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MAN ES reports Tier III exhaust-after-treatment orders for low-speed engines pass 1,000

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MAN Energy Solutions’ Two-Stroke Business has surpassed 1,000 orders for secondary-measure, Tier III-compliant, emission-reduction technology for its portfolio of MAN B&W-branded, low-speed ship engines. MAN SCR system for 2-stroke engines. Currently, almost half of all orders have entered active service. MAN EGR system.

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Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

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The agreement combines Topsoe’s technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as decades of experience in engineering with Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology and industry know-how. The process conditions are carefully chosen to promote reaction pathways that favor high yields of high-quality renewable oil.

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Engineers propose new waterflood method for significant increase in oil recovery

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Engineers from the University of Houston and the University of Texas report that waterflooding with a surfactant—thereby altering the wettability of oil reservoir rocks—can increase oil recovery from 62 to 85%. Carbonate rocks tend to be “oil-wet”—i.e., The key problem in applying CO 2.

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Jacobs Engineering receives more than $1.4B in contracts for Alberta oil sands projects

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Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received new contracts in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 from seven clients in the Alberta Oil Sands to support steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and bitumen upgrading expansion projects. Officials estimate the combined total construction value of the awarded projects at more than $1.4

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U of Alberta researchers develop “Reservoir on a Chip” for more efficient oil reservoir engineering

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University of Alberta (Canada) researchers have designed a microfluidic chip which represents the pore structure of a naturally occurring oil-bearing reservoir rock and enables performing traditional waterflooding experiments in this “reservoir-on-a-chip” (ROC). —Gunda et al. Reservoir-on-a-chip. Click to enlarge. Mitra and S.

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Greenbrier to engineer safer tank car for oil and ethanol service; safety retrofits for legacy cars

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The Greenbrier Companies will design a new generation “Tank Car of the Future” for rail transport of hazardous freight, including flammable crude oil and ethanol, that can better withstand the additional demands associated with operating unit trains. Greenbrier no longer produces the legacy DOT-111 tank car for use in flammable service.

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Boeing, COMAC open facility to transform gutter oil into aviation biofuel

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of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. billion liters) of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil. It will use a technology developed by Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology Co.,

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