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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The carbon intensity (CI) of Alberta oil sands production has significantly decreased over the last 40 years, according to a new study by a team from Stanford University published as an open access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Oil remains the world’s leading fuel, but its 33.1% seen in 2010, according to the newly released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2012. seen in 2010, according to the newly released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2012. World primary energy consumption grew by 2.5% Coal’s market share of 30.3%

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MARCH 28, 2013

Suncor Energy is not proceeding with the Voyageur bitumen upgrader project in the Canadian oil sands. The decision is the result of a joint strategic and economic review launched by Suncor and its joint venture partner Total E&P Canada Ltd in late 2012. interest in the Fort Hills oil sands mining project operated by Suncor Energy.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A comparison of estimates of the energy return on investment (EROI) at the wellhead for conventional crude oil, or for crude product prior to refining for oil shale. Oil shale” is shale containing kerogen, a combination of chemical compounds that can be converted into synthetic petroleum. Source: Cleveland and O’Connor.

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JULY 22, 2011

Summary of the current oil sands developments (mining and in-situ) and associated land use. Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent released an integrated monitoring plan for the oil sands region. fail in its goal of generating the data necessary to provide assurance that the oil sands are. design addresses.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

A Joint Review Panel of the Government of Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has conditionally approved Total’s Joslyn oil sands mine. It consists of an oil sands surface mine and ore preparation and bitumen extraction facilities. Earlier post.). Initial operations are planned for 2017.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

United States M&A activity for upstream oil and gas deals set records in 2011 for both deal values and deal counts, according to PLS, Inc., a provider of information, marketing and advisory services for the oil and gas industry. We expect continued strong activity in oil and liquids-rich resource plays in 2012. billion in 2010.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) have extended their Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of pyrolysis oil upgrading with the aim to produce second generation biofuels, announced in June 2010 ( earlier post ) to July 2011. The process is patent pending.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

G&G data and information are used to identify sand and gravel resources suitable for coastal protection and restoration; site renewable energy installations; and locate oil and gas resources. The PEIS also evaluates reasonably foreseeable environmental effects in adjacent state waters.

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MAY 11, 2020

in 2019 to 5,130 million metric tons (MMmt), according to data in the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review. US energy-related CO 2 emissions declined by 2.8%

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its draft study plan on hydraulic fracturing for review to the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists. The process creates fractures in formations such as shale rock, allowing natural gas or oil to escape into the well and be recovered.

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JUNE 12, 2019

BP released the 68 th annual edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy (BP Stats Review), a comprehensive collection and analysis of global energy data. Key findings from the BP Stats Review 2019 include: Global energy demand grew by 2.9% in 2018, faster than at any time since 2010-11.

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Climate Change Climate Coal 2018 223

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

Summary of Sustainable VMT per Capita in 2050, compared to 2010 levels, under the eight scenarios analyzed in the report. Each scenario consists of one set of vehicle technology assumptions, one set of assumptions regarding either GHG emissions reductions or oil savings over time, and a corresponding projection of sustainable VMT per capita.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. The six projects were selected after an external peer-review process. These projects address several facets of risk in offshore operations.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. Southeast Asia.

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Oil Carbon Emissions Europe 239

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

UK Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, unveiled a well-capping device developed by the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen. The OSPRAG well-capping device. Click to enlarge. Capping device key facts.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Total will not use carbon capture technology in the first phase of its Joslyn North Mine oil sands project, citing excessive cost. In 2009, the company suggested it was considering carbon capture and storage in its oil sands projects in Canada. In July, Total E&P Canada Ltd. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A status review of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) ( earlier post ) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS—i.e., million), for a net surplus of 0.80 million tonnes CO 2 e.

