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have formed a strategic alliance that includes the establishment of an equally-owned joint venture for the production of cellulosic liquid fuels and chemicals in Brazil, as well as a US$20-million equity investment in Ensyn Corporation by Fibria. approx 75 wt%) of liquid bio-oil from residual forestry or agricultural biomass.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Hedayat said that IDRO is now working on projects for utilizing plant fuel, and added, “The existence of vast cane farms in southern (Iran), fuel, engine and vehicle research centers and auto-making companies indicates that the organization enjoys the required capability for research, production and supply of plant fuel.”.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Petrobras calls Lula-Mexilhão is an unprecedented milestone for Brazilian engineering. Extending more than 216 kilometers (134 miles), 18 inches in diameter and operating at a pressure of 250 bar, it is the deepest and longest undersea pipeline ever laid in Brazil.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. While diesel and oil-based power is still uneconomic at $60/barrel, the pressure to switch is reduced.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

GE intends to make an offer for 100% of Wellstream Holdings PLC, a leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the sub-sea production industry. It also will enhance GE’s ability to capitalize on growth in Brazil, Africa and Asia. billion ($1.3

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JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., million (US$12.8

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annual increase in fuel economy from 2012 to 2040 as a result of GHG emission and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and engines. Domestic crude oil production increases sharply in the AEO2014 Reference case, with annual growth averaging 0.8 With domestic crude oil production rising to 9.5

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The system features an integrated soot blower option, providing effective NO x reduction and overall catalyst performance when high sulfur fuels are used or engines operate at low exhaust temperature levels. Tenneco operates Clean Air engineering centers in seven countries globally, including its Japan technical center located in Yokohama.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

EcoBoost engine ( earlier post ) for the all-new Ford EcoSport, being previewed at Auto Expo 2012 in New Delhi. Despite its small capacity and proportions, the engine delivers power and performance rivaling a traditional 1.6-liter liter gasoline engine while emitting less than 140g/km CO 2.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

and Cosan SA Industria e Comércio have executed a binding agreement to establish a joint venture for the worldwide development, production and commercialization of renewable base oils. Base oils are the building blocks of lubricant oils, currently derived from a mixture of fractions from the crude oil refining process.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Solazyme received the award for Greener Synthetic Pathways for its tailored oils produced from microalgal fermentation. Amyris has engineered yeast to make the hydrocarbon farnesene via fermentation instead of ethanol. These micro-algae-derived oils are consistent regardless of season, geographic origin, and feedstock source.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Cepsa—the Spain-based multinational oil and gas company—will invest more than €3 billion to establish the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, creating the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe in southern Spain. Cepsa is already working on the engineering and administrative processing of the project.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Technip two ultra-deep water contracts for the supply of flexible pipes for the Sapinhoá Norte field and I5 at Lula field (former Tupi field), located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area (Brazil), at a water depth of up to 2,500 meters (8,202 feet). Ultra deepwater extends from 1,000 to 3,000 m and beyond.

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JULY 28, 2014

Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRIC nations) will represent the largest increases, as the percentage of global road transportation energy consumed by these nations is forecast to grow from 20% in 2014 to 36% in 2035. Similarly, ethanol has done well in the United States and Brazil, but expansion into other countries has been slow.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Global Industries is a provider of subsea construction and pipelay, engineering, project management and support services. We see that our customers continue to firm up a substantial number of large offshore developments with Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and Asia Pacific leading the way to drive future growth.

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MARCH 25, 2012

Toyo Engineering Corporation and MODEC, Inc. have committed several millions dollars of additional funds to Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, which is focused on the emerging market for distributed smaller scale production of synthetic oil via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Earlier post.). In 2008, Kobe Steel Ltd.

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It recognizes young engineers for contributions to the technical community and IEEE’s fields of interest. A jet-setting career After receiving his bachelor’s degree in power engineering in 1948 from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Hissey joined Leeds and Northrup (L&N) in Philadelphia as an applications engineer.

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APRIL 15, 2011

With Sinopec, Petrobras signed a cooperation agreement for exchange of technological knowledge in the fields of geophysics, geology, engineering and oil reservoirs. President Gabrielli highlighted the importance of Chinese companies establishing themselves in Brazil.

