Green Car Congress
AUGUST 7, 2014
Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from Solaris, a new hybrid tobacco plant optimized for seed production for energy applications. The seed contains around 40% oil. Initially, oil from the plants seeds will be converted into jet fuel. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2014
Australia-based Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL says it has verified that its recently completed Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column—the first such discovered off the East African coast. The gross oil column is assessed to be 14m thick beneath a gross gas column of 29.6m
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2014
Oil from the plant’s seeds may be converted into bio-jet fuel as early as next year, with a test flight by SAA as soon as practicable. If the test farming in Limpopo is successful, the project will be expanded in South Africa and potentially to other countries. Earlier post.).
Cars That Think
AUGUST 29, 2022
Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa). Here are the basic facts.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Furthermore, users can access more information on their vehicle, such as the tyre pressure and engine oil level. BMW Connected is now available in six more markets: Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, and Singapore. Charging stations which do not meet the selected criteria are not shown.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
The feasibility study will consider two options: a 2 million tons per year (roughly 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day) facility and a 4 million tons per year (roughly 80,000 boepd) facility. Sasol continues to advance upstream oil and gas activities in Mozambique, Nigeria, Gabon, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Canada and South Africa.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 1, 2009
The environmental risks associated with the device are minimized by using only water as its hydraulic fluid, rather than oil, and there are no toxic substances involved. But globally there is huge scope in areas like the North West coast of the USA and coastlines off South Africa, Australia and Chile. Ronan Doherty.
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