Industry 4.0: The oil and gas sector's digital future
Digitalization is already playing an important role in the energy industry, but more needs to be done for the sector to truly embrace the future of business.
Mar 4, 2022
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What does a rock climbing belay device have in common with a subsea cable installation vessel?
,What does a rock climbing belay device have in common with a subsea cable installation vessel?
Jan 14, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Biofuel is poised to usurp crude oil refining in the Bay Area: A green solution or 'greenwashing'?
With concerns over sustainability increasing in the energy industry, fossil-fuel companies have embraced plans to revamp, rather than decommission, vast networks of steaming, flashing and aging refinery pipelines into more ...
Feb 5, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Portable fluorescent probe identifies bad cooking oil
How clean are the cooking oils we use in our homes? What about the cooking oils used at restaurants? Recently, a team of researchers has developed a straightforward and highly sensitive technology that detects bad cooking ...
May 4, 2022
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Biorefinery uses microbial fuel cell to upcycle resistant plant waste
When nature designed lignin—the fibrous, woody material that gives plants their rigid structure—it didn't cut any corners. Incredibly slow to break down, lignin is so sturdy and long lasting that it is resistant to bacteria ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists create a new catalyst for 'green' biodiesel
An effective industrial catalyst for the faster production of biofuels at low temperatures has been synthesized by an international scientific team with the participation of scientists from MISIS University. The results of ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Engineering
Researchers add unique, efficient engine wear testing rig
Southwest Research Institute recently added an additional single cam rig (SCR) to its considerable array of tribology testing equipment. The rig, which investigates wear mechanisms in engine valvetrain components, was designed ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Google says it won't build AI tools for oil and gas drillers (Update)
Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon.
May 19, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Why the world's first flight powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuel is a green mirage
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner is set to take off from Heathrow on November 28 and head for JFK airport in New York, powered by so-called sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). According to its operator, Virgin Atlantic, the world's "first ...
Nov 28, 2023
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Energy majors go slow on green transition despite pressure
Most oil majors are stepping up investment in green energy amid rising activist pressure but without abandoning fossil fuels, putting at risk reaching carbon neutrality in 2050.
May 26, 2023
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