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Department of Interior awards initial $560M to 24 states to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells

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The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. California. 1,000-1,200. Mississippi. *. New Mexico. North Dakota.

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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Natural gas. Energy source. Geothermal. West Virginia. North Dakota.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. —Mark Zoback.

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BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm

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BP is a global producer of oil and gas with operations in 70 countries. BP also has one of the largest operated renewable energy businesses of any major international oil and gas company. BP estimates that by 2035 the share of renewables could grow to more than 10%—a rate of growth not seen in recent history.

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Devon Energy and BP Enter Into $7.0B Property Sales Agreement and Oil Sands Joint Venture

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Devon and BP will also form a heavy oil joint venture to develop BP’s Kirby oil sands leases in Alberta, Canada. In order to facilitate the oil sands joint venture, Devon will acquire 50% of BP’s interest in the Kirby oil sands leases. The Whiting upgrade is planned to come on-stream in 2012.

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Cummins Expanding High-Horsepower Engine Product Line

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is expanding its High-Horsepower Technical Center and high-horsepower engine product line at its manufacturing facility in Seymour, Indiana. The expansion of the center will provide the company with more opportunities for producing high-horsepower diesel and natural gas engines in the future. Cummins Inc.

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Grillo-Werke AG successfully converts methane directly into methanesulfonic acid (MSA)

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It is based on natural gas and sulfur trioxide (SO 3 ) as feedstocks and is free of environmentally problematic intermediate and by-products. Development of commercial production of C 1 through to C 4 alkanesulfonic acids—including MSA—came out of work in the 1940s at Standard Oil of Indiana. Background.

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