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China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

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CNOOC Limited—China’s largest producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world—is acquiring all of the Common Shares of Canada-based energy company Nexen Inc. billion cash. The price represents a premium of.

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Report finds diluted oil sands bitumen not more corrosive than comparable heavy crude in pipelines

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Transmitting oil sands production. Synthetic crude is produced by upgrading bitumen and is a blend of naphtha, distillate and gas oil range materials produced by hydrotreating the naphtha, distillate and gas oil generated in a delayed coking unit.).

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Suncor targeting 1M barrels per day by 2020, some 80% from oil sands; new strategic alliance with Total

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Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total. Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. The agreement with Total is an important element of Suncor’s plans to more than double our oil sands production.

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Lux forecasts upstream oil and gas spending on health, safety and environment to grow from $35B today to $56B by 2030

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Lux Research forecasts that, with regulatory scrutiny of increasingly demanding oil and gas projects set to rise, spending on health, safety and environment (HSE) will grow from $35 billion today to $56 billion by 2030.

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Cenovus increased oil sands production by 14% year-on-year in Q3; Wedge Wells for increased recovery and lower steam-to-oil ratio

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a Canadian integrated oil company, reported an increase in third quarter crude oil production year-on-year of about 4% due to oil sands production that was 14% higher compared with the same period a year earlier. Conventional oil production slightly declined due to a combination of factors. Cenovus Energy Inc.,

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4 Basic Principles for Taking Care of Your Truck

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Therefore, you can be sure a lot of thought has gone into the proper maintenance of trucks. You should especially wax your truck if you expect it to be exposed to the elements like rain, snow, dirt or sand. Check your oil level and tire pressure. According to Statista, the trucking industry contributed $732.3 economy in 2020.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

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Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s contro l.”.

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