would be the first application of CCS technology for an oil sands upgrading operation. —John Abbott, Shell’s Executive Vice President of Heavy Oil.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely Auto has invested significant resources in the development and promotion of methanol-fueled engines and vehicles over a long period and has already made progress with this technology in China. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) The company is proactively working with partners across China to expand the use of methanol-fueled vehicles.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

BP has sanctioned the $9-billion Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the United States, despite the current low oil price environment. Oil production is expected to begin in late 2021. Oil production is expected to begin in late 2021. In 2013, BP (operator, with 60.5% —Bob Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL eliminates conventional flood coolant from the machining processes, lubricating cutting tools with a fine spray of oil directed exactly when and where it is needed. MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. Silverson, S.,

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. Priuses can burn oil. Two out of our four Priuses burn oil. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4

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JUNE 8, 2015

This joint analysis correlates natural oil seeps identified from radar satellites with 2D seismic data to assist hydrocarbon exploration in this region and is set to provide additional insight into the prospectivity of Irish waters. Two wells were spudded in the Southern Porcupine Basin in the 1980s, one of which found traces of oil.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of the Interior has proposed new regulations that include more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment used in offshore oil and gas operations. —BSEE Director Brian Salerno. billion dollars to the Treasury in 2014.

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JUNE 16, 2015

A new catalytic method for converting algal oil to gasoline- or jet-fuel-range hydrocarbons has been developed by the research group of Prof. Watanabe and his team at the University of Tsukuba discovered the heterotrophic alga Aurantiochytrium 18W-13a strain (left) which very rapidly produces squalene (right) from organics in water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Typical commercial gasoline comprises varying concentrations of aromatic hydrocarbons and octane ratings; the impacts on PM such as black carbon (BC) and water-soluble and insoluble particle compositions of these differences are not well-defined. Water-soluble particles have been shown to have negative effects on human health.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The WEO finds that the extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output in the United States will mean a sea-change in global energy flows. barely rises in OECD countries, although there is a pronounced shift away from oil, coal (and, in some countries, nuclear) towards natural gas and renewables. Oil demand reaches 99.7

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency’s OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ). Part of the gas can also be used to produce the hydrogen (by steam reforming and water-gas shift) needed to upgrade the biocrude via hydrotreating. Marine BioEnergy, Inc.

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JULY 22, 2011

In the Permian Basin, approximately one additional barrel of oil can be recovered for each 6,000 cubic feet (6 Mcf) of compressed CO 2 injected into the oil field. TCEP will begin delivering CO 2 to Whiting when the plant commences operations in late 2014 or early 2015; construction is scheduled to begin at the end of this year.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In addition to coal mining, other major sources of methane emissions globally include wetlands, agriculture, and oil and gas facilities. Kholod said that when a closed mine is flooded, water stops methane from leaking almost completely within about seven years. Ukraine reported that all its mines abandoned that year were flooded.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A particular feature of Sunfire technology is the high electrical efficiency of more than 80% with reference to the lower calorific value of hydrogen as it is not liquid water but gaseous water – i.e. steam – which undergoes the splitting process. Two smaller modules were put into operation at Boeing back in 2015.

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AUGUST 9, 2015

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade (C 6 –C 18 ) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species. a heavy oil (bp 240–310 °C) with 7 wt% yield.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Principal inputs are coal, water, non-carbon electricity, and make-up solvent. Outputs are clean middle-distillate liquids including a bio-oil component, vitrified slag, and sulfur. Schobert (2015) Click to enlarge. Algae would be harvested for production of a bio-oil that could be blended with the coal-derived oil product.

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