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Fluid thermal processing of Mongolian oil sands

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Israel’s Brack Capital Energy (BCE) is exploring for oil sands reserves in the Xing’an region of Inner Mongolia. Direct thermal conversion can be a more feasible process to obtain bitumen-derived liquid products from oil-wet oil sand, they say. The study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Zhang et al. Zhang et al.

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MEG expanding heavy-duty electric truck efforts; succsessful testing of mine vehicle

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After in-depth conversation and research, conducted by MEG and our partners, with two of China’s leading mining provinces, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan, we have determined that they have a combined sales target for heavy trucks and the required batteries of approximately US$14 billion (RMB100 Billion) over the next three years.

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Cougar Energy Forms New Underground Coal Gasification to Methane JV in Australia

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have executed a terms sheet for a proposed 50:50 joint venture for the conversion of underground coal gasification (UCG) syngas to methane. Cougar Energy Limited and a company associated with Australia Petroleum Ltd. the development of a methane production facility and potentially an LNG production facility.

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Synthesis Energy Systems Demonstrates Stable and Efficient Gasification at Hai Hua on Lignite Coal

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Synthesis Energy Systems’ (SES) 95%-owned Hai Hua joint venture project in Shandong Province, China, has completed a successful commercial-scale gasification demonstration, converting lignite coal from the Inner Mongolia region of China to syngas. Earlier post.).

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Saab Automobile enters agreement with Hawtai Motor Group on strategic partnership

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The remaining €30 million will be in the form of a convertible loan agreement in the amount of €30 million with a 6-month maturity, an interest rate of 7% per annum and a conversion price of €4.88 Hawtai currently has an annual production capacity of 350,000 vehicles, 300,000 diesel engines and 450,000 automatic transmissions.

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Benchmark: China dominates Li-ion battery supply chain

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Lithium is typically shipped to China for conversion to lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide. Not only does China mine 64% of natural flake graphite, it has a monopoly on conversion to spherical graphite needed for anodes. —Albert Li, an analyst at Benchmark.

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