Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Siemens is developing power technology for deep sea, self-sufficient oil and gas extraction facilities. Located thousands of meters under water, these factories will need to operate reliably for several decades. As an example, beginning in 2020, Statoil plans to build oil and gas extraction facilities deep under water.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Alfa Laval offers a range of oil-fired and oil and exhaust gas-fired boilers for ships. Straight tubes connect the water and steam drums directly, which ensures safe circulation with no risk of overheating and subsequent tube burnout. Source: Alfa Laval.

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Mariner Grant Oil Exhaust 416

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

Statoil has confirmed communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Norway has not seen a similar oil discovery since the mid-eighties.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2012

CNOOC Limited—China’s largest producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world—is acquiring all of the Common Shares of Canada-based energy company Nexen Inc. It is the second-largest oil producer in the UK North Sea.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

Concept of the subsea oil recovery system. BP is working to deploy a subsea oil recovery system over the largest leak source in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon Rig that it hopes will capture up to 85% of the oil rising from the sea floor following the sinking of Deepwater Horizon on 22 April. Not to scale. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Louisiana Water Store 294

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2014

This ultra-deep well—the wellhead is located at a water depth of 2,130 meters (6,988 feet)—with a production potential of 26 thousand barrels per day (bpd), is connected to FPSO Cidade de Paraty via a new platform-connection system deployed for the first time in the Lula field. Source: Subsea 7. Click to enlarge.

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Oil 2014 Connect Connected 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

The Canaport Energy East Marine Terminal will connect TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline to an ice-free, deep water port. The Canaport Energy East Marine Terminal will connect TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline to an ice-free, deep water port. —Paul Browning, President and CEO, Irving Oil.

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Mariner Oil Oil-Sands Energy 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The canal, which will connect the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara—and thence to the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—is aimed to manage the ship traffic of Istanbul and to raise Turkey to a leading position in the world’s trade corridors.

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Turkey Mariner Russia Asia 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Howard’s Javelina facility is strategically positioned in the Port of Corpus Christi with pipeline connectivity to all six of the local refineries. Methane (CH 4 ) is in abundance at the Port of Corpus Christi due to direct connections to the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale production fields.

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San Antonio Hydrogen Convert Mexico 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2014

Petrobras’s June oil production in Brazil averaged 2,008 thousand barrels/day (bpd), up 1.7% The company’s oil and natural gas production in Brazil in the same month was 2,426 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), indicating a 1.6% from May’s production of 1,975 thousand bpd. rise from May (2,387 thousand boed).

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Brazil Oil Gas Production 265

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

JAPEX), will postpone making a final investment decision (FID) for the Hangingstone Oil Sands Expansion Project ( earlier post ) in Alberta Province, Canada, based on a longer-than-expected approval process with the Alberta authorities. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., bitumen pipelines and power transmission (by other parties).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

Responding to press articles saying that the collapse of the global oil price is threatening oil and gas production in the off-shore Brazil pre-salt layer, Petrobras countered that it is expanding its production capacity “in an economically viable manner.”

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Oil Oil Prices Gas Production 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

The first containment dome—a 40'x24'x14' steel structure weighing almost 100 tons—was lowered to the seabed last night as the first onsite element of a subsea recovery system that responders hope may capture up to 85% of the oil flowing from the riser from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig. Earlier post.). . Click to enlarge. .

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Water Houston Pollution Oil 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Shell and its partners have begun production from the second development phase of the Parque das Conchas (BC-10) project, located in ultra-deep waters off Brazil’s south-east coast. In 2009 the first phase of the project began production, when the Abalone and Ostra fields were connected, along with the Argonauta B-West reservoir.

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Oil Brazil Installation Connect 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2010

University of South Florida researchers say they have definitively connected clouds of degraded underwater oil found in the northern Gulf of Mexico to the Deepwater Horizon well (MC252) through Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA). What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is. David Hollander.

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Florida Oil Mariner Tampa 244

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The study found that many problems ascribed to hydraulic fracturing are related to processes common to all oil and gas drilling operations, such as casing failures or poor cement jobs. Other findings from the Energy Institute study include: Natural gas found in water wells within some shale gas areas (e.g., Earlier post.).

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Austin Connect Connected Texas 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2014

extension of the oil return and blow-by channels to the parting plane of the oil pan. The dual oil and vacuum pump unit. Oil and vacuum pump. The oil/vacuum pump is designed as a dual pump, driven directly from the crankshaft by a toothed belt in oil. Click to enlarge. Cylinder head. Click to enlarge.

