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Petrobras starts production from South America’s first tension leg wellhead platform

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Moored in waters 1,200 m (3,937 feet) deep, the P-61 completes the production system for the Papa Terra field, operating alongside the P-63 FPSO (floating production storage and offloading), commissioned on 11 November 2013. Tension leg platforms (TLPs) are buoyant production facilities vertically moored to the seafloor by tendons.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989.

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State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

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As part of the analysis, DOS commissioned a detailed study of greenhouse gas life-cycle emissions that compared Canadian oil sands crude with other selected reference crudes. This range is equivalent to annual greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of fuels in 588,000 to 4,061,000 passenger vehicles.

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EIA: China’s use of methanol in liquid fuels has grown rapidly since 2000; >500K bpd in 2016

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The sectoral analysis of energy use suggested that previous data for liquid fuel use in China’s transportation sector were underestimated. Methanol, like ethanol, is an alcohol with inherent issues such as its solubility in water and corrosiveness. Methanol in China.

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Volkswagen Group 2014 sustainability report shows progress on key environmental performance indicators; Strategy 2018 and leadership in e-mobility

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The largest sales market for the Volkswagen Group is the Asia-Pacific region, followed by Western Europe, North America, South America and Central and Eastern Europe. Scope 2: Greenhouse gas emissions in CO 2 equivalents created during the generation of purchased energy (electricity, heat or steam). By 2018, “Think Blue.

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World Bank report examines likely impacts and risks associated with a 4 °C global warming within this century

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Without further commitments and action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the world is likely to warm by more than 3 °C above the preindustrial climate. Tropical South America, central Africa, and all tropical islands in the Pacific are likely to regularly experience heat waves of unprecedented magnitude and duration.

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Rice University Study and Policy Paper Find US Biofuels Policies Flawed, Recommend Fundamental Overhaul

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The research report provides an overview of some of the environmental, logistical, and economic challenges to a broader expansion of biofuels in the US transportation fuel system, and also offers a broad range of policy recommendations to avoid some of the negative unintended consequences of implementing the goal.

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