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Tips for Wintertime Off-Road Travel: How to be Best Prepared

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Anyone whos lived in the Upper Midwest, Alaska, or other frigid winter climates knows you need to be prepared for winters worst if youre headed out. If you have auxiliary lights, LEDs have the tendency to ice over quicker than hot halogens. Many manufacturers sell colored lenses for aftermarket lights.

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Rosneft touts major light oil find from “northernmost well in the world” in the Arctic

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It is an astonishing sample of light oil, which based on the results of the analysis performed, is comparable to the Siberian Light oil. The well was drilled in open-water conditions at the 74 th circle of longitude, 250 km (155 miles) offshore. The first oil was extracted.

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Foss Maritime to build first three of new Arctic Class of deep-sea tugs for oil and gas industry

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Foss has worked Alaskan Arctic waters for decades with a well-known. invasive species; Holding tanks for black and gray water to permit operations in no discharge zones (such as parts of Alaska and California); Hydraulic oil systems compatible with biodegradable oil; Energy efficient LED lighting; and.

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President Obama calls on Congress to establish $2B Energy Security Trust for advanced transportation research, funded by oil and gas royalty revenues

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The mandatory funds would be set aside from royalty revenues generated by oil and gas development in Federal waters of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), already included in the administration’s five-year plan. Yearly receipts would be capped at $500 million and it includes mandatory reports to Congress.

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DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

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Feasibility Study for 10 Megawatt-Electric (MWe) Coal Direct Chemical Looping Large Pilot Plant Demonstration at the Dover Light & Power Plant in Dover, OH Babcock & Wilcox will complete a feasibility study of a coal-direct chemical looping large pilot plant for a specific utility site. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Organization.

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Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

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Light crude oil trapped in rock, such as shale, is called tight oil. recovery emissions (from the drilling of the oil well and associated land-use change, crude extraction, processing of crude oil, associated gas and water, and flaring) for conventional oils range from as low as 3.04 to Alaska North Slope crude, to 30.98

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Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

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He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks. We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic. America holds only about two percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.