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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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Thought to be the source rock of the Normal Wells discovery, which has yielded over 226 million barrels of conventional, light sweet crude since it was found in the 1920s, the Canol formation sparked a flurry of exploration activity around 2012-14. What we don’t know is how much has the potential to be economically developed.”.

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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 current generation of systems use either simple plumbing or light to control synthesis reactions. DNA is by far the most sophisticated, stable, and dense information-storage technology humans have ever come across or invented.

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