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JULY 23, 2012

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 20 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Beaudreau released the final details for an oil and gas lease sale that will offer more than 20 million acres offshore and will make available all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. million acres, located from nine to 250 miles offshore, in water depths ranging from 16 to more than 10,975 feet (five to 3,346 meters).

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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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MARCH 19, 2013

North Dakota crude oil production (including lease condensate) averaged an all-time high of 770,000 barrels per day in December 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Much of crude oil production in North Dakota is gathered and transported by truck to railcars leaving the state. Source: EIA.

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JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We Texas understands how to set up energy markets, Douglass said. “We Showing a home-brew EV.

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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., The key problem in applying CO 2.

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JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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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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JANUARY 24, 2017

If West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices stabilize at or above $60 per barrel, major parts of the United States shale sector that are currently dormant will ramp up, according to an analysis by experts in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Baker III and Susan G.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The East-Prinovozemelsky blocks on the Russian Arctic shelf have estimated resources of 35.8 billion barrels of oil and 10.3 The East Prinovozemelsky (EPNZ) License Blocks have a total area of 126,000 square kilometers (30 million acres) in water depths ranging between 50 and 150 meters (165 feet and 500 feet). Click to enlarge.

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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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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. —James Tour.

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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). Approximately 100 ExxonMobil employees are responding to the incident in addition to federal, state, and local resources.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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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. billion barrels of oil from mature oil fields, yet the technology has not been deployed widely.

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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 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. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments. —Peter Flemings.

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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. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Humankind is enamored with water. But few localities have the resources or political will to pay for cleanup costs. Texas A &M University is using artificial intelligence to more reliably industrialize the cultivation of algae so that it can live up to its initial promise. Texas A&M University. Roomba for Rivers.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Projections are that the oil slick will reach Louisiana shoreline areas today. On June 3, 1979, the 2-mile deep exploratory well, IXTOC I, blew out in the Bahia de Campeche, 600 miles south of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil and gas blowing out of the well ignited, causing the platform to catch fire. 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. Ground Water Protection Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Okla. million (DOE share: $6.9

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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. Source: FEIS, Appendix V.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% We show that Brazilian sugarcane ethanol can provide the equivalent of 3.63–12.77 Mb d

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

—Daniel Shantz, a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University and co-editor or report. Non-thermal water separations. Dan Shantz, Texas A&M University; Mukund Karanjikar, Technology Holdings National Science Foundation. salts, metals) prior to thermal or catalytic conversion. Biomass conversion unit.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria Technologies held a grand opening event heralding the successful start-up of its demonstration plant located in La Porte, Texas. The ethane subsequently undergoes dehydrogenation to form ethylene and water. The plant is wholly owned by Siluria, and co-located at a plant operated by Braskem America, Inc. Earlier post.)

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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. John Mullet, Texas A&M University, College Station. DOE’s Office of Science will provide $10.6 Initial funding will support research projects for up to three years. 2014 Biomass Genomics Resarch projects. Description.

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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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MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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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. Click to enlarge. Dr. Kenneth H.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

IH 2 produces significant amounts of export energy in addition to the renewable transportation fuels, while minimizing impact on the surrounding environment by manufacturing its own hydrogen and recycling the water used in the process. —Nick Gerritsen. In July, PetroAlgae Inc., Earlier post.).

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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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JUNE 26, 2010

The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. The US currently consumes around 22 Tcf per year and has a gas resource base now thought to exceed 2,000 Tcf.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. He was an active volunteer for TryEngineering , a website that provides teachers, parents, and students with engineering resources. He served as editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters and editor in chief of the Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science.

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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 Texas, Austin. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). Iowa State University. 1,496,000.

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MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. and anti-idle testing in both a cold chamber and hot chamber.

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