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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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Longer term embedded options include the Wildling (US), Trion (Mexico), Calypso (Trinidad and Tobago) and Browse (Australia) projects. BHP says that Jansen Stage 1 will be low cost and expects it to be one of the world’s most sustainable potash mines, designed for a low carbon footprint and low water intensity. Earlier post.).

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MCW Energy Group: successful initial testing of extraction of up to 99.9% of hydrocarbon content from oil sands tailings pond samples

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The analyzed samples consisted of a sand/soil mixture: 41% - 41%; water: 25% - 26%; bitumen: 31% - 32%; cellulose and other impurities: less than 1%. Clean sand/soil and clean water with the solids content of less than 0.36% were obtained as three separate end products of the MCW extraction process.

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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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As a partner, European Energy will produce e-methanol for Maersk’s first green feeder vessel, which is expected to be on the water by 2023. It develops, builds, and operates renewable electricity projects globally with a pipeline consisting of 20 GW renewable energy capacity. Proman (Switzerland).

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad. Two-step methanol and synthesis in water- and gas-cooled reactors operating along the optimum extraction route.

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

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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. ” —UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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