Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

It wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.” So it wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The permit allows Alon to construct a double rail loop from a new spur connection off of the existing BNSF Railway capable of receiving two unit trains (a unit train contains about 100 cars) per day of crude. Current products include gas oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum coke. Alon USA Energy, Inc. Bakken Crude.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

The US Energy Information Administration recently updated its brief on world oil transit chokepoints—one of which is Egypt’s Suez Canal. They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straits, the agency notes. This represents a decline from 2008, when 1.6

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Continental first introduced eHorizon at the 62nd IAA Commercial vehicles event in 2008 as a concept for a control unit providing other vehicle systems with a digital map preview. The eHorizon system interconnects bikers, offers a shared platform to motorcyclist communities, and allows motorcyclists to share important route information.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2013

The 540-kilometer (335-mile) Athabasca pipeline has been in in operation since March 1999 and has an annual capacity of up to 570,000 barrels per day of crude oil (depending on crude viscosity) from the Athabasca and Cold Lake regions of Alberta, south to Hardisty, Alberta.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Encana said that the EPA data from existing domestic water wells aligned with all previous testing done by Encana in the area and showed no impacts from oil and gas development. Earlier post.) The natural accumulations of gas and water are in discontinuous (unconnected) sand pockets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Natural gas production in North Dakota has more than doubled since 2005, largely due to associated natural gas from the growing oil production in the Bakken shale formation. Gas production averaged more than 485 million cubic feet per day (MMcfd) in September 2011, compared to the 2005 average of about 160 MMcfd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

Shell Oil Company has awarded Praxair , Inc. Praxair will supply hydrogen to Shell’s refinery from a system of steam methane reformers and hydrogen recovery units connected via a 300-mile hydrogen pipeline network along the US Gulf Coast beginning in 2010. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6 JetBlue will offer ways for the airline’s customers and communities to connect with the carbon offsetting projects with which JetBlue is engaging. JetBlue first began offsetting carbon dioxide emissions with programs to balance customer flying during specific times of year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

The new venture will seek to offer Indian consumers high-quality differentiated fuels and services at its network of sites, benefitting from RIL’s extensive retail business experience and market-leading access and digital connection to consumers through its Jio digital platform.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The British charging pile company Connected Kerb recently stated that it has reached a cooperation agreement with the British government. Chris Pateman-Jones, chief executive of Connected Kerb, said the convenience of charging has become a key consideration for consumers when buying electric vehicles. billion pounds.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2010

Carbon Energy owns or has exclusive rights to all the intellectual property rights to CSIRO’s UCG technology and will continue to work closely with CSIRO whose working relationship with Carbon Energy is not connected, formally or otherwise, with the status of its shareholding in the company. interest in the Company on 30 June 2008.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet’s patented technology comprises three main components: Biomass Pyrolysis: Hemi-cellulosic or lignocellulosic biomass is processed through a mechanical biomass fractionating system that uses pressure and heat to create streams of useful hydrocarbon components (bio-oil or pyrolysis oil). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

liter D5 turbodiesel featured a number of advanced solutions such as sequential twin-turbo technology, ceramic glowplugs and piezo-electric fuel injectors at its debut in the Volvo S80 at the end of 2008; it also was the first Euro 5 engine in its class. The oil pump is chain-driven. The five-cylinder 2.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. An exhaust heat exchanger will also keep gearbox oil warm to reduce friction and fuel consumption as well.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

In 2009, Ford sold 4.817 million units worldwide, down from 5.532 million in 2008. We have now embedded electrification.including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles, any vehicle where electricity directly displaces oil or a liquid fuel.as With 12 different top hats (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

billion barrels of oil equivalent—with 2P (proved plus probable) reserves now estimated at 7 tcf. In early 2008, we announced our first investment in Australia. Those contractors include: Bechtel Oil and Gas, Inc., Total gross discovered coal seam gas reserves and resources presently amount to an estimated 17.3 Become a 2.5%

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Coal Gas Australia Water 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

World oil prices have fallen sharply from their July 2008 high mark. As the world’s economies recover, higher world oil prices are assumed to return and to persist through 2030. In the IEO2009 reference case, world oil prices rise to $110 per barrel in 2015 (in real 2007 dollars) and $130 per barrel in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2009

The latest version, the X4V2, was designed as a development engine for the aviation industry, and in early 2008 it was independently tested by Orbital Australia. The bearings are mounted on the underside of the two inter-connected pistons, which maintain the desired bearing-to-trilobe clearance throughout the stroke. The X4 design.

