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APRIL 14, 2023

bp has successfully started oil production at its Argos offshore platform, strengthening bp’s position as a leading producer in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Argos is the centerpiece of bp’s Mad Dog Phase 2 project, which extends the life of the super-giant oil field discovered in 1998. Earlier post.) bp is the operator with 60.5%

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APRIL 29, 2021

ExxonMobil announced an oil discovery at the Uaru-2 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana ( earlier post ). Uaru-2 will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block, which is currently estimated to be approximately 9 billion oil-equivalent barrels. Source: ExxonMobil. Earlier post.)

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MAY 3, 2017

Oil demand for transportation fuel see its “ demand will flatten out ,” after 2030, Couse said. Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, sees Couse’s forecast as the highest EV sales margin yet to be forecasted by a major company in the oil sector. Maybe even decline. ”.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts that US crude oil production will average 10.7 This national increase is almost entirely driven by tight oil. Lower wellhead prices in the region are contributing to slower growth in Permian crude oil production in 2019 compared with 2018.

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MARCH 31, 2013

A breach in ExxonMobil’s Pegasus crude oil pipeline occurred late Friday afternoon near Mayflower, AR (about 20 miles north northwest of Little Rock and at the southeastern end of the Lake Conway reservoir). Efforts are being made to keep oil away from Lake Conway. Route of the Pegasus pipeline. Source: ExxonMobil.

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MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge. the ICCT team concluded.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In addition to successful appraisal of the Turbot discovery, the Turbot-2 well encountered 43 feet (13 meters) of net pay in a newly identified, high quality hydrocarbon bearing sandstone reservoir separate from the 75 feet (23 meters) of high quality, oil bearing sandstone reservoir pay encountered in the original Turbot-1 discovery well.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

ExxonMobil announced an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15 th discovery on the Stabroek Block. Mako-1 encountered approximately 164 feet (50 meters) of a high-quality oil bearing sandstone reservoir. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The Stabroek Block is 6.6

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Goodyear’s new tire features three different carbon blacks that are produced from methane, carbon dioxide, and plant-based oil. The use of soybean oil in tires is a significant Goodyear innovation that helps keep a tire’s rubber compound pliable in changing temperatures.

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MARCH 14, 2023

The Record of Decision (ROD) reduces the size of the project by denying two of the original five drill sites proposed by ConocoPhillips, which is seeking to develop oil and gas leases it acquired beginning in the late 1990s. The Willow project is estimated to produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 13, 2022

million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four new projects to receive up to $8.4

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JULY 18, 2020

More specifically, reliably projecting the oil demand, a critical leading indicator of the state of the US economy, is beneficial to related business activities and investment decisions. However, few studies have quantified and forecast the oil demands under multiple pandemic scenarios, and this research is desperately needed.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Obrador’s decree also established 234,855 hectares (907 square miles) in Sonora as a mining zone known as Li-MX-1. Oil and lithium belong to the nation, they belong to the people of Mexico, to you, to all those who live in this region of Sonora, to all Mexicans. What we are doing now.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2020

To achieve mass adoption, the average electric car will need to offer 31-minute charging, 291 miles of range, and a base price of $36,000. Those three factors comprise a global tipping point for EVs, according to a new study commissioned by oil company Castrol, which is looking to sell so-called "e-fluid" lubricants for EVs.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? I found a a 2004 with 247k km (154k miles) on the clock. by BLNT, PriusPodcast.com. And how does a family end up with four Priuses to start with?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

According to CR’s experts, simpler powertrains in EVs and no need for oil changes are likely reasons for the lower costs. For this report, ‘vehicle lifetime’ was defined as 200,000 miles. Average maintenance/repair costs over vehicle lifetime. The full white paper will be published in the coming weeks.

