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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Neste Oil Corporation has filed a new patent infringement action against Dynamic Fuels, LLC, Syntroleum Corporation, and Tyson Foods, Inc. This follows a patent infringement action filed by Neste Oil in May 2012 ( earlier post ) against the same defendants concerning infringement of a Neste Oil product patent.

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MAY 12, 2011

developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass ( earlier post ), has signed a ground fuel supply agreement with FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. Under the agreement, KiOR may supply renewable diesel blendstocks for purchase by affiliates of FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 2, 2013

TransCanada Corporation will hold a binding open season to obtain firm commitments from interested parties for a pipeline to transport crude oil from Western Canada to Eastern Canadian markets. In 2012, Canada imported more than 600,000 barrels per day to supply its Eastern refineries.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Shell invested in multiple rounds and formed a JV with Iogen, but terminated the JV in 2012.

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

American Commercial Lines (ACL) will begin transporting crude oil by barge on the US inland waterways for MEG Energy (US) Inc. MEG Energy), a subsidiary of the Canadian oil sands company MEG Energy Corp. The first of the barges, launched on May 2012, was a clean service tanker with a capacity of 30,000 barrels.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

JX Nippon Oil, Idemitsu Kosan Co, Cosmo Oil Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu KK are collaborating to test a fixed-fee EV charging service at 27 of their affiliated gas stations in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture during the first quarter of 2012.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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APRIL 10, 2013

US DRIVE (Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle efficiency and Energy sustainability), a non-binding and voluntary government-industry partnership focused on advanced automotive and related infrastructure technology research and development (R&D), has released its 2012 Technical Accomplishments Report. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 8, 2013

ConocoPhillips has entered into an agreement to sell its 100% interest in the Clyden oilsands leasehold to Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada for approximately $720 million (C$751 million) before customary adjustments. billion from the sale of non-strategic assets as part of its 2012-13 asset disposition program.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Syntroleum Corporation filed suit against Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd with the High Court of Singapore asserting Syntroleum’s Singapore Patent No. Syntroleum’s patent issued on November 15, 2012, and expires on December 10, 2028. In May 2012, Neste Oil Oyj sued Syntroleum for alleged infringement of Neste’s U.S.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

United States M&A activity for upstream oil and gas deals set records in 2011 for both deal values and deal counts, according to PLS, Inc., a provider of information, marketing and advisory services for the oil and gas industry. We expect continued strong activity in oil and liquids-rich resource plays in 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Venezuela’s PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela SA) will invest about $14 billion to develop the Junin 10 block in the Orinoco extra heavy oil belt in Venezuela, according to a tweet sent out by Rafael Ramirez, the Venezuelan petroleum minister. degree API crude to upgraded crude of 35.7

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MARCH 7, 2014

Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, and Airborne Oil & Gas B.V., This multi-year alliance promises to further improve materials, systems and solutions that will meet the oil and gas industry requirements for harsh deepwater operations.

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JUNE 23, 2013

GE and OJSC Rosneft, one of the world’s leading oil companies, signed a strategic agreement to establish a joint venture focused on developing local expertise and technology solutions for the growing oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Valero Renewable Fuels Company LLC, a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, plans to install an ICM-patent pending, next-generation Advanced Oil System (AOS) corn oil extraction system at four of its ethanol plants in the Midwest by the end of the first quarter of 2012.

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MAY 4, 2011

The 100,000 barrels-per-day expansion takes upgrading capacity at Scotford to 255,000 barrels-per-day of heavy oil from the Athabasca oil sands. The Scotford Upgrader processes oil sands bitumen from the Muskeg River Mine and Jackpine Mine. The announcement marks the first commercial production from the upgrader expansion.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

BP Canada Energy Trading Company; Canadian Natural Resources; Canadian Oil Sands Limited; Cenovus Energy Inc.; Devon Canada Corporation; Husky Energy Marketing Inc.; Imperial Oil Limited; Nexen Marketing Inc.; and owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.: Statoil Canada Ltd.; Suncor Energy Marketing Inc.;

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Neste Oil—the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel—has launched the commercial production and sales of renewable naphtha for corporate customers; the company is one of the first to supply bio-naphtha on a commercial scale. In a 2012 report on the hydroconversion of triglycerides (e.g.,

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AUGUST 1, 2012

The Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership has selected TransCanada Corporation to design, build, own and operate the proposed Northern Courier Pipeline project. TransCanada expects to file its initial regulatory application in late 2012, and at that time a more detailed schedule will be provided.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a $32.7 billion capital and exploratory spending program for 2012. Included in the 2012 program are $3 billion of planned expenditures by affiliates, which do not require cash outlays by Chevron. By 2017, we expect our net crude oil and natural gas production to grow about 20 percent to 3.3

