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Enterprise to Build New Natural Gas Processing Plant in the Delaware Basin; Announces Start of Service on Mentone 3 and Leonidas

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) today announced plans to further expand its natural gas processing capabilities in the Permian Basin with construction of the Mentone West 2 plant in the Delaware Basin. The new facility, to be located in Loving County, Texas, will have the capacity to process more than 300 million cubic…

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Engineers resurrect dead oil and gas wells in profitable move toward geothermal energy: 'It is a win-win situation'

Engineers resurrect dead oil and gas wells in profitable move toward geothermal energy: ‘It is a win-win situation’

To reduce the harmful effects of our overheating planet, we will need to deploy every tool in our arsenal. Researchers in Illinois have marked one pioneering step forward in repurposing an oil and gas well to store geothermal energy. The 2021 project, outlined in the journal Renewable Energy, tapped the Cypress Sandstone of the Illinois Basin, injecting…

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Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming: ‘It’s not difficult to envision’

Photo: Freepik Modvion is building on the success of its record-breaking wood-based wind turbine tower built in 2023 by raising the bar another 16 meters. The Sweden-based company has received design certification for its tallest engineered-wood tower to date, measuring 119 meters tall, according to IEEE Spectrum. It was designed to support a 6.4-megawatt turbine from Danish company Vestas, although…

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