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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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While production costs and refining costs for heavy oil exceed that for light oil, applying information technology solutions for decision-making has provided a significant increase in the margins and profits of operations, according to Chevron engineers in a paper presented on their system earlier this year. Kern River Field current stats.

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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In truth, energy industry followers would do better to read a more subdued story in Bloomberg News , titled “Drop in oil prices means no drilling in Canada’s biggest shale reserves.” Indeed that is the question on the minds of oil investors as they digest the latest numbers of potential barrels of oil under the Arctic tundra.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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Readable genomic DNA has been recovered after having been frozen in the tundra for 2 million years. The entire DNA synthesis industry would need to grow by approximately 4 orders of magnitude just to compete with a single tape drive. The current generation of systems use either simple plumbing or light to control synthesis reactions.

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