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The Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) nature sanctuary along Rummel Creek, located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. [1] Named after Edith Lotz Moore, who lived on the land with her husband for 43 years, the sanctuary includes a restored log cabin [2] for hosting educational programs and houses administrative offices for the Houston Audubon Society.
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
As of December 2017, the plant is the fourth-largest taxpayer [1] and the tenth largest employer [2] in Harris County. The refinery has a 275,000 bbl/d (43,700 m 3 /d) crude processing capacity, [ 3 ] making it the 18th largest in the US, [ 4 ] as of January 2019, with a facility that includes crude & vacuum distillation , delayed coker , fluid ...
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Friendswood Development Company bought 1,800 acres (7.3 km 2) at the corner of Texas State Highway 6 and Farm to Market Road 529 from the Gus Wortham estate in 1977. Two years later the first houses in Copperfield had been built and sold.
The CO 2 leaving the carbon capture plant is over 99% pure and is sent 82 miles through 12-inch diameter pipes to their end location of the West Ranch oil field, where it is used for enhanced oil recovery. [4] The carbon dioxide from the Petra Nova Initiative will eventually end up in sandstone in the Frio Formation of the West Ranch oil field.
On December 6, 1971, Houston Lighting & Power Co. (HL&P), the City of Austin, the City of San Antonio, and the Central Power and Light Co. (CPL) initiated a feasibility study of constructing a jointly-owned nuclear plant. The initial cost estimate for the plant was $974 million [5] (equivalent to approximately $5,700,741,167 in 2015 dollars [6]).
The Houston plant was authorized in 1942 as part of the United States Rubber Reserve Program, [2] and opened in 1944 operated by Sinclair Rubber. It was subsequently purchased by a joint venture of Tenneco and FMC Corporation in 1955, and the joint venture was named Petro-Tex Chemical Corporation, also known as PTC Corporation, until sold to Texas Olefins in 1984.