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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Chevron Corporation announced that it had conducted a successful production test on the St. Chevron’s Jack/St. Malo development is located approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 7,000 feet (2,134 m) of water. Chevron has a working interest of 51% in the St. Malo field. Other owners of the St.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. Playa Del Rey’s other big customer is Chevron.

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JULY 7, 2021

Aker Solutions has been awarded a major contract from Chevron Australia Pty Ltd to provide a subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia. The Jansz-Io field is a part of the Chevron-operated Gorgon project, one of the world’s largest natural gas developments. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a new oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The well is located approximately 216 miles (348 km) off the Louisiana coast in 6,759 feet (2,060 meters) of water and was drilled to a depth of 31,545 feet (9,615 meters). The Keathley Canyon Block 736 Well No.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Chevron Technology Ventures, a division of Chevron USA Inc. that identifies, evaluates and demonstrates emerging technologies, launched a demonstration project to test the viability of using solar energy to produce oil. The project uses more than 7,600 mirrors to focus the sun’s energy onto a solar boiler.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Source: Chevron. Here, Chevron has reduced its steam:oil ratio (i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While most oil spills in US waters are small, spilled crude oil can still cause damage to sensitive areas such as beaches, mangroves and wetlands. Additionally, Chevron, a major oil and gas operator, will evaluate the technology’s future commercialization. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has entered into a feedstock processing and lignin supply agreement with Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a division of Chevron USA, Inc. Chevron and lignin for fuels. The processes described in the patent applications significantly increase the energy content of the lignin and reduce the oxygen content.

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MAY 6, 2012

The market for water treatment for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) to produce previously inaccessible shale gas will grow nine-fold to $9 billion in 2020, according to a new report from Lux Research. —Brent Giles, Lux Research Analyst and lead author of “ Risk and Reward in the Frack Water Market ”.

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Water 2020 Market Chevron 240

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APRIL 14, 2023

Operating in 4,500 feet of water about 190 miles south of New Orleans, Argos will support 250 permanent jobs. Argos has a waterflood injection capacity of more than 140,000 barrels of low-salinity water per day to help increase oil recovery from the Mad Dog field. bp is the operator with 60.5% working interest.

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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. It does not matter if the water depth is 5,000 feet or 15,000 feet, should the riser become disconnected, the well will be dead.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Source: Chevron. Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, will proceed with the development of the large Gorgon natural gas project offshore Western Australia. Chevron Chairman Dave O’Reilly. Source: Chevron. Chevron anticipates that project emissions will be reduced by approximately 40% (~3.7

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JULY 6, 2011

GE Oil & Gas will supply three customized aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules to provide reliable electric power for a new Chevron floating production unit that will produce oil and gas from the Jack and St. The LM2500+G4. Click to enlarge. The LM2500+G4 is rated at 36.3 MW power output.

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MAY 14, 2012

Oil and gas services company Schlumberger defines artificial lift as any system that adds energy to the fluid column in a wellbore with the objective of initiating and improving production from the well. maglift de-waterers deeper mature wells, and supports retrofit installation through small diameter production tubing.

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Oil-Sands Companies Chevron Energy 210

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JANUARY 5, 2013

Source: Chevron. John’s in 90 to 100 meters (295 to 328 feet) of water. Hebron co-venturers are Chevron Canada Limited (26.7%), Suncor Energy Inc. 22.7%), Statoil Canada (9.7%) and Nalcor Energy Oil and Gas (4.9%). The platform is being designed for daily production of 150,000 barrels of oil. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Chevron Canada Corporation 356

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

TruStar Energy, a Fortistar portfolio company and leading developer of natural gas fueling stations, will market and deliver the RNG fuel. Montrose Water and Sustainability Services, a division of Montrose Environmental Group, completed design and engineering for the project as well as equipment procurement.

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Fuel Chevron Gas Renewable 170

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Many of these R&D efforts can be applied across both the energy and the industrial sectors. Chevron USA.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas 236

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

working interest) and co-owners, BHP Billiton (23.9%) and Union Oil Company of California, an affiliate of Chevron USA Inc (15.6%), decided to re-evaluate the Mad Dog Phase 2 project after an initial design—pegged at some $20 billion—proved too complex and costly. Oil production is expected to begin in late 2021. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 21, 2013

Chevron, GreenPex, Shell and NUNAOIL are awarded an exclusive licence to exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Greenland Sea area, licence bloc 9 (“Umimmak”). And we believe that Arctic resources in the future will become important to meeting the world’s energy demand.

