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AUGUST 10, 2015

Schlumberger expanded its Gulf of Mexico multiclient wide-azimuth seismic data portfolio by launching a new survey in the Campeche Basin. Broadband 3D wide-azimuth survey designed and modeled based on in-depth understanding of the geological structure of the Gulf of Mexico. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

announced a major discovery on its Davy Jones ultra-deep prospect located in the Gulf of Mexico on South Marsh Island Block 230 in approximately 20 feet of water. The geologic results from this well are important and are redefining the subsurface geologic landscape below 20,000 feet on the Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

A newly released study—authorized by Congress and jointly funded and prepared by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River Basin states— projects water supply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas over the next 50 years.

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JULY 16, 2014

Shell announced its third major discovery in the Norphlet play in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the successful Rydberg exploration well. After more than 10 years of exploration activities in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, Shell continues to lead industry in exploring this Jurassic play. Norphlet play.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Water and oxygen are the only by-products. Audi notes that its e-gas project transcends the needs of the automobile industry and shows how large amounts of green electricity can be stored efficiently and independently of location by transforming it into methane gas and storing it in the natural gas network.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.)

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MAY 14, 2013

day research expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico with the best high-resolution seismic data and imagery yet obtained of sediments with high gas hydrate saturations. The water depth at the well is 6,562 feet (2,000 meters), and the red and blue colors shown within the image correspond to sediment layers, which mostly dip westward.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

France-based Technip is acquiring US-based Global Industries for $1.073 billion. Global Industries is a provider of subsea construction and pipelay, engineering, project management and support services. Technip says that the acquisition of Global Industries reinforces its position leadership in the fast-growing subsea market.

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MAY 4, 2010

Work has begun to drill a relief well to intercept and to isolate the deepwater oil well that is spilling oil in the US Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The new well, in 5,000 feet of water, is planned to intercept the existing well around 13,000 feet below the seabed and permanently seal it.

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JUNE 21, 2012

The US Department of the Interior held a 39-million acre lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Furthermore, the potential to use eFuels instead of hydrogen can provide a significantly lower total cost of ownership and allow for faster deployment of fuel cell technology across the industry. Fast Startup Time: Develop extremely stable fuel-cells that can start under nearly water-saturated conditions.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

will participate in a pilot-scale algae project to be funded by the Mexican government to demonstrate industrial algae production, paving the way for substantial investment by the Mexican government in large-scale jet fuels production. Algae technology company OriginOil, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

This is the first genetically modified output trait in corn for the ethanol industry. Enogen corn also reduces the energy and water consumed in the production process while substantially reducing carbon emissions. Syngenta has received full deregulation for its corn amylase trait from the US. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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MARCH 18, 2015

Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

In its latest Monday note, energy research company Douglas-Westwood wrote that the Exploration & Production industry (E&P), experiencing rising global hydrocarbon demand as well as rising costs, is facing the technical challenge of the development of High Pressure – High Temperature (HPHT) reserves.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

New research from a team at the University of Alberta, Canada, finds that Alberta’s oilsands industry is releasing more pollutants into the Athabasca River, its tributaries and its watershed than previously estimated. An open access article on their study was published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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JUNE 7, 2019

The BMW Group officially opened the company’s new automotive plant in San Luis Potosi in Mexico. We use innovative Industry 4.0 Various Industry 4.0 This digital job card is being used for the first time at the BMW Group plant in Mexico. Careful use of water resources is a primary sustainability objective.

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MARCH 3, 2023

This does seem to be the case with Gigafactory Mexico, as the facility will be sitting in a complex that’s far larger than the Giga Texas site. As per recent comments from a Mexico official on Thursday, Tesla’s planned factory in Nuevo Leon will be built on a site spanning almost 4,200 acres in an industrial zone.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s s (Shell) Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea.

