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DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) released the first comprehensive report on the status of Alberta’s species in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area (AOSA). It also contains the Athabasca oil sands deposit, which represents 77% of Canada’s proven oil reserves and supports a growing energy extraction sector. “

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Venezuela’s PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela SA) will invest about $14 billion to develop the Junin 10 block in the Orinoco extra heavy oil belt in Venezuela, according to a tweet sent out by Rafael Ramirez, the Venezuelan petroleum minister. degree API crude to upgraded crude of 35.7 degrees API.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The UK government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) approved the field development plan put forward by Statoil and its co-venturers for the Mariner heavy oil field. The average production is estimated at around 55,000 barrels of oil per day over the plateau period from 2017 to 2020. Location of the Mariner field.

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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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DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. While diesel and oil-based power is still uneconomic at $60/barrel, the pressure to switch is reduced.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

The first peer-reviewed study to directly quantify how emissions from oil and natural gas (O&NG) activities influence summertime tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) pollution in the Colorado Front Range confirms that chemical vapors from oil and gas activities are a significant contributor to the region’s chronic ozone problem. McDuffie et al.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

in January 2012 compared with January 2011 to just over 18 million barrels per day, according to figures from the American Petroleum Institute (API). Consumer demand for gasoline has not recovered from 2007 highs. Imports of crude oil and refined products fell in January by 14% to average 10.1 Crude oil production rose 3.8%

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Under the Reference case, domestic crude oil production is expected to grow by more than 20% over the coming decade; already, domestic crude oil production increased from 5.1 million barrels per day in 2007 to 5.5 Over the next 10 years, continued development of tight oil (e.g., quadrillion Btu in 2007, grows from 98.2

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program. The Proposed 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program schedules 12 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. And the only way this transition will succeed is if it strengthens our economy in the short term and the long term.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL eliminates conventional flood coolant from the machining processes, lubricating cutting tools with a fine spray of oil directed exactly when and where it is needed. MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. Silverson, S.,

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The Russian government has ordered oil companies to take steps to. We really do need to take quick and decisive action, and no objections from the [oil] production companies should be. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, directing oil companies to achieve 95%. recapture rate by 2012. Video ) Click to enlarge. It is estimated.

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APRIL 26, 2012

High prices at the pump—mostly a result of global crude oil prices—and the use of more efficient vehicles both encourage reduced gasoline consumption. less than 2007’s record summer gasoline demand of 9.4 million bbl/d, according to EIA’s 10 April 2012 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (Sinopec) executed an agreement which provides for Sinopec to purchase a 50% undivided interest in 850,000 of Chesapeake’s net oil and natural gas leasehold acres in the Mississippi Lime play in northern Oklahoma (425,000 acres net to Sinopec).

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JUNE 23, 2014

JDC) and INPEX Corporation (INPEX) have concluded a contract to support Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation’s (JOGMEC’s) medium and long-term offshore production test of methane hydrate. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., JAPEX), Japan Drilling Co., Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 18, 2014

1 Tcf = 180 million barrels of oil equivalent). Since 2012 we have had a 100% success rate in Tanzania and the area has become a core exploration area in a very short period of time. The new gas discovery was made in the same Lower Cretaceous sandstones as the gas discovery in the Zafarani-1 well drilled in 2012.

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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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MARCH 12, 2010

Devon and BP will also form a heavy oil joint venture to develop BP’s Kirby oil sands leases in Alberta, Canada. In order to facilitate the oil sands joint venture, Devon will acquire 50% of BP’s interest in the Kirby oil sands leases. The Whiting upgrade is planned to come on-stream in 2012.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

For the first eleven months of 2013, natural gas consumption in the electric power sector was below 2012 levels because of relatively higher natural gas prices compared with coal prices, and cooler summer weather compared with 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Bio-based diesel products are advanced biofuels that are derived from biomass sources that include vegetable oils and wastes oils from renewable sources. The action was taken under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) which established the second phase of the Renewable Fuel Standards program. billion gallons.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Total subsidies for renewable energy stood at $66 billion in 2010 (a 10% increase from the year before); the total value of global fossil fuel subsidies is estimated at between $775 billion and more than $1 trillion in 2012, Two thirds of the renewable energy subsidies went to renewable electricity resources and the remaining third to biofuels.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

billion for leases during Chukchi Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193. The 2008 sale was included in the previous Administration’s 2007-2012 Five-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program to cover leasing for oil and gas in the Outer Continental Shelf for that five-year period. In 2008, Shell’s subsidiary paid $2.1

