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MARCH 15, 2022

In 2021, Raven SR attracted funds totalling $20 million from global oil and gas major Chevron, Japanese trading house ITOCHU, hydrogen mobility leader and innovator Hyzon Motors, and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR’s technology is designed to produce more green hydrogen per ton of waste than competing processes.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, been able to use laser measurement techniques and microphones to make highly precise, simultaneous measurements of the sources of noise in the air stream behind an aircraft engine. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Participating investors included CTTV Investments LLC, the venture capital arm of Chevron Technology Ventures LLC; Flagship Ventures; Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. LS9 has engineered a one-step process using to convert fatty acid intermediates into petroleum replacement products via fermentation of renewable sugars.

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JULY 22, 2022

is designed to demonstrate the viability of achieving net energy generation with TAE’s advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC)—the penultimate step on TAE’s path to commercialize clean fusion power. TAE’s Copernicus reactor, which will be constructed in a 100,000-square-foot facility in Irvine, Calif.,

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JANUARY 5, 2013

The platform is being designed for daily production of 150,000 barrels of oil. Source: Chevron. Hebron will be developed using a stand-alone gravity-based structure (GBS) consisting of reinforced concrete designed to withstand sea ice, icebergs and meteorological and oceanographic conditions. Location of Hebron field.

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JULY 15, 2016

The proposed regulations incorporate advanced principles of safer engineering and management, as well as attention to the human and organizational elements of safety. DIR, Cal OES, and CalEPA have collaborated to ensure that the two regulations are aligned.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Source: Reaction Design. Reaction Design is introducing the first volume of the industry’s most well-validated available Model Fuel Library, the result of seven years of research and validation under the Model Fuels Consortium ( earlier post ). —Bernie Sanders, CEO, Reaction Design. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

A team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Chevron Corporation has examined the chemical composition and properties of several diesel fuels and blendstocks derived from Fischer?Tropsch Tropsch (FT) synthesis, hydroisomerization of lipids, and fermentation of sugar via the terpenoid metabolic pathway.

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MAY 8, 2013

The initial development phase is being designed for daily production of 34,000 barrels of oil and includes six wells with subsea tie-backs to the Jack & St. Malo production facility operated by Chevron USA Inc.

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Mexico Oil Chevron USA 300

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This project continues a renewable fuels growth strategy at Fortistar designed to help businesses and public agencies reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with a solution that also saves them money. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits will be sold to Chevron under a long-term agreement.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted Reaction Design one of seven awards for a project intended to support the full-scale implementation and operation of highly efficient coal-based power generation technologies with near-zero emissions. Reaction Design also leads the Model Fuels Consortium. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park was considering ditching gas engines soon. But the ride was sponsored by Chevron from 1998-2012, and that company is pretty dedicated to poisoning small children anyway, so it was apt.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park is “evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.” Until 2016, Autopia vehicles were noisy, polluting two-stroke engines.

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JANUARY 20, 2013

announced a partnership for the design, construction, and operation of a Biofuels ISOCONVERSION Process (BIC) demonstration system using the ARA and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) process for the production of certification quantities of 100% drop-in renewable jet, diesel, and gasoline. Applied Research Associates, Inc. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 30, 2014

The other thing is that their structure allows them to be manipulated in order to perform pre-designed functions. That’s why we call them ‘designer liquids’ as we can alter their properties to suit specific purposes. They have no vapor pressure, which means they can’t burn or explode.

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Mercury Gas Chevron CO2 210

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

As highlighted at the 2013 SAE International High Octane Fuels Symposium (HOF) last week, high octane fuels—combined with optimized engines—are viable enablers to higher efficiency operation. When ethanol is used as the octane enhancer, there is an added benefit due to the latent heat of vaporization of that fuel. Earlier post.).

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MAY 4, 2011

With production capacity at the Athabasca Oil Sands Project now at 255,000 barrels-per-day, engineers will focus on improving operating efficiencies and adding capacity through debottlenecking. Design and engineering work also continues on the proposed Quest carbon capture and storage project at the Scotford Upgrader.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

OTC BB: BFRE.OB), has signed agreements with GS Caltex—a joint venture between GS Holdings and Chevron, and a leading Korea-based petroleum company—to build a cellulose to sugar plant in Korea. SucreSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueFire Renewables, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

UAI’s Request for Correction explains in detail its view of the fundamental flaws in the design of the EPAct study that produced EPA’s inaccurate emissions estimates. Adding insult to injury, BP, Chevron, and others with a clear incentive to limit ethanol were involved in the design of the fuel testing.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

We need to make some changes—both in the design of aircraft and in the way they transit through our skies to not only maintain, but improve safety and efficiency. Examples of green technology NASA has developed in the past include winglets and chevrons. That’s a huge challenge, but we at NASA enthusiastically accept it.

