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VW Chief Executive Says Company Will Introduce EVs Based on the Up! New Small Family in 2013; Cautions Against Electro-Hype

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The perspective of rising oil prices is a turboboost for a change in customer behavior, he said. Other markets will have a different emphasis he suggested; flex-fuel engines in Brazil, for example, and CNG and LPG is countries with high gas resources, such as Russia. Currently, cars contribute. about 7% of global CO 2 emissions.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Chevron is taking its technology learnings from Kern River and apply them to Duri and other major heavy oil fields globally, such as Wafra in the onshore Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and in the Orinoco in Venezuela. The concept of steamflooding. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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