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Universal Lubricants hits 1.5M gallon production mark for recycled motor oil

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million gallon production mark for its ECO ULTRA line of recycled motor oil. billion gallons of used oil each year, of which about 10% is re-refined. The rest of the used oil is either improperly disposed of (damaging the environment) or burned as an industrial fuel. Universal Lubricants has hit the 1.5-million Earlier post.)

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DOE-Sponsored Seismic Project Helps Identify Untapped Oil in Developed Reservoirs

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Using innovative seismic-based technologies developed with funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a Kansas drilling company has discovered an untapped, 10-foot-thick oil zone in a developed Colorado reservoir. Mull Drilling Company of Wichita, Kan., discovered the oil zone near Cheyenne Wells, Colo.,

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Kansas Geological Survey Receives $5M Grant to Study CO2 Storage

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It will be used to determine whether a largely depleted oil and gas field in south-central Kansas and an underlying saline aquifer can permanently and safely sequester carbon dioxide from stationary sources such as electric, cement, ethanol and fertilizer plants. and Bittersweet Energy Inc. Lynn Watney.

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