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

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The all-stock merger will create a global top 10 independent energy company by production, and will also allow BHP to focus more intently on “future-facing commodities” that are most positively leveraged towards population growth, rising living standards, electrification and decarbonization, the company said. Earlier post.).

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MCW Energy Group: successful initial testing of extraction of up to 99.9% of hydrocarbon content from oil sands tailings pond samples

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MCW Energy Group, a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction technology, announced successful results of processing random Alberta oil sands tailings ponds samples in a series of preliminary laboratory tests. Vladimir Podlipskiy, Chief Technology Officer for MCW Energy Group.

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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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The six companies are CIMC ENRIC, European Energy, Green Technology Bank, Orsted, Proman, and WasteFuel. That is why these partnerships mark an important milestone to get the transition to green energy underway. European Energy. European Energy (Denmark). Moller - Maersk. Production Capacity Estimation Table. CIMC ENRIC.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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billion coal-gasification project, but called off the project in late 2009 due to high capital requirements, the narrow difference between petroleum and natural gas prices and uncertain US energy policy. Atlas is now owned by Atlas Methanol Company, a joint venture between Methanex (63.1%) and BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) (36.9%).

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. In a worst case scenario, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra Nevada snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture as well as cities. Canada’s 2009 GHG emissions are 48.7%

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