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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In Italy, Eni and Hera signed a partnership agreement with the aim of converting used vegetable oil into renewable diesel for Hera’s waste collection vehicles. The agreement revolves around household waste vegetable oil, such as that used for frying, collected by Hera in around 400 roadside containers and about 120 collection centres.

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JULY 21, 2022

Researchers in Europe led by a team from ETH Zurich have designed a fuel production system that uses water, CO 2 , and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO 2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system. Zoller et al. Zoller et al.

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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. 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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JANUARY 5, 2013

Exxon Mobil Corporation will develop the Hebron oil field offshore the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador using a gravity-based structure that will recover more than 700 million barrels of oil, an increase from earlier estimates. The platform is being designed for daily production of 150,000 barrels of oil.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

million barrel per day (bbl/d) Energy East Pipeline project based on binding, long-term contracts received from producers and refiners. The Energy East Pipeline will have a capacity of approximately 1.1 million bbl/d and is anticipated to be in service by late-2017 for deliveries in Québec and 2018 for deliveries to New Brunswick.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. A belt filter dewaters by applying pressure to solids to squeeze out the water.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

One year into the ERDC project, the team demonstrated a three-step approach that “cleans” the water, removes the algae and entrained nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, and transforms the algae into a potential energy source. 2017) in the book Algal Biofuels. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Suncor Energy, together with joint venture co-owners Total E&P Canada Ltd. and Teck Resources Limited, is proceeding with the Fort Hills oil sands mining project, located 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of Fort McMurray. The Fort Hills Energy LP consists of three limited partners: Suncor (40.8% interest), Total E&P Canada (39.2%

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APRIL 15, 2017

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates are potentially explosive and are largely responsible for the initial failure to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Arindam Das, Taylor A.

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MAY 12, 2017

Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. This announcement is a result of NRCan’s Oil and Gas Clean Tech Program. The three industry partners, Cenovus Energy, Field Upgrading, and MEG Energy are investing $43.3

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It is funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg’s BWPLUS program and administered by the European Institute for Energy Research ( EIFER ). Steam electrolyzers ( earlier post ) are excellent for converting electrical energy into chemical energy. The delivery from Dresden to Salzgitter took place in June 2017.

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MARCH 21, 2014

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. A total of 50 offshore energy companies participated in submitting 380 bids. billion in bid revenues.

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

Statoil has made the investment decision to develop the Mariner heavy oil field development in the UK North Sea. Pending final approval of the field development plan by the UK authorities, Statoil expects to start production from Mariner in 2017. The heavy oil project will require pioneering technology in order to be developed.

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APRIL 25, 2013

The US Department of the Interior will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. The Gulf of Mexico is a cornerstone of the United States’ energy portfolio.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales. billion in high bids. billion.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The global energy map is changing significantly, according to the 2012 edition of the Internal Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook ( WEO-2012 ). The IEA said these changes will recast expectations about the role of different countries, regions and fuels in the global energy system over the coming decades.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Suncor Energy has received conditional approval for its oil sands fluid tailings management plan from Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board ( ERCB ). Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through the oil sands extraction process, and are held in massive “ponds”.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Platts RigData, a forecasting and analytics unit of S&P Global Platts, announced that the US rig count for March 2017 was 901, up 67 (8%) from February 2017, and up 391 (77%) from March 2016. This rig count includes US onshore, US inland waters, and US offshore Gulf of Mexico drilling rigs.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the consolidated Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 in New Orleans on 20 June 202012. Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau released the final details for an oil and gas lease sale that will offer more than 20 million acres offshore and will make available all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Earlier post.).

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JULY 23, 2012

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 20 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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MARCH 18, 2019

The new kind of jet mixer extracts lipids from algae with much less energy than the older extraction method, a key discovery that now puts this form of energy closer to becoming a viable, cost-effective alternative fuel. However, scalable high energy density alternatives to fossil fuels remain challenging. —Tseng et al.

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MAY 31, 2012

The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has given approval to Cenovus Energy Inc. to proceed with its Narrows Lake oil sands project, with an ultimate gross production capacity of 130,000 barrels per day. SAP combines steam injection with solvents, such as butane, to help bring the oil to the surface.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

ITM Power will showcase a series of large scale electrolyzer configurations up to 100MW in size at Hannover Messe 2017 (24 - 28 April). This is in response to utility and oil and gas industry demand for larger scale industrial installations. Power-to-gas energy storage. When oxidized, this leads to emissions of about 2.2

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Petrobras and ExxonMobil will evaluate areas of mutual interest that can bring together their world-class experience across all sectors of the oil and gas production value chain, including opportunities for cooperation in exploration, production, gas and chemicals both inside and outside Brazil. Currently, Petrobras produces close to 2.8

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JUNE 27, 2018

metric tons from 2010 to 2017—equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from more than 728,000 passenger vehicles driven for one year. Painting operations use a large amount of energy. Minimum Quantity Lubrication is another energy-reducing technology. We are proud of the work we have done to achieve this goal.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

The most recent GREET versions are the GREET1 2017 version for fuel-cycle analysis and GREET2 2017 version for vehicle-cycle analysis. The most recent GREET versions are the GREET1 2017 version for fuel-cycle analysis and GREET2 2017 version for vehicle-cycle analysis. The first version of GREET was released in 1996.

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MARCH 29, 2012

The US Department of Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released for public comment the draft Atlantic Geological and Geophysical (G&G) Activities Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). Public meetings to receive comments are scheduled in Jacksonville, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C;

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

The GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) tool provides a common, transparent platform for lifecycle analysis (LCA) of of the energy and environmental effects of a wide variety of transportation fuels and vehicle technologies in major transportation sectors (i.e.,

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

BIOX Corporation announced that World Energy BIOX Biofuels LLC (WEBB), a 50/50 joint venture between World Energy and BIOX, has completed the commissioning of its 90-million US gallon (USG) (341 million liters) nameplate capacity biodiesel production facility in Houston, Texas. —Alan Rickard, Chief Executive Officer of BIOX.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. Priuses can burn oil. Two out of our four Priuses burn oil. quarts) of oil every 11k kms (~7k miles).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The California Energy Commission approved $8 million in grants to two biofuel companies stemming from a solicitation issued earlier this year (PON-13-609: Pilot-Scale and Commercial-Scale Advanced Biofuels Production Facilities). These advantages may include a higher energy content and better cold weather performance compared to biodiesel.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Statoil will install a 30 MW wind turbine farm on floating structures at Buchan Deep, 25 km offshore Peterhead, harnessing Scottish wind resources to provide renewable energy to the mainland. Production start is expected in late 2017. —Irene Rummelhoff, Statoil’s executive vice president for New Energy Solutions.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Thus the eHorizon informs bikers in advance of obstacles along their route such as road works, accidents, oil or water on the road, or traffic jams and enhances safety not only for them but also for other road users. The stored data is collated in the cloud and made available to all motorcyclists.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The plan is organized into 12 strategic objectives aimed at three distinct goals: Science and Energy; Nuclear Security; and Management and Performance. Leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

and are destined to rise significantly with the use of heavy oils, tar sands, and bitumen as combustion sources. Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health. Klein, and Avner Vengosh (2017) “Global biogeochemical cycle of vanadium” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715500114.

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