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HyIron opens direct reduction plant for green iron

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In Namibia, we are currently setting up an industrial-scale production with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK). Here in Lingen, we are already using iron ore from Namibia to optimize the process and the product.

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Shell starts production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico; new, simplified design

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The estimate of resources volumes is currently classified as 2p and 2c under the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Resource Classification System. Current estimated recoverable resource volume of the primary Vito development is 290 million boe. Shell is the leading operator in the US Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas production.

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Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

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At the business end is the robotic collector vehicle,” explains Jon Machin, head of offshore engineering at the Metals Company. There are many examples of seafloor disruption most people never think about—trawling by fishing vessels, dredging, even the mining of diamonds off the coast of Namibia , to name a few.

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