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JULY 25, 2012

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) initiated the first drill designed to deploy critical pieces of advanced well control equipment to the ultra-deep seabed of the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to exercise the oil and gas industry’s response to a potential subsea blowout. MWCC capping stack. Source: MWCC.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

BP announced today the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The well encountered about 166 net feet (50 meters) of hydrocarbons in the objective Miocene hydrocarbon-bearing sands and discovered an oil column of more than 300 feet (91 meters).

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MAY 20, 2023

Bridgestone Americas held the world debut of its new Turanza EV grand touring tire, the company’s first replacement tire designed specifically for premium electric vehicles and the first to feature Bridgestone ENLITEN technology. New structural components that help provide balanced ride comfort, excellent steering feel and controlled noise.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Shell Oil Company is now producing oil from what it says is the world’s deepest subsea well at its Perdido Development. miles) below the water’s surface, is located in the Tobago Field 200 miles southwest of Houston in the ultra-deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Perdido produced its first oil and gas on 31 March 2010.

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JULY 22, 2010

Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell plan to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The companies have committed $1 billion to fund the initial costs of the system.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Malo PS003 well in the prolific Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Oil flow rates, though limited by testing equipment constraints, exceeded 13,000 barrels of oil per day. The facility is planned to have a design capacity of 177,000 barrels of oil-equivalent per day to accommodate production from the Jack/St.

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JULY 2, 2015

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) made final investment decision (FID) to advance the Appomattox deep-water development in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This decision authorizes the construction and installation of Shell’s eighth and largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Oil from the Cardamom subsea development (100% Shell) is piped through Shell’s Auger platform.

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MAY 8, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) made a final investment decision in the Stones ultra-deepwater project, a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas development expected to host the deepest production facility in the world. With an FPSO, tankers will transport oil from the Stones FPSO to US refineries, and gas will be transported by pipeline.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) adopted by a vote of four to three greenhouse gas reduction regulations—called the most stringent in the US—that will reduce global warming pollutants through a regional cap on greenhouse gas emissions. New Mexico Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Regulation.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. This information will improve modeling capability of wellbore integrity and guide designs that can be used to reduce leakage.

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JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. In the Gulf of Mexico, where the team will be sampling, there is estimated to be about 7,000 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of methane in sand-dominated reservoirs near the seafloor.

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MAY 14, 2015

awarded Technip a lump sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. BP Exploration & Production Inc. The project scope covers: Project management and engineering.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Anglo-Australian BHP Group is merging its oil and gas business with Woodside Petroleum Ltd. 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% 28% interest). BHP also recently announced that it will supply Tesla Inc.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Occidental and Carbon Engineering are also adapting Stratos’ front-end engineering and design study for a DAC plant to be built at King Ranch in Kleberg County, which is part of the South Texas DAC Hub that was selected to receive a grant from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 27, 2018

During the last three years, companies operating in the Permian basin have drilled much longer laterals and used substantially more complex well completion design in their newer wells with the aim of reaching higher initial production (IP) rates. —Svetlana Doh, Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

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. BW Pioneer will be the first FPSO to be deployed in the US Gulf of Mexico and turret moored at the deepest waters ever for an FPSO.

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APRIL 15, 2017

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates are potentially explosive and are largely responsible for the initial failure to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. 7b00223.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

UK Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, unveiled a well-capping device developed by the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen. The OSPRAG well-capping device. Click to enlarge. Capping device key facts. To various points of the subsea stack.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

for deep water umbilical projects in the Gulf of Mexico that could be worth as much as $300 million in total. and Nexans for the Gulf of Mexico, which ran from 2002 to 2008. and Nexans for the Gulf of Mexico, which ran from 2002 to 2008.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Ultra-HP/HT wells are currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, on the shelf and in deep water. Guijun Deng, James Doane, Antonio Ruffo, Goang-Ding Shyu, Scott Collins (2013) “ Design Verification, Optimization and Validation of Ultra-HPHT Completion and Production Tools ” SPE 166231.

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MARCH 29, 2012

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s s Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for Alaska’s Beaufort Sea. This decision follows the bureau’s review of the plan and consultations with federal and state partner agencies involved in Arctic oil spill response.

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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. 6A, ANSI/API Spec. 16A, API Spec. 16C, API Spec. 16D, ANSI/API Spec.

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JUNE 10, 2010

BP’s lower marine riser package (LMRP) containment cap, installed on 3 June ( earlier post ), continues to collect oil and gas flowing from the MC252 well and transport them to the Discoverer Enterprise drillship on the surface. When the lightering process is complete, the barge will transport the oil for discharge at an onshore terminal.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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MAY 24, 2010

To understand how the use of dispersants impacts the degradation of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a rapid response grant to scientist David Valentine of the University of California at Santa Barbara and colleagues. Some evaporate easily, some do not.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This image shows a methane plume 2 miles (3 kilometers) long that NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission detected southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. kilometers) long southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the Permian Basin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. For example, the instrument detected a plume about 2 miles (3.3

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JULY 23, 2018

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) and Shell Exploration and Production Company (Shell) plan to co-host a new field test site in the Delaware Basin, where multiple experiments to evaluate well completion, optimize design, and quantify environmental impact will be carried out. Current oil production is approximately 2.4

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s s (Shell) Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea. We are taking a cautious approach, one that will help inform the wise decisions of tomorrow. —Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

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MARCH 17, 2012

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO 2 emissions (ranging between 5.4% to 9.3%) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon the supply scenario.

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JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Researchers at the University of New Mexico found in a study of the catalytic conversion of Camelina Sativa oil to biodiesel through both conventional heating and microwave radiation that the microwave-heating method consumed less than 10% of the energy to achieve the same yield as the conventional heating method. —Patil et al.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Fred Diaz, President and CEO - Ram Truck Brand and Chrysler de Mexico, introduces the 2014 Ram ProMaster at the Chicago Auto Show. diesel comes from a number of design features, such as: Isolated oil pan. Reduced total ownership cost is a primary objective of the engine’s design. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Mexico’s state oil company, PEMEX Refining, has awarded ICA Fluor engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for two low-sulfur gasoline projects in Mexico valued at $622 million as part of its clean fuels program. Fluor will book its $311 million portion of the award in the first quarter of 2010.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. 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. Salttech’s DyVaR: Dynamic Vapor Recovery.

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