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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

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Her job is about “bringing designs to life,” she says. Cisco Certification Opened Doors Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, Contrera says her first introduction to technology came from playing video games with her older brother. At the time, Venezuela was going through a period of political unrest.

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PdVSA doubling capacity and modernizing El Palito Refinery for influx of more Orinoco heavy crudes

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The Venezuelan national petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. According to Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Venezuela had 211 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in 2011, the second largest the world. billion barrels in 2010, due to the the inclusion of the massive reserves of extra-heavy oil in Venezuela’s Orinoco belt.

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GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

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GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. GM South America currently has 29,000 employees.

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New catalytic system for conversion of CO2 to methanol shows much higher activity than others now in use

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Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, with colleagues from the University of Seville (Spain) and Universidad Central de Venezuela, have discovered a new, highly active catalytic system for converting carbon dioxide to methanol. Click to enlarge. Baber, Jaime Evans, Sanjaya D. Senanayake, Darío J.

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Brookhaven team identifies active sites on catalysts for converting CO2 to methanol

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The results, published in the journal Science , resolve a longstanding debate about exactly which catalytic components take part in the chemical reactions—and thus which should be the focus of efforts to boost performance. So there’s a synergy between the copper and zinc oxide that accelerates the chemical transformation.

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State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

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As part of the analysis, DOS commissioned a detailed study of greenhouse gas life-cycle emissions that compared Canadian oil sands crude with other selected reference crudes. The top four suppliers were Mexico, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria. In 2009, Gulf Coast refineries imported approximately 5.1

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

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million barrels per day in 1H 2015, in part because as Russia's economy contracted, reducing domestic crude demand to 3.47 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. million barrels/day in 2014 to 7.55 MMbbls/day.