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AUGUST 28, 2010
KiOR, developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, will receive a $75-million state-backed loan from Mississippi to bring the first three of its full-scale production facilities to the state. The first site will be built in Columbus, Mississippi and could open by the end of 2011. Earlier post.).
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NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Shell Oil Company is now producing oil from what it says is the world’s deepest subsea well at its Perdido Development. miles) below the water’s surface, is located in the Tobago Field 200 miles southwest of Houston in the ultra-deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Perdido produced its first oil and gas on 31 March 2010.
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
BP announced a giant oil discovery at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The well, located in Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 kilometers) south east of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 metres) of water. The well found oil in multiple Lower Tertiary reservoirs.
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MAY 16, 2011
The California data were compared to ship-plume measurements made by NOAA near the Port of Houston, Texas in 2006. One finding was that container ships encountered off the Port of Houston, where no clean-fuel use is required, emitted four times as much sulfur dioxide.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Brown, analyzed the exhaust from more than 200 commercial vessels, including cargo ships, tankers and cruise ships, in the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston Bay, and the Houston Ship Channel. A 2008 study by Lack’s team focused exclusively on soot. During the summer of 2006, Lack and colleagues, aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Earlier post.).
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FEBRUARY 2, 2009
The five Peterbilt Model 386 heavy duty diesel-electric hybrids are being tested in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Southern California and the Baltimore/Washington DC region. distribution center will operate on an 80/20 blend of biodiesel made of waste yellow cooking oil. Reclaimed Grease Fuel and Biodiesel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent. — Volt Enthusiast 7.
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