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Technip-led consortium awarded contracts worth $1.23B for the ultra-deep TEN project in Ghana

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Tullow Ghana Limited has awarded two contracts for the TEN Project, located offshore Ghana at a water depth reaching up to 2,000 meters (6,562 feet), to Technip, leader of a consortium with Subsea7. Thus, Technip’s operating center in Paris, France, will execute this project with the support of the Group’s offices in Accra, Ghana.

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TUM, partners to present electric aCar prototype at IAA; transport for sub-Saharan Africa

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The 20 kWh battery capacity gives the vehicle an electric range of 80 kilometers (50 miles). However, to make sure the aCar also meets all the demands placed on it on location, they shipped the vehicle to Ghana, where they tested the technology and concept under local conditions in July 2017. Otto SPANNER GmbH; Schnupp GmbH & Co.

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Zipline reaches 500,000 automated drone delivery milestone

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The autonomous drones, which operate as small planes instead of helicopters like other competitors, are launched from delivery locations and have an operating range of 50 miles. According to one of the company’s co-founders, Keller Cliffton, the drones had traveled a combined 36 million miles.

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Eni reports important new discovery offshore Congo

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miles) offshore Congo. Eni has been present in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1960s and currently participates in exploration and production projects in Angola, Congo, Ghana, Gabon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Liberia.

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