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Chevron Sanctions Development of Deepwater Jack/St. Malo Project in the Gulf of Mexico; Initial Development Cost of ~$7.5B

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Malo fields are located within 25 miles (40 km) of each other approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 7,000 feet (2,100 m). Seven exploration and appraisal wells have been successfully and safely drilled at these fields since 2003. The Jack and St. The Lower Tertiary trend.

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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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The site was selected because it is representative of the Black Warrior Basin, an area of about 23,000 square miles located in northwestern Alabama and northeastern Mississippi. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed. gigatons to 2.3

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DOE Regional Partner Initiates Coal Seam CO2 Injection and Methane Recovery Study in Virginia

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The site was selected because it is representative of the Central Appalachian Basin, an area of about 10,000 square miles located in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. One thousand tons of CO 2 will be injected over a 45-day period. This area has been assessed by researchers to have the capacity to store 1.3

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BOEM approves first BP deepwater Gulf exploration plan to meet new standards following Deepwater Horion disaster

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The supplemental EP proposes to drill up to four wells in the Gulf of Mexico’s Keathley Canyon Blocks 292 and 336, which BP acquired in lease sales in 1997 and 2003. The water depth at the proposed well sites range from 6,019 to 6,034 ft (1,835 to 1,839 meters) and are located 192 miles from the nearest Louisiana shoreline.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

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I first met& “Perry” at a Honda dealership& in Louisiana in 1986. The car business being a small, inbred industry would result in me bumping into Perry& several more times, once while he was selling Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Texas in 2003. Their names have been changed to protect the guilty. This can lead to problems.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003. Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked. Named flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs), these automobiles run on gasoline, ethanol, or any blend of the two. Resources.

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First oil from ultra-deepwater Jack/St. Malo project in US Gulf of Mexico

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They were discovered in 2004 and 2003, respectively, and production from the first development stage is expected to ramp up over the next several years to a total daily rate of 94,000 barrels of crude oil and 21 million cubic feet of natural gas. Malo project in the Lower Tertiary trend, US Gulf of Mexico. Earlier post.) The Jack and St.

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