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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Biofeedstock company Proterro, the developer of a biosynthetic process to manufacture fermentable sugar ( earlier post ), and Bunge Global Innovation, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of global agribusiness and food company Bunge Limited, will conduct a pilot study of Proterro’s sucrose-production technology in Brazil.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

A consortium of companies, including Royal Dutch Shell plc, Petrobras, Total, CNPC and CNOOC won a 35-year production sharing contract to develop the super-giant Libra pre-salt oil discovery located in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. million barrels per day. The production sharing contract is expected to be signed in November 2013.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Australia-based Jervois Global, a nickel and cobalt company, has commenced the first stage of plant commissioning at its Idaho Cobalt Operations mine site (ICO), following a successful opening ceremony on 7 October 2022. The site was closed in 1982, after severely contaminating water nearby with heavy metals. Operating Costs.

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MARCH 16, 2015

Ceres, Inc, an agricultural biotechnology company, and Brazilian energy company Raízen S.A., Sweet sorghum can extend the ethanol production season by up to 60 days in Brazil. Since it grows in as few as 90 to 120 days, it requires less water and other inputs than sugarcane. Brazil Ethanol'

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. and Syngenta have extended a joint market development agreement in Brazil. The companies will move forward with their efforts to promote the use of both sweet sorghum and high biomass sorghum at Brazilian ethanol mills. Earlier post.)

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JULY 19, 2014

Petrobras’s June oil production in Brazil averaged 2,008 thousand barrels/day (bpd), up 1.7% Including the production operated by Petrobras for its partners in Brazil, the volume reached 2,135 thousand bpd, up 2.1% from May’s production of 1,975 thousand bpd. from last month’s production of 2,092 thousand bpd.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. The companies will work together to support the introduction of sweet sorghum as a source of fermentable sugars at Brazil’s 400 or more ethanol mills. Sweet sorghum is a hardy crop that can extend the ethanol production season by up to 60 days in Brazil.

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MAY 21, 2010

Statoil ASA has agreed to sell 40% of the Peregrino field offshore Brazil to China’s Sinochem Group. Sinochem Group will pay a total of US$3,070 million in cash for the 40% share of the Peregrino field, located 85 km offshore Brazil in the Campos basin at about 100 meters of water depth in BMC-7 and BMC-47. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 4, 2021

The supply of flake graphite is concentrated primarily in China and Mozambique, with Brazil, North Korea, Canada and India accounting for nearly all of the remainder of production. Water is recycled to minimize net consumption and eliminate discharge requirements. The primary sand and gravel by-products are sold to local buyers.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The system connects the Lula field to the Mexilhão platform, located in shallow Santos Basin waters. Extending more than 216 kilometers (134 miles), 18 inches in diameter and operating at a pressure of 250 bar, it is the deepest and longest undersea pipeline ever laid in Brazil. Lula-Mexilhão pipeline. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Brazil’s largest airline, TAM Airlines; Curcas Diesel Brasil, a company promoting Jatropha curcas as the key feedstock for the global biodiesel industry; and Brasil Ecodiesel , the country’ largest biodiesel producer, will collaborate to conduct feasibility studies to implement an integrated project for the. Earlier post.).

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MAY 11, 2011

This study is the second collaboration between the two companies. Its brief is to develop a flexible pipe design for offshore oil production in ultradeep waters in the pre-salt cluster. After project technical validation, the possibility of setting up a production plant in Brazil will be evaluated.

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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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AUGUST 3, 2020

Anelise Lara, the head of Petrobras’ refining, announced that the company is ready to begin production of renewable diesel from soy or other edible oils at commercial scale. Renewable diesel still depends on regulation by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) to be traded in Brazil.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

London-based Whitefox Technologies, together with its Brazil-based partner Green, have secured a bioethanol contract with the Guyanan Government. Guyana is the largest country of the Caribbean Community and is well-suited for bioenergy production given its abundance of sun, water, and available land.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Brazil-based Ambev Brewery, owner of brands such as Skol, Brahma, Antarctica and Guaraná, announced that by 2023, it will use 1,600 electric trucks made by Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus (VWCO) to transport beverages. The partnership is a landmark in the history of both companies: it is the biggest announcement of this kind yet made.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

The company’s goal is to be the first supplier of new hybrids with high levels of sugar. Earlier in his career, Kuc spent several years leading the Brazilian financial unit of a large multinational seed company. Ceres, Inc.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Fetranspor and Rio Bus, the public transportation companies for the state and city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and BYD launched a BYD battery-electric bus into service this week. Rio is one of the three cities in Brazil to test the BYD electric buses from BYD (São Paulo and Salvador have done successful tests already).

