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Apache confirms significant new resource play in Texas: 75 Tcf gas, 3B barrels of oil

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Apache Corporation has confirmed the discovery of a significant new resource play—the “Alpine High”—in the southern portion of the Delaware Basin, primarily in Reeves County, Texas. Capital spending on the Alpine High play in 2016 will represent more than 25% of Apache’s total capital spending program.

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BIOX commissions 90M gallon biodiesel production facility in Houston

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BIOX Corporation announced that World Energy BIOX Biofuels LLC (WEBB), a 50/50 joint venture between World Energy and BIOX, has completed the commissioning of its 90-million US gallon (USG) (341 million liters) nameplate capacity biodiesel production facility in Houston, Texas.

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Quantum Materials Corp developing nanomaterials for tracing fracking fluids to point of origin

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North American quantum dot manufacturer Quantum Materials Corporation has partnered with a Texas-based E&P technology business and is currently developing specialized nanomaterials for use in oil and gas well production optimization. —Sri Peruvemba, CEO of Quantum Materials.

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FTA LoNo grant recipients to purchase 35 Proterra electric transit buses

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The 2016 LoNo grant winners will use their funds, a total of $22.8 Delaware Transit Corporation, six 35' Catalyst XR buses. Port Arthur Transit (Texas), six 35' Catalyst FC buses. million, to purchase 35 Catalyst buses, bringing Proterra’s total number of firm orders to 287 vehicles from 38 cities across the United States.

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N. American usage of car2go one-way carshare up 40% in 1H 2017 year-on-year to >4.5M trips

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Usage of car2go increased by 40% year-over-year in the first half of 2017 compared to the first half of 2016 across all 11 of the service’s North American locations, with more than 4.5 In July 2016, we released results of our three-year study examining the impact of one-way carsharing across five North American cities. car2go N.A.,

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ExxonMobil adds 2.7B barrels oil equivalent to reserves; replaces 183% of 2017 production

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Exxon Mobil Corporation added 2.7 Liquids represented 57% of the reserves, up from 53% in 2016. As a result of higher prices in 2017 relative to 2016, about 900 million oil-equivalent barrels in North America qualified as proved reserves under SEC guidelines due primarily to the extension of the projected economic end-of-field-life.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

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Beneath then-CEO Mike Jackson, AutoNation in 2016 revived the AutoNation USA emblem, years nearest Jackson had closed lots of the team’s used-only retail outlets. These days, there are 16 AutoNation USA places throughout 9 states, in step with the corporate’s web page. Louis; Henderson, Nev.; Charlotte, N.C.; ranks Refuse.

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