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Honeywell UOP technology selected for new 300K bpd oil refinery in Iraq

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The Iraq State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), under the Ministry of Oil for Iraq, has selected Honeywell’s UOP to provide key technologies to process 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of domestic crude oil into gasoline and diesel fuel at a new refinery in Nassiriya, Iraq. Refining capacity in Iraq is expected to reach 1.6

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball. Here, we, the users, are the people in the loop.

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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As we have pointed out, RBC Capital’s fragile five , Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Venezuela, the pain is intense. Market” forces include many components. A key component—perhaps the key component—is a country’s capability, at a minimum, to maintain output, and better yet, to increase output. percentage points.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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The systems are designed to maintain mobility for the elderly and those with weakened leg muscles. The operations in Kuwait and Iraq use approximately 431 million gallons of fuel per year. The association estimates a net savings of 22 lbs (10 kg) of CO 2 per pound (0.45 kg) of aluminum used. Personal mobility redefined.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves? 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. As Verne understood, the U.S.

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Department of Defense releases new operational energy strategy; more fight, less fuel

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The US Department of Defense (DOD) has released a new operational energy strategy designed to transform the way it consumes energy in military operations, and said this strategy is consistent with efforts to adapt the forces to emerging threats. The aircraft is assigned to the. 816 th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. USAF photo by Staff.

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AFED report: state of water resources in the Arab world is precarious and worsening

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Thirteen Arab countries are among the world’s nineteen most water-scarce nations, and per capita water availability in eight countries is already below 200 cubic meters, less than half the amount designated as severe water scarcity. The figure drops to below 100 cubic meters in six countries.

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