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UK, Iran team develops new materials to improve enhanced oil recovery

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A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Goshtasp Cheraghian, Sajad Kiani, Nashaat N. Nassar, Shirin Alexander, and Andrew R. 7b01675.

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Eni report: global oil reserves and oil production up in 2018 due to US

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OPEC registered zero growth as production in the Arab Gulf countries were offset by losses in Iran and Venezuela due to geopolitical issues. Global oil demand grew by 1.4%, slightly lower than in 2017 (+1.6%) in a context of increasing oil prices. recorded in 2013-2017. also rose in Brazil and Norway.

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Renault’s new 2017-2022 plan: 8 EVs, 12 electrified models, 15 autonomous models

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Growing market opportunities in Brazil, India, Iran. Drive the Future will also include investment in digitalization in all parts of the company, in new talent recruitment and skills development. Expanded Russia presence through Renault and investments in AVTOVAZ (Lada). Alliance scale and technologies to support the growth: €4.2

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Studies find global COVID-19 lockdowns have significantly reduced PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, but ozone up

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The two new papers are part of an ongoing special collection of research in AGU journals related to the current pandemic. However, the study found nitrogen dioxide pollution did not decrease over Iran, one of the earliest and hardest-hit countries. The temperature data are from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (2017).

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Chrysler To Join Honda In Selling Natural-Gas Cars.In 2017

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Yet in other parts of the world, as many as 2 percent of the vehicles on the road are fueled by natural gas, in countries as diverse as Brazil, India, and Iran. Ask anyone to name an alternate fuel, and natural gas is rarely the first one that comes to mind. Ethanol, perhaps, and increasingly electricity. But natural gas? Not so much.

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Russia’s KAMAZ to create artificial city as autonomous driving testing ground

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Amendments to the law are planned for 2017, the same time when the pilot program should be launched on the roads of Tatarstan. It has assemblers in Vietnam, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. It is being developed in cooperation with the Russian software developer Cognitive Technologies.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I I could have stayed in Iran and become rich, but I felt that I could not do real scientific work there,” he told Spectrum.