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Concept of the subsea oil recovery system. BP is working to deploy a subsea oil recovery system over the largest leak source in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon Rig that it hopes will capture up to 85% of the oil rising from the sea floor following the sinking of Deepwater Horizon on 22 April. Not to scale. Click to enlarge.
gigawatt hours (GWh) of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels across multiple projects, with the first project slated for 500 megawatt hours (MWh) in Louisiana. DG Fuels expects to complete its Louisiana SAF project by mid-2022. The Louisiana facility is the company’s first major project.
Beaudreau announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales. Lease Sale 231 in the Central Planning Area and Lease Sale 225 in the Eastern Planning Area will be held consecutively in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 19 March 2014.
million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Investigator: Nancy N.
General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. Heritage Environmental managed the collection of boom material along the Louisiana coast. Click to launch.
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. million acres on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
billion, 180 million gallon per year SAF facility in Louisiana to occur in early 2024. The Louisiana SAF facility will be the template for multiple other such facilities to be built across North America, Europe and Asia. The relatively modest balance of the maximum $30-million capital raise is expected to fund in the next few months.
Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Oil from the Cardamom subsea development (100% Shell) is piped through Shell’s Auger platform. —Marvin Odum.
The basic New Oil process. Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. Click to enlarge.
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Projections are that the oil slick will reach Louisiana shoreline areas today. The oil and gas blowing out of the well ignited, causing the platform to catch fire. The well began spilling oil at a rate of 10,000 to 30,000 barrels per day. Earlier post.) IXTOC I: 3 Jun 1979 to 23 Mar 1980. IXTOC I well blowout.
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. billion barrels of oil and 3.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. in previous Central lease sales.
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Heckmann Corporation, a water solutions company focused on water issues worldwide and, in particular, oil and natural gas exploration and production, is teaming up with Encana Natural Gas Inc., Heckmann Corporation was created to buy and build companies in the water sector.
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BP will fund research to examine topics including: Where are the oil, the dispersed oil, and the dispersant going under the action of ocean currents? How do oil, the dispersed oil and the dispersant behave on the seabed, in the water column, on the surface, and on the shoreline?
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Work will now begin on the piping system that will bring the oil to the surface for collection; this method has never been tried at this depth before. CDT), continued to show a large, rainbow sheen with areas of emulsified crude, now approximately 16 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Tags: Oil.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.
the owner of the drilling rig Deepwater Horion, agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) and to pay a total of $1.4 and related entities were filed in US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana. and related entities were filed in US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. 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.
Planned feedstocks include a mix of waste fats, oils and greases, including regionally-sourced vegetable oils, animal fats and used cooking oil. This includes REG Geismar, a 75-million-gallon nameplate capacity plant located in Louisiana that was the first renewable diesel plant built in North America.
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These projects are to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of non-conventional geothermal energy technologies in three research areas: low temperature fluids, geothermal fluids recovered from oil and gas wells, and highly pressurized geothermal fluids. Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product.
EO28), were identified in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water using a new application of the Kendrick mass defect and liquid chromatography/ quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Surfactants reduce the surface tension between water and oil, allowing for more oil to be extracted from porous rock underground.
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Big Foot will be Chevron’s sixth operated facility in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and located approximately 225 miles (360 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 5,200 feet (1,600 m). First oil is anticipated in 2014. Chevron, through its subsidiary Chevron USA Inc.,
USDA has reached an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank to provide a $91-million Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee to Cool Planet to help the company finish construction on an advanced biofuel plant at the Port of Alexandria in Louisiana. Earlier post.). The main catalysts are proprietary modified ZSM-5 catalysts.
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Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) made a final investment decision in the Stones ultra-deepwater project, a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas development expected to host the deepest production facility in the world. The Stones field has significant upside potential and is estimated to contain more than 2 billion boe of oil in place, according to Shell.
Used as a soil amendment, its CoolTerra biochar product also increases crop productivity and plant health while reducing water and fertilizer requirements. This excess carbon is highly porous and has beneficial water and nutrient retaining capabilities.
Renewable diesel is a 100% hydrocarbon renewable fuel produced by hydrotreating fats and oils; it can be used in existing diesel engines without modification. The renewable diesel used by NYC will be produced domestically by Renewable Energy Group (REG) and will be distributed by Sprague Energy. from the intermediate renewable hydrocarbons.
The study found that many problems ascribed to hydraulic fracturing are related to processes common to all oil and gas drilling operations, such as casing failures or poor cement jobs. Other findings from the Energy Institute study include: Natural gas found in water wells within some shale gas areas (e.g., Earlier post.).
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Malo oil production platform in the Paleogene/Lower Tertiary on time and on budget. The Gila discovery was made by an exploration well on Keathley Canyon Block 93, about 300 miles (483 km) southwest of New Orleans, in approximately 4,900 feet (1,494 meters) of water. Malo project. – Gila. – – Gibson.
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