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AUGUST 12, 2019

The estimated total quantity of external water needed for the life of the mine (construction through closure and reclamation) is substantial and varies by alternative (180,000 to 590,000 acre-feet). Resolution Copper Mining is a limited liability company owned 55% by Rio Tinto and 45% by BHP.

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JULY 1, 2014

In these areas, the company has already achieved durations of close to 30 days between the first and last meter drilled (“dry hole”). Around 50% of the company’s investment in pre-salt is designated for constructing and evaluating wells; hence, reduced drilling time has a major economic impact.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Boeing, Embraer and the Sao Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) plan to collaborate on long-term aviation biofuels-related research and development, a move that represents another major step toward the creation of a sustainable aviation biofuels industry in Brazil.

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OCTOBER 12, 2013

The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for sustainable aviation biofuel supply chain development at The Corporate Council on Africa’s 9 th Biennial US-Africa Business, attended by executives from leading US and African firms and government representatives from several countries.

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JULY 22, 2013

Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to join a voluntary greenhouse gas reporting program recently established in India. The company already participates in similar programs in the United States, China, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. The Chennai facilities are equipped to reuse 100% of wastewater generated.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Brazil-based Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus, part of the TRATON Group, introduced the e-Delivery electric truck ( earlier post )—a battery electric version of the company’s Delivery mode—at IAA Commercial vehicles. The company also introduced the e-Flex flexible architecture for the electrification of the Volksbus.

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Tesla is reportedly considering purchasing Sigma Lithium, a Brazillian lithium mining company, for an estimated $3 billion. With the company’s exponentially growing demand for the substance, and its alacrity to vertically integrate, a corporate purchase of a lithium miner certainly is within its MO.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Petrobras now operates more floating production platforms (including self-owned and chartered ones) than any other company in the world, according to Petrodata, a consulting firm that specializes in providing information about the global oil industry. Pioneering FPSOs. The result was a significant saving of time and resources.

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JUNE 2, 2011

The major retail and commercial fuels company will operate in Brazil. In Brazil it becomes the third largest fuels company. In Brazil it becomes the third largest fuels company. Plans would extend the company’s reach in future years to export more ethanol to other key markets.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Use of Hydrous Ethanol in Brazil. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol.

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Third generation ethanol utilizes algae for producing ethanol from waste water (3G), while fourth generation ethanol is an amalgamation of genomically prepared microorganisms and genetically prepared algae (4g). Globally, the United States and Brazil lead the production of ethanol, while the EU leads biodiesel production.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

In October, after ExxonMobil announced its fifth oil discovery after drilling the Turbot well, analysts at energy analytics company Wood Mackenzie observed that Guyana, which is currently a non-oil producing country, might soon become an oil and gas powerhouse in South America. billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

The IHS Markit report, entitled: “Back to the Basins: International Shorter-Cycle Opportunities,” initially assessed five, short-cycle projects outside the US in mature, late-life basins in Mexico, Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil and the North Sea, and included both shallow water and mature, onshore areas that break even at per-barrel costs under US$40.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade Ltda is responding to oil seeps and a subsequent sheen that has occurred in the vicinity of the Chevron-operated Frade project located 370 kilometers (230 miles) offshore north east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in water depths of approximately 1,200 meters (3,800 feet).

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

For example, for more than a year the company has been operating a demonstration-scale facility that is capitalizing on the same technology and enzyme cocktail used at Hugoton to extract cellulosic sugars from municipal solid waste (trash), thereby allowing expansion of the renewable fuels industry from rural to urban areas.

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JUNE 3, 2011

billion order to build two deepwater drillships for drilling contractor Rowan Companies Inc. The vessels, measuring 229 meters in length and 36 meters in width, are rated for operations in water 12,000 ft (3,657 m) deep. Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, landed a US$1.12-billion Source: GustoMSC.

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JULY 18, 2016

The agreement also provides proposals for new, more efficient dehydration processes that will draw upon both companies’ technologies—including the two different types of zeolites currently produced by each. MCC successfully developed its unique CHA -type zeolite membranes, which have superior resistance to water and acid.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Current deep-water gas pipelines have thick walls and, due to quality and safety requirements, the number of pipe mills capable of producing the pipe is limited. And finally, the number of pipe-laying vessels for deep-water pipelines is limited. And finally, the number of pipe-laying vessels for deep-water pipelines is limited.

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MAY 5, 2012

Statoil and Rosneft signed a cooperation agreement under which the companies will jointly explore offshore frontier areas of Russia and Norway and conduct joint technical studies on two onshore Russian assets. In addition the two companies will conduct joint technical studies on two onshore Russian assets. Barents Sea.

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