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It seems only a couple of months ago I reported on my experience traveling from Cincinnati to Nashville to purchase the 2010 BMW Z4, thus satisfying a used convertible car search that lasted for a year and a half. For full driving notes have a look at the review from last May.&

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JUNE 7, 2011

The US Department of State plans to hold six additional public meetings as part of the permit review process for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL is a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from the US-Canadian border in Montana, through Cushing, Oklahoma, to refineries on the US Gulf Coast. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The US and Mexico have signed an agreement on the exploration and development of oil and natural gas reservoirs along the United States’ and Mexico’s maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico. As a result of this Transboundary Agreement—which Presidents Obama and Calderon had committed in 2010 to reaching—nearly 1.5

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Since the regulation went into effect [15 April 2010], regulated parties have operated under the LCFS program with no significant compliance issues. Concurrently, ARB staff conducted the first review of two mandated reviews of the LCFS program with the external Advisory Panel. High Carbon-Intensity Crude Oil (HCICO).

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Carbon Oil California Standards 231

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A review by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found that Li-ion battery maker LG Chem Michigan misused funds awarded to it under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). In February 2010, LG Chem Michigan Inc. (LG —OIG special report. Funding background.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Scientists from agencies involved in the report attribute the lower dissolved oxygen levels to microbes using oxygen to consume the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But it references a recently published peer reviewed study conducted by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Examples of emerging oil sands related technologies and trade-offs. The paper is an examination of how various choices about the scale of the life cycle analysis applied to oil sands (i.e., The source material is neither oil nor tar but bitumen, but is most generally described as an example of ultraheavy oil.”.

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JULY 24, 2011

Following the issuance of a Final EIS, the next step is a 90-day review period where interested federal agencies, such as the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, will provide their views on whether issuance of a Presidential Permit would be in the national interest.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The country’s increased production of crude oil, natural gas, and corn-based ethanol created unforeseen demands and safety challenges on their long-distance transportation via pipelines, tank barges, and railroad tank cars. Prior to 2005, railroads had little experience carrying ethanol and crude oil in large quantities.

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JUNE 26, 2012

The Supreme Court of the US has denied review of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’s 2011 decision (Case (09-17765) in Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn. In 2009, MGO (marine gasoil) must have a sulfur limit of 1.5% (15,000 ppm), while MDO (marine diesel oil) would have a limit of 0.5% (5,000 ppm). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

The US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement, which establishes a framework for US offshore oil and gas companies and Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) jointly to develop transboundary reservoirs ( earlier post ), was enacted today as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act ( H.J.Res.59 59 ) which President Obama signed into law.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Updated estimates of camelina cultivation requirements and commercial scale oil recovery and refining were used to calculate life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy demand for both HRJ and renewable diesel (green diesel, GD). —Scott Johnson, President of Sustainable Oils. Sustainable Oils, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The main conclusions of the report include: Compared to emission controls on MY 2010 US diesel trucks, today’s compact aftertreatment systems are 40% lighter, 60% smaller, and substantially less expensive. This has resulted in higher catalyst loading per volume of substrate and led to downsizing of systems from those available in 2010.

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Emissions Diesel Engine 2010 291

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AUGUST 24, 2015

The oil industry would seem to be understandably upset about it. California implemented its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) starting in 2010 as part of its effort to regulate CO 2 emissions on top of the fuel blending requirements. The goal was to reduce fuel carbon intensity (CI) by 10% in 10 years (between 2010 and 2020).

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JULY 19, 2010

And we continue to review that data on a very regular basis with the government teams. Discussion and analysis of this development on The Oil Drum.]. This includes monitoring with the remote operated vehicles, these robotic submarines as well as looking at temperature and noise information from the (inaudible) of air. Doug Suttles.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Between 2010 to 2030 the contribution to energy growth of renewables (solar, wind, geothermal and biofuels) is seen to increase from 5% to 18%. Natural gas is projected to be the fastest growing fossil fuel, and coal and oil are likely to lose market share as all fossil fuels experience lower growth rates. Coal will increase by 1.2%

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JUNE 10, 2010

have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to form a new partnership that will serve as a platform to test, develop and market BioOil (Dynamotive’s fast-pyrolysis oil) for application in stationary and marine slow- and/or medium-speed diesels globally. (MES), and Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. Earlier post.).

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Alternative Fuels Engine Diesel Mariner 199

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

EPA received a petition from Global Clean Energy Holdings (GCEH) submitted under a claim of confidential business information (CBI), requesting that EPA evaluate the lifecycle GHG emissions for biofuels (biodiesel, renewable diesel, jet fuel and naphtha) produced from jatropha oil.

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