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OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments. —Peter Flemings.

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MAY 14, 2015

At a water depth of approximately 1,900 meters (6,234 feet), the current field development is located in Mississippi Canyon Blocks 778 and 822, in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico environment. A flowline is a pipe, laid on the seabed, which allows the transportation of oil/gas production or injection of fluids.

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JUNE 18, 2012

Air Canada is operating its first flight with biofuel today to highlight the airline's commitment to the environment. Today’s AC991 will be a normal revenue flight operated with an Airbus A319 aircraft using a 50/50 mix of regular and biojet fuel derived from recycled cooking oil.

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MAY 20, 2023

Supporting an increased use of renewable and recycled materials such as recycled carbon black from end-of-life tires; synthetic rubber derived from recycled plastic bags and bottles; renewable soybean oil; and rice Husk Silica derived from rice husks, which gives a meaningful purpose to a typically discarded byproduct of rice harvesting.

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MAY 24, 2010

BP pledged up to $500 million to an open research program studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon incident, and its associated response, on the marine and shoreline environment of the Gulf of Mexico. How do oil, the dispersed oil and the dispersant behave on the seabed, in the water column, on the surface, and on the shoreline?

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JULY 23, 2012

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 20 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) billion in high bids for more than 2.4 million acres.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Rosneft announced a major oil discovery at the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license area in the Kara Sea, following the successful completion of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world—the Universitetskaya-1 well. I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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JULY 21, 2010

The American Chemical Society (ACS) will hold a special day-long symposium on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Tuesday, 24 Aug during its 240 th National Meeting & Exposition in Boston. The oil spill is a cross-disciplinary problem in which chemistry plays a key role in finding solutions. —co-organizer also of LSU.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Interjet and Airbus are scheduled to conduct the first Jatropha-based bio-fuel flight in Mexico today using an Airbus A320 aircraft. The aim of the demonstration flight and the project is to speed up the commercialization of aviation bio-fuel in Mexico. Phase one of the project will be the feasibility study.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. —Mike Robinson, GM vice president of Environment, Energy and Safety policy. Click to launch.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Ultra-HP/HT wells are currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, on the shelf and in deep water. There are many technological challenges that must be overcome for downhole service and completion tools to operate successfully in the Ultra-HPHT environment. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

UK Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, unveiled a well-capping device developed by the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen. The well-capping device was built in order to seal off an uncontrolled subsea well in the event of a major well control incident—i.e.,

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Plug In India

MARCH 31, 2023

Cobalt FUD Yes, Cobalt Mining is bad for the environment and bad for the people who live near these mines. [1] This is due to the fact cobalt is used to extract sulfur during the refining of crude oil. In the immediate aftermath of an oil disaster, the effects on fish, sea birds, and other marine animals are often very visible.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. Partners include the New Mexico Consortium, University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research.

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MAY 24, 2010

To understand how the use of dispersants impacts the degradation of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a rapid response grant to scientist David Valentine of the University of California at Santa Barbara and colleagues. Some evaporate easily, some do not.

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MAY 27, 2010

These forces could snap offshore oil pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico and other hurricane-prone areas, the study suggests. The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) region provides nearly 30% of the United States oil supply and 20% of its natural gas. Wijesekera et al. It doesn’t go away, even after the hurricane passes. Wijesekera et al.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Exxon Mobil Corporation will more than double its Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent through the acquisition of companies owned by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, with an estimated resource of 3.4 growth area for onshore oil production. ExxonMobil will make an upfront payment of $5.6

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Sapphire Energy, a leading producer of crude oil from algae, and Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) announced a strategic partnership to further the research and development of algae biofuels. Today, the company has pioneered much of the science along the algae-to-energy value chain from biology, cultivation, harvest and extraction.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Scientists from agencies involved in the report attribute the lower dissolved oxygen levels to microbes using oxygen to consume the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Using field sampling and laboratory experiments, the scientists found that half-lives of some components of the oil were in the range of 1.2

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) rig in 2010 contaminated more than 1,000 square miles of seafloor. The complexity of the event has made it difficult for scientists to determine the long-term fate of oil in this ocean environment.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of the Interior has proposed new regulations that include more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment used in offshore oil and gas operations. Oil Regulations' —BSEE Director Brian Salerno.

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AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. Tags: Biomass Oil Synthetic Biology.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

and Triton Asset Leasing GMBH have agreed to pay an additional $1 billion to resolve federal Clean Water Act civil penalty claims for the massive, three-month-long oil spill at the Macondo Well and the Transocean drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. Transocean Deepwater Inc. In agreeing to plead guilty, Transocean Deepwater Inc.

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AUGUST 9, 2014

An Environmental Impact Assessment, an Oil Spill Response Plan and other pieces of project documentation were developed and approved by regulatory authorities for the project to proceed. Russian offshore harsh environment areas. billion tons of oil equivalent. —President Putin. Source: North Atlantic Drilling.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Russia’s Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed agreements to implement a long-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement concluded in August 2011 jointly to explore for and to develop oil and natural gas in Russia and to share technology and expertise. In addition, RN Cardium Oil Inc., Earlier post.). The seismic program is now 70% complete.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The company said the decision reflects the results from Burger J exploration well located in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea; the high costs associated with the project; and the “ challenging and unpredictable ” federal regulatory environment in offshore Alaska. The company expects to take a financial hit as a result.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Projections are that the oil slick will reach Louisiana shoreline areas today. On June 3, 1979, the 2-mile deep exploratory well, IXTOC I, blew out in the Bahia de Campeche, 600 miles south of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil and gas blowing out of the well ignited, causing the platform to catch fire. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. Salttech’s DyVaR: Dynamic Vapor Recovery.

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JUNE 5, 2010

For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. In parallel, scientists are also working to develop technology to effectively extract the oil.

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MAY 30, 2010

Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. 41,400 km 2 ) of sea surface covered by oil slick and 46,000 sq.

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MAY 12, 2015

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) conditionally approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s In April the Department announced proposed regulations to better protect human lives and the environment from oil spills. s revised multi-year Exploration Plan (EP) for the Chukchi Sea.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

The Volkswagen Group is shouldering its responsibility for the environment. The two LNG ships will replace two of nine conventional freighters in the Siem fleet powered by heavy fuel oil from 2019 onwards. This not only applies to our cars but also to our production and logistics.

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APRIL 24, 2017

The sustainable biofuel is produced by AltAir Fuels from used cooking oil and supplied by SkyNRG. A reduction in the thickness and coverage of contrails produced by the jet engines of aircraft could reduce aviation’s impact on the environment, an important beneficial effect of sustainable biofuel usage in aviation.

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JUNE 4, 2010

There is still considerable flow outside the cap visible on the ROV screens (above and below), and BP says that it will take one or more days for the flow rates of oil and gas to stabilize. It is not possible at this stage, the company said, to estimate how much oil and gas will be captured by this containment system. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 7, 2024

It cites the economic and environmental costs of building roads, traffic accidents, oil exploration, fuel production, material mining, manufacturing, insurance and just about everything else that comes with living in a developed society.& However, the paper offers no automotive-based solutions. & Make no mistake.

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