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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The syngas is fed into the second reactor where it is converted via the Fischer-Tropsch process into synthetic crude oil, water and a tail gas composed of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and light hydrocarbon gases. CompactGTL targets its system to oil and gas companies to develop fields previously considered uneconomic.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Repsol and Alliance Oil Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint exploration and production (E&P) venture that will serve as a growth platform for both companies in the Russian Federation, the world’s largest oil and gas producer. Repsol also owns a 74.9%

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MARCH 8, 2012

Exxon Mobil Corporation plans to invest approximately $185 billion over the next five years to develop new supplies of energy to meet expected growth in demand, Chairman and CEO Rex W. A total of 21 major oil and gas projects will begin production between 2012 and 2014. billion oil equivalent barrels.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Marubeni Corporation announced that Marubeni Eagle Ford Limited Partnership, a US subsidiary of Marubeni, has entered into an agreement with Dallas based Hunt Oil Company to acquire a 35% working interest in the Eagle Ford shale oil and gas play covering approximately 52,000 net acres of oil and gas leases located in Texas.

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JULY 13, 2012

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is providing C$46 million (US$45 million) in funding to support six new carbon capture and storage and cleaner technology projects in the Canadian oil sands region. Imperial Oil: $10 million for a Cyclic Solvent Process pilot in Cold Lake.

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JUNE 6, 2011

TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JULY 14, 2011

and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) have initiated exclusive negotiations for the commercial development of the company’s proprietary pyrolysis oil upgrading process to produce second-generation biofuels. Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its NExBTL renewable diesel refinery in the Port of Rotterdam. The start-up of the Rotterdam refinery took place in September 2011. The facility is capable of using Neste Oil’s wide feedstock base consisting of a variety of vegetable oils, by-products of vegetable oil refining (e.g.

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JUNE 4, 2013

billion, 8-year loan agreement with China Development Bank (CDB) for boosting production at the Sinovensa heavy oil joint venture in the Orinoco belt from 140,000 barrels per day to 330,000 barrels per day by 2016. China had originally agreed to the $6 billion in loans in late 2011. The Orinoco Oil Belt Assessment Unit of the La Luna?Quercual

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Shell, as operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), announced the successful start of production of a 100,000 barrels per day expansion of its oil sands operations in Canada. Construction for an expansion of the Scotford Upgrader is underway, and will come on-stream in 2011.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

China’s Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation will purchase of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Daylight Energy Ltd., a Canadian intermediate oil and liquids-rich natural gas producing company with a suite of resource assets in Western Canada, for approximately C$2.2

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

US-based Devon Energy Corporation has received regulatory approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water to move forward with the company’s third oil sands project in Canada. Like Jackfish 1 & 2, Jackfish 3 represents an estimated 300 million barrels of gross recoverable oil.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total. Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. The transaction is subject to certain regulatory and other approvals, with closing targeted late in the first quarter of 2011.

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JULY 20, 2011

an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC, will acquire oil sands producer OPTI Canada Inc for approximately US$2.1 The principal asset of OPTI consists of a 35% working interest in the Long Lake and three other oil sands project areas located in the Athabasca region of northeastern Alberta. CNOOC Luxembourg S.a

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JUNE 15, 2012

Russia’s Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed agreements jointly to develop tight oil reserves in Western Siberia and establish a joint Arctic Research Center for Offshore Developments. Greenlee, president of ExxonMobil Exploration Company. Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, Rex W. —Rosneft President Sechin.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a new oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Other Moccasin owners are BP, with 43.75% , and Samson Offshore Company, with 12.5%. The Keathley Canyon Block 736 Well No. 1 encountered more than 380 feet of net pay in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Sands.

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JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. kW renewable energy system being studied for potential commercialization by a combined team from Ad Astra Rocket Company, Cummins Inc.

