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JANUARY 26, 2012

Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program. The Proposed 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program schedules 12 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.

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MARCH 12, 2011

Begun in December 2007, development of the Pazflor oil field 150 kilometers (93 miles) offshore Angola is one of the biggest projects currently operated by Total. The Pazflor oil field comprises four reservoirs. One of them, Acacia, was formed around 25 million years ago in the Oligocene and contains light oil.

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JUNE 21, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. billion barrels of oil and 3.3 billion barrels of oil and 3.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

billion vehicle miles) resulting in estimated travel for the month at 256.7 billion vehicle-miles, according to the US Federal Highway Administration. billion vehicle miles) in 2009, year-on-year. US traffic volumes started declining in November 2007 as oil prices rose and experienced dramatic drops in 2008.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Pending confirmation through future appraisal drilling, the total hydrocarbons initially in place in the Mad Dog field complex are now estimated to be up to four billion barrels of oil equivalent. interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% BHP Billiton has a 23.9%

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

North Dakota-based Red Trail Energy (RTE), which since 2007 has operated an ethanol production facility with annual production of about 60 million gallons per year, is proposing sequestration of CO 2 produced from starch fermentation to lower the overall carbon intensity of the fuel for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. The 1,000-mile/1,607-km pipeline will run from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is offering additional opportunities for energy companies to conduct oil shale research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects on public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Earlier post.) The allotted acreage for commercial development represents an 87.5% Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JULY 4, 2013

The well is located 75 miles (120 kilometers) offshore in the Mississippi Canyon Block 393 in 7,446 feet (2,269 meters) of water. It was drilled to a total depth of 26,385 feet (8,042 meters) and encountered more than 500 feet (152 meters) of net oil pay.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. And the only way this transition will succeed is if it strengthens our economy in the short term and the long term.

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JULY 25, 2009

BP and Irving Oil will not be moving forward at this time with a proposed second refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, as a result of global economic and industry conditions. It became clear, particularly over the past year, that the market conditions for refining have changed since BP and Irving Oil entered this memorandum of understanding.

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JANUARY 29, 2011

The US Energy Information Administration recently updated its brief on world oil transit chokepoints—one of which is Egypt’s Suez Canal. They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straits, the agency notes. million bbl/d of crude oil in 2007 to 1.1

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APRIL 2, 2009

The Northern Lights Oil Sands Project is located approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Total says that it is strongly committed to this project, which is in line with the Group’s strategy of developing non-traditional oil fields to provide long-term production capacities. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 12, 2006

The motivation was to see if I could get by with as little oil products as possible. I was going to purchase an NmG from Myers Motors , but found the driver compartment a bit crowded and the driving range limited (only about 40 miles). I hope everyone had a great 2006 and I wish you all the best for 2007.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

billion for leases during Chukchi Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193. The 2008 sale was included in the previous Administration’s 2007-2012 Five-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program to cover leasing for oil and gas in the Outer Continental Shelf for that five-year period. In 2008, Shell’s subsidiary paid $2.1

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MARCH 24, 2014

These ships will serve to transport, among others, crude oil from Valero’s Montreal East Terminal to its Jean Gaulin refinery in Lévis, on the south shore of Québec City—a journey up the St. Lawrence River of about 250 km (155 miles). that has acquired two Panamax-class ships. This partnership is very important for us.

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MARCH 20, 2010

Shell announced a “significant” new oil discovery in the deepwater eastern Gulf of Mexico, adding to discoveries in the area from 2009. Shell drilled the discovery well, located on Mississippi Canyon block 392, to a depth of 7,643 meters (25,077 feet) and encountered approximately 162 meters (530-feet) of oil pay. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 20, 2017

The bigger question is whether policymakers will be willing to confront the political optics of appearing to ‘double down’ on gasoline, when doing so in fact represents the rational first step down a longer road toward a lower-oil use and lower-emissions propulsion future. Focus on Pickup Trucks, Not Priuses”.

