Occidental Petroleum Corporation was incorporated in 1986 in Delaware, and produces oil, condensate, NGL, and natural gas. The Company conducts its exploration and production activities in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America. Internationally, Occidental conducts operations in Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Colombia. Occidental employed approximately 14,400 people in 2019 with 10,000 employees located in...
This report provides information about the key applicants who registered the largest number of patent applications in 2019 in the field of technologies related to the subject of hydrocarbon production from low permeability reservoirs, mainly to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. In total, more than 3713 patent documents from 28 patent offices around the world and prepared by 796 representatives from 27 countries were...
In the past few years, solar panels have made vast improvements in terms of costs and efficiency so that nowadays many homes can afford to install them on rooftops and save money. However, when the sky is overcast or other circumstances prevent sunlight from reaching the surface of the earth, this otherwise valuable energy source cannot be harnessed properly. Now (2020), a way to circumvent the intermittency of solar energy has been...
The proposed review analyses the inventive activity of the major participants who registered their patent applications in 2019 in the field related to Concentrated Solar Power (concentrator photovoltaics, parabolic trough, linear Fresnel reflector, solar tower etc.). In total, 1316 patent applications accepted for detailed analysis by 38 patent offices around the world and prepared by 706 applicants from 40 countries were collected for...
The Nordex Group is an integrated, global supplier of multi-megawatt onshore wind turbine systems. The Company develops complete systems, including control software, as well as services related to wind turbines. In 2019 the group installed more than 28 GW of wind power capacity in over 40 markets and in 2019 generated sales of around EUR 3.3 billion. Currently the company has more than 6,500 employees. The Group includes factories in...
The present review contains data on 3713 patent applications that were collected as of the date of this publication and registered in 2019 by 796 applicants from 27 countries in 28 patent offices around the world in the field related to the issues of horizontal directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Patent document retrieval and processing procedures are available on the Advanced Energy...
NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE) was incorporated in 1984 and is one of the largest electric power and energy infrastructure companies in North America and a leader in the renewable energy industry. NEE has two principal businesses, FPL and NEER. FPL is the largest electric utility in the state of Florida and one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S. NEER is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. ...
Methanex Corporation was incorporated in 1968 and is a Canadian company, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to the major international markets in Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and South America. The total annual production capacity of the сompany, including Methanex interests in jointly owned plants, is currently 9.2 million tonnes and is located in New Zealand, the United States, Trinidad, Chile, Egypt,...
Concentrated Solar Power is one of the most important developing sectors of renewable energy. Despite the slowdown of business in this sector in Spain and the USA, which happened primarily due to the rapid and widespread proliferation of more commercially-viable photovoltaic power generating systems, concentrating technologies still exist and are in the phase of adapting to modern conditions. To a great extent this is promoted by...
For quite some time global climate change, linked to the accumulation of greenhouse gases, has caused concerns regarding the use of fossil fuels as the major energy source. To mitigate climate change while ensuring sufficient energy supply, one solution is to rely on the ability of microorganisms to use renewable resources for biofuel synthesis using either plants or the waste that they produce. Now (2020), researchers at the Lawrence...