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MAY 3, 2020

Second, they estimated fuel savings using the FHWA data on vehicle miles, fuel use and miles per gallon (mpg). gasoline demand would have put upward pressure on world oil prices. Two indirect effects were considered. First, had fuel economy not improved, the higher level of U.S.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

The primary measure in this analysis is the average miles driven per gallon of fuel for each year. In terms of fuel consumption per distance driven, the change between 1973 (the year of the first oil embargo) and 1991 (from 7.75 gallons per 100 miles to 5.10 gallons per 100 miles) represents a compound rate of decrease of 2.3%

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Solazyme received the award for Greener Synthetic Pathways for its tailored oils produced from microalgal fermentation. Farnesane can also have land-use benefits for heavy-duty transportation: a hectare of land growing soybeans to produce traditional biodiesel generates enough fuel for a bus to travel about 600 miles.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The primary measure in this analysis is the average miles driven per gallon of fuel for each year. In terms of fuel consumption per distance driven, the change between 1973 (the year of the first oil embargo) and 1991 (from 7.75 gallons per 100 miles to 5.09 gallons per 100 miles) represents a compound rate of decrease of 2.3%

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Bio-hydrogen not utilized for renewable diesel production will be made available by Grön Fuels for purchase by third parties for lowering the CO 2 emissions of power production, industrial processes, or transportation and can be shipped by the ~600 miles / 1,000 km of hydrogen pipelines operational and located near Grön Fuels’ site.

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DECEMBER 30, 2018

Hyundai delivered its first NEXO fuel cell SUV ( earlier post ) to Tom Hochrad of Ventura, California—the first US customer to drive off in the new NEXO, the only mass-produced fuel cell SUV for the US market, featuring a range up to 380 miles. The NEXO Limited Trim has an estimated range of 354 miles.

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JUNE 15, 2021

cents per mile, while a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) totals 10.1 cents per mile. A BEV lacks an ICEV’s engine oil, timing belt, oxygen sensor, spark plugs and more, and the maintenance costs associated with them. Per-mile maintenance costs by powertrain.

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APRIL 7, 2022

In addition, Achates Power is conducting further testing with a fully aged catalyst (the equivalent of 800,000 miles of operation) to demonstrate continued ability to meet CARB’s stringent standards. Achates Power is backed by the Oil and Gas Climate Investments, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, and other investors.

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JULY 16, 2023

The new lifecycle sustainability approach will be included as standard across the full AeroShell product range, including turbine engine oils (TEOs), piston engine oils (PEOs), greases and fluids, for both the commercial airline and general aviation markets. million miles since 2021.

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JULY 19, 2021

A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and WWF finds that nearly 20% of tropical Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) overlap with concessions for extractive industries such as mining, oil and gas. The total area of overlap is 376,449 square miles (975,000 square kilometers), about the size of Egypt. Grantham et al.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Hydrogen used for treating crude or bio-crude oil to produce jet fuel with a lower carbon intensity is also considered as an early-stage application. Scaling-up the electrofuel industry will require a coordinated effort on the part of the broader industry (including upstream oil and gas), governments and research institutions globally.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Drones attacked two key Saudi Aramco sites in Saudi Arabia—the Abqaiq processing plant and the Khurais oil field—on Saturday; Houthi rebels claimed credit for the strikes. million barrels of crude oil per day. Abqaiq is also linked to the Shaybah oil field through a 395-mile pipeline.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Movements of petroleum products, particularly crude oil, have received enormous media attention. Clay et al.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 11, 2025

This one appears to be in good condition and there are about 107K miles on the clock -- and yes, it's a manual. It's mostly stock but the turbos are upgraded and the owner uses synthetic oil and K&N filters. These cars, and their platform-mate, the Dodge Stealth, looked cool as heck back during the grunge years.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

TotalEnergies E&P Angola has exercised an option for the 7 th -generation drillship Maersk Voyager to drill the ultra-deepwater Ondjaba-1 exploration well in Angola’s Block 48. The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m (2.25

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

The network is the largest hydrogen pipeline system in the world, stretching more than 700-miles from Galveston Bay in Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana. The Port Arthur facility has captured approximately one million tons of CO 2 annually since 2013, with the CO 2 transported via pipeline and utilized for enhanced oil recovery operations.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

ExxonMobil made two oil discoveries at Fangtooth-1 and Lau Lau-1 in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. These discoveries will add to the previously announced recoverable resource estimate for the block, of 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

After an oil change, a woman found a racial slur printed on the sticker inside her SUV. A Nissan dealer nearly 900 miles away is gifting her a free LEAF EV, saying she wont need an oil change ever again. Now, shes getting a free electric vehicle.

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JUNE 29, 2015

The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen. The average US residential customer pays 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) , which means the cost to drive one mile in an EV is somewhat less than 4 cents. New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.)

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MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. Just as crude oil from petroleum sources must be refined to be used in vehicles, biocrude needs to be refined into biofuel. —Michael Thorson, a PNNL engineer and project manager.

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