Lula Alto pre-salt oilfield of SIPC Brazil's PB project went into production recently. The Lula Alto oilfield, in the middle part of Lula oilfield in the BM-S-11 block of Santos Basin, produces 30,000 bpd of crude oil and 1 million cubic ...
Sinopec announced on August 29 that it has made a major commercial discovery in Shunbei Oilfield in Xinjiang’s Tarim Basin, which is expected to bring the oil production capacity of the oilfield to 1.5 million tonnes during the 13th ...
Shell announces today that production has started from the Stones development in the Gulf of Mexico. Stones is expected to produce around 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) when fully ramped up at the end of 2017. The host ...
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Third phase of major deep-water project delivered, optimising production capacity Shell and its joint venture announce the start of oil production from the third phase of the deep-water Parque das Conchas (BC-10) development in Brazil's ...
Shell today announced a new exploration discovery in the deep water U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The initial estimated recoverable resources for the Fort Sumter well are more than 125 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe). Further appraisal ...
Researchers in China have developed indium gallium nitride (InGaN) photovoltaic devices that increase in efficiency with temperature up to 423K [Zhaoying Chen et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p062104, 2016]. "The positive efficiency ...
Tags: InGaN solar cells InGaN, MOCVD, positive temperature coefficient
The toy firm is set to unveil Dr Gravely's Retreat, which will see players solve the mystery of the unusual health spa, at Autumn Fair this weekend. After the successful launch of its first Escape the Room party game this year, Paul ...
Tags: Dr Gravely's Retreat, Paul Lamond Games, new escape the room game
University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
Atlas Copco’s purchase of Italian manufacturer Varisco has enhanced its position in the pumps business and dewatering applications. We discover what Varisco brings to the group and how the Portable Energy division intends to move ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has developed a monolithic white light-emitting diode (LED) with blue light produced by electrical pumping, and green/'red' by optical pumping from the blue source [S. J. Kowsz et al, ...
South China University of Technology has used low-temperature barriers between indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) to improve the light output power of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by 23% to 63.83mW at 65mA [Zhiting ...
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The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Accella Polyurethane Systems (Accella) announced a comprehensive investment strategy based on the Bullet Liner brand, manufacturer of polyurethane spray-on coating for the transportation industry. Bullet Liner utilizes advanced chemistry ...
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
Tags: semiconductors, Electronics