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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Meanwhile, the parts of the country that weren’t prioritizing expanding charging infrastructure or interested in backing California’s vehicle mandates saw the needle moving in the opposite direction. Charging infrastructure in California drastically eclipses infrastructure in North Dakota. percent witnessed in June of 2022.

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MAY 19, 2011

The US Geological Survey will update its 2008 estimate of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas in the US portion of the Bakken Formation, an important domestic petroleum resource located in North Dakota and Montana. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Source: USGS. Click to enlarge. billion barrels.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

United States M&A activity for upstream oil and gas deals set records in 2011 for both deal values and deal counts, according to PLS, Inc., a provider of information, marketing and advisory services for the oil and gas industry. Values of US upstream M&A oil and gas M&A deals, 2006-2011. —Ronyld W. Wise, President of PLS.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The Marcellus Shale contains about 84.198 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas and 3.379 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas liquids, according to a new geology-based assessment by the US Geological Survey (USGS). billion barrels of natural gas liquids.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Rail safety is a national priority, and I encourage everyone to participate and be part of the solution. The area is one of the largest contiguous deposits of oil and natural gas in the United States, found in North Dakota and Montana, where energy production has doubled in the past three years.

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JUNE 6, 2011

On Friday, 3 June, the US Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), part of the US Department of Transportation, had issued a Corrective Order requiring the company to take specified corrective actions with respect to the pipeline prior to resumption of operations. The tar sands are estimated (e.g.,

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APRIL 29, 2016

The Bakken Formation, a shale oil and gas field in North Dakota and Montana, is emitting roughly 2% (about 250,000 tons per year) of the globe’s ethane, according to new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan. We did not expect a single oil field to affect global levels of this gas. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2013

tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by North Dakota (80.4 California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 tonnes/person).

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APRIL 1, 2024

EV infrastructure is much less widespread than gas stations—and the number of EV chargers is only part of the problem. Although California has numerous charging options, there are comparatively fewer in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Based upon preliminary inspections conducted after recent rail derailments in North Dakota, Alabama and Lac-Megantic, Québec involving Bakken crude oil, PHMSA is reinforcing the requirement properly to test, characterize, classify, and, where appropriate, sufficiently degasify hazardous materials prior to and during transportation.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. For investors, this offers the opportunity for high yield, which is why hundreds of billions of dollars helped finance companies in disparate parts of the country looking to drill in shale. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

While demand for all major refined products declined, the overall dip was driven in significant part by a nearly 27% reduction in deliveries of high-sulfur distillate fuel, which is used in home heating. Alaskan production was up by 34%, and North Dakota production was also strong. Gasoline deliveries slipped 0.2%

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MAY 23, 2009

The Plains CO 2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, one of seven members of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, has begun collecting core samples from a new characterization well near Spectra Energy’s Fort Nelson natural gas processing plant in British Columbia, Canada.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Accelergy Corporation, an advanced coal-to-liquids company, has formed a strategic partnership with the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota.

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JUNE 12, 2015

The financial pages of Canadian newspapers have been full of headlines lately announcing the potential of two large shale oil fields in the Northwest Territories said to contain enough oil to rival the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana. enthused the Financial Post. The project was approved by the NEB in 2010. But with U.S.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

OmniGas uses a patent-pending molten slag approach to produce syngas that can be used by more than 14,000 US industrial consumers of large volumes of natural gas. The 24-month, $945,000 grant is focused on the design and demonstration of a one ton per day OmniGas gasifier to process biomass, coal, and blends thereof. Earlier post.).

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JULY 19, 2016

The settlement, a consent decree lodged in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, includes provisions that resolves ongoing Clean Air Act violations at refineries in Kenai, Alaska; Martinez, California; Kapolei, Hawaii; Mandan, North Dakota; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Anacortes, Washington. Of the $10.45-million

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

The tight oil is extracted in the same way as shale gas, through horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing. Brigham, based in Austin, Texas, has a strong position in the Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays in the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. Click to enlarge. per share through an all-cash tender offer.

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JULY 20, 2011

The projects will develop technologies for use in a new generation of advanced turbines that operate using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. This project will assess flashback and the subsequent flameholding tendencies associated with geometric features found within gas turbine premixers.

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Universal Hydrogen Fuel North Dakota 199

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MARCH 25, 2015

Much of the US’ new abundant domestic oil and gas supply is being produced from unconventional resources—particularly light sweet crude oil from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, as well as the Eagle Ford and Permian Basins in Texas. This rapid growth has also created challenges in moving crude oil to market.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The test was conducted utilizing a producing oil well in the Mission Canyon Formation, part of the Madison Group of Mississippian-age carbonate rocks in the western United States. Pressure (3,000 pounds per square inch) and temperature (180 °F) were among the highest. The formation was a carbonate rather than clastic reservoir.

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JULY 2, 2009

The two projects selected—an existing power plant in North Dakota and a new facility in California—will incorporate advanced technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The selection of the two projects is part of the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI).

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JUNE 27, 2012

mbpd of crude oil and natural gas liquids per year by 2020, making it the second largest oil producer in the world, after Saudi Arabia, according to Maugeri. The Bakken and Three Forks fields in North Dakota and Montana alone could become the equivalent of a Persian Gulf-producing country within the United States.

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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. The H 2 -rich syngas stream will be split, with part used to produce.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. This project will perform bench-scale development and testing of a novel solvent-based CO 2 scrubbing technology, known as Gas Pressurized Stripping (GPS). University of North Dakota. DOE share: $1,999,693; recipient share: $500,000.

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JUNE 24, 2010

An additional 4 billion gallons of advanced biofuels (defined by the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50%) by 2022 is also mandated. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia.

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JULY 7, 2009

The vision is that the advisory council will develop a methodology for assessing the technologies based upon our three part clean energy definition: Improved energy efficiency in use, distribution, or transmission. Greenhouse gas reduction. 949 : The 21 st Century Energy and Technology and Deployment Act of 2009.

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APRIL 16, 2009

After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUVs instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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