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Diesel Engine Exhaust Water 384

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

LGIM dual-fuel main engines in connection with the construction of 6 × 17,000 teu container vessels for A.P. In addition, 19 of our 50-bore variants are already on the water and have accumulated more than 140,000 running hours on methanol alone. Hyundai’s shipbuilding division (HHI-SBD) has ordered 6 × MAN B&W G95ME-C10.5-LGIM

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Engine Fuel Mariner Green 284

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2020

To handle greater torque loads, the EcoDiesel V-6 connects to a newly added TorqueFlite 8HP75 eight-speed automatic transmission, calibrated for low RPM shifts and the on- and off-road rigors of Jeep Gladiator duty. The lower portion of the two-piece oil sump uses a lightweight sandwiched polymer/metal material, which further reduces NVH.

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Jeep Available Fuel Economy Economy 269

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: Deep-C: Deepsea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

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Mexico Oil North Carolina Florida 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

StatoilHydro and FMC Technologies have developed new technology to improve the oil recovery from subsea fields. One of the measures to extract more oil from the fields is to drill more wells, but drilling subsea wells is expensive. This new technology may be used in waters down to 500 metres. Through tubing rotary drilling.

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Oil Mexico Water Concept 210

Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids.

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Connect Connected MIT Honduras 79

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

A comparison of estimates of the energy return on investment (EROI) at the wellhead for conventional crude oil, or for crude product prior to refining for oil shale. Oil shale” is shale containing kerogen, a combination of chemical compounds that can be converted into synthetic petroleum. Source: Cleveland and O’Connor.

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Oil Cleveland Carbon Boston 199

Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Tesla’s removal from the ETJ allows it to skirt Austin’s environmental regulations, particularly over regulation of water quality and flooding issues, according to an Austin spokesperson interviewed by Austin Business Journal. The law has been challenged by several cities in Texas, though Austin is not one of the cities opposing it.

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Texas Austin Tesla Water 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. One of our 2006 Prius’ pack needed servicing and it only cost a few hundred dollars to fix 7 modules and change the bus bars connecting the modules by a hybrid shop. Priuses can burn oil. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4

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2004 Prius Cheap 2009 409

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

Watson announced that Shell will be allowed to move forward with certain limited preparatory activities on the seafloor for drilling in the Chukchi Sea offshore Alaska; these activities are limited to non-oil-bearing zones of the seabed. During the majority of the season, the wells Shell plans to drill are in ice-fre waters.

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Oil Alaska Water Connect 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

If that electric power is used to split the water into hydrogen gas and oxygen, you lose a lot of energy. Today, most hydrogen gas is produced using oil and gas.—Grey It is not connected to the gas grid. One family would need about 4 cubic meters of storage—the size of a regular oil tank.

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Solar Hydrogen Gas-Electric Gas 321

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of the Interior has proposed new regulations that include more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment used in offshore oil and gas operations. —BSEE Director Brian Salerno. billion dollars to the Treasury in 2014.

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Oil Gas Maintenance Standards 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Both the high-performance electronics for the charging connections and the communication interface to the electric vehicles were integrated into the system. The cooling liquid is an environmentally friendly water-glycol mixture used, making the cooling circuit can be made semi-open. 450 kW, the second gives up to 175 kW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2015

Moored in waters 1,200 m (3,937 feet) deep, the P-61 completes the production system for the Papa Terra field, operating alongside the P-63 FPSO (floating production storage and offloading), commissioned on 11 November 2013. Thirteen production wells will be connected to the P-61, and the well currently in operation is the PPT-16.

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Production Brazil South America Chevron 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2019

Fresh air is used in addition to oil and water to cool the turbocharger. Thanks to its good thermal conductivity, the water-cooled mould allows rapid cooling and solidification of the melt. The areas around the cylinders are mostly solid, and the cover plate is only penetrated by smaller ducts for the coolant and engine oil.

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Mercedes Exhaust Oil-Sands Engine 277

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The well, drilled by the West Carina rig, is now fully fitted out and ready to produce oil and natural gas. The Libra field is one of the largest pre-salt oil discoveries to date in Brazil. km south of discovery well 2-ANP-2A-RJS, in a water depth of 1,951 meters (1.21 The other systems will start producing in subsequent years.

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Production Oil Brazil Miles 230

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

BP is likely to attempt the top kill procedure late this week or over the weekend to stop the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon well, according to BP Chief Operating Office Doug Suttles during a press conference on Monday, 17 May. The purpose of the tube is not to stop the flow, but to prevent hydrocarbons from escaping into the water.

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Oil Water Escape Gas 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

liter is also quieter for improved Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) with additions such as a more rigid crank case with integrated stiffener; a lighter resin cylinder head; and a ribbed oil pan. VVT-iE uses one electric motor instead of oil pressure to control the variable valve timing. Earlier post.).

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