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BMW Group opens >$1B plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico; digitalization and new sustainability benchmarks

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The BMW Group officially opened the company’s new automotive plant in San Luis Potosi in Mexico. The plant was designed from the start to allow us to respond quickly and flexibly to future model variants and production volumes. This digital job card is being used for the first time at the BMW Group plant in Mexico.

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Honda begins 2015 Fit production at new plant in Mexico; plant designed exclusively for subcompacts

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Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. The start-up of the Celaya Plant increases Honda’s annual automobile production capacity in North America to approximately 1.92 million units.

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Texas: From Shale Boom to Water Revolution

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Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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Volkswagen Taos SUV to use new version of the turbocharged EA211 engine that powers Jetta

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liters and offers a number of high-tech features designed to improve fuel economy. A map-controlled cooling module that warms the engine more quickly than the existing EA211 for efficiency and can control water flow in different parts of the engine. Taos teaser image. This process has been localized in the North American Region.

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Petrobras To Take Pioneering FPSO to US Sector of Gulf of Mexico

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Petrobras will be the first company to operate an FPSO (floating oil production, storage and outflow) type platform in the American portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), in the Cascade and Chinook fields. The vessel BW Pioneer will be turret-moored at a water depth of about 2,600 meters—by far the deepest for an FPSO. Source: Keppel.

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Port of Houston Authority, Maersk Line and EPA Demonstrate Fuel Switching in the Gulf of Mexico

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Maersk Line conducted the first “fuel switch” demonstration on a container ship in the Gulf of Mexico as the result of a partnership between the EPA, the Port of Houston Authority and Maersk Line. This is typical of the container ships that routinely operate between the US and Mexico. Earlier post.)

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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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Shenzi is a six-lease development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and is structured as a joint ownership: BHP (Operator, 72% interest) and Repsol S.A. (28% On 5 August, the BHP Board approved US$544 million in capital expenditure to execute the Shenzi North oil project in the US Gulf of Mexico. 28% interest). Earlier post.).

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