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Alberta Innovates & NRCan awarding $26.2M to three oil sands clean tech projects; industry kicking in $43.3M

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Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. This announcement is a result of NRCan’s Oil and Gas Clean Tech Program. Cenovus Energy will test an oil sands extraction technology using a solvent-driven process.

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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. Selected UOG projects. Lead organization. Description. C-Crete Technologies LLC. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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Expanded and updated GREET 2021 released

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road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. Within the transportation sector, GREET covers road, air, water, and rail transportation sub-sectors. Recently, GREET was expanded to cover the building sector. Co-Optima).

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Argonne releases GREET 2020

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road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. Users can evaluate the impacts on energy use, water consumption, and emissions of e-fuel production pathways using different hydrogen (H 2 ) and electricity sources. Methanol as marine fuels.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water.

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Valero to ferry N. American crude from Montreal terminal to Québec City refinery with two Panamax-class tankers

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Canadian marine transportation company Groupe Desgagnés and Valero’s Canadian Operations have formed a joint venture, Transport Maritime Saint-Laurent Inc., Currently, the refinery relies on foreign crude oil for feedstock, which is received by ship at its deep-water dock on the St. that has acquired two Panamax-class ships.

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Federal Report Finds No Dead Zones Observed or Expected as Part of BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Decreased, but Stabilized Levels of O2

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Scientists from agencies involved in the report attribute the lower dissolved oxygen levels to microbes using oxygen to consume the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dead zones, also known as hypoxic areas, are defined in marine waters as areas in which dissolved oxygen concentrations are below 2 mg/L (1.4

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