Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Exxon Mobil Corporation’s affiliate, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production South Africa Limited, will soon begin exploration activities offshore South Africa. These exploration rights and the affiliate’s participating interest in them are subject to South African government approval. Source: Petroleum Agency SA.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 7, 2014
Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from Solaris, a new hybrid tobacco plant optimized for seed production for energy applications. The seed contains around 40% oil. Initially, oil from the plants seeds will be converted into jet fuel. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2014
Australia-based Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL says it has verified that its recently completed Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column—the first such discovered off the East African coast. The gross oil column is assessed to be 14m thick beneath a gross gas column of 29.6m
Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2016
In 2013, Boeing and SAA launched their sustainable aviation fuels collaboration and in 2014, Project Solaris became the first focus project that converted oil from the Solaris plant seed into bio-jet fuel. All agronomic inputs needed, such as, fertilizer, water, crop protection etc. are similar to traditional tobacco farming.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Additionally, the engine features cast-aluminum, low-friction coated pistons with piston-cooling jets, which squirt oil on the underside of the pistons to keep the piston crowns cool under extreme operating conditions. liter is manufactured in Ford’s Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The Power Stroke 3.2-liter
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
MHI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd ( PBMR Pty ) of the Republic of South Africa to study the area of collaboration in the development of the helium-cooled, High Temperature Reactor (HTR) Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 1, 2009
The oscillator is fitted with pistons and, when activated by wave action, pumps high-pressure water through a sub-sea pipeline to the shore. Onshore, conventional hydroelectric generators convert this high-pressure water into electrical energy. Dr Ronan Doherty, Chief Technical Officer of Aquamarine Power , developer of the Oyster.
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