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CompactGTL announces 3,000 bpd commercial small-scale GTL project in Kazakhstan

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CompactGTL will build a commercially deployed small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan offers considerable potential for CompactGTL’s proven small-scale GTL technology, the company said. Kazakhstan offers considerable potential for CompactGTL’s proven small-scale GTL technology, the company said.

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Declining Aral Sea

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By the end of the 1980s, it had split into the Small Aral Sea (north), located in Kazakhstan, and the horse-shoe shaped Large Aral Sea (south), shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The whitish area is white salt terrain (the Aral Karakum desert) left behind by the evaporation of the Aral Sea. Source: ESA Click to see animation.

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US, China, and G-20 agree to work to global phase down of HFCs

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This was agreed by: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey,the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, as well as Ethiopia, Spain, Senegal, Brunei, Kazakhstan, and Singapore.

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Sonangol, Maersk Oil and partners strike oil with their first deepwater pre-salt well offshore Angola

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The result may be a further step towards our goal of building up a significant business in Angola. Maersk Oil is an international oil and gas company with operated production of about 650,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day offshore Denmark, UK and Qatar, as well as onshore Kazakhstan and Algeria.

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Tesla opens longest Supercharger route from east to west along China’s historic Silk Road

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It forged trade networks in Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, along with modern-day India and Pakistan. BRI lays out China’s plan to build railways, ports, highways, and other infrastructure that will connect the East with the West. The road also extended into Europe.

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GE Transportation Unveils New Evolution Series Locomotive; 17% Reduction in Fuel Consumption, 70% Reduction in Emissions

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GE is building the new locomotive at its Pennsylvania manufacturing plants in Erie and Grove City. Evolution Series Locomotives currently are operating in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Mongolia, Australia, Kazakhstan and Egypt. million tons of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

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EIA Estimates 2.1% Growth in Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in US in 2010; Still Below 1999-2008 Levels

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The largest source of growth in 2010 is the United States, followed by Brazil, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. Distillate stocks normally build during the summer season in preparation for winter heating demand. Offsetting this projected supply growth in 2010 are further declines in mature fields in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Norway.

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