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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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While production costs and refining costs for heavy oil exceed that for light oil, applying information technology solutions for decision-making has provided a significant increase in the margins and profits of operations, according to Chevron engineers in a paper presented on their system earlier this year. Source: Chevron.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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Storing information in DNA is not a complicated concept. Standard chemical synthesis methods are adequate for demonstration projects, and perhaps early commercial efforts, that store modest amounts of music, images, text, and video, up to perhaps hundreds of gigabytes. In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.

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