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Argentine students to build a satellite for oil spill control

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 23, 2022.
As part of a call launched by the National Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, under the name “CanSat Argentina”, a group of students from Mar del Plata’s Secondary School No. 40 will build a satellite prototype (atmospheric probe) for oil spill control.

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PEMEX increased salaries and benefits for oil workers

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 23, 2022.
Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and the Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana (STPRM) concluded the 2022-2023 salary review, now the oil workers will have an increase in their salaries of 4% and 2.25% in their benefits.

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BP withdraws from hydrocarbon exploration in Mexico

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 18, 2022.
The British energy company, BP, will stop exploring for hydrocarbons in Mexico after six years of presence in the country following the opening of the energy sector to private companies during the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.

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88 Energy Limited announced over 1 billion barrels of oil in Alaska

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 15, 2022.
88 Energy Limited has reported an independently certified maiden prospective resource estimate of 1.03 billion barrels of oil, on a gross average and unrisked basis, for the development of the Icewine East Project in Alaska, in which the company has a 75 percent net operating interest.

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Cuba controls oil tanker fire and works to extinguish it completely

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 12, 2022.
Last Friday, August 5, the impact of a lightning strike on tank 51 of the supertanker terminal in the city of Matanzas, Cuba, caused a fire that spread to the four fuel reservoirs of one of its batteries, which caused a fire of major proportions on the island.

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