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MAY 26, 2009

Imperial Oil Limited’s board of directors approved the first phase of the Kearl oil sands project, a surface mining operation northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Imperial is an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, which owns 69.6% of the outstanding shares. billion) or approximately C$4.50 (US$4.00) per barrel to construct.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Shell, as operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), announced the successful start of production of a 100,000 barrels per day expansion of its oil sands operations in Canada. The Jackpine Mine adds capacity of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day to the existing Muskeg River Mine capacity of 155,000 boe per day.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

Omnitek Engineering Corporation has been selected by India-based Tata Motors to supply original equipment high-pressure natural gas filters for 2012 passenger vehicles, expanding a supplier agreement for commercial vehicle filter applications that commenced in 2009.

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MARCH 22, 2021

Following several years of research and development, Central & East European (CEE) oil and gas corporation MOL has stepped up the value chain and has become a biofuel producer through the realization of an investment in the Danube Refinery. Vegetable oils, used cooking oils and animal fats can also be used for this purpose.

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JUNE 15, 2012

Russia’s Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed agreements jointly to develop tight oil reserves in Western Siberia and establish a joint Arctic Research Center for Offshore Developments. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation, and other top managers of the companies were present at the signing ceremony.

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MAY 4, 2010

Construction of the plant will begin in Q3 2010 with an expected completion date in early 2012. In addition to the partnership with Bio-XCell, GlycosBio will also be working closely with the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation, the national agency set up by the Malaysian government for the development of biotechnology in Malaysia.

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JULY 17, 2013

A subsidiary of Chevron Corporation signed an agreement with affiliates of the Argentine oil company YPF S.A. that furthers the development of shale oil and gas resources from the Vaca Muerta formation located in the Neuquén province. billion over the next 24 months to begin development in the shale oil deposits in the region.

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JUNE 25, 2011

The carbon capture process at the Scotford oil sands upgrader will capture about 35% of emissions. The signing of the funding agreement was announced as part of an event marking the earlier start-up of Shell’s 100,000-barrel-per-day expansion of its Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), bringing total capacity to 255,000 barrels per day.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

Canada-based Osum Oil Sands Corp. The new shareholder group was led by KERN Partners and included Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and two large Canadian institutional investors, while existing major shareholders Warburg Pincus LLC and Blackstone Capital Partners participated for a significant portion of the financing.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Newalta Corporation has signed a contract with Syncrude Canada Ltd. The contract is over a three-year period at Syncrude’s oil sands mine operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Newalta expects to commence operations for this contract on 1 June 2012 with revenue averaging approximately $20 million per year over three years.

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JULY 6, 2016

Chevron Corporation announced that its 50% owned affiliate, Tengizchevroil (TCO), will proceed with the development of its Future Growth and Wellhead Pressure Management Project (FGP-WPMP), which will increase crude oil production at the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan by about 260,000 barrels per day. billion for facilities, $3.5

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (Sinopec) executed an agreement which provides for Sinopec to purchase a 50% undivided interest in 850,000 of Chesapeake’s net oil and natural gas leasehold acres in the Mississippi Lime play in northern Oklahoma (425,000 acres net to Sinopec).

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MARCH 12, 2010

Devon Energy Corporation has entered into agreements to sell all of its assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and Azerbaijan to BP for $7.0 Devon and BP will also form a heavy oil joint venture to develop BP’s Kirby oil sands leases in Alberta, Canada. The Whiting upgrade is planned to come on-stream in 2012.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation provided an update on its Horizontal Niobrara and Codell drilling program in the Wattenberg field (Wattenberg HZ) of northeastern Colorado. billion BOE (barrels of oil equivalent); and it’s located right in the heart of one of our existing core areas. Initial well costs: $4.0 - $5.0 Liquids ratio: ~ 70%.

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APRIL 22, 2009

for Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation. The steam methane reformer will have a hydrogen production capacity of more than 50 million standard cubic feet per day and is projected to be completed in the second quarter of 2012.

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APRIL 2, 2013

From smarter exploration processes to enhanced extraction techniques, Shell’s corporate venturing arm Shell Technology Ventures will make investments over the next six to eight years. Their pilot plant in the Middle East taps heat from the sun to generate steam for enhanced oil recovery. In 2012, Shell spent more than US$1.3

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