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APRIL 24, 2024

Southeast New Mexico isn’t always an easy place to visit in an EV. The big thing is that it’s oil country, just like west Texas (a place that’s separated from southeast NM by nothing but an imaginary line). Until just very recently, it was a total EV dead zone, even.

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JULY 5, 2023

HF Sinclair selected Topsoe as a technology provider for the production of renewable fuels at three facilities: Sinclair, Wyoming; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Artesia, New Mexico. Through its subsidiaries, it operates seven complex refineries with a total processing capacity of 678,000 barrels per day of crude oil.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 This estimate is for continuous (unconventional) oil, and consists of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources.

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JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Under the agreement, Tesoro will purchase crude oil from Sapphire Energy’s Green Crude Farm in Columbus, New Mexico, which recently reached a new milestone: continuous cultivation and crude oil production. Furthermore, the process is scalable, and has proven to be effective with a wide range of algae strains.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

In its latest edition of the Short-Term Energy Outlook , the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that US crude oil production will average 10.3 EIA also forecasts that 2019 crude oil production will rise further to an average of 10.8 US crude oil production averaged an estimated 9.3 million b/d set in 1970.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

HollyFrontier Corporation, an independent petroleum refiner and marketer that produces high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other specialty products, plans to construct a new renewable diesel unit (RDU) at its Artesia, New Mexico refinery (Navajo Refinery).

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JULY 16, 2013

and The Linde Group will expand their partnership to commercialize a new industrial-scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into crude oil. Today, this Green Crude Farm is operating year-round and producing barrels of crude oil daily. Sapphire Energy, Inc.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Five states (Texas, North Dakota, California, Alaska, and Oklahoma) and the Gulf of Mexico supplied more than 80%, or 6 million barrels per day, of the crude oil (including lease condensate) produced in the United States in 2013, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Click to enlarge. million barrels per day.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

one of the world leaders in algae-based “Green Crude” oil production, and Phillips 66, an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, have entered a strategic joint development agreement aimed at taking production of algae crude oil a significant step toward commercialization. San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc.,

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JUNE 27, 2018

A GlobalData analysis of recent wells for 26 operators in the Permian basin indicates a break-even oil price range from US$21 to US$48 per barrel with lateral lengths ranging from 4,500 ft to 10,500 ft. All 26 operators included in this analysis have new wells that break-even below a price of US$50 per barrel.

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JULY 23, 2024

This is a one-owner car with 151K miles and the seller has run synthetic oil over the years. If you want to be, wait for it, Legend-ary, click here to see this Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Acura. There is Bluetooth and the car has A/C and power windows. It appears the only flaw is that the body "needs some love".

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MARCH 5, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year, with accompanying disposal costs of about $5 billion per year. Fracking refers to the process of injecting a slurry of water, sand and chemicals into wells to increase the amount of oil and natural gas produced by the well.

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MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This image shows a methane plume 2 miles (3 kilometers) long that NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission detected southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. kilometers) long southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the Permian Basin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Sapphire Energy, a leading producer of crude oil from algae, and Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) announced a strategic partnership to further the research and development of algae biofuels. Today, the company has pioneered much of the science along the algae-to-energy value chain from biology, cultivation, harvest and extraction.

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JULY 23, 2018

The Permian Basin in West Texas is considered one of the largest hydrocarbon resources in the world, covering 86,000 square miles and encompassing 52 counties in New Mexico and Texas. Current oil production is approximately 2.4

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

An average of 520,000 b/d of distillate fuel oil was consumed on the West Coast in 2021.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

The agreement, which is subject to XTO stockholder approval and regulatory clearance, will enhance ExxonMobil’s position in the development of unconventional natural gas and oil resources. XTO is a US producer engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and development of quality, long-lived oil and natural gas properties in the United States.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Exxon Mobil Corporation will more than double its Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent through the acquisition of companies owned by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, with an estimated resource of 3.4 growth area for onshore oil production. ExxonMobil will make an upfront payment of $5.6

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JULY 30, 2013

million loan guarantee through the Biorefinery Assistance Program, administered by the USDA Rural Development-Cooperative Service, to build a fully integrated, algae-to-crude oil commercial demonstration facility in Columbus, New Mexico. 2009, the company was awarded a $54.5-million

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi has committed to developing much needed infrastructure to collect and pressurize CO 2 for injection in permanent geological storage formations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has corporate offices in San Antonio, Houston and Monterrey, Mexico.

