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US Treasury allows Chevron to resume oil production in Venezuela, delivery to US only

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from receiving profits from the oil sales by Chevron. Chevron is one of the leading private oil companies in Venezuela; its legacy dates back to the Boscán Field discovery in the 1920s. interest in Petroindependencia, which includes the Carabobo 3 extra heavy oil project (4° to 16° API) located in three blocks in the Orinoco Belt.

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Fuel economy measures could cut Commonwealth countries’ cumulative oil bill by US$3.2T through 2050

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Commonwealth countries can cut their cumulative oil bill by £2 trillion (US$3.2 Given that about half the Commonwealth’s and world’s oil is used in transport and oil accounts for about 95% of transport fuel use, this could spell economic disaster for the oil importing countries which make up the vast majority of the Commonwealth.

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Canada Launches Heavy Oil Working Group to Promote Cleaner Fossil Fuels

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The Government of Canada has established a Heavy Oil Working Group. Comprising countries such as Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela, the Heavy Oil Working Group will collaborate on clean energy research to reduce the impact of fossil fuel development. Minister Paradis.

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MCW Energy Group: successful initial testing of extraction of up to 99.9% of hydrocarbon content from oil sands tailings pond samples

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MCW Energy Group, a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction technology, announced successful results of processing random Alberta oil sands tailings ponds samples in a series of preliminary laboratory tests. Clean up and remedial fees from oil companies and/or governments.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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The resulting methanol would be blended with crude and transported via the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to Valdez, where it would be extracted from the oil and processed via Methanol-to-Gasoline technology into gasoline. Janus subsidiary acquiring Eastman methanol plant. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues.

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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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Anglo-Australian BHP Group is merging its oil and gas business with Woodside Petroleum Ltd. On 5 August, the BHP Board approved US$544 million in capital expenditure to execute the Shenzi North oil project in the US Gulf of Mexico. 2P reserves of more than 2 billion boe comprising 59% gas, and 41% liquids.

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Using new seismic imaging technique, BP finds significant additional resources in the Gulf of Mexico

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As a result of this early success, BP now is deploying this technique to fields elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico as well as in Azerbaijan, Angola, and Trinidad and Tobago. The subsurface property models that are created by FWI are used to create high quality and high resolution images of oil and gas reservoirs.

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