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How Canada’s oil sands transformed into one of North America’s lowest-cost plays

Oil & Gas 360º

Exxon-owned Imperial and its competitor Suncor have also switched to autonomous mining vehicles, eliminating the need to hire drivers to transport oil sands ore. The company’s Horizon oil sands mine has been producing since 2009. Shale oil wells, by contrast, have low start up costs.

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The Iberian green industrial opportunity: Carbon capture and storage

McKinsey

Key cost drivers include: Transport distance: There is a relatively linear relationship between travel distance and cost. These drivers vary inherently across project types, mitigation activities, countries, and specific projects, making carbon credit quality assessments challenging. McKinsey analysis.

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CME Group’s Sammann optimistic amid market volatility

SmartBrief

Second of all, it’s, it’s, there’s definitely a sense of optimism like we I’ve been here in 2020 I was here in 2009 after some of the big, dislocating market events in in previous years. Those are all things that we’ve seen to be significant drivers of end user, self directed traders in the gold market.

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Seizing the agentic AI advantage

McKinsey

Gen AI is everywhere—except in company P&L About QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI arm, has been helping businesses create value from AI since 2009, expanding on McKinsey’s technology work over the past 30 years. The most influential drivers are synthesized, ranked, and prepared for decision-makers.

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Zephyr Energy plc announces successful initial results from State 36-2R well production test

Oil & Gas 360º

While liquid yields will vary across the field area and in time as the reservoir pressure drops during field production, the overall elevated liquid yields are expected to be a significant driver of enhanced project economics. Water cut was less than 0.5%

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Zephyr Energy announces initial results from State 36-2R well evaluation Williston Project and Zephyr Hawk update

Oil & Gas 360º

The reservoir matrix permeability also appears to be as good, or better, than the Company’s pre-drill, base case estimate of reservoir permeability, a key driver for the estimated improvement in the resource base. The well was not hydraulically fractured during perforation or acidisation.

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