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Southern Rock Energy Partners picks Cushing, OK as site for new $5.56B 250 kbpd crude refinery

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and the City of Cushing, Oklahoma announced that Southern Rock Energy Partners, LLC (SREP) has selected Cushing as the site for its 250,000 BPD next-generation, full conversion crude refinery. The Cushing Economic Development Foundation, Inc. The project is expected to have $5.56

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Junkyard Find: 2006 Mazda Mazdaspeed6

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Here's one of the handful that made it out of dealerships, found in a self-service boneyard in Tulsa, Oklahoma a few months back. This is the second Mazdaspeed6 I've found in a car graveyard, after a 2007 in a facility near Denver, Colorado. In both cases, I've been skeptical that I had a legitimate Mazdaspeed6, but the VINs check out.

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UPS to add 1,400 new CNG vehicles over next year; building 15 new CNG fueling stations

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Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colo.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Currently UPS already has a total of eight CNG fueling stations in California, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma and operates CNG vehicles in Germany, the Netherlands and Thailand. .; Charleston, W.Va.; Doraville, Ga.; Lenexa, Kan.; Lexington, Ky.; Montgomery, Ala.; Richmond, Va.,

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CleanFUEL USA Secures $12.9 Million from US DOE for 100+ Propane Refueling Stations

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The first station will be installed in Atlanta followed by Chicago, Houston, Denver and Sacramento. The second phase will target 14 cities (Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Antonio/Austin, Oklahoma City, St.

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EIA: planned capacity additions to US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve Cushing bottleneck

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According to an analysis by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), planned additions over the next two years to the US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve the bottleneck at Cushing, Oklahoma which has been caused by the oversupply of oil resulting from the growth of crude oil production in the US mid-continent and Canada.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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The most extensive such experiment took place over Oklahoma City in 1964. The 1964 Oklahoma City tests involved more than 1,000 flights, which sparked more than 15,000 complaints, as documented in a 1971 report prepared by the National Bureau of Standards. The last of these issues was perhaps the most vexing, prompting the U.S.

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Study finds 2008 recession contributed to increase in age of US LDV fleet, slowing of emission reductions

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The global economic recession of 2008—which severely depressed light-duty vehicle sales—resulted in an increase in the age of the light-duty vehicle fleet in the US that likely slowed the rate of decrease of fleet average emissions, according to a study by Gary Bishop and Donald Stedman at the University of Denver.

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