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Shell starts production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico; new, simplified design

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Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has started production at the Shell-operated Vito floating production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Shell reached an FID on Whale in 2021 and is currently scheduled to begin production in 2024. Shell is the leading operator in the US Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas production.

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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

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Chevron (as well as fellow oil major ExxonMobil) has been developing co-processing—adding biomass-derived feedstocks to the fossil-based feedstocks of existing petroleum refinery process units—as a way to produce fuels with increased renewable content more cost-effectively. United States. doi: 10.2172/1846005

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Sinopec purchasing 50% of Chesapeake Energy leasehold in Mississippi Lime unconventional play for $1.02B

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (Sinopec) executed an agreement which provides for Sinopec to purchase a 50% undivided interest in 850,000 of Chesapeake’s net oil and natural gas leasehold acres in the Mississippi Lime play in northern Oklahoma (425,000 acres net to Sinopec).

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Oleo-X launches merchant pretreatment facility for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel feedstocks

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Located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Oleo-X’s facility has the potential capacity to produce up to 300 million gallons per year of premium feedstock. Oleo-X says that its chemistry formulates a product that can extend RD and SAF unit catalyst lives by years.

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DOE selects 6 projects for $30M in funding to boost unconventional oil and natural gas recovery

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects to receive approximately $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development in unconventional oil and natural gas (UOG) recovery. The Institute of Gas Technology. Selected UOG projects. Lead organization. Description. C-Crete Technologies LLC.

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National Academies’ Gulf Research Program awards $10.8M to address systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations

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million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. The project focuses on gaps in understanding about the behavior of riser gas under high temperature and pressure.

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DOI: latest Gulf of Mexico oil & gas lease sales garner $872M in high bids

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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. million acres on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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