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Department of Interior awards initial $560M to 24 states to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells

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The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. Twelve states—including Kansas, New Mexico and Ohio—have prioritized capping wells in disadvantaged communities. California. 1,000-1,200.

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Seaboard Energy selects Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce renewable diesel

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Seaboard Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex hydroprocessing fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit is currently under construction at Seaboard Energy’s site in Hugoton, Kansas, and is scheduled for operation at the end of 2021.

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Transcanada restarts Keystone oil sands pipeline operations

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TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. Click to enlarge. However, if the tar.

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Nebraska provides TransCanada with map identifying Sandhills Regions to be avoided in designing alternative route for Keystone XL pipeline

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NDEQ has been reviewing available information and has selected a map of ecoregions which was finalized in 2001 as best depicting the Sandhills region. TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL project is designed to carry oil from Canada across Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. —Mike Linder.

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BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm

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By doing so, it will enable the wind farm to store electricity when the site is generating it, and then have that electricity available to be consumed whenever needed. BP is a global producer of oil and gas with operations in 70 countries.

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Ford to offer new 5-cylinder 3.2L diesel in Transit van in North America next year

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The new Power Stroke Diesel will be the only five-cylinder diesel engine available in a commercial van in North America. Additionally, the engine features cast-aluminum, low-friction coated pistons with piston-cooling jets, which squirt oil on the underside of the pistons to keep the piston crowns cool under extreme operating conditions.

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US State Department to issue Final EIS on Keystone XL pipeline in August; additional meetings in affected states

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When released, the Final EIS and related documents will be available through the State Department’s website: [link]. Keystone XL is a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from the US-Canadian border in Montana, through Cushing, Oklahoma, to carry crude from the Canadian oil sands to refineries on the US Gulf Coast.

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