This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Dürr has built a high-tech paint shop for Ford in Hermosillo, Mexico, in order to accommodate a new vehicle that Ford will be producing. The project in Hermosillo represents the largest order that Ford has given to Dürr in Mexico. The system allows for paint separation without the use of water or chemicals.
Ford Motor Company is the first automaker and one of several companies taking a leadership position in joining the Water Disclosure Project , which will establish a water disclosure protocol for companies around the world and promote conservation and stewardship. For the past decade, Ford has made it a priority to conserve water.
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 watersupply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas over the next 50 years.
for deep water umbilical projects in the Gulf of Mexico that could be worth as much as $300 million in total. and Nexans for the Gulf of Mexico, which ran from 2002 to 2008. The umbilicals for the Gulf of Mexico will be designed and manufactured at Nexans’ specialized facility in Halden, Norway.
A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments.
Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5
Ford Motor Company is furthering its commitment to aggressively step up water conservation programs at its global facilities and among the company’s suppliers, according to its 15 annual Sustainability Report, released today. Plans are under way to further cut water use by another 2% this year and to set new long-term goals.
Water and oxygen are the only by-products. In return, this plant supplies the highly concentrated CO 2 required as a basic building block for the e-gas. In parallel with the e-gas plant in Werlte, Audi also operates a research facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA, for the production of e-ethanol and e-diesel in collaboration with Joule.
The projected water year 2021 unregulated inflow into Lake Powell—the amount that would have flowed to Lake Mead, the reservoir created by Hoover Dam, without the benefit of storage behind Glen Canyon Dam—is approximately 32% of average. Lake Powell water elevation. Under this tier, Lake Powell will release 7.48
General Motors plans to reduce water intensity of its operations by 35% by 2035, compared to a 2010 baseline, which could result in enough savings to fill about 4,254 Olympic-sized swimming pools. While GM’s operations are not water-intensive, water is required for some manufacturing processes.
Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 The use of renewable energy sources will ensure that the plant is supplied with 100% CO 2 -free electricity. Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí. production.
Tesla landed on a large plot of land in Santa Catarina, Mexico, in the State of Nuevo Leon, for its first Gigafactory in the country. However, the property was almost a Six Flags amusement park well before Tesla had even thought about Mexico, before it had built a Model 3, and before it was even financially stable.
Tesla Gigafactory Mexico will receive $153 million worth of incentives from Nuevo León as state officials seek to temper concerns about delays in the new factory. Nuevo León’s state economic development council approved Tesla Giga Mexico’s incentives, which include the buildout of basic infrastructure like roads and water treatment.
A new satellite study finds more than 75% of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the watersupply of the western United States than previously thought. This is a lot of water to lose.
A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the “dead zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record. Dead zone visualization. Credit: NOAA.
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.
Tesla Gigafactory Mexico will build the company’s next-generation vehicle. During Investor Day 2023, Elon Musk confirmed Gigafactory Mexico’s location and Tesla’s plans for the new production facility. The Tesla CEO elaborated that Gigafactory Mexico will focus on building the company’s next-gen vehicle.
This year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone is smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square miles. However the dead zone, which is usually limited to water just above the sea floor, was severe where it did occur, extending closer to the water surface than in most years. Deadzone on July 27, 2009. Credit: LUMCON. Click to enlarge.
Tesla is expected to deliver a letter of intent on Friday, September 15, to formally start the installation and buildout of Gigafactory Mexico. “On Through his personal Instagram, the Governor of Nuevo León, Samuel Garcia Sepulveda teased Tesla’s move to submit a letter of intent for Giga Mexico. Based on Gov. In April, Gov.
The BMW Group officially opened the company’s new automotive plant in San Luis Potosi in Mexico. 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. The water needed for the painting process is reconditioned and reused.
GE Oil & Gas will supply three customized aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules to provide reliable electric power for a new Chevron floating production unit that will produce oil and gas from the Jack and St. The LM2500+G4. The LM2500+G4 is rated at 36.3 MW power output. It ramps to full power output from cold metal in 10 minutes.
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) made final investment decision (FID) to advance the Appomattox deep-water development in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Appomattox project is located 80 miles offshore (129 kilometers) from the nearest shoreline in Louisiana, in approximately 7,200 feet (2,195 meters) of water.
Honda and Black & Veatch have successfully tested the prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) at a Black & Veatch construction site in New Mexico. The vehicles successfully delivered materials and supplies along a calculated route and proved capable of stopping within centimeters of the pre-set points.
Tesla Giga Mexico’s construction is still moving forward, shared Nuevo León’s Secretary of Economy. Rivas added that Tesla and Nuevo León are currently discussing incentives related to Giga Mexico. Incentives will also help build bridges around Tesla Giga Mexico, making entering and leaving the premises easier.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 14 new research projects that will be a part of an expanding portfolio of projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates’ potential as a future energy supply. University of Mississippi. Fugro GeoConsulting, Inc. 286,000.
Tesla’s preferred choice for its potentially-upcoming vehicle production plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has one major roadblock if the automaker eventually lands there: water. ” López Obrador also said earlier this week that Tesla could run into issues building in Nuevo Leon as water is scarce in the area.
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.) General Director of ASA Gilberto López Meyer.
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.
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
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.
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.
At its site in San José Chiapa, Mexico, the company is using a new water treatment process that collects 100 percent of the wastewater produced there, purifies it and feeds large volumes of clean water back into the plant’s watersupply system. This measure brings us closer to that goal.
Tesla is considering options outside of Nuevo Leon for a potential production facility in Mexico as concerns with energy supply by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) have established potential barriers for the location. ” AIFA is the Felipe Angeles International Airport near Mexico City.
Trade-off analysis map showing the available and least expensive water option for each site. Sites where watersupply costs are. Achieving larger production volumes would require the utilization of less water-efficient sites and relatively expensive saline waters, they suggested. —Erik Venteris, first author.
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.
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.
In addition, Linde will supply all of the CO 2 to Sapphire’s commercial demonstration facility in Columbus, New Mexico. To produce algal oil, or “green crude” at the scale to meet growing demand, we need great partners who can supply sufficient and low cost access to CO 2.
Tesla is aiming to start construction on its new factory in Mexico later this month as it is already awaiting final permits and could start building its first vehicles at the plant as soon as early 2024, officials said. It could be twice the size of its already-massive facility just outside Austin, known as Gigafactory Texas.
In addition, oil sands imports could ultimately increase to a range of 20% to 36% of US oil and refined product imports by 2030 from the 2009 level of 8%, according to the Dialogue ’s first report, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply. Also certain fields in the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East have comparable GHG emissions. —“The
A new, University of Georgia-led study—the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge— found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean. —Samantha Joye.
The MOU comes on the heels of an upcoming newly developed policy for the Navajo Nation—one that intends to protect the energy, natural resources and assets of the nation, create a self-sustaining economic future, and supply Navajo communities with the benefits afforded by energy development through total resource sovereignty.
Just last week, it seemed like Tesla had finally narrowed down the location where it would be building its newest facility in Mexico. That consideration may have changed as the Mexican president discouraged the automaker, arguing the State may not have the necessary water resources. The Northern State of Nuevo Leon is close to the U.S.
Only four of the current major oil producing countries (more than 1 mbpd of production capacity) face a net reduction of their production capacity by 2020: Norway, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Iran. In Iran and Mexico, the loss of production is primarily due to political factors. shale oil production.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content