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UH researchers developing autonomous robot for subsea oil and gas pipeline inspection

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To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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Chevron Confirms first oil production from deepwater Papa-Terra offshore Brazil

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Chevron’s Brazilian subsidiary and Petrobras have started crude oil production from Papa-Terra’s floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) offshore Brazil. Papa-Terra has installed capacity to produce 140,000 barrels of heavy crude per day; the project is estimated to recover 380 million barrels of oil.

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Lux: Total is leading example of oil supermajor expanding into solar plus storage and distributed generation

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France-based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation, notes Lux Research in a new report : “Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Cannot Do About Total’s Billion-Dollar Battery Move.”.

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Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

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Yeah, I’m talking to you Exxon/Mobil mercenaries who work at the Torrance refinery and you amoral assassins who get your blood money from the Chevron refinery in El Segundo. We’re going to end the use of coal in this country in the next ten years and we’re going to phase out the use of oil for transportation.

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Oil Majors Plan New Spill Capture and Containment System for Gulf of Mexico; Initial $1B Investment

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Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell plan to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The companies have committed $1 billion to fund the initial costs of the system.

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Petrobras starts production from South America’s first tension leg wellhead platform

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Thirteen production wells will be connected to the P-61, and the well currently in operation is the PPT-16. Shuttle tankers transport the oil from the field and surplus gas not consumed on the platforms is injected into a nearby reservoir. Papa Terra field is operated by Petrobras (62.5%) in partnership with Chevron (37.5%).

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Way cleared for major Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline project

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Point Thomson, located 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay, is Alaska’s largest undeveloped oil and gas field, holding an estimated 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of millions of barrels of oil and gas liquids. Requiring a commitment to develop a separate oil reservoir within Point Thomson. Alaska Pipeline Project.

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