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JULY 19, 2013

Engine oil manufacturer Castrol has partnered with TomTom to study the impact of “stop-start” driving patterns across the world. Stop-start traffic is a global issue that not only affects journey times, but all that idling in traffic and waiting at junctions causes microscopic wear in engines.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Biofene may then be sold directly into industrial applications or put through simple chemical finishing steps to form a broad range of renewable products including squalane, base oil and finished lubricants and diesel. followed by vetting in a second pilot plant and a demonstration facility in Amyris’s operations in Campinas, Brazil.

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MARCH 21, 2015

The regularly scheduled Hainan Airlines flight—which carried more than 100 passengers from Shanghai to Beijing in a Next-Generation 737-800—used biofuel made by Sinopec from waste cooking oil collected from restaurants in China. Boeing also partners with the Commercial Aviation Corp.

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MARCH 21, 2011

The joint venture would market and sell lubricants employing Amyris’s synthetic renewable base oils derived from Biofene. Amyris would facilitate access to a supply of its proprietary synthetic renewable base oils and formulations for a range of lubricant products using those base oils. Amyris, Inc., and US Venture, Inc.,

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The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. —Chang Dou, a doctoral student in the UW’s Bioresource Science and Engineering program and lead author on both papers. That’s the problem.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Use of Hydrous Ethanol in Brazil. The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

Joinville Engine (Brazil). Reuse: Grand Rapids Operations’ in-house oil recycling saves GM $1.2 It recycles and reuses every gallon of oil it buys from a refinery several times. GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada). Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Zaragoza Assembly (Spain). million per year.

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MARCH 9, 2010

The demonstration plant, which is expected to be up and running by early 2011, will be constructed by Toyo Engineering with support from MODEC and installed at the Petrobras facility in Fortaleza, Brazil. Gas produced along with oil is often disposed of by flaring or by re-injection back into the reservoir at considerable expense.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

In parallel, Petrobras and KLE will jointly work on an industrial-scale bagasse-based cellulosic ethanol plant project that shall be fully integrated into a sugarcane mill belonging to the Petrobras Group in Brazil slated to go on stream in 2013. Tags: Biomass Brazil Cellulosic ethanol. Miguel Rossetto, CEO of Petrobras Biocombustível.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

World energy growth over the next twenty years is expected to be dominated by emerging economies such as China, India, Russia and Brazil while improvements in energy efficiency measures are set to accelerate, according to BP’s latest projection of energy trends, the BP Energy Outlook 2030. Click to enlarge. Coal will increase by 1.2%

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Source: Belzowski and McManus. South Korea.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

TransGas Development Systems, LLC announced an agreement with SK Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd (SKE&C) leading to engineering, procurement and construction of its first US coal-to-gasoline plant—Adams Fork Energy—to be located in Mingo County, West Virginia. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

(Petrobras), alongside its existing partners Toyo Engineering Corporation and MODEC, which provides for the construction and operation of an integrated Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) demonstration plant based on the company’s microchannel reactor technology. Earlier post.). The partners will be working to manufacture the reactors with Kobe Steel, Ltd.,

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For example, the US and Brazil are major corn and sugarcane ethanol producers, respectively, and Malaysia and Indonesia are major palm oil biodiesel producers. Currently the biofuels industry is driven primarily by the abundant availability of bio-based resources enabling the production of ethanol and biodiesel.

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APRIL 29, 2010

This field is located at a water depth of 2,200 meters in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, approximately 300 kilometers offshore the Brazilian coast, and has estimated potential of 5 to 8 billion barrels of recoverable light oil and natural gas. Earlier post.).

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Furthermore, users can access more information on their vehicle, such as the tyre pressure and engine oil level. BMW Connected is now available in six more markets: Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, and Singapore. Charging stations which do not meet the selected criteria are not shown.

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

Independent engine manufacturer VM Motori SpA of Italy has awarded. the Tupy foundry of Brazil, the world’s leading CGI producer, a series production contract for the cylinder block and bedplate of its new A 630 DOHC 3.0-liter liter V6 diesel engine.

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