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Grant Chevron 2007 Oil 210

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The BCS is well below hydrocarbon-bearing formations and potable water zones in the region. Quest draws on techniques used by the energy industry for decades and integrates the components of CCS for the large-scale capture, transport and storage of CO 2. It features multiple caprock and salt seal layers.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The Texas legislature, for example, last year approved a law – supported by Standard Lithium and Chevron – that instructed the state’s oilfield regulator to craft regulations for lithium extraction from brines. Reinjection is a key step to preserve underground water table levels. While the 1972 U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

So the last thing we need is for the oil that currently sits safely untapped under local waters and under the town itself to be drilled into, sucked out, and trucked through the South Bay. E&B, along with their counterparts at Chevron, Exxon/Mobil, BP, Shell et al know internally exactly what The Math says.

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Climate Change Climate Chevron Oil 358

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APRIL 11, 2012

Current methods for hydrate mitigation are expensive and energy intensive, comprising chemical, thermal, or flow management techniques. — Methane hydrates can freeze upon contact with cold water in the deep ocean, are a chronic problem for deep-sea oil and gas wells. Resources. David Smith, Adam J. Meuler, Harrison L.

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MIT Oil Gas Chevron 225

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MARCH 2, 2012

Through COSIA, participating companies will capture, develop and share the most innovative approaches and best thinking to improve environmental performance in the oil sands, initially focusing on four Environmental Priority Areas (EPAs): tailings, water, land and greenhouse gases. The released water is recovered and recycled.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Water 252

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The study, a unique partnership between the Environmental Defense Fund, participating companies, an independent Scientific Advisory Panel and the study team: Is based on measurements made directly at 190 production sites throughout the United States, with access provided by nine participating energy companies.

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Austin Gas Emissions Production 218

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JUNE 13, 2015

The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. Natural gas must be developed with safeguards to reduce impacts on water, air quality, land, nearby communities and ecosystems. —Mark Zoback.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Growers have praised sorghum as an easy substitute for corn because it is easy to grow, uses less fertilizer and water and is tolerant to both heat and drought conditions. California-grown sorghum has proven to be cost competitive and energy efficient.

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Supplies Production Chevron Maryland 218

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

Statoil, together with its partners, Alba Resources Limited, (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy PLC) and JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) 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.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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Coal Oil Water Oil Prices 210

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AUGUST 28, 2010

Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through extraction processes used with surface mining production (i.e., The fluid fine tailings concentrate to about 30% mass solids in two to three years but only very slowly thereafter, according to Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB).

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Meanwhile our long term drought, now its its third year with no end in sight, means less available water to fight the fires with. And this summer it also means we’re experiencing mandatory water rationing that restricts our landscape watering to two days a week and forces other cutbacks in water use across the board.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The Rice lab led by Alvarez, with the participation of researchers from Chevron, Shell and the University of Houston, programmed a three-dimensional vapor intrusion model to simulate the degradation, migration and intrusion pathways of methane and benzene under various site conditions. It’s a trade-off. —Pedro Alvarez.

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Building Chevron Gas Houston 225

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

TORRANCE EXXON REFINERY RANKS #6 IN CALIFORNIA, EL SEGUNDO CHEVRON REFINERY IS #4. The Greenius says the children of the South Bay and all of California should hold this fluffer for Exxon personally responsible for the hell and high water that’s coming their way.

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Climate Change Chevron CO2 Climate 230

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

These are “no-regret” technologies, as they represent actions that can be made today to make a significant impact on CO 2 , energy security and the optimization of local resources. This is coupled with the innovation seen in first-generation players to drive down costs, energy and water use, and GHG emissions. Revolutionary.

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JUNE 14, 2009

The Gulf of Mexico is thus the first offshore area in the United States with enough information to identify gas hydrate energy resource targets with potential for gas production. Gas hydrates are a unique substance comprising natural gas (almost exclusively methane) in combination with water. Source: JIP. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

The United States needs to fundamentally rethink its policy of promoting ethanol to diversify its energy sources and increase energy security, according to a new research paper and accompanying policy paper by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Lifting the $0.54 Fundamentals of a Sustainable US Biofuels Policy.

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Universal Congress Gasoline United States 257

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We've seen it all in the press: electric cars are more polluting , less safe, require too much water , will electrocute rescuers after a crash, will spontaneously explode , and will kill the blind. Department of Energy. We need a focused effort at transportation electrification to work in parallel with the move toward renewable energy.

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