Automotive suppliers will quality check more than 300 million airbag-inflator systems using sophisticated helium- and hydrogen-based leak-detection technology in 2015. Frontal airbags have reduced fatalities in frontal crashes by up to 25 ...
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UK-listed independent producer Afren Tuesday said it planned to begin further development drilling at its Nigerian offshore Ebok, Okwok and Okoro oil fields in the third quarter in a bid to bolster oil reserves and production. ...
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UNSW Australia researchers have invented a new type of tiny lab-on-a-chip device that could have a diverse range of applications, including to detect toxic gases, fabricate integrated circuits and screen biological molecules. The novel ...
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Russian gas giant Gazprom has sent the first cargo with crude produced at the Prirazlomnoye offshore field -- the country's only Arctic offshore hydrocarbon project -- to the international market, the company said Friday. "ARCO, or Arctic ...
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The ISO 14064 standard (published in 2006) is part of the ISO 14000 series of International Standards for environmental management. The ISO 14064 standard provides governments, businesses, regions and other organisations with a ...
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A hefty snowpack in most parts of Colorado heading into spring is good news for state hay growers, says Tess Norvell, reporter with USDA-Colorado Department of Agriculture Market News in Greeley. “We’ll get river run-off and ...
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Recent progress at shale gas projects operated by China's state-owned giants Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. suggest the country is on track to meet the 2015 production target set by the central government, analysts said Monday. ...
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China's shale gas industry could soon be entering its boom years. Thanks to the top two oil and gas giants - China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec Group - the nation's shale gas output soared from 25 million cubic meters in 2012 to ...
The first hay harvest of 2014 is months away in most parts of the country. But an extended and apparently deepening drought throughout the far West – which has helped keep hay prices high – has many hay growers there on edge ...
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(Phys.org)—In 2012,a team of physicists from Germany proposed a scheme for realizing a nanoscale heat engine composed of a single ion.Like a macroscale heat engine,the theoretical nanoscale version can convert heat into mechanical ...
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Snowpack west of the Continental Divide is looking bleak. However, the east side of the divide has snowpack at or above average, better than it has in years. According to reports by the USDA’s Natural Resources and Conservation ...
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Argentina's YPF increased oil production 3.4% in 2013 from 2012 at blocks it operates in the country, helping the state-run energy company recover from a decade-long decline, it said Monday. Natural gas production rose 2.2% over the same ...
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Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM listed oil and gas exploration, development and production company focused on Europe, is pleased to announce it has received notification from the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
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Monday, Jan 13, 2014 Husky Energy (TSX:HSE) has sanctioned two new heavy oil thermal projects in Saskatchewan, which will deliver a total of 20,000 barrels per day (bbls/day) of production. Engineering is underway with construction of the ...
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HRT Participa??es em Petróleo SA (the "Company" or "HRT") (BM&FBOVESPA: HRTP3, TSX-V: HRP), together with its subsidiary, HRT O&G Explora??o e Produ??o de Petróleo Ltda. ("HRT O&G"), reports that it was concluded on January ...
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