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US Treasury allows Chevron to resume oil production in Venezuela, delivery to US only

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The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued Venezuela General License (GL) 41 , authorizing Chevron Corporation to resume limited natural resource extraction operations in Venezuela. from receiving profits from the oil sales by Chevron. Chevron currently holds a 39.2% Chevron also holds a 25.2%

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Review of co-processing of biocrudes in oil refineries

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Liquid intermediates from pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can be co-processed in an oil refinery along with conventional crude oil. After pyrolysis, the vapors are condensed to give a dark brown fast pyrolysis bio-oil (FPBO). In fast pyrolysis, biomass is quickly heated to around 500 °C in the absence of oxygen.

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ExxonMobil discovery at Uaru-2 offshore Guyana; block recoverable resource estimate upped to 9B barrels oil-equivalent

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ExxonMobil announced an oil discovery at the Uaru-2 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana ( earlier post ). Uaru-2 will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block, which is currently estimated to be approximately 9 billion oil-equivalent barrels. Source: ExxonMobil.

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Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

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Cemvita defines Gold Hydrogen as the biological production of hydrogen in the subsurface through the consumption of trapped or abandoned resources. The hydrogen production in this trial exceeded our expectations. Green hydrogen production, however, is energy intensive and expensive. It is growing at a CAGR of 54.7%

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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EIA: US Permian Basin oil production and resource assessments continue to increase

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Crude oil production in the US Permian Basin is expected to increase to an estimated 2.4 million barrels per day (b/d) in May, based on estimates from EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report. As production in other regions fell throughout most of 2015 and 2016, the Permian provided a growing share of US crude oil production.

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Bolivian government promoting jatropha cultivation for biodiesel production

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Bolivia President Luis Arce said that the national government has a strategy to promote the cultivation of jatropha, a plant from which the oil is extracted to serve as a raw material for biodiesel production. The natural resources, the geography we have, helps us to think about being large producers of biofuels (.)

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