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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

s (Shell) Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea. Shell has committed to provide for the following emergency contingencies: the availability of a capping stack to shut off any flow of oil if other shut-off systems fail; the capability to capture and collect oil from that stack; and.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Water usage per engine will be among the lowest at any Ford manufacturing facility worldwide, delivering an anticipated annual saving of 17.5

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APRIL 13, 2011

A new Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) study shows finds that oil from algae grown in outdoor raceway ponds located in the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes could replace 17% of the United States’ imported oil for transportation. The paper is published in the journal Water Resources Research.

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APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. The production well extracts the bitumen to surface heavy oil production facilities. SAGD is the predominant in-situ recovery method currently used in Canada’s oil sands. Source: StatoilHydro.

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APRIL 29, 2011

A novel water cleaning technology currently being tested in field demonstrations could help significantly reduce potential environmental impacts from producing natural gas from the Marcellus shale and other geologic formations, according to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). milligrams per liter.

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JULY 21, 2011

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Rice University led by RPI Professor Nikhil Koratkar have shown that flowing water with various molarities of hydrochloric acid (HCl) over graphene generates induced voltages an order of magnitude higher as compared to carbon nanotubes. 03 millimeters by.015

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Proposed oil sands monitoring by 2015. The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled “The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring” in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region with a program that will sample more sites for more substances more frequently.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

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., Oil-wet rocks preferentially imbibe oil.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin, a discovery well. The Azul-1 well, the first to penetrate pre-salt objectives in Angolan deepwater, was drilled in water depths of 923 meters (3,028 feet) and reached a final depth of 5,334 meters (17,500 feet).

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APRIL 28, 2011

Water consumption intensity of ethanol from corn grain and crop residue and the avoided/displaced water use credits assigned to coproducts: DGS and electricity. In their paper, Mishra and Yeh analyze the lifecycle water requirement consumption and withdrawal requirements of ethanol produced from corn and from crop residue.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Statoil has confirmed communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Norway has not seen a similar oil discovery since the mid-eighties.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Tullow Oil and Shell have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to partner for new frontier exploration in select basins and geological plays around the Atlantic Basin. The GM-ES-1 well is being drilled in a water depth of more than 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) and to date has drilled to a depth of 5,711 meters (18,737 feet).

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JULY 17, 2011

A study by a team from the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum found that fluid thermal processing of. il sands is a feasible process for the production of an upgraded bitumen-derived liquid from Inner Mongolian oil sand. Oil sands exploration in Xing’an region.

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JUNE 5, 2013

MCW Energy Group, a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction technology, announced successful results of processing random Alberta oil sands tailings ponds samples in a series of preliminary laboratory tests. Clean up and remedial fees from oil companies and/or governments.

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6 Source: Maugeri 2012.

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MARCH 13, 2015

Columbia and Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas says it has: “No question we’re seeing the effects of lower oil prices throughout the economy.”. decline curves eventually catch up with fewer rigs, oil supplies should start to fall.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

US-based Devon Energy Corporation has received regulatory approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water to move forward with the company’s third oil sands project in Canada. Like Jackfish 1 & 2, Jackfish 3 represents an estimated 300 million barrels of gross recoverable oil.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

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). The findings were published in the RSC journal Lab Chip. Mitra and S.

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AUGUST 11, 2012

The International Energy Agency’s August Oil Market Report (OMR) trims 2012/2013 oil demand expectations by 300-400 thousand barrels per day (kb/d), although annual growth remains in an 800-900 kb/d range both years. Highlights of the August OMR include: Sluggish economic growth could restrict annual oil demand growth to 0.9

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Rosneft announced a major oil discovery at the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license area in the Kara Sea, following the successful completion of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world—the Universitetskaya-1 well. I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province.

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. AOSC) announced that the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water has issued full regulatory approval for the MacKay River commercial oil sands project to MacKay Operating Corp. The company was formed to operate the jointly owned MacKay River oil sands leases.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

UK Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, unveiled a well-capping device developed by the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen. At water depths of between 100m and 3,048m (328ft to 10,000ft). The OSPRAG well-capping device. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has received a purchase order from its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) for two waste oil power generators. The new Phoenix 10kW waste oil generator will be powered by Cyclone’s WHE-25 engine—a compact, scalable waste heat engine—using a specially designed, clean emissions combustion chamber.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. mb/d between 2020 and 2025, 3.3

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Beaudreau released the final details for an oil and gas lease sale that will offer more than 20 million acres offshore and will make available all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. million acres, located from nine to 250 miles offshore, in water depths ranging from 16 to more than 10,975 feet (five to 3,346 meters).

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MARCH 17, 2013

PetroJunín, joint venture formed by PDVSA (60%) and Eni (40%), has started production from the Junín-5 giant heavy oil field, located in the Faja del Orinoco—the area with the largest untapped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, according to Eni. Junin 5 block in the Orinoco. Deepwater Angola. Eni is operator of Block 15/06 with 35%.

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JUNE 4, 2013

billion, 8-year loan agreement with China Development Bank (CDB) for boosting production at the Sinovensa heavy oil joint venture in the Orinoco belt from 140,000 barrels per day to 330,000 barrels per day by 2016. China had originally agreed to the $6 billion in loans in late 2011. The Orinoco Oil Belt Assessment Unit of the La Luna?Quercual

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

It improves the separation of water that may be present in the fuel, because biodiesel can attract and absorb water. This greatly reduces potential oil dilution, important with using biodiesel. Chevrolet will unveil the 2011 Silverado heavy-duty trucks at the Chicago Auto Show on 10 Feb. To make the Duramax 6.6L

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MARCH 29, 2011

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) have extended their Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of pyrolysis oil upgrading with the aim to produce second generation biofuels, announced in June 2010 ( earlier post ) to July 2011.

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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JULY 23, 2012

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 20 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) billion in high bids for more than 2.4 million acres.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a new oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The well is located approximately 216 miles (348 km) off the Louisiana coast in 6,759 feet (2,060 meters) of water and was drilled to a depth of 31,545 feet (9,615 meters). The Keathley Canyon Block 736 Well No.

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MAY 31, 2012

to proceed with its Narrows Lake oil sands project, with an ultimate gross production capacity of 130,000 barrels per day. SAP combines steam injection with solvents, such as butane, to help bring the oil to the surface. Cenovus also anticipates that SAP may increase total oil recovery by as much as 15%. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The R&D center will focus primarily on water chemistry and biomass utilization applications. The new center is a continuum for the Center of Water Efficiency Excellence, which Kemira initially established together with VTT in Finland. The center will start operations in the end of 2010.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The deeper an oil well, the higher the pressure, and the higher the risks associated with tapping oil from wells. The main challenge presented in many of these models is the precise prediction of the pressure profile in addition to liquid/gas volumes and flow rates at various points along the oil well.

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