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MAY 21, 2024

Drinking water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally , according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

BP) and ConocoPhillips Company (COP) to explore and to appraise jointly-held offshore leases in the emerging Paleogene trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Completing these agreements will enable BP to do three things that are at the core of our strategy in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

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APRIL 8, 2009

The foreground bar height indicates the EWe of each state, with the portion of ground and surface water indicated by color. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that its Shenandoah-2 well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico encountered more than 1,000 net feet of oil pay in multiple high-quality Lower Tertiary-aged reservoirs. The well was drilled to test the down-dip extent of the accumulation, and the targeted sands were full to base with no oil-water contact.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

ASA, which is responsible for all fuel management and airplane refueling operations in Mexico, together with Boeing made the announcement last week on the eve of the annual ALTA Aviation Leaders Forum, a gathering of more than 400 senior airline and aviation industry executives. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The Proposed Final Program offers 11 potential lease sales in four planning areas—10 sales in the portions of three Gulf of Mexico Program Areas that are not under moratorium and one sale off the coast of Alaska in the Cook Inlet Program Area. The vast majority of US offshore oil production occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Elon Musk noted during Tesla’s Q3 2023 earnings call that the company would seek to get a sense of the global economy before it goes full tilt on Gigafactory Mexico. Giga Mexico was announced earlier this year on Investor Day, but the facility is yet to formally begin its construction. We are doing it at the same time.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Honda and Black & Veatch have successfully tested the prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) at a Black & Veatch construction site in New Mexico. The vehicle carried payloads of nearly 900 pounds, and in a separate use case towed a trailer carrying more than 1,600 pounds.

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JUNE 14, 2009

The Gulf of Mexico is thus the first offshore area in the United States with enough information to identify gas hydrate energy resource targets with potential for gas production. Gas hydrates are a unique substance comprising natural gas (almost exclusively methane) in combination with water.

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

Audi is the first premium automobile manufacturer with product facilities in Mexico. Mexico is a powerhouse for automobiles and automotive components. The plant in Mexico is a milestone in the history of our company and an important step in our internationalization. The Audi site in San José Chiapa is 2,400 meters (1.5

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of up to $40 million, subject to appropriations, to design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected national wave energy testing facility. For context, approximately 90,000 homes can be powered by 1 TWh per year.

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JUNE 8, 2010

In the wake of the ongoing Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico, UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said that the UK Government will increase its inspection of drilling rigs and monitoring of offshore compliance and has asked a new oil industry group to report back on its findings on the UK’s ability to prevent and respond to oil spills.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The findings suggest that an aggressive nutrient management strategy will be needed to reach the goal of a 5,000 km 2 areal extent of hypoxia set forth by the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force even in the absence of biofuels, given current production to meet food, feed, and other industrial needs.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Halophytes thrive in arid land and can be irrigated with sea water, making them suitable for biofuel development; Abu Dhabi is thus a viable location for conducting a lifecycle-analysis study on the plants. Halophytes can be productive sources of biomass energy; for example, salicornia seed is 32% oil by mass. Global Seawater, Inc.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Verenium Corporation, a leading industrial biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes, has introduced VEREFLOW alpha-amylase, a unique enzyme for the removal of filter cake created by water-based mud containing starch and other polymers used in drilling operations.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

This hydrogen is currently sold back to refineries and other industries where it is used to remove impurities such as sulfur during the refining process. Captured CO 2 can be directed to industries that require it for production, such as steel, or that assimilate it, such as cement.

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APRIL 29, 2021

The nodule collection system consists of a collector head, jet water pumps and a collection drum, while sensors monitored the entire process. The CCZ is a six million square kilometer region of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii. The deep seabed minerals industry remains in the exploration, research and development phase.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Even though crude production last October had recovered from precautionary platform shut-ins in the Gulf of Mexico in the face of hurricanes Gustav and Ike last September, output levels then were still lower than this October’s by nearly 15%. Crude production from the Lower 48 states averaged 4.67 API Statistics Manager Ron Planting.

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