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Uranium Energy Corp completes acquisition of Uranium One Americas; largest uranium mining company in US

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million pounds U 3 O 8 per year based on permitted and installed capacity of our Wyoming and South Texas hub-and-spoke operations. On-site ground water is fortified with gaseous oxygen and introduced to the uranium ore body through a pattern of injection wells. Wyoming Hub and Spoke. —Amir Adnani, President and CEO.

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DOE-sponsored project shows huge potential for carbon storage in Wyoming; potential for lithium recovery to offset cost

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The Wyoming Rock Springs Uplift could potentially store 14 to 17 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to results from a Department of Energy-sponsored study. The results could also lay the groundwork for a future large-scale carbon capture and storage project in Wyoming.

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DKRW Advanced Fuels secures EPC contract with Sinopec Engineering for Medicine Bow coal-to-liquids project in Wyoming

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Using bituminous coal from southern Wyoming, the Medicine Bow facility will produce 11,600 barrels per day of very low sulfur gasoline using GE gasification technology and methanol?to?gasoline mile pipeline from Medicine Bow to Cheyenne. gasoline (MTG) technologies. Earlier post.). SEG is a share?controlled located with the 180?million?ton

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US DOI finalizes plan for oil shale and oil sands research, demonstration and development

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week announced the Department of the Interior’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and oil sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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DOE to leverage fossil energy expertise to develop and explore geothermal energy resources

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DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will combine efforts to have experts test and validate low temperature geothermal power generation technologies at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) near Casper, Wyoming. The Tensleep hot water was previously treated as a waste stream.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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Most nuclear plants around the world today are large light-water reactors, with capacities well over a gigawatt—quite a bit more than typical coal plants. Large reactors need consistent and prolific water sources to cool themselves, something not every old coal plant can provide. But in the future, not all reactors might be so large.

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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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A breach in ExxonMobil’s Pegasus crude oil pipeline occurred late Friday afternoon near Mayflower, AR (about 20 miles north northwest of Little Rock and at the southeastern end of the Lake Conway reservoir). Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. Route of the Pegasus pipeline.

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