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JULY 15, 2011

ConocoPhillips’ board of directors has approved pursuing the separation of the company’s Refining & Marketing and Exploration & Production businesses into two stand-alone, publicly traded corporations via a tax-free spin of the refining and marketing business to ConocoPhillips shareholders. Production in 2011 is projected to be 1.7

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DECEMBER 11, 2010

Canada-based MEG Energy’s board of directors has approved 2011 capital investment of approximately $900 million and the final cost estimate for the 35,000 barrels per day Phase 2B oil sands expansion at the Christina Lake in-situ project. The 2011 budget includes $80 to $90 million for core drilling and seismic.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

To be sited at Jie Yang City, Guangdong Province, the Nanhai refinery will be operational in early 2015, with a capacity to process 400,000 barrels of heavy and extra heavy crude oil per day (400 kbd) from the Orinoco Oil Belt. Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ) pegged Venezuela’s 2011 reserves at 211 billion barrels, up from 99.4

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APRIL 25, 2010

has built and delivered 12 dimethyl ether (DME) feed pumps to Shanghai Diesel Engine Company. The company developed this first generation feed pump several years ago and has sold units into Korea, to the Korean Institute for Energy Research, and to a European engine manufacturer. Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Italy-based oil and gas major Eni and PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela), the state-owned oil and gas corporation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, signed contracts for the creation of two joint ventures (Empresas Mixtas, Mixed Enterprises). billion barrels of oil equivalent). billion of net reserves. Schenk C.J.,

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MARCH 25, 2014

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has developed a world-first technology for recycling the copper contained in wiring harnesses, in collaboration with Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki), Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho), and eight other companies. Sample vehicle wiring harness. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation provided an update on its Horizontal Niobrara and Codell drilling program in the Wattenberg field (Wattenberg HZ) of northeastern Colorado. To date, the company is producing from 11 horizontal wells within the Wattenberg field boundaries, with each well achieving strong initial rates and high liquids yields.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

The California Air Resources Board announced nearly $1 million in penalties against 3 companies for late or inaccurate reporting of their greenhouse gas emissions for 2011. Southwest Gas Corporation of Las Vegas, NV has agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve its late report regarding natural gas supplied to California for the year 2011.

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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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AUGUST 31, 2011

million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI Research Board is an independent body established by BP to administer the company’s 10-year, $500 million commitment to independent research into the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident. Lead Investigator: Nancy N. Rabalais, Ph.D.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

TMO Renewables (TMO), a developer of second-generation biofuels technology, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the authorities of Heilongjiang, China, to secure long term large volume biomass feedstock supply for future biofuel production facilities from Heilongjiang State Farm, the largest state-owned farming corporation in China.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

Canada-based Osum Oil Sands Corp. The new shareholder group was led by KERN Partners and included Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and two large Canadian institutional investors, while existing major shareholders Warburg Pincus LLC and Blackstone Capital Partners participated for a significant portion of the financing.

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JULY 24, 2012

The Venezuelan national petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. PdVSA) has awarded Japan-based Toyo Engineering Corporation and its consortium partners Foster Wheeler AG (FW) and the Venezuelan engineering company Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción, C.A. (Y&V) This number represents a major upward revision from 99.4

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JUNE 16, 2012

The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016. The amount of electricity used to produce each vehicle in Ford’s manufacturing facilities has been reduced by about 800 kilowatt-hours—from 3,576 kWh in 2006 to 2,778 kWh in 2011. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

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MARCH 6, 2012

China Yuchai International Limited’s main operating subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited (GYMCL) has inaugurated a new project to develop and produce a full portfolio of natural gas powered engines to complement its existing suite of diesel engines. China’s 12 th Five-Year Plan targets natural gas to make up 8.3%

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JANUARY 19, 2012

China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) and Saudi Aramco recently signed the joint venture agreement related to the ongoing development of Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (YASREF) Limited, formerly the Red Sea Refining Company. Earlier post.). Sinopec will hold equity interest of 37.5% million square meters.

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APRIL 10, 2012

plans to take up to a 10% stake in alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel company Byogy Renewables Inc., Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment and Fuel Projects. In 2011, Byogy formed a strategic operating subsidiary in Sao Paulo Brazil, Byogy do Brasil Biocombustiveis Ltd., Bloomberg reports that Qatar Airways Ltd.

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MARCH 20, 2018

China Energy was established in November 2017 by the merger of Shenhua Group, a world-class energy company, and China’s power giant China Guodian Corporation. The company has been involved in more than 200 hydrogen fueling projects in more than 20 countries. Clean energy, including hydrogen, is a key focus of the Group.

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MAY 3, 2011

The companies have also signed a Testing and Optimization Agreement to optimize the compatibility of KiOR’s blendstocks with Chevron’s facilities. This is the second offtake agreement KiOR has signed for its Columbus, MS, facility, having announced an agreement with Hunt Refining Company in March of 2011. Earlier post.)

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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. Earlier post.).

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