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Uruguay launches first BYD battery-electric buses; projecting 500 by 2015

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in partnership with Chinese automaker BYD Ltd, introduced the first battery-electric 12-meter rapid transit bus in Uruguay and the region. By 2015 it is expected that more than 500 BYD electric buses will be running on the streets and roads of Uruguay. Buquebus and CTS Auto S.A.,

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Maersk Drilling awarded contract extension to drill world record well in Angola; 2.25-mile water depth

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The current world record is 3,400 m, set by Maersk Voyager’s sister drillship Maersk Venturer when it drilled the Raya-1 well for TotalEnergies offshore Uruguay in 2016. meters high and wind speeds of up to 26 meters per second (58 mph). The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m (2.25

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