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EIA 2035 reference case projects drop in US imports of petroleum due to modest economic growth, increased efficiency, growing domestic oil production, and biofuels

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EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. million barrels per day in 2007 to 5.5 Over the next 10 years, continued development of tight oil (e.g., quadrillion Btu in 2007, grows from 98.2

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Per-well oil production at Kern River is low—the average is 8 barrels of oil per well per day—but there are more than 9,000 production wells in operation in the field. Reducing steam generation requirements and optimizing the generation process reduces the GHG overhead associated with the production of heavier oil.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. SZ (1) 6753.T

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