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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.)

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JANUARY 18, 2013

a developer of natural gas to gasoline projects, entered into a licensing agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s (EMRE’s) methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology ( earlier post ) in the development of a world-scale natural gas to gasoline project. Lake Charles natural gas to gasoline facility. Source: EMRE.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Beaudreau released the final details for an oil and gas lease sale that will offer more than 20 million acres offshore and will make available all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. million acres, located from nine to 250 miles offshore, in water depths ranging from 16 to more than 10,975 feet (five to 3,346 meters).

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APRIL 9, 2009

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility. Nestlé Waters evaluated both hydrogen fuel cells and lead-acid batteries as potential replacements for the LPG-fueled systems.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Texas-based fuel company Nacero ( earlier post ) will build its second low- and zero-carbon fuels plant in Newport Township, Pennsylvania. The new manufacturing facility will produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock made from natural gas and renewable natural gas.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Benthic, a global geosciences company, broke its own water depth record using the Portable Remotely Operated Drill unit 3 (PROD3) seabed drill. PROD is a fully self-contained, remotely operated seabed drilling and geotechnical testing system, capable of operating in water depths to 3000m and investigating subsea bed depths in excess of 130m.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

The findings were presented by climatologist Andrew Dessler of Texas A. Although scientists have long believed that water vapor. dioxide, producing water vapor which in turn would store more heat. The AIRS instrument measures gas levels in the mid-troposphere, which. Source: NASA. Click to enlarge. San Francisco.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are investing $200,000 in new research to develop a low-cost method to treat flow-back water following hydraulic fracturing. It will be tested on water samples from the Eagle Ford Shale.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from COCO 2 2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels.

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MAY 9, 2012

has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas and elsewhere to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a process it originally developed for algae harvesting. —Andrew Komor, vice president for environmental water at PACE.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Heckmann Corporation, a water solutions company focused on water issues worldwide and, in particular, oil and natural gas exploration and production, is teaming up with Encana Natural Gas Inc., Heckmann Corporation was created to buy and build companies in the water sector.

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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. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Commissioners of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted unanimously to grant the air quality permits necessary for the $3.5 billion 600-megawatt (net) Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center under development near Sweetwater, Texas to begin construction. Earlier post.).

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MAY 1, 2011

Under van Wijk’s concept, a plant would produce methanol from natural gas on the North Slope using the proposed GigaMethanol technology. In January, ICIS reported that Eastman Chemical reached an agreement to sell a mothballed Texas methanol and ammonia plant to Pandora Methanol, a subsidiary of Janus Methanol. billion, he said.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. —MITEI Director Ernest J.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected nine new projects targeting environmental tools and technology for shale gas and coalbed methane (CBM) production. The primary objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate a process for the frac water returns from Marcellus Shale wells.

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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 total value of the shale-related projects is more than $17.0

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APRIL 15, 2015

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. For the North American shale boom, the lack of water is suffocating. How communities in Texas can be spared drought.

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JULY 1, 2025

For example, in 2023, Tesla implemented optimization controls in the plastics and paint shops located at Gigafactory Texas , which increased the efficiency of natural gas consumption. ” Tesla utilizes AI Control “primarily on systems that heat or cool critical factory production spaces and equipment.”

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JUNE 1, 2012

Motiva, the joint venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco, marked the completion of a five-year construction project that more than doubled the daily processing capacity of the Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas to 600,000 barrels of crude. Light ends-Naphtha is processed in the Saturates Gas Plant which is integrated on the VPS plot.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

has completed the technical feasibility study for a natural gas to liquids project in Natchez, Mississippi. The site is served by American Midstream’s Midla pipeline system that intersects three interstate gas pipelines. EmberClear an source gas from Texas and Louisiana, as well as parts of Oklahoma. EmberClear Corp.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. million smartphones.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Texas-based Noble Energy, Inc. announced a significant natural gas discovery at the Leviathan exploration prospect offshore Israel. Leviathan-1, located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

This field is located in the Walker Ridge area in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM), at a water depth of approximately 2,900 meters (9,500 feet). Technip will be in charge of installation of the subsea production system and Stones lateral gas pipeline, inclusive of associated project management, engineering and stalk fabrication.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Petrobras announced a new oil discovery in the extreme southwestern part of the Walker Ridge concession area, located in the US Gulf of Mexico ultra-deep waters. The Logan discovery is approximately 400 km (250 miles) southwest of New Orleans, at a water of around 2,364 meters (7,750 feet). The Logan discovery. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 16, 2010

The Unified Area Command for the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill reported on Sunday that the Riser Insertion Tube Tool—one of several subsea options BP is developing—was successfully tested and inserted into the leaking riser Saturday night, capturing some amounts of oil and gas. Click to enlarge. More than 1.25

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Fast Startup Time: Develop extremely stable fuel-cells that can start under nearly water-saturated conditions. This is especially important for long haul trucks using hydrogen fuel cells. Superior Heat Management: Completely remove the external humidifiers/demisters and substantially reduce the size of the radiator.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The ROD and cooperative agreement between DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC (STCE) sets in motion continued federal cost-shared funding for the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project, to be built just west of Midland-Odessa, Texas. About 200 megawatts of electricity will be put on the power grid.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States.

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JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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JULY 1, 2022

For example, many people believe water is dangerous around an EV battery, when in fact a large volume of water is the recommended method to suppress a lithium-ion battery fire. First and second responders can go to gmEVFirstResponderTraining.com to learn more about this hands-on training opportunity.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter.

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JUNE 7, 2012

We propose that a relatively deep global thermocline, reductions in low-latitude gradients in sea surface temperature, and cloud and water vapor feedbacks may help to explain the warmth of the late Miocene. Ratios of the compound preserve a record of the water temperature in which the plankton lived. —Jonathan LaRiviere.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Methane hydrates are ice-like structures with natural gas locked inside, which can be found both onshore and offshore—including under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world. The University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.). DOE Investment: approximately $480,000 ?.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The study found that many problems ascribed to hydraulic fracturing are related to processes common to all oil and gas drilling operations, such as casing failures or poor cement jobs. The report identifies regulations related to shale gas development and evaluates individual states’ capacity to enforce existing regulations.

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JUNE 21, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. trillion cubic feet of natural gas. billion barrels of oil and 3.3 in previous Central lease sales.

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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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