2011, Chevron and Energy

Tokyo Electric signs equity and additional LNG offtake agreements with Chevron for Wheatstone Project

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JUNE 18, 2012

Chevron Corporation’s Australian subsidiaries have signed additional binding agreements with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) offtake and equity interests in the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project. Joe Geagea, president, Chevron Gas and Midstream. Located at Ashburton North, 7.5

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Chevron Kuwait Australia Gas-Electric

Chevron announces oil discovery in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a new oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Chevron, with a 43.75% working interest in the prospect, was the operator of the Moccasin discovery well. Chevron is one of the largest leaseholders in the Gulf of Mexico and is currently developing the $7.5

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Chevron Mexico Oil Oil-Sands

Oil Majors’ Costs Have Risen 66% Since 2011

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MARCH 3, 2017

Rystad Energy estimated the average shale project could see costs rise by $1.60 Apex put together a proprietary index that measures cost pressure for the “supermajors” – ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Eni, Total and ConocoPhillips. Chevron and ExxonMobil also posted efficiency gains, although more modest figures than Eni.

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Oil 2011 Oil Prices Chevron

Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Source: Chevron. Here, Chevron has reduced its steam:oil ratio (i.e.,

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Chevron Oil Oil-Sands Production

Chevron announces $32.7B capital and exploratory budget for 2012; LNG and deepwater investments propel a step change

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a $32.7 Included in the 2012 program are $3 billion of planned expenditures by affiliates, which do not require cash outlays by Chevron. The Wheatstone LNG project was sanctioned in September 2011 and is entering its first year of construction. We continue to develop an unparalleled project queue.

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Chevron 2012 Angola Saudi Arabia

GE to supply 3 aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules for Chevron floating production unit in GOM

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JULY 6, 2011

GE Oil & Gas will supply three customized aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules to provide reliable electric power for a new Chevron floating production unit that will produce oil and gas from the Jack and St. Shipment of the equipment is scheduled to start in December of 2011, with commercial startup planned by early 2013.

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Chevron Gas Supplies Production

Cascadia Capital forecasts flurry of MA and commercialization in clean tech in 2011; US Congress to discard Cap and Trade

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

energy sector will spur a flurry of M&A and investment activity in 2011 as renewable energy. Sustainable Industries Predictions for 2011 include: Cap and Trade Discarded by Congress in National Energy Policy. A national energy policy is a top priority that crosses party lines given its importance to.

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Congress 2011 Clean Cleaning

BP approves revamped $9B Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico; down from original $20B cost

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

working interest) and co-owners, BHP Billiton (23.9%) and Union Oil Company of California, an affiliate of Chevron USA Inc (15.6%), decided to re-evaluate the Mad Dog Phase 2 project after an initial design—pegged at some $20 billion—proved too complex and costly. Oil production is expected to begin in late 2021. Earlier post.).

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Mexico Chevron Oil Oil Prices

Shell Starts Up 100K Barrel per Day Expansion in the Canadian Oil Sands

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Construction for an expansion of the Scotford Upgrader is underway, and will come on-stream in 2011. Once the Upgrader expansion is online early next year production will rise towards capacity over 2011. — Marvin Odum, Shell Upstream Americas Director and President of Shell Oil Company.

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Oil-Sands Oil Chevron Canada

KiOR signs second offtake agreement for renewable gasoline and diesel blendstocks

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MAY 3, 2011

The companies have also signed a Testing and Optimization Agreement to optimize the compatibility of KiOR’s blendstocks with Chevron’s facilities. This is the second offtake agreement KiOR has signed for its Columbus, MS, facility, having announced an agreement with Hunt Refining Company in March of 2011. Earlier post.)

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Gasoline Renewable Columbus Diesel

Lux: Total is leading example of oil supermajor expanding into solar plus storage and distributed generation

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Indeed, the recent Tesla-SolarCity merger highlights the increasingly high-stakes race to integrate the future pieces of power, which are underpinned by distributed solar and advanced energy storage. It bought a controlling stake in SunPower in 2011, years before it bought battery-maker Saft. It’s not just the battery anymore.

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Oil Solar Energy Storage Asia

UT Austin team and partners report on extensive measurements of methane emissions during natural gas production

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The study, a unique partnership between the Environmental Defense Fund, participating companies, an independent Scientific Advisory Panel and the study team: Is based on measurements made directly at 190 production sites throughout the United States, with access provided by nine participating energy companies.

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Austin Gas Emissions Production

GE Oil Gas Awarded $400+M Contract for Gorgon Natural Gas Projects; GE Turbomachinery to Drive LNG Production and World’s Largest CO2 Injection Project

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The Gorgon Project, operated by the Chevron (currently 50%) in joint venture with Australian subsidiaries of ExxonMobil (25%) and Shell (25%), is currently estimated to cost A$43 billion (US$37 billion) for the first phase of development. billion barrels of oil (boe). First gas is planned for 2014.

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Gas Oil Chevron South Korea

Report finds Coal-to-Liquids and Oil Shale pose significant financial and environmental risks to investors

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

The report comes as oil majors like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, and other companies, are developing at least a couple dozen oil shale and CTL projects, including 12 CTL facilities projected to produce 170 million barrels of liquid fuels per year at a cost of $2 billion to $7 billion per plant.

