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The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. Earlier post.).

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JULY 19, 2021

A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and WWF finds that nearly 20% of tropical Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) overlap with concessions for extractive industries such as mining, oil and gas. Intact forests are declining rapidly, with more than 7 percent of their total area lost between 2000 and 2013. Grantham et al.

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JULY 13, 2016

The rig count has rebounded from the lows seen in late May, a small indication that oil companies in the US could begin drilling anew. Because of this, the collective US shale industry has been likened to the new “swing producer”: low oil prices force quick cutbacks but higher prices trigger new supplies.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. MTG units involve high capital costs and are only cost-competitive when oil prices are high. Lower oil prices since late 2014 have reduced China’s MTG plant operating rates and have created uncertainty for investment in new MTG plants. Click to enlarge. Background.

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JUNE 10, 2013

Map of basins with assessed shale oil and shale gas formations, as of May 2013. Among the highlights in the 2013 report is a 10-fold increase in the estimate of technically recoverable shale / tight oil from 32 billion barrels (from the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2011 ) to 345 billion barrels. Source: US EIA. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 18, 2012

USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. Many new areas were included in the current study, defining and assessing 313 assessment units throughout the world, as compared to 246 in 2000. Geological Survey (USGS) released today.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Colorado State University has obtained a 5-year, $5-million grant from BP to study mechanisms involved with technology for oil recovery from “watered-out” wells. Typically, wells are abandoned after they are no longer producing oil or gas at a rate that is economically viable. 2000) Water Control. Bill Bailey et al.

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APRIL 27, 2017

Global oil discoveries fell to a record low in 2016 as companies continued to cut spending and conventional oil projects sanctioned were at the lowest level in more than 70 years, according to the International Energy Agency, which warned that both trends could continue this year. Oil discoveries declined to 2.4

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JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. Modern Truck Scenario.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will begin test drilling for oil and natural gas in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Niigata Prefecture in April 2013. METI hopes to discover Japan’s largest reserves of these resources—possibly the size of intermediate oil fields in the Middle East, according to METI.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Less active oil majors in this space include ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general, according to a new analysis appearing in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Credit: Smith et al.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

IHS Markit places the global peak for oil demand (gasoline and diesel) from LVs in 2019 when the demand averaged 29.1 When it comes to oil demand from light vehicles, it’s the latest sign that the 2019 peak is permanent. —Jim Burkhard, vice president, oil markets and mobility and energy future, IHS Markit.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

A comprehensive environmental field study to gather information on air contaminants in the Wood Buffalo region in northeast Alberta, Canada (home to major oil sands projects) will occur from 12 August to mid-September 2013. Evaluate high-resolution air quality models for use in the oil sands region. Earlier post.).

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MAY 29, 2021

This automotive travel total marks a 52% increase from Memorial Day 2020, when only 23 million people traveled by automobile, the fewest since 2000, when AAA began estimating holiday travel. Of those 37 million people, AAA expects 34 million of them to travel primarily by car, as opposed to planes, trains, or other travel modes.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

BP announced a giant oil discovery at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The Tiber well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 35,055 feet (10,685 metres) making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled by the oil and gas industry. The well found oil in multiple Lower Tertiary reservoirs.

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MAY 9, 2013

Speaking at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston , Petrobras CEO Maria das Graças Silva Foster said that the Brazilian oil and gas company’s reserves will double in size by 2020. million barrels of oil equivalent (oil and natural gas) per day in 2012, is expected to reach 5.7 per year since 2000 and reached US$42.9

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JANUARY 12, 2022

ExxonMobil’s majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd., Since 2000, ExxonMobil has invested more than $10 billion to research, develop and deploy lower-emission energy solutions.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Oil remains the world’s leading fuel, but its 33.1% Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% The fossil fuel mix continues to change with oil, the world’s leading fuel at 33.1%

