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Argentina and Venezuela to cooperate in $2.2B 100,000 bpd extra-heavy oil joint venture in Orinoco Belt

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Argentina and Venezuela will form a joint venture targeting production of 100,000 barrels of extra-heavy oil per day in the Junin field area of the Orinoco Oil Belt. The alliance coincided with the release of the Orinoco Belt to participation by foreign companies in 2005. billion project will also include a refinery.

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Total greenlights Vega Pleyade gas field development offshore Tierra del Fuego

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Total (operator, 37.5%) has made the final investment decision to develop the Vega Pleyade gas and condensate field offshore Tierra del Fuego, Argentina in the Southern Atlantic. Present in Argentina since 1978, Total, through its affiliate Total Austral, operates 30% of that country’s gas production.

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EIA ups total shale oil resource estimate by 13% to 419B barrels, shale gas by 4% to 7576 Tcf

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Chad’s oil production was 78,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2014, down 55% since 2005. million b/d from 2005 to 2014, while natural gas production increased 37% to 1.9 Bcf/d from 2005 to 2014. Bcf/d from 2005 to 2014. Kazakhstan’s oil production increased by 24% to 1.7 million b/d and its natural gas production by 18% to 5.6

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Eaton signs long-term agreement with Argentine bus manufacturer TATSA to design and supply hybrid systems

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with a hybrid electric power system for use in buses in Argentina and throughout South America. Since 2005, the company has been building commercial vehicles at a plant in San Martin, Buenos Aires, and this year will start production in a new plant located in Maldonado, Uruguay.

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European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

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2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. Biodiesel exports from Argentina are also becoming problematic for the EU producers, EBB said. EU biodiesel production increased 16.6% in 2009 to 9 million tonnes, compared to the prior year, according to figures from the European Biodiesel Board (EBB).

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Letting in the Light

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Students from dozens of states, Canada, and other countries, recently including Bermuda and Argentina, have traveled to Danville to take the course. North Carolina chapter spawns an LEV training business. TEVA chapter member Mark Smith gives technician training class in India. Typically, they return home to train others.

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