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JANUARY 3, 2018

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. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Selected UOG projects. Lead organization. Description. C-Crete Technologies LLC.

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JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Rice University President David Leebron and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Edmonton, Alberta outlining a research collaboration between nanoAlberta , part of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, and Rice’s Richard E. Adams noted America is the biggest market for Canadian oil. Wade Adams.

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of environmentally friendly lubricants. violaceus plant’s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln noticed the February orchid seed oils were unusual.

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APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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MAY 30, 2019

ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins. billion barrels of discovered recoverable resource.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Engineers from the University of Houston and the University of Texas report that waterflooding with a surfactant—thereby altering the wettability of oil reservoir rocks—can increase oil recovery from 62 to 85%. Carbonate rocks tend to be “oil-wet”—i.e.,

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Ingram, director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3 million in federal funds.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Carbon dioxide injection—an important part of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology—is underway as part of a pilot study of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the Citronelle Field of Mobile County, Alabama. A project team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham is conducting the injection. Denbury Resources Inc.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Rice University researchers are taking advantage of graphene’s outstanding strength, light weight and solubility to enhance fluids used to drill oil wells. When the drill bit is removed and drilling fluid displaced, the formation oil forces remnants of the filter cake out of the pores as the well begins to produce.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

A study led by chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments are the result of operational inefficiencies and not inherent to the extraction process itself. Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, Phillip M. McBride, M.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee. Fiscal year 2012 awards include: University of Arizona, $36,000. Arizona State University, $350,000. University of Georgia, $345,689. University of Florida, $496,996. University of Florida, $497,851.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) rig in 2010 contaminated more than 1,000 square miles of seafloor. The complexity of the event has made it difficult for scientists to determine the long-term fate of oil in this ocean environment.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% The corresponding range of CO 2 offsets is 0.55–2.0

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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. Accordingly, other countries with high energy demands or limited resources—e.g. This could be analogous to gas or shale oil 20 or 30 years ago.

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APRIL 21, 2022

But few localities have the resources or political will to pay for cleanup costs. The machine, which can run autonomously or at the direction of a remote operator, goes around collecting the junk and gunk (like plastic bottles, oil spills, and algae) that float on the water, as well as detritus located up to 10 meters below the surface.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The study found that many problems ascribed to hydraulic fracturing are related to processes common to all oil and gas drilling operations, such as casing failures or poor cement jobs. Faculty members from across The University of Texas at Austin campus participated in the research, which the Energy Institute funded.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Houston Advanced Research Center ( HARC ) and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University are establishing a collaborative research program to promote advanced technology for low-impact oil and gas drilling. University of Colorado. Utah State University.

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JULY 25, 2012

Michalek, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and his colleagues Mikhail Chester, an assistant professor at Arizona State University; and Constantine Samaras, an engineer at the RAND Corporation. air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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JUNE 16, 2023

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

Southern Company Services will also explore and utilize potential opportunities for beneficial use of the CO 2 for enhanced oil recovery. Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC, Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). DOE share: $295 million; project duration: 11 years. DOE share: $295 million; project duration: 11 years.

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JUNE 21, 2016

quadrillion BTU of energy annually, equivalent to 280 million barrels of oil, or a month’s worth of that nation’s oil imports. Information Systems Associates; Loman CSI-Consortium/Resource; Makai Ocean engineering; Martin Control Systems; Nila; Nimbis Services; One Cycle Control; Process Systems Enterprise Inc.;

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. He worked at the university at the time of his death.

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JULY 17, 2014

New projects to be funded this year will build upon gains in genetic and genomic resources for bioenergy and biofuels. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Amy Brunner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Robin Buell, Michigan State University. John McKay, Colorado State University.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Dr. Kenneth H.

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JULY 9, 2010

Researchers at Texas A&M University have concluded that the MixAlco process (developed there) to convert biomass to fuels and chemicals—under a base-case capacity of 40 dry tonne feedstock per hour— requires a total capital investment of $5.54/annual annual gallon of hydrocarbon fuels (US $3.79/annual gal ethanol. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 22, 2009

NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

—Daniel Shantz, a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University and co-editor or report. Dan Shantz, Texas A&M University; Mukund Karanjikar, Technology Holdings National Science Foundation. The ability to separate oxygenates at reduced temperatures more effectively. Non-thermal water separations.

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JULY 26, 2012

This project will optimize rapeseed/canola, mustard and camelina oilseed crops for oil quality and yield using recombinant inbred lines. The oils will be hydrotreated to produce diesel and jet fuel. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million). Michigan Technological University.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The UT-led field study was a cooperative effort involving experts from the Environmental Defense Fund; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; BG Group plc; Chevron; Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.; Pioneer Natural Resources Company; SWEPI LP (Shell); Southwestern Energy; Talisman Energy USA; and XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary.

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JULY 11, 2016

Anellotech’s core technology— Thermo Catalytic Biomass Conversion (Bio-TCAT)—is based on research initially performed in Professor George Huber’s laboratory at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and subsequent developments by Anellotech.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Participants in GTI’s project included Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Michigan Technological University. This approach gives us the flexibility to develop a multi-biomass feedstock mix specific to available resources worldwide. —Nick Gerritsen.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

By pushing the limits of seismic-while-drilling (SWD) technology, the SeismicPULSER system provides more accurate geo-steering for the discovery of new oil and natural gas reserves, facilitating new field development and improving well economics. Funding for the project came from the Office of Fossil Energy’s Oil & Natural Gas Program.

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