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Engine Gasoline Production China 240

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The survey of a nationally representative sample of 2,513 adults age 18 and over was conducted between July and November 2008 by the U-M Institute for Social Research as part of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. When the survey started in July 2008, gas prices were near their all-time peak ($4.28

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2009

SK Energy is Asia’s fourth largest energy provider, and was Korea’s first oil refining company, now with a domestic market share of 38%. The pouch design allows tab-to-tab connection, with reduced connection impedance (0.50m?), SOC estimation error are less than 5% under various driving conditions, Oh said. Modules and packs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2011

Rivers said that the trends toward less expensive batteries and more expensive oil were combining to make an attractive value proposition. AEV is upgrading to include 3G cellular network connectivity in China. AEV did work with LG Chem up to about 2008, Rivers said. In India, we met with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Funding will support demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies to advance geothermal energy in new geographic areas, as well as geothermal energy production from oil and natural gas fields, geopressured fields, and low to moderate temperature geothermal resources. Geothermal Demonstration Projects ($140 Million).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The new Focus will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford’s new global C-car platform, which is expected to generate total sales in all regions of 2 million units annually by 2012—a doubling Ford’s 2008 C-car volumes. The valvetrain received a fine surface treatment to present the smoothest surface possible.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

BNSF Railway (BNSF) has increased capacity in 2012 to enable the railroad to haul one million barrels of oil per day out of the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. One million barrels of oil per day would represent about 16-17 unit trains of 100 tanker cars each (60,000 barrels per train). million barrels in 2008 to 88.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

In 2008, the two companies had formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. Full coverage and discussion on The Oil Drum. UBS Investment Bank acted as financial advisor to Verenium in connection with the transaction. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Incremental well-to-wheels GHG emissions from WCSB Oil Sands Crudes Compared to Well-to-Wheels GHG Emissions from Displacing Reference Crudes Click to enlarge. The document is posted on State’s Keystone project site , which it has run since the beginning of the Keystone XL Presidential permit process in 2008. million bpd in 2010 to 6.5

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 26, 2007

today announced the RechargeIT initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil dependence by accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. Join Plug In Partners today.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

Two important energy issues are largely ignored in these reports: 1) energy security and oil dependence and, 2) sustainable energy for transportation. If so, this tracks fairly well with the most aggressive DOE and NRC (2008) cases for FCV commercialization, assuming strong policy support. —Joan Ogden.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He also contributed to algorithms enabling autonomous undersea vehicles to inspect offshore oil and gas platforms after hurricanes so that divers don’t have to. The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Wakefield, 1998 "Taken For a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the politics of pollution" by Jack Doyle Books on Peak Oil and Energy Transition "Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's Peak", by Kenneth S. Deffeyes, 2005 "The Coming Oil Crisis", by Colin Campbell "Crossing the Rubicon", by Michael C. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Given high initial costs, volatile oil prices, improving competition, an industry in poor financial shape and consumers who aren’t perfectly rational.who actually are quite risk averse.advanced technology may be a hard sell. Kurani (2008) The Early U.S. times as much. Jonn Axsen and Kenneth S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

The S-VT system is supported by the adoption of a compact electronic variable-pressure oil pump. The SKYACTIV-G engine also features 20% lighter pistons, 15% lighter connecting rods and a 30% reduction to internal engine friction compared to the current 2.0-liter The intake valves then close when all unnecessary air is pushed out.

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