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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Beaudreau announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales. million acres, located from three to 230 nautical miles offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, in water depths ranging from 9 to more than 11,115 feet (3 to 3,400 meters).

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MAY 3, 2010

Concept of the subsea oil recovery system. BP is working to deploy a subsea oil recovery system over the largest leak source in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon Rig that it hopes will capture up to 85% of the oil rising from the sea floor following the sinking of Deepwater Horizon on 22 April. Not to scale. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: The Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill on Coastal Ecosystems. Rabalais, Ph.D.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects to receive approximately $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development in unconventional oil and natural gas (UOG) recovery. Development of the TMS in eastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi could significantly impact local communities economically.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program.

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JULY 4, 2013

Shell announced a successful exploratory well at Vicksburg in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The well is located 75 miles (120 kilometers) offshore in the Mississippi Canyon Block 393 in 7,446 feet (2,269 meters) of water.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Responders to the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon incident have scheduled a controlled, on-location burn of oil from the spill to begin at approximately 11 a.m. The explosion and fire on, and subsequent sinking of, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig left some 1,000 barrels of oil (42,000 gallons) per day flowing from the broken drill pipe.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

A new, University of Georgia-led study—the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge— found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean. million barrels of oil, depending on the method used.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This will be the first fueling barge with a Wärtsilä solution operating in US waters, and is seen as being an important logistics link for the growth of LNG as a marine fuel in the USA. When delivered, the vessel will be on a long-term charter with Shell Oil Co. The ATB comprises a barge and a tug.

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MARCH 19, 2014

The biomass-to-cellulosic fuel technology platform combines KiOR’s proprietary catalyst systems with FCC processes that have been used in crude oil refineries to produce gasoline for more than 60 years. The crude oil proceeds to the hydrotreating unit to be refined into gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. —KiOR 10-K.

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MARCH 20, 2010

Shell announced a “significant” new oil discovery in the deepwater eastern Gulf of Mexico, adding to discoveries in the area from 2009. The discovery is located at the Appomattox prospect in 2,200 metres (7,217 feet) of water in Mississippi Canyon blocks 391 and 392. Shell sites in the Gulf of Mexico. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2015

At a water depth of approximately 1,900 meters (6,234 feet), the current field development is located in Mississippi Canyon Blocks 778 and 822, in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico environment. A flowline is a pipe, laid on the seabed, which allows the transportation of oil/gas production or injection of fluids.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Hess Corporation will proceed with the development of Tubular Bells, a deepwater oil and gas project operated by Hess in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered in 2003, Tubular Bells is located approximately 135 miles southeast of New Orleans in the Mississippi Canyon area. The development is estimated to cost $2.3

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MAY 4, 2010

Work has begun to drill a relief well to intercept and to isolate the deepwater oil well that is spilling oil in the US Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The new well, in 5,000 feet of water, is planned to intercept the existing well around 13,000 feet below the seabed and permanently seal it.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

of the University of Central Florida, will develop sea level rise computer models to predict the impacts storms and rising water pose to the northern Gulf’s coastline, including shoreline and barrier island erosion. It may also help oil spill responders better understand oil that may reside in the subsided ecosystems.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Alkaline Carbon Capture and Expression-Streamlined Spirulina Cultivated in Air for Reliable Bioproducts, Oil, and Nutrition. Mississippi State University. Microalgae Commodities Production with a Direct Air Capture Process. Lumen Bioscience, Incorporated. Duke University. Topic 4: Bio-Restore: Biomass to Restore Natural Resources.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Consisting of 45 acres of open saltwater ponds, the facility will be used for research on optimizing algal productivity and increasing the rates of conversion of biomass into renewable oils. These species are then collected and processed into renewable oils and many other valuable co-products.

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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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JANUARY 13, 2014

The ratio between gasoline, diesel and fuel oil is 41% gasoline, 37% diesel, and 22% fuel oil. During the call, Cannon said that KiOR had produced 894,000 gallons of total fuel product in 2013, with 385,000 gallons of that in the fourth quarter.

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JULY 8, 2009

The House Approprations committee also has agreed to a $40 million increase for hydrogen transportation systems ($108 million total) originally added to the DOE FY2010 budget by the House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee. The Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves would receive $23.6

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. The highest variations are observed for biodiesel from palm oil and soya.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The exhaust gas from the turbine is the used to heat water, producing steam to generate additional electricity from a steam turbine. Southern Company subsidiary Mississippi Power currently is seeking regulatory approval to build a 582-megawatt plant using TRIG technology in Kemper County, Miss. Source: NETL. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 21, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. billion barrels of oil and 3.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. in previous Central lease sales.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

We believe that such an assessment would find that the extremely high costs of implementing this program outweigh the indirect benefits to consumers of the small, marginal reductions in US oil imports. Therefore, we do not recommend renewing blenders’ credits when they expire at the end of 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

million for three projects that support research focused on designing landscapes that produce bioenergy feedstock while protecting air, soil, water, and wildlife resources and enhancing ecosystem services. This bio-oil has shown potential to be refined and used in current infrastructure and vehicles. With funding of up to $4.5

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Tamar SW, which was drilled to a total depth of 17,420 feet (5,310 meters) in 5,405 feet (1,647 meters) of water, is the company’s eighth consecutive discovery in the Levant Basin. At Dantzler, wireline logging data indicates that the well encountered over 120 net feet of primarily crude oil pay in two high-quality Miocene reservoirs.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Center for Enhanced Camelina Oil (CECO) The team led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will. produces more oil per acre. Lead organization. 3,734,939.

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