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GE to expand sodium-halide battery plant with $70M investment

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These batteries will ensure the continuous operation of telecom installations in Nigeria, and enable the customer to lower fuel consumption and emissions of the diesel generator powered telecom towers by up to 50%.

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GE posts $63M in orders for Durathon sodium-halide battery systems

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These batteries will ensure the continuous operation of telecom installations in Nigeria. By mid-2013, GE anticipates having more than 1,000 hybrid telecom installations worldwide and over five times that number by year-end.

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POET Targets Water Use of 2.33 Gallons per Gallon of Ethanol in Five Years; 22% Reduction

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The reductions will come primarily through installing a proprietary process developed by POET engineers that recycles cooling water rather than discharging it. The Total Water Recovery process has recently been installed in three POET Biorefining locations - Bingham Lake (Minn.), Caro (Mich.) and Hudson (S.D.).

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INPEX and Total launch the $34B Ichthys offshore Australia LNG Project; entire 8.5 Mt/y LNG output already sold for 15 years

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Onshore installations will consist of two LNG trains with a capacity of 4.2 The group has interests in LNG projects in Indonesia, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Angola, and Russia. The CPF and the FPSO will both be one of the largest in the world.

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"Transmission Losses:" West African pirates

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5 Nigerian pirates stormed a Panamanian-flagged Ukrainian tanker, the Westaf, anchored off Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, according to the Sovfracht Maritime Bulletin published in Kiev. West Africa's burgeoning oil industry has a pirate problem. They robbed the crew, shooting and wounding the captain and six of his men.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Kingsley Fregene Saving lives in Nigeria Fregene’s aim to keep people safe started with his first after-school job, as a bus conductor, when he was in the sixth grade. As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus.

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Petrobras Announces New Discovery in the Deepwater Caratinga Field; Production Up 3.2% in April

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Tests will be carried out to assess the productivity of these reservoirs and to analyze the possibility of interconnecting the well to platform P-48, which is currently in operation in the Caratinga Field, seeking to take advantage of the production and offloading infrastructure already installed in the area. Production up 3.2%