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Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

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The process can extract hydrogen from existing oil sands reservoirs, with huge existing supplies found in Canada and Venezuela. The researchers are presenting this work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Barcelona this week. Proton Technologies is commercializing the process. —Grant Strem.

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PDVSA and Eni to Form Joint Ventures to Produce and Refine Heavy Crude Oil in Orinoco Region; Targeting 240,000 Barrels per Day

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Venezuela state-owned PDVSA and Italy-based Eni are finalizing a planned 60:40 joint venture to produce heavy crude oil in Junin Block 5 in the Orinoco Oil Belt in Venezuela in 2014. Venezuela contains billions of barrels in extra-heavy crude oil and bitumen deposits, most in the Orinoco Belt in central Venezuela.

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One Million and 300 Million

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“I ask you to join me, in November and in the years to come, to ensure that we will not only control our own energy , but once again control our own destiny and forge a new and better future for the country that we love,” he said at Michigan State University in Lansing. roads within six years. Require that 10 percent of U.S.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The situation is unlikely to get better anytime soon, for three reasons. We think there’s a better way. Nardelli et al.’s