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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Global oil and gas companies are increasingly facing an uphill battle as global warming policies are taking their toll. Most analysts and market watchers are focusing on peak oil demand scenarios, but the reality could be much darker. by Cyril Widdershoven for Oilprice.com.

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APRIL 5, 2023

EIA projects that the United States will continue to be an integral part of global oil markets and a significant source of supply in these cases, as increased exports of finished products support US production. It also assumes the Brent crude oil price reaches $101 per barrel (b) (in 2022 dollars) by 2050.

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MAY 6, 2024

In mid-2023, Green Builder Media’s CEO Sara Gutterman reached out to me to see if I were interested in presenting at their annual Sustainability Symposium. continued] The post Green Builder Sustainability Symposium Presentation — Slides & Transcript appeared first on CleanTechnica. That event occurred a.

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APRIL 23, 2021

Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending into US commercial grades. The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

The first peer-reviewed study to directly quantify how emissions from oil and natural gas (O&NG) activities influence summertime tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) pollution in the Colorado Front Range confirms that chemical vapors from oil and gas activities are a significant contributor to the region’s chronic ozone problem.

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MAY 7, 2019

On Sunday, May 5, 2019 the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club held their annual Awards Banquet and presented a special conservation award to Joe Galliani, declaring-. Godfather of Community Choice In LA County Says Just Transition Means Repairing Damage To Frontline Communities First.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2015

The staff of the California Energy Commission staff will conduct a workshop on 10 November in Sacramento to open a discussion about the extremely fast rate of land subsidence in the Central Valley of California and how it may be affecting the oil & natural gas infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The company estimates hydrocarbons in place on its acreage position are 75 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of rich gas (more than 1,300 British Thermal Units) and 3 billion barrels of oil in the Barnett and Woodford formations alone. These formations are in the wet gas window and are expected to deliver a combination of rich gas and oil.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The most challenging issue facing the shale energy industry is the very low hydrocarbon recovery rates: less than 10% for oil and 20% for gas. Most of US natural gas is hidden deep within shale reservoirs. These insights help optimize strategies to boost natural gas production as well as better understand fluid mechanics.

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APRIL 15, 2022

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a new computational model of a two-stroke scaled marine engine, with reduced chemical mechanisms for diesel, biodiesel, bio-oil, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). For the study, the surrogate is based on the bio-oil produced by Dynamotive Energy Systems.

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APRIL 15, 2017

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates are potentially explosive and are largely responsible for the initial failure to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Short-term oil demand is still growing strong and will continue to do so through the end of 2020 despite the market’s increasing focus on electric vehicles and the forecasted future plateau in oil demand, according to new analysis from IHS Markit, a global business information provider. Source: IHS Markit 2018. —Spencer Welch.

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APRIL 18, 2012

USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. These new estimates are for conventional oil and gas resources only. Geological Survey (USGS) released today. The US imported approximately 11.4

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The deeper an oil well, the higher the pressure, and the higher the risks associated with tapping oil from wells. This is called a “gas kick,” which in worst-case scenarios can lead to blowouts. —Steinar Evje.

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JULY 16, 2017

OPEC exports have come under pressure this week from technical threats to oil fields, with Saudi Arabia’s Manifa problems grabbing the headlines. At present, the main issue being reported on is that there has been corrosion of the water injection system, which is used to keep pressure in the reservoir.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Researchers at the University of Calgary are developing ultra-dispersed (UD) nanocatalysts for the in situ upgrading of heavy oil and bitumen from deep reservoirs. One of the challenges of such an approach is the placement of the catalyst deep into the heavy oil plume by transporting a catalyst suspension through the sand medium.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, according to an assessment by the US Geological Survey.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. The concept is the same embodied in Audi’s e-gas project ( earlier post ), to which the VGV proposal makes continued reference.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

A good example is the Haynesville shale gas play where one E&P Company has completed more than 300 HPHT wells, he noted. HPHT issues are not new; Schlumberger’s quarterly publication Oilfield Review examined HPHT issues in 1998 and again in 2008. HPHT reservoirs drive new technology requirements in a number of ways.

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APRIL 6, 2017

On a global level, 2015 and 2016 marked the lowest level of new conventional oil discoveries since 1952. billion barrels of conventional oil were discovered, roughly 45 days of global crude consumption or 0.2 Russia’s Oil Production 1970-2020 and Russia’s Deep-Hole Oil & Gas Exploration Drilling. In 2016, only 3.7

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

billion) in Grangemouth, its integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in Scotland, in the next phase of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045. The fuel source will be mixed gas, sourced from within the Grangemouth Complex via pipe infrastructure.) INEOS will invest an additional £1 billion (US$1.4 Grangemouth.

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MARCH 19, 2018

The researchers presented their work at the 255 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in New Orleans. It features more than 13,000 presentations on a wide range of science topics. The microbial biosensor cell will generate high voltage spikes when availability of organic compounds increases.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Clathrate hydrate formation and subsequent plugging of deep-sea oil and gas pipelines represent a significant bottleneck for deep-sea oil and gas operations. — Methane hydrates can freeze upon contact with cold water in the deep ocean, are a chronic problem for deep-sea oil and gas wells.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design. The estimated peak production and current estimated recoverable resources presented above are 100% total gross figures.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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APRIL 14, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 30 th annual Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHG Inventory), which presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2021. In 2021, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,340.2 GHG emissions by economic sector.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

Petrobras announced that results of drilling in Sergipe Basin ultra-deep waters confirmed the light oil and gas discovery in Farfan area (between 37º and 40º API), as announced to the market on 9 August 2013. The results presented excellent permoporosity conditions in the turbidities reservoirs with 54 meters thickness.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Tillerson said in a presentation at the New York Stock Exchange. Demand for electricity will make natural gas the fastest growing major energy source and oil and natural gas are expected to meet 60% of energy needs over the next three decades. billion oil equivalent barrels. billion oil-equivalent barrels.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. m b/d thresh- old.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is seeking public comment on a newly released draft environmental impact statement describing how offshore oil and gas activities in the US Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

ExxonMobil has developed new technology for natural gas dehydration that employs a patented absorption system inside pipes and replaces the need for conventional dehydration tower technology. The droplet generator uses the energy from the flowing natural gas to create droplets of the right size.

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MARCH 13, 2015

It is estimated that for every penny gas goes down, consumers collectively save $1 billion. Columbia and Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas says it has: “No question we’re seeing the effects of lower oil prices throughout the economy.”.

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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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MARCH 10, 2013

(LNC) said it has been contacted by about 70 companies—from North America to India—to fund the development of the massive Arckaringa Basin shale oil prospects that it announced in January 2013. D&M estimated the resources to be 103 billion barrels oil equivalent (103 BBOE). Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

A computer model that tests automobile components for crashworthiness could also be of use to the oil and gas industry, according to researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory, who are now using their simulations of material deformation in car crashes to predict how pipes may fracture in offshore drilling accidents.

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DECEMBER 29, 2012

Argentina state-owned energy company YPF and Bridas, an Argentina-based oil and gas company 50% owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation, agreed to invest $1.5 Vaca Muerta is present in an area of 30,000 km 2 (7.4 Vaca Muerta is present in an area of 30,000 km 2 (7.4 million acres, or 40% of the total.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In cooperation with a major European supplier, a new oil-lubricated common-rail pump had therefore been developed. An electrically driven compressor for precise exhaust gas recirculation is also used. This is done via exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). Unfortunately, at present the process is not yet very efficient.

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