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JULY 22, 2010

Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell plan to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. It is being developed by a team of marine, subsea and construction engineers from the four companies.

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Mexico Oil Chevron Mariner 186

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APRIL 11, 2012

Researchers at MIT, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, say they have found a solution, described recently in the RSC journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The MIT team’s new method would instead use passive coatings on the insides of the pipes that are designed to prevent the hydrates from adhering.

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

Because of the low well flow rates and early water break-through there is a need for many wells and a process designed to handle large liquid rates and oil-water emulsions. The contract award for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the steel jacket has been issued to Dragados Offshore S.A. , detailed engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States. —David Allen, professor of chemical engineering at UT’s Cockrell School of Engineering and principal investigator.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. While pursuing a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering, he worked as a Shell intern in 2009. Perhaps I would have been an engineer working in either Chevron , Shell, or ExxonMobil today.

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JUNE 13, 2015

In one of the first research projects NGI is funding, Robert Jackson, professor of environmental Earth system science, and Adam Brandt, assistant professor of energy resources engineering, are starting to develop a more accurate, faster and less expensive method for detecting leaks of methane at well pads and gas processing stations.

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JULY 5, 2021

liter four-cylinder gasoline engine mated to an 8.9 Smooth Design: Out and In. The redesigned front has a new diamond-pattern grille and fascia that house chevron-shaped LED daytime running lights and fog lamps. Big thanks to Kia designers for the knobs to control the radio, which was one of the easiest we have used.

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MARCH 15, 2024

liter 4-cylinder engine that puts out 235 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque (on premium gasoline), driving either the front or all-four wheels through a nine-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters. liter engine or 350 horsepower, but no, not even close. Let’s take a look. All come with a turbocharged 2.0-liter

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Cadillac Escalade SUV MPG 55

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

The province signed a Letter of Intent with Shell Canada Energy, on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project—a joint venture among Shell Canada (60%), Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Sands L.P. (20%)—to A total of $100 million has been budgeted this fiscal year for engineering and design work.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In a report comparing advances in combustion engines, biofuels, electrification and other technologies, Accenture warns that the commercial viability of those disruptive technologies will be delayed unless regulators more proactively support the transformation of science into applied technologies. Next-generation agriculture.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. Partners include Argonne National Laboratory, ChemStation, Chevron Phillips, and Texas A&M.

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MAY 7, 2012

The Pacific Santa Ana , a deepwater drillship built to Chevron’s specifications, has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five-year contract with a subsidiary of Pacific Drilling S.A. Pacific Santa Ana is the first drillship designed with the capacity to perform dual gradient drilling (DGD).

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JUNE 4, 2012

Azul Airlines, Embraer and GE announced that Amyris’s renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane has successfully passed all required testing and will be used during a demonstration flight on an Azul E195 aircraft powered by GE’s CF34-10E engines. More than 1,000 CF34-10E engines are in service with 48 customers. Amyris, Inc.,

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JUNE 19, 2011

NREL performed dilute acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of both NABC feedstocks (harvest residues from Catchlight Energy LLC (a 50:50 joint venture between Chevron and Weyerhauser, earlier post ) and corn stover from ISU) and shipped the hydrolysate to Amyris for testing. Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Sugars.

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JUNE 6, 2016

The new octane index correlation can be used for designing robust HCCI control strategies, capable of handling the wide spectrum of fuel chemical compositions found in pump gasoline, the researchers said in their paper published in the International Journal of Engine Research. —Lacey et al.

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MARCH 2, 2012

The physical barrier is designed to remove fine oil droplets and solids from the water in the initial phase of the water treatment process. The Oxy-Fuel combustion project has been designed to prove a technology that will significantly reduce the amount of GHGs released to the atmosphere by OTSGs. Greenhouse gas emissions.

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