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AUGUST 25, 2011

During drilling, when the pressure applied to balance the hydrocarbon pressure in a well is not great enough to overcome that exerted by gas and fluids in the rock formation drilled, then water, gas, oil, or other formation fluid can enter the hole. This is called a “gas kick,” which in worst-case scenarios can lead to blowouts.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States.

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MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production. Report 2011-5210, 45 p. and OCS Study BOEM 2011–016. Lorenson, T.D., Rosenbauer, R.J., Campbell, P.L.,

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The authors are: Arun Majumdar, a Jay Precourt Professor and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and lead author of the commentary. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. An H 2 economy already exists, but it involves lots of greenhouse gas emissions.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

A new study by economists at Oregon State University questions the cost-effectiveness of current biofuels and says they would barely reduce fossil fuel use and would likely increase greenhouse gas emissions. They evaluated the biofuels in terms of their contribution to reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.

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JUNE 20, 2011

billion in 2011 to $98.5 The 2011 award winners are: Greener synthetic pathways: Genomatica, San Diego, Calif. Genomatica has been producing BDO at pilot scale in 3,000 liter fermentations since the first half of 2010, and is moving to production at demonstration scale in 2011. billion by 2020. per million Btu.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … Gas Technology Institute. Northeastern University.

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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%. in contact with an oil phase rather than a water or gas phase. The key problem in applying CO 2.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station.

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JUNE 15, 2013

Of particular interest to MARAD is the use of natural gas (LNG or CNG) as a marine propulsion fuel. MARAD has been partnering with other government agencies, industry, and academia to determine the feasibility and likelihood of using natural gas as a propulsion fuel in the maritime sector. Bunkering study. Infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) or landfill gas. Using green power accelerates the development of new renewable energy capacity nationwide and helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector. 2018 target.

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JUNE 23, 2011

The recuperated engine uses isothermal compression via cryogenic injection to enable significant exhaust to compressed gas heat transfer. Ricardo and the University of Brighton will model and evaluate an advanced split-cycle combustion system aimed at substantially reducing the carbon emissions of heavy-duty vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. magnitude Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011, setting off the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This mechanical device automatically closes natural gas lines when a significant earthquake strikes.

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APRIL 30, 2015

In 2011, the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded $2.7 million to a team comprising researchers from the University of Utah, HRL Laboratories and GM Global R&D for a project to develop a new generation of high-density thermal battery based on advanced metal hydrides. Earlier post.) In the video, Dr. John J.

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MARCH 17, 2011

AE Keyes expects to restart the Keyes plant and be fully operational by late April 2011. AE Biofuels intends to introduce its patent-pending enzyme-based cellulosic ethanol technology at the Keyes facility and other California ethanol plants in 2011. 1 positive energy balance and near zero water discharge, according to the company.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

The CO peak observed by gas chromatography as a. Gas phase CO production is observed at an. formation is very negative in water and in most common solvents. Dioxide Materials, the university Research Park, was founded by retired chemical engineering professor Richard Masel. OC = open cell). applied potential of 1.5V—i.e.,

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland.

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MAY 26, 2015

using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 27, 2012

This would increase the annual carbon emission to somewhere between 380 and 920 Mt CO 2 e by 2020 depending on water management practices and the extent of plantations. which found that from 2008-2011 69% of palm oil conversion occurred at the expense of peat, even despite the introduction of a moratorium in 2011. GCB Bioenergy.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Analysis by researchers at Rice University suggests that the theory that the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago drove a massive climate change incident—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is quite possible. Guangsheng Gu, Gerald R. Colwell, George J.

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MARCH 13, 2015

It is estimated that for every penny gas goes down, consumers collectively save $1 billion. Columbia and Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas says it has: “No question we’re seeing the effects of lower oil prices throughout the economy.”.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Seeo is targeting the production of a total of 1,000 cells with optimized power and energy by December 2011, with final pack design by June 2012. University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Excelsior expects that the COGD process could result in significantly improved bitumen economics through both enhanced recovery gains—about 50% more than with SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage)—and substantial reductions in the amount of required water, fuel gas and diluent.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

The 21,500 tonne hull was launched in 2010, although construction work was frozen in mid-2011 amid bankruptcy proceedings against the shipyard. The concept takes advantage of two mature technologies: light-water nuclear reactors and offshore oil and gas drilling platforms.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team earlier published LCA results finding that terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental life cycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location. environmental burdens (net energy use, water use, and GHG) per VKT.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University (China) are developing a new pathway—catalytic hydrothermal decarboxylation—to produce liquid hydrocarbon (i.e., Moreover, H 2 is made primarily from steam reforming of natural gas and CO 2 is the byproduct. —Fu et al. —Fu et al.

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JUNE 12, 2011

regional water supplies. Runoff from winter snowpack accounts for 60% to 80% of the annual water supply for more than 70 million people living in the western United States. This study supports research by others estimating that between 30–60% of the declines in the late 20 th century are likely due to greenhouse gas emissions.

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JUNE 6, 2011

The extraction of bitumen from mined oils sands produces enormous volumes of tailings—a slurry of slightly alkaline water, sand, silt, clay, and residual hydrocarbons—that are stored in settling basins; the current inventory is about 840 million m 3. —Siddique et al. Tariq Siddique, Tara Penner, Kathleen Semple, Julia M.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

A team from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, reports on an improved material for capturing carbon dioxide from the air—silica?organic It is now widely accepted that anthropogenic CO 2 , due to its role as a greenhouse gas, is the major contributor to climate change.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. .

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MAY 2, 2011

The optimized photo-electrochemical water splitting device uses light absorbers made of silicon arranged in closely packed pillars, dotted with tiny clusters of the new molybdenum sulfide catalyst. Damsgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Ole Hansen, Technical University of Denmark. Image courtesy of Christian D. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5 Energy Environ.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Unfavourable mixtures of liquid fuels, water and air lead to degradation by local hot spots in the sensitive catalysts and to formation of unwanted by-products in the reformer. NPS acquired licensing rights to the cool flame reformer technology developed at RWTH Aachen University in the late 1990s. —Hartmann et al.

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JULY 16, 2014

It includes a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, an electric water pump, a low-friction distribution chain, an intake manifold made of a composite material and a compact exhaust manifold. Between 2011—the year that the 3 rd generation Yaris was launched—and 2013, Yaris’ B-segment market share rose from 4.2

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