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. This is a doubling of the previously announced PL265 volumes of between 400 and 800 million barrels of oil equivalent. Statoil previously confirmed that there is communication between Aldous in PL265 and Avaldsnes in PL501, and that this is one large oil discovery. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Pending confirmation through future appraisal drilling, the total hydrocarbons initially in place in the Mad Dog field complex are now estimated to be up to four billion barrels of oil equivalent. interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% BHP Billiton has a 23.9%

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NOVEMBER 18, 2017

million barrels per day in October, reaching the second highest output in October since 2000. US crude oil production in October remained strong and above 9.0 Domestic crude oil production increased 7.0% Compared with the prior month and the prior year to date, crude oil production decreased 1.1% from October 2016 to 7.3

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MAY 21, 2010

Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Hydrogen is necessary in the upgrading of oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude, but it is a costly and carbon-intensive part of the process, given current hydrogen production technologies. The process is conducted at 1500 – 2000 psi (10.3 - 13.8 A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. will receive a $C1.5-million

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Through the swap, BASF aims to further expand its production of oil and gas via its wholly owned subsidiary Wintershall —Germany’s largest internationally active crude oil and natural gas producer—and to exit the gas trading and storage business. billion barrel of oil equivalent. This is equivalent to a total of 2.4

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Senturin made his remarks during the 25 th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference. average economic growth rate between 2000 and 2019, continuously expanding domestic gas production, attracting investors, and enhancing knowledge and technologies exchange. —Secretary General Sentyurin.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

and for residual fuel oil by 26%, although it rose for other oils by 0.6%. In January, total imports were at their lowest level for the month in 13 years, since 2000. Crude oil imports were at their lowest January level in 13 years, and refined product imports were at their lowest level for the month in 14 years, since 1999.

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Opened in 1955, Autopia was originally sponsored by Richfield Oil (which later merged into ARCO), and then by Chevron from 2000 to 2012. Since 2016, the attraction has been sponsored by Honda. EV production. Honda says battery-electric and fuel-cell electric vehicles will make up 100% of its global sales by 2040.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Chempolis’ formicobio is a technology for the co-production of advanced biofuels, cellulosic sugars, lignin, platform biochemicals and biocoal from non-food biomasses such as bagasse, corn stover, rice straw, wheat straw, palm oil residue etc. MMTPA Refinery at Numaligarh in the District of Golaghat, Assam, India since 2000.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Natural gas vehicles were first promoted starting in about 2000 as a way to reduce reliance on imported oil and cut tailpipe emissions. Their promise appeared to grow near the height of the global financial crisis, when gas prices hovered around $4 per gallon across much of the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This trend is driven primarily by finished motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil which are increasingly exported to Latin America. From 2000 through 2009, motor gasoline exports were generally 1%–2% of motor gasoline product supplied (a proxy for demand). Annual U.S.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Eni has signed an agreement with the Pakistani Authorities and the state oil and gas company OGDCL for the acquisition of 25% and the operatorship of exploration license Offshore Indus Block G, located in Pakistan’s Indus Basin. Oil and gas blocks offshore Pakistan. Source: Pakistan Petroleum Information Service. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 9, 2021

The acetylene black and the process gas are cooled from far above the 2000 ?C In June, Orion launched ECORAX Nature, a new family of products developed for rubber applications utilizing industrial grade, plant-based oils. In the process, acetylene gas is exothermally decomposed in a closed system, generating carbon black and hydrogen.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

The computer and restaurant industries are rated most positively, while the oil and gas industry receives the worst ratings. The automobile industry now ranks in the middle of the list of 25 business industries and sectors rated 5-8 Aug. in Gallup's annual Work and Education Poll.

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APRIL 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the use of an alkaline surfactant polymer (ASP) flooding technique has successfully improved oil recovery at a 106-year old Illinois field by more than 300%. enhanced by additional surfactants, have the capability of mobilizing additional oil. Such surfactants, when. water production.

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APRIL 15, 2009

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed a unique method that uses sponge-like mesoporous nanoparticles to harvest biofuel oils from algae without harming the algae. The nanofarming technology promises lower production costs and shorter production cycles.

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