Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) initiated the first drill designed to deploy critical pieces of advanced well control equipment to the ultra-deep seabed of the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to exercise the oil and gas industry’s response to a potential subsea blowout. MWCC capping stack. Source: MWCC.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Ford Motor Company is the first automaker and one of several companies taking a leadership position in joining the Water Disclosure Project , which will establish a water disclosure protocol for companies around the world and promote conservation and stewardship. For the past decade, Ford has made it a priority to conserve water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

awarded Technip a lump sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. The project scope covers: Project management and engineering. BP Exploration & Production Inc.

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Green Car Congress

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. A vehicle assembly and engine plant complex are under construction in Sanand, Gujarat.

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Green Car Congress

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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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The wind part of the project plans a total of 3,000 megawatts from wind farms it will build in three counties in New Mexico. An 885-kilometer bidirectional high-voltage direct-current transmission line will run from New Mexico and south-central Arizona. But now, Électricité de France (EDF) says they are in the final stretch.

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Engine San Francisco Iceland Wind 128

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ultra-HP/HT wells are currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, on the shelf and in deep water. A good example is the Haynesville shale gas play where one E&P Company has completed more than 300 HPHT wells, he noted. HPHT reservoirs drive new technology requirements in a number of ways.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

liter Pentastar V-6 engine with Engine Stop-Start (ESS) and eight-speed automatic or six-speed manual transmission; and a 3.0-liter liter Pentastar V-6 engine delivers 285 horsepower and 260 lb-ft (353 N·m) of torque and features ESS as standard equipment. liter V-6 Pentastar engines since production began in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Global Industries is a provider of subsea construction and pipelay, engineering, project management and support services. We see that our customers continue to firm up a substantial number of large offshore developments with Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and Asia Pacific leading the way to drive future growth.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.) DOE Marine and Hydrokinetic Technologies listing.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Audi investigating its e-fuels in an optical research engine using laser-induced fluorescence. The Audi engineers were primarily interested in mixture preparation and the synthetic fuels’ combustion characteristics. The optical research engine was another test station. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of the Interior has proposed new regulations that include more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment used in offshore oil and gas operations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. Catalytic Conversion: The catalysts are selected from the group of dehydration catalysts; aromatization catalysts; and gas-upgrading catalysts to produce different types of renewable fuel. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These projects are to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of non-conventional geothermal energy technologies in three research areas: low temperature fluids, geothermal fluids recovered from oil and gas wells, and highly pressurized geothermal fluids. Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

LLNL and the Navajo Nation plan to collaborate in an array of areas including energy security; carbon sequestration; coal gasification; shale gas; enhanced oil recovery; wind, geothermal and solar; environmental studies and other areas. —Steve Grey, program manager at LLNL.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

million 13 projects aimed at reducing risks while enhancing the environmental performance of drilling for natural gas and oil in ultra-deepwater settings. Colorado School of Mines — Hydrate Modeling & Flow Loop Experiments for Water Continuous & Dispersed Systems. DOE share: $3,174,127; Recipient share: $807,640; Duration: 3 years.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

has been experiencing severe inflation and high gas prices. EV’s may be the answer Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly popular as gas prices continue to rise. A “Consumer Reports” study stated that EV owners spent approximately 60 percent less on fuel each year than gas vehicle owners. It's no secret that the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

This will mark the first time such a system will be used at this water depth (5,000 feet / 1,524 m). The FPSO will process the captured hydrocarbons and separate oil from water and gas. BP engineers have worked closely with the firm Wild Well Controls, Inc. to convert these structures for use in deep waters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

BYD takes on new markets rivaling ICE car leaders After launching its cheapest electric models (starting under $14,000), declaring a price war with gas-powered cars, BYD is taking aim at a new market. BYD has even shown off the U8’s “ float mode ,” which helps the vehicle navigate through water during emergencies.

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Ferrari BYD Land Rover Electric 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved a supplemental Exploration Plan (EP) submitted by BP for deepwater oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico. The water depth at the proposed well sites range from 6,019 to 6,034 ft (1,835 to 1,839 meters) and are located 192 miles from the nearest Louisiana shoreline.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

similar to that of the Deepwater Horizon in 2010— thereby reducing environmental damage and buying valuable time for engineers to develop a permanent solution to seal the well. At water depths of between 100m and 3,048m (328ft to 10,000ft). Capping device key facts. To various points of the subsea stack.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The power electronics and the motors use separate cooling: water for the PE and ol for the motor unit. liter engine with cooled EGR features a high compression ratio and is optimized to function in its range extender role. Click to enlarge. No more big orange high-voltage cables underneath the hood.) The new direct-injected 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

M-I SWACO will spend $450,000 over two years for research by the lab of James Tour, Rice’s Chao Professor of Chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science, to optimize the effectiveness of graphene additives to drilling fluids, also known as muds. The filter blows out and the oil flows.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

—Cristina Negri, principal agronomist and environmental engineer at Argonne. We developed an approach to design such landscapes at a field scale to minimize concerns of land use change, water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with production of food and bioenergy.

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Green Car Congress

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. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. in 1988 to just above 2.3 Source: Chevron.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

Preliminary work and engineering plans have been drawn up to build a 50,000 liter (13,209 gallon US) cultivation pilot plant at the Ketch Harbour facility. C2A has been licensed to use an ultra-efficient gas infusion technology for the transfer of CO 2 into liquids for algae feedstock and to remove oxygen that can become toxic to algae.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Its high carbon-capture rate reduces the total amount of CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere to less than 10% of the emissions for power from a conventional coal plant, and less than 25% of those for power from a highly efficient, natural gas-fired plant, according to Summit. Earlier post.). The project is supported by H.B.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associated with production-related energy supplies by 2020. the US subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG , provided engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services in building the solar park. Phoenix Solar Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

” In all five cases, water and nutrients (N and P) are supplied by municipal wastewater, which also provides some of the carbon needed for algae growth. Additional CO 2 is supplied by flue gas from a natural gas-fired power plant. could allow for practical, near-term development of engineering, technological, and human.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The fixed bed chemical looping system has been designed to operate in three reaction modes that can occur simultaneously for continuous hydrogen production: natural gas utilization through the reduction of MMOC, steam oxidation and air regeneration.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

cyclopentane), a potent greenhouse gas (e.g. This also lowers the temperature difference between the hot and cold sides, improving the COP as a consequence of improved Carnot, or thermodynamic, efficiency (heat pumps are the same as heat engines, just operating in reverse). CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons), or toxic (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. A paper on their work appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Liu 2011.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient. And the percentage of clean energy is growing every year as coal and gas plants are being replaced by renewable energy sources. Once the oil has been refined, it is transported to fuel stations in diesel trucks creating even more pollution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

has awarded Technip an engineering, procurement and installation contract for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Stones field. This field is located in the Walker Ridge area in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM), at a water depth of approximately 2,900 meters (9,500 feet). Shell Offshore Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year, with accompanying disposal costs of about $5 billion per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive. 1 activated carbon cloth (ACC) was harvested.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Across a broad 350 hp to 605 hp (260-451 kW) range, the X Series introduces an innovative approach to duty-cycle optimization with a medium-bore X12 engine and two big-bore configurations, available as the X15 Efficiency Series and the X15 Performance Series.

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