Holmgren also told me last week (during an interview for a different story that had nothing to do with Malaysia) that LanzaTech was in discussions with steel and oil companies in India as well.

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The other process, still in use, is to cut a window in an old well's steel casing and then drill horizontally into the oil zone.

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As in most oil states, Iraq's idea is to channel the crude oil wealth into the creation of refineries, steel mills, agriculture, cement factories, as well as sundry infrastructural programs--schools, hospitals, roads and the like.

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