Articles for Oil Development

Sci-tech transforming Chint into smart energy provider
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Sci-tech transforming Chint into smart energy provider

China Daily  

Staff members work at a factory of Chint Group in Shanghai in May. SHANGHAI — In Chint Group's Shanghai transformer factory, robots are engaged in stacking silicon steel sheets as thin as 0.23 millimeter layer upon layer according to design specifications, with a single robot capable of stacking over 1,680 layers in 24 hours, equivalent to the workload of six …

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Biden Plans Sweeping Effort to Block Arctic Oil Drilling
8 months, 1 week ago

Biden Plans Sweeping Effort to Block Arctic Oil Drilling

Hindustan Times  

The US set aside 23 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope to serve as an emergency oil supply a century ago. Company executives and Alaska lawmakers have increasingly raised alarm over the plan, saying it could thwart oil and gas development across much of the reserve, even on existing leases. “It would openly defy federal law while ignoring rising energy …

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Federal government to investigate millions of dollars given to oil and gas companies under research and development scheme
10 months ago

Federal government to investigate millions of dollars given to oil and gas companies under research and development scheme

ABC  

In short: Oil and gas companies may have been accessing taxpayer-funded money for fracking through a research and development scheme. The federal government says it will investigate whether millions of dollars of public funds that have been handed to oil and gas companies through a scheme that explicitly excludes fossil fuel exploration are "valid and legal". Oil and gas company …

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Op-Ed: Wait, what? The Biden administration wants to drill on Alaska’s North Slope?
2 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: Wait, what? The Biden administration wants to drill on Alaska’s North Slope?

LA Times  

The bitter end of the fossil fuel era is playing out in one of the world’s wildest remaining places: Alaska’s North Slope. On Friday, the Interior Department released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement on the Willow project, an oil development on Alaska’s North Slope that Interior says would release as much as 284 million metric tons of carbon dioxide …

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Oil Exploration, Development And Production; A Transparent Selection Process Of Oil Companies
3 years, 4 months ago

Oil Exploration, Development And Production; A Transparent Selection Process Of Oil Companies

Live Law  

There are immense quantities of hydrocarbons trapped both on-shore and off-shore – beneath the oceans, the extraction of which depends on complex technologies and expertise generally possessed by international oil companies. While the objectives of the State can be said to be securing access and possession of oil resources; meeting domestic demand; boosting fiscal and financial revenues; technology transfer; boosting …

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On his way out, Trump opens more Arctic land for US oil drilling
3 years, 11 months ago

On his way out, Trump opens more Arctic land for US oil drilling

Al Jazeera  

The Trump plan allows leasing in the largest lake in Arctic Alaska which has been off-limits since the Reagan era. US President Donald Trump’s administration says it has finalised its plan to open up vast areas of once-protected Arctic Alaska territory to oil development. The Trump plan allows leasing in the vast Teshekpuk Lake, the largest lake in Arctic Alaska …

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