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MARCH 26, 2014

The new Lobos Pipeline will have an initial capacity of 300 million standard cubic feet per day and will support current and future enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects owned by Kinder Morgan and other operators in the Permian Basin of West Texas and eastern New Mexico.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Researchers at the University of New Mexico found in a study of the catalytic conversion of Camelina Sativa oil to biodiesel through both conventional heating and microwave radiation that the microwave-heating method consumed less than 10% of the energy to achieve the same yield as the conventional heating method. Prafulla D.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. Partners include the New Mexico Consortium, University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Current products include gas oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum coke. Although the existing refinery has a maximum rated crude processing capacity of 70,000 bpd, due to a 2008 bankruptcy of the prior owner, crude oil refining was temporarily suspended. the routes over which the crude oil will be transported.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Algae-based crude oil producer Sapphire Energy, Inc., As a result of this agreement, Sapphire Energy will improve its operational efficiency by expanding the range of strain choices available for producing Sapphire Energy’s Green Crude—a drop-in replacement for petroleum-based crude oil—that can be refined into diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline.

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JULY 22, 2011

Under the new agreement, Whiting will purchase 80 million cubic feet (80,000 Mcf/d) of compressed CO 2 per day from TCEP—representing approximately 60% of TCEP’s total volume of captured CO 2 —during the first five years of TCEP’s operation, with gradually declining amounts and an option to extend the purchases thereafter.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

million gallons per year of crude oil and consist of approximately 300 acres of algae cultivation ponds and processing facilities. Sapphire Energy partnered with AMEC Project Engineering, who coordinated with 16 New Mexico-based contractors, to complete the first phase of the Green Crude Farm during 12 months of active construction.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Based in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii Bioenergy will develop a cost-effective photosynthetic open pond system to produce algal oil. Sapphire Energy ($5 million DOE investment): Headquartered in San Diego, California, Sapphire Energy will develop a new process to produce algae-based fuel that is compatible with existing refineries.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When a geologist looks for new oil reserves, we typically go back to geologic targets where we know oil was targeted and produced previously, and in a well file, we call those targets the producing or completion formations.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

LLNL and the Navajo Nation plan to collaborate in an array of areas including energy security; carbon sequestration; coal gasification; shale gas; enhanced oil recovery; wind, geothermal and solar; environmental studies and other areas. —Steve Grey, program manager at LLNL.

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MAY 11, 2011

The Linde Group and algal-based crude oil and algal fuels developer Sapphire Energy, Inc. In addition, Linde will supply all of the CO 2 to Sapphire’s commercial demonstration facility in Columbus, New Mexico. The need for new sources of fuel as dependency on oil becomes more and more problematic is clear.

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APRIL 2, 2012

Algae-based green crude oil producer Sapphire Energy, Inc. This round of funding is being used to directly support Sapphire Energy’s active and on-schedule commercial demonstration in Luna County, New Mexico. secured the final tranche of a $144-million Series C investment funding. All major Series B investors have participated.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

Alon owns four crude oil refineries in Texas, California, Louisiana and Oregon, with an aggregate crude oil throughput capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels per day. Alon USA Energy, Inc., Alon markets gasoline and diesel products under the FINA brand name and is a leading producer of asphalt.

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JUNE 5, 2010

For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. In parallel, scientists are also working to develop technology to effectively extract the oil.

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