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AirWorks AI Automates Line Drawings from Aerial and Satellite Images (Fri, 03 Sep 2021)
For a campus in Massachusetts, AirWorks has determined roads, building and parking spaces from aerial imagery and overlaid CAD geometry. AirWorks is a service that uses AI (machine learning) and computer vision technology to take the drudgery out of making CAD drawings from aerial and satellite images. Anyone who has had to create CAD drawings from aerial photos—or worse, Google Earth imagery—should appreciate the assistance that AirWorks provides. We had to find out how much ass...
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Companies Want to Go Digital: Autodesk Says It’s Here to Help (Mon, 30 Aug 2021)
Andrew Anagnost, CEO of Autodesk. (Picture courtesy of LinkedIn.) Andrew Anagnost led off Autodesk’s recent quarterly earnings call. Another quarter had transpired against the backdrop of momentous history-shaping events. The world was still fighting off COVID-19. Despite glossing over previous quarters with an insistence that business was fine, today was an acknowledgment of “volumes [finally] getting back to what they were before COVID hit.” A trillion-dollar bill was ...
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Today in Energy

The U.S. exported slightly more petroleum than it imported in the first half of 2021 (Fri, 17 Sep 2021)
Our Petroleum Supply Monthly trade data show that the United States exported more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported during the first half of 2021 by 120,000 barrels per day (b/d), or less than 1% of combined crude oil and petroleum product exports and imports.
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Hurricane Ida disrupted crude oil production and refining activity (Thu, 16 Sep 2021)
On Sunday, August 29, Hurricane Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane. As a result of the hurricane, 96% of crude oil production and 94% of natural gas production in the U.S. federally administered areas of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) were shut in, according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. At least nine refineries shut down or reduced production. As a result, we reduced our forecast for crude oil production and refinery runs in our September Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).
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Business

Texas company to pay nearly $3M for Clean Air Act violations (Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:00:42 UT)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began investigating Formosa after a series of fires, explosions and accidental releases at the plant in Point Comfort.
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Southwest's president retires suddenly, passed up for CEO job (Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:59:12 UT)
The airline said that Chief Operating Officer Mike Van de Ven has become president.
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