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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The method is already being tested in Texas, North Dakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa.

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Water North Dakota Oil-Sands Engine

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Comparison of the percent differential for WTW (well-to-wheel) GHGs from gasoline produced from WCSB oil sands using different production processes relative to gasoline produced from reference crudes. The proposed Project is not likely to impact the amount of crude oil produced from the oil sands. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Oklahoma

Enterprise and Enbridge to proceed with Seaway and Flanagan South oil pipeline extensions; enhanced capacity for Canadian and Bakken crude to Gulf Coast

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MARCH 27, 2012

The expansion of the reversed Seaway Pipeline will more than double its capacity to 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) by mid-2014 and transport oil originating in the Canadian oil sands and the US Bakken shale from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast at Houston, with an extension to Port Arthur/Beaumont. Enbridge Inc.

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Oil Oil-Sands Oklahoma Houston

Marathon Oil splitting in two

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JANUARY 15, 2011

The Board of Directors of Marathon Oil Corporation has approved moving forward with plans to spin off Marathon’s downstream business, creating two independent energy companies. Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) will be a global upstream company based in Houston, Texas. Strengthened ability to attract and retain talent.

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Oil Oil-Sands Houston Corporation

Canada-based Enbridge to acquire ConocoPhillips’s interest in Seaway Crude Pipeline System for US$1.15B; reversing to carry oil to Gulf Coast

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Enbridge and Enterprise agreed to reverse the direction of crude oil flows on the Seaway pipeline to enable it to transport oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast. million barrels of crude oil tankage on the Texas Gulf Coast and four import docks at two locations. SCPS also includes 6.8 —Patrick D.

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Oil Canada Houston Oklahoma

Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

RFGasoline, a drop-in gasoline transportation fuel, is created by processing Ensyn’s renewable crude (RFO), a liquid cellulosic feedstock for refiners, with customary petroleum feedstocks in conventional petroleum refineries (RFO Coprocessing). Earlier post.).

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Gasoline Renewable Grant Parts

Ensyn receives EPA regulatory approval for its cellulosic renewable diesel RFDiesel

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

RFDiesel, a drop-in diesel transportation fuel, is created by processing Ensyn’s renewable crude (RFO), a liquid cellulosic feedstock, with customary petroleum feedstocks in conventional petroleum refineries (RFO Coprocessing). There, Ensyn’s RFO is used as a feedstock in Fluid Catalytic Crackers (FCCs).

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Diesel Renewable Oil-Sands EPA

TransCanada announces additional commitments to proposed Keystone XL system; the Houston Lateral and capacity expansion to 830,000 barrels per day

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

TransCanada Corporation has received additional binding commitments in support of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline system—designed to bring Canadian oil sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries—following the successful conclusion of the Keystone Houston Lateral Open Season. million barrels per day.

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Houston Oil-Sands Nebraska Oil

UT Austin to lead $58M study of methane hydrate in Gulf of Mexico; $41M from DOE

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Post-cruise analyses will determine the in situ concentrations, the physical properties, the lithology, and the thermodynamic state of methane hydrate bearing sand reservoirs.

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Mexico Austin Oil-Sands Mariner

Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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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. Click to enlarge.

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Arkansas Oil Montana Wyoming

Toyota Tsusho strategic equity investor in bio-BTX company Anellotech

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JULY 11, 2016

The renewable aromatic chemical can be used use in making plastics such as polyester, nylon, polycarbonate, polystyrene, or for renewable transportation fuels. Dried and ground biomass is rapidly heated, and the resulting gases are immediately converted into hydrocarbons by a proprietary, reusable, sand-like zeolite catalyst.

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Toyota Companies Oil-Sands Corporation

350.org to encircle the White House on Nov 6 protesting Keystone XL pipeline

National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries. Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest most environmentally devastating sources of the fossil fuels required to power gasoline/diesel powered vehicles, and.

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Oil-Sands Canada Texas Oil

350.org to encircle the White House on Nov 6 protesting Keystone XL pipeline

National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries. Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest most environmentally devastating sources of the fossil fuels required to power gasoline/diesel powered vehicles, and.

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Oil-Sands Canada Texas Oil

Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

The combined company will be the largest owner and operator of natural gas pipelines and storage assets in North America with approximately 67,000 miles of natural gas transportation pipelines. Largest independent transporter of petroleum products in the United States, transporting approximately 1.9 is approximately $38 billion.

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El Paso North America Gas Purchase

Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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MARCH 17, 2009

Processes such as oil extraction from sources such as tar sands and deep-water offshore oil wells, as well as the expansion of first-generation biofuels such as corn-based ethanol are setting the stage for a “ water/energy collision ” of resource management policies. Electronics. Metals and Mining.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Geologic storage is currently focused on five types of formations:(1) depleted oil and gas reservoirs, (2) deep saline formations, (3) unmineable coal seams, (4) oil- and gas-rich organic shales, and (5) basalts. Researchers will investigate the feasibility of geologic CO 2 sequestration in depleted shale gas reservoirs.

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CO2 Oil-Sands Austin Universal

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people. Canada’s 2009 GHG emissions are 48.7%

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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APRIL 16, 2009

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy!

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands

TransCanada to re-apply for Keystone XL cross-border permit; proceeding with Cushing-to-Gulf portion as a discrete project with White House support

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The existing Keystone Pipeline is a 3,460-kilometer (2,150-mile) pipeline that transports crude oil from the oil sands in Alberta to markets in the American Midwest at Wood River and Patoka in Illinois, and at Cushing, Oklahoma. The approximate cost is US$2.3 Cross-border Project.

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Nebraska Montana Oil-Sands Oklahoma

Pew Survey finds broad support for Keystone XL; splits on fracking; slippage in seeing warming as very serious

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APRIL 3, 2013

The survey found that two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor building the pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada’s oil sands region through the Midwest to refineries in Texas. Click to enlarge. Keystone XL. 23% oppose construction of the pipeline.

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Oil-Sands 2006 2009 Global

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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

Enterprise and Enbridge to proceed with Seaway and Flanagan South oil pipeline extensions; enhanced capacity for Canadian and Bakken crude to Gulf Coast

Marathon Oil splitting in two

Canada-based Enbridge to acquire ConocoPhillips’s interest in Seaway Crude Pipeline System for US$1.15B; reversing to carry oil to Gulf Coast

Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

Ensyn receives EPA regulatory approval for its cellulosic renewable diesel RFDiesel

TransCanada announces additional commitments to proposed Keystone XL system; the Houston Lateral and capacity expansion to 830,000 barrels per day

UT Austin to lead $58M study of methane hydrate in Gulf of Mexico; $41M from DOE

Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

Toyota Tsusho strategic equity investor in bio-BTX company Anellotech

350.org to encircle the White House on Nov 6 protesting Keystone XL pipeline

350.org to encircle the White House on Nov 6 protesting Keystone XL pipeline

Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

TransCanada to re-apply for Keystone XL cross-border permit; proceeding with Cushing-to-Gulf portion as a discrete project with White House support

Pew Survey finds broad support for Keystone XL; splits on fracking; slippage in seeing warming as very serious

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