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DECEMBER 7, 2013

1 Tcf gas = 180 million barrels of oil equivalent.). The Zafarani-1 discovery was made in 2012 and was a play opener for the block. Following Mronge-1, the partnership is scheduled to appraise the 2012 Zafarani discovery. Statoil has been in Tanzania since 2007, when it was awarded the operatorship for Block 2.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

It does not include emissions from petroleum refineries and oil production. Emissions from transportation sources were relatively constant from 2002 through 2007, declined through 2013, then increased by 9.0 Source: ARB. MMTCO 2 e (6%) from 2013 to 2017.

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MARCH 8, 2013

The sustainable fuel is obtained from used cooking oil. In June 2012, KLM’s longest biofuel flight to that date travelled from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro. They follow initial customers such as Ahold, Accenture, DSM, Heineken, Nike, Philips and Schiphol Group who have been supporting KLM’s BioFuel programme since June of 2012.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

This slowdown, which began in 2012, signals a further decoupling of global emissions and economic growth, which reflects mainly the lower emissions growth rate of China. The consumption of oil products increased by 1.7% This is in contrast to most preceding years since 2007, in which annual oil consumption decreased by 2.2%

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JULY 9, 2009

Sulfur (1,000 ppm) content within 200 nautical miles of coastal areas could reduce annual premature deaths resulting from emissions-related affects by around 43,500 by 2012—approximately 50% of the 87,000 deaths estimated to occur in a no control scenario (assuming 2.7% S (35,000 ppm) in 2012 and 0.5% and (c) Global 0.5. Credit: ACS.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

in 2007, dropped to a low of 56.9% in 2012, and climbed slightly back to 60.4% With the ongoing “Food vs. Fuel” debate, the use of vegetable oils has been capped in regions such as the EU. The global biofuels industry averaged 68% in utilization rate from 2005 to 2014, reached a high of 80.9% BGY capacity in 2018.

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MAY 1, 2013

According to the latest status report on the progress of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA-LCFS) ( earlier post ), regulated parties in the LCFS—oil producers, importers and other fuel providers—continued to exceed the required reductions in carbon intensity specified by the standard. gCO 2 e/MJ, respectively, in Q4 2012.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

billion barrels of foreign oil and reduced US transportation-related carbon emissions by 589.33 The first version of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS1) called for annual increases in production and use of biofuels through 2012. billion barrels of oil over the past decade by replacing fossil fuels with homegrown biofuels.

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APRIL 18, 2014

LDVs accounted for 61% of all transportation energy consumption in the United States in 2012—8.4 million barrels of of oil equivalent per day—and represented nearly 10% of world petroleum liquids consumption. LDV VMT per licensed driver peaked in 2007 at 12,900 miles per year and has since decreased to 12,500 miles in 2012.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Construction will begin in March of 2011 and is expected to be completed during the first half of 2012. The Joaçaba biodiesel plant will be constructed next to ADM’s soybean crushing facility and vegetable oil refinery.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

would be designed to capture up to 90% of its carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery and sequestration in an adjacent oil field. In 2007, GE and BP formed a global alliance to jointly develop and deploy technology for at least five IGCC power plants that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation.

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Hydrogen California Energy Tampa 199

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MAY 7, 2009

By 2012 Audi plans to lower the fuel consumption of its model range by 20% compared with the 2007 level. The system is inactive during the warm-up phase of the engine, so that the engine oil becomes warmer and the exhaust gas cleaning systems reach their operating temperature faster. Start-stop.

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MAY 2, 2012

per year, whereas to hit the 2030 target we need a more than 3% improvement per year from 2012. 2012 is therefore a very important year. —“Global Fuel Economy Initiative Plan of Action 2012-2015. Specific targets include: In 2012, two major publications will be issued by the ICCT. This represents a rate of 1.7%

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MARCH 21, 2011

By some estimates, noted President Obama, the oil Brazil recently discovered off its shores could amount to twice the reserves in the United States. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers. —President Obama.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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