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DECEMBER 7, 2013

1 Tcf gas = 180 million barrels of oil equivalent.). miles) north of the Zafarani discovery, and at a water depth of 2,500 meters (8,202 feet). Statoil has been in Tanzania since 2007, when it was awarded the operatorship for Block 2. Drilled by the drillship Discoverer Americas , the Mronge-1 site is located 20 km (12.4

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APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. Tcf in the High Oil and Gas Resource case.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS has previously announced a goal of driving one billion miles with our alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017. Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1%

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Floating NPPs can provide a reliable power supply not only to remote settlements, for example, in the Far North and Far East regions, but also to large industrial facilities such as oil platforms. The concept takes advantage of two mature technologies: light-water nuclear reactors and offshore oil and gas drilling platforms.

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APRIL 18, 2014

million barrels of of oil equivalent per day—and represented nearly 10% of world petroleum liquids consumption. LDV energy use is driven by both LDV fuel economy and travel behavior, as measured by vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Before the 2007 peak, travel behavior in the United States tracked closely with economic growth.

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JULY 7, 2013

Early Saturday morning, 6 July, at approximately 1:15 AM ET, an eastbound Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train with 72 carloads of crude oil and 5 locomotive units derailed at the Rue Frontenac road crossing in Lac-Mégantic, Québec. miles (11 km) west of Lac Mégantic (and uphill), for a crew change. Click to enlarge. 2006.09.056.

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MARCH 1, 2009

Mark Begich, D-Alaska, would allow access to the coastal plain’s oil and natural gas resources through the use of underground directional drilling from state-owned lands to the west of the refuge and state waters from the north. million acre coastal plain while still tapping into ANWR to increase domestic production of oil and gas.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The first generation of the Golf BlueMotion made its debut five years ago at the Geneva Motor Show; the car was launched into the market at the end of 2007. l/100 km fuel consumption, the new Golf has a theoretical range of 1,562 km (971 miles). This third generation Golf BlueMotion will be launched into the market in summer 2013.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Traditionally-processed biodiesel contains both saturated and unsaturated oil molecules. The saturated molecules have higher melting temperatures, or cloud points, than the unsaturated oil molecules. Biodiesel Processing (Tao 2007)

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The report considers two PHEV configurations: 10-mile all electric range (PHEV-10) and 40-mile all-electric range (PHEV-40). It has a 40-mile electric range, a larger electric motor, and a much larger battery than the PHEV-10. PHEV-40s, which consume 55% less gasoline than hybrids, could have a greater impact on oil consumption.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In November 2007, Chevrolet began Project Driveway, the largest demonstration fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles in the world. A million miles can get you to the moon and back twice; around the world 40 times, or it can revolutionize our relationship with our cars. Who can rack up the most miles?

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DECEMBER 31, 2011

Addressing another alternative—regulating only tailpipe GHG emissions in California—Defendants speculate that it “may result in greater emissions overall,” though CARB stated that GHG emissions could be reduced by “increasing vehicle efficiency” or “reducing the number of vehicle miles traveled.”

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MAY 11, 2010

TGC plans to tap into its 1,000-mile utility pipeline system at key locations to separate the hydrogen from the stream through Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology for use by local fueling stations for fuel cell vehicles. million miles of real-world driving by thousands of people since 2007. TGC H 2 Production.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Despite the projected increase in LDV miles traveled, energy consumption for LDVs further decreases after 2025, to 13.0 AEO2013 offers a number of other key findings, including: Crude oil production , especially from tight oil plays, rises sharply over the next decade. Domestic oil production will rise to 7.5

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JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates. Harmonize global LCFS policies.

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MAY 27, 2009

World oil prices have fallen sharply from their July 2008 high mark. As the world’s economies recover, higher world oil prices are assumed to return and to persist through 2030. In the IEO2009 reference case, world oil prices rise to $110 per barrel in 2015 (in real 2007 dollars) and $130 per barrel in 2030.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Volkswagen first launched the EA888 engine generation in spring 2007 (Gen 1). 100 km (41 mpg US ), or 134 grams CO 2 /km (216 g/mile). T engine that produced 110 kW (150 hp) of power was emitted 197 grams CO 2 /km (317 g/mile). Click to enlarge. In 2009, Gen 2 introduced a number of measures to optimize friction.

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JULY 9, 2009

Sulfur (1,000 ppm) content within 200 nautical miles of coastal areas could reduce annual premature deaths resulting from emissions-related affects by around 43,500 by 2012—approximately 50% of the 87,000 deaths estimated to occur in a no control scenario (assuming 2.7% S (5,000 ppm) within 200 nautical miles of coastal areas.

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