A top energy watchdog forecast the U.S. will bypass Russia in the production of liquid fuels--everything from crude and gasoline to biofuels like ethanol--solidifying America's growing importance in global energy markets. The ...
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Protecting pipelines from the damaging effects of corrosion is an essential requirement for many offshore or onshore oil and gas installations, where if left unchecked can cause leakage, failure and in extreme cases, result in expensive ...
Toshiba Corp. says it has successfully tested a first-of-its-kind combustor to be used in a thermal power generation system that produces low-cost electricity and little-to-no air emissions. Step-by-step testing of the new combustor was ...
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The regulatory measures to reduce greenhouse gases are creating a billion dollar per year market for CO2 mitigation equipment and services. However, the amount to be spent for sequestration will be far less than for improving efficiency of ...
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Production of light, sweet crudes from unconventional oil fields in the US is ramping up so fast that at some point it will outpace the country's refining capacity and -- at least for the Gulf Coast -- this could occur within two years, a ...
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Kuwait will increase its oil production capacity to about 3.6 million b/d by 2022, according to a study by the emirate's Diplomatic Center for Strategic Studies (DCSS). The official KUNA news agency reported Wednesday that the study said ...
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The newly appointed managing director of Kuwait's Petrochemical Industry Company), which is at the center of a political crisis over a $2.2 billion compensation payment to Dow Chemical, has said that implementation of a number of planned ...
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Pressure sensors from American Sensor Technologies (AST) are serving as components in a remote monitoring system that ensures optimal operations of safety trailers used on remote sites as emergency first aid stations. Mining, ...
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The rapid pace of new US crude production has traders scrambling to assess constantly moving crude differentials as supporting infrastructure grows and changes the dynamics. Not long ago, there was too much crude in Cushing, Oklahoma, the ...
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The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, the peak industry group which represents the major producers offshore Norway, said Thursday a proposed tax being considered by the government could led to a decline in production and urged it to ...
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Royal Dutch Shell, Japan's Mitsubishi and Iraqi state-owned South Gas Company have launched a long-delayed project to capture and market gas from some of Iraq's biggest oil fields, Shell said Wednesday, adding that it would be the largest ...
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Chinese oil and gas producer PetroChina Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601857 and SEHK: 0857) has not made a final decision on whether to participate in an auction Iraq plans to hold for the Nassiriya oil field on December 19 this year. The Iraqi ...
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Shell said it reduced by 50% the volume of oil spills from its onshore operations in Nigeria's Niger Delta in 2012 compared with the previous year, but that oil theft from the company's facilities remain a long-term challenge. "The volume ...
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BP has a portfolio of 45 major upstream projects that it wants to focus on to 2020, company CEO Bob Dudley said Thursday, following the company's unprecedented $38 billion asset sell-off program in the wake of the Macondo oil spill in 2010. ...
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Abakan, who develops and manufactures advanced nano-composite materials, innovative fabricated metal products and engineered metal composites has signed MOU with Cone S.A. to build a manufacturing plant to fit four-line clad pipe production ...
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