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SPECIAL REPORT: Solar energy powers production of heavy oil in California

02/05/2007
A 500-kw solar photovoltaic project, Solarmine, provides daytime electricity to Chevron Corp.’s part of Midway-Sunset heavy oil field in California’s San Joaquin Valley.Chevron is among the largest landowners of numerous companies operating in the field, which produces 13° gravity oil. California statistics indicate the field produced 84.5 million bbl of oil and condensate and 3.3 bcf of natural gas during 2005.Solarmine is a collaboration of Chevron and an Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD) subsidiary, United Solar Systems Corp. (Uni-Solar). Uni-Solar manufactured the solar panels. Chevron owns 20% of ECD. Texaco Technology Ventures initiated Solarmine before Texaco mer...
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