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Coal Oil Water Oil Prices

Shell Starts Up Commercial-scale Field Demonstration of Atmospheric Fines Drying for Oil Sands Tailings Processing

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AUGUST 28, 2010

The fluid fine tailings concentrate to about 30% mass solids in two to three years but only very slowly thereafter, according to Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB). Compliance with the two main Directive 074 criteria (fines capture and DDA strength) is to be measured by companies annually starting in 2011.

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Oil-Sands Oil Commercial Canada

Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

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MARCH 17, 2012

The open access Supporting Information (SI) file accompanying the paper includes a useful tutorial on crude oil, refining, and refinery energy use.]. and incidental energy losses due to flaring, fugitive emissions, etc. The study published in ES&T was funded by Chevron Energy Technology Company.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions CO2

Chevron commences operations on drillship with capacity for dual gradient drilling in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

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MAY 7, 2012

The Pacific Santa Ana , a deepwater drillship built to Chevron’s specifications, has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five-year contract with a subsidiary of Pacific Drilling S.A. Dual Gradient Drilling: The System (Chevron presentation June 2011). Source: Pacific Drilling. Click to enlarge.

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Chevron Mexico Environment Water

Accenture Reports Identifies 12 Disruptive Technologies Most Likely to Transform Supply and Demand of Transport Fuels and Cut Emissions Within Next 10 Years

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

These are “no-regret” technologies, as they represent actions that can be made today to make a significant impact on CO 2 , energy security and the optimization of local resources. This is coupled with the innovation seen in first-generation players to drive down costs, energy and water use, and GHG emissions. Controlled charging.

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Transportation Supplies Emissions Fuel

Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Rulemaking will determine the extent to which this new regime will promote plug-in cars beyond the initial tens of thousands that seem slated to appear from the majors beginning with MY 2011. Energy Secretary Chu’s decision to defund hydrogen fuel cell vehicle programs was an unexpected and welcome decision.

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Plug-in Plug Cars Obama

Canada oil sands producers form alliance to improve environmental performance

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MARCH 2, 2012

In addition, it would create the ability to operate de-oiling at a higher temperature, which would improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Results recorded during summer 2011 indicate that more than 94% of the black spruce trees have survived. Cenovus Energy Inc. Shell Canada Energy. Imperial Oil.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Water

DOE releases final report from 6-year national fuel cell vehicle demo; key targets met, with twice the efficiency of today’s gasoline vehicles

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JULY 18, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the final report from its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for a technology validation project that collected data from more than 180 fuel cell electric vehicles over six years (early 2005 through September 2011). These vehicles made more than 500,000 trips and traveled 3.6

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Gasoline Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen

California ARB staff hosting first meeting of Low Carbon Fuel Standard advisory panel

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FEBRUARY 6, 2011

The staff of the California Air Resources Board is holding the first meeting of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Advisory Panel on 16 Feb 2011. Dan Adler, California Clean Energy Fund. Eric Bowen, Renewable Energy Group. Remy Garderet, Energy Independence Now. James Holland, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.

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California Standards Carbon San Diego

EPA grants 31 small refinery exemptions for RFS

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AUGUST 12, 2019

For 2011 and 2012, 24 small refineries were granted an exemption under this provision. These exemptions are destroying demand for homegrown energy at a time when family farms are struggling, farm income is plummeting and many ethanol plants have been forced to close their doors or idle production.

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Grant EPA Iowa 2018

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APRIL 28, 2009

In addition to a recent electric car deal with NISSAN Motors ( NSANY ), Portland General Electric, the Oregon state governor and GE have also announced a joint venture with Mitsubishi Motors ( MMTOF.PK ) to develop and sell the Miev electric car with 85 mile range by 2011. By 2011 look for a larger THINK Ox.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV

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Tokyo Electric signs equity and additional LNG offtake agreements with Chevron for Wheatstone Project

Chevron announces oil discovery in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico

Oil Majors’ Costs Have Risen 66% Since 2011

Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

Chevron announces $32.7B capital and exploratory budget for 2012; LNG and deepwater investments propel a step change

GE to supply 3 aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules for Chevron floating production unit in GOM

Cascadia Capital forecasts flurry of MA and commercialization in clean tech in 2011; US Congress to discard Cap and Trade

BP approves revamped $9B Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico; down from original $20B cost

Shell Starts Up 100K Barrel per Day Expansion in the Canadian Oil Sands

KiOR signs second offtake agreement for renewable gasoline and diesel blendstocks

Lux: Total is leading example of oil supermajor expanding into solar plus storage and distributed generation

UT Austin team and partners report on extensive measurements of methane emissions during natural gas production

GE Oil Gas Awarded $400+M Contract for Gorgon Natural Gas Projects; GE Turbomachinery to Drive LNG Production and World’s Largest CO2 Injection Project

Report finds Coal-to-Liquids and Oil Shale pose significant financial and environmental risks to investors

Shell Starts Up Commercial-scale Field Demonstration of Atmospheric Fines Drying for Oil Sands Tailings Processing

Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

Chevron commences operations on drillship with capacity for dual gradient drilling in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Accenture Reports Identifies 12 Disruptive Technologies Most Likely to Transform Supply and Demand of Transport Fuels and Cut Emissions Within Next 10 Years

Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Canada oil sands producers form alliance to improve environmental performance

DOE releases final report from 6-year national fuel cell vehicle demo; key targets met, with twice the efficiency of today’s gasoline vehicles

California ARB staff hosting first meeting of Low Carbon Fuel Standard advisory panel

EPA grants 31 small refinery exemptions for RFS

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