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Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Demand for electricity will make natural gas the fastest growing major energy source and oil and natural gas are expected to meet 60% of energy needs over the next three decades. A total of 21 major oil and gas projects will begin production between 2012 and 2014. billion oil equivalent barrels. The expansion will add 2.6

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), crude oil producers may generate credits for oil that has been produced using innovative methods and delivered to California refineries for processing. Seneca Resource Corporation (Seneca) has applied for LCFS credits for producing crude oil using solar generated electricity.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

increased its oil sands production 14% in 2013, from 89,736 barrels per day in 2013 to 102,500 bbls/day in 2013. The increase in production from the company’s oil sands operations in 2013 was largely driven by its Christina Lake project. For the fourth quarter of 2013, Foster Creek output was in line with company expectations.

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APRIL 20, 2013

Crude oil imports from the top five foreign suppliers to the United States—which in 2012 were Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Iraq, in that order—accounted for almost 72% of total US net crude oil imports, the highest proportion since 1997, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As November draws to a close, there are two major events that could profoundly change the oil markets. He says a deal is more likely than not due to the enormous financial pressure Iran is experiencing because of falling oil prices. Iran’s oil exports have more than halved from their pre-sanctions level of about 2.5

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Railways and pipelines are equally safe means of transporting crude oil, according to a report comparing safety data for each mode. Prior to 2012, rail moved less than 6,000 tank cars of fuel oil and crude oil per year. Beginning in 2012, however, the amount of crude oil transported by rail began to grow.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. The two companies estimate that 500 million gallons (1.8 billion liters) of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil.

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JULY 16, 2017

OPEC exports have come under pressure this week from technical threats to oil fields, with Saudi Arabia’s Manifa problems grabbing the headlines. At the same time, Saudi Arabia’s export volumes have been hit by high local summer demand for crude oil and products. by Cyril Widdershoven for Oilprice.com.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., million tonnes.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

In its interim report for January–September 2012, Neste Oil said that while the third-quarter performance of its Renewable Fuels business (NExBTL) improved by €38 million (US$49 million) from the corresponding period last year, the business still recorded a loss due to low margins, particularly during the first part of the quarter.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week announced the Department of the Interior’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and oil sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 23, 2014

million barrels per day of crude oil and liquids. The Enbridge Mainline system is the largest conduit of oil into the United States. Enbridge transports 53% of US-bound Canadian production, a figure that accounts for approximately 15% of total US crude oil imports. Full design capacity for Line 67 is 880,000 bpd for heavy crude.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. per million Btu (MMBtu).

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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 billion in 2012.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Imperial Oil Limited’s board of directors has approved the expansion phase of the Kearl Oil Sands Project, a surface mining operation under construction northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Imperial Oil’s share of the Kearl Oil Sands asset is 71%. —Imperial Oil Chairman, President and CEO Bruce March.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

France-based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation, notes Lux Research in a new report : “Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Cannot Do About Total’s Billion-Dollar Battery Move.”. Asia challenges loom for battery acquirers.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

will implement corn oil separation technology at its Stockton plant, making it the the second Pacific Ethanol plant to utilize the technology. In June 2012, the company announced the implementation of corn oil separation technology at its Magic Valley plant. Pacific Ethanol Inc. lbs/bushel, according to Edeniq.

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MARCH 28, 2013

With a capacity of 58,000 bbl/d, its primary products include diesel fuel, jet fuel, heavy fuel oils, and liquefied petroleum gas. Much of the increase in demand has been fueled by the boom in crude oil production from the new wells in the Bakken Formation in North Dakota’s northwest corner. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

Microturbine company Capstone Turbine’s ( earlier post ) sales to the oil and gas industry worldwide are at a record pace, according to Jim Crouse, Capstone’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. The company recently received orders totaling 4.2 Tatneft is the sixth largest oil company in Russia.

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Source: Maugeri 2012. Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6

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MARCH 21, 2014

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. A total of 50 offshore energy companies participated in submitting 380 bids. billion in bid revenues.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Over the last few years, Neste Oil has become the world’s largest producer of renewable fuels from waste and residues. In 2014, the company produced nearly 1.3 These raw materials accounted for 62% of Neste Oil’s renewable inputs in 2014 (52% in 2013, 35% in 2012). million tonnes (1.6 million passenger cars for one year.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Syntroleum Corporation filed suit against Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd with the High Court of Singapore asserting Syntroleum’s Singapore Patent No. Syntroleum’s patent issued on November 15, 2012, and expires on December 10, 2028. The two companies have been wrangling since last year. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Preliminary industry data reveals that year-end geothermal growth in 2012 was up 5% from the previous year, according to the Geothermal Energy Association ( GEA ). In 2012, seven new geothermal projects and additions came online in three different states. Projects and new additions that came online in 2012 include: John L.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

The cost associated with replacing a barrel of produced oil has risen from $6 per barrel in 1998 to $27 per barrel in 2011, according to Lux Research—an increase of 350%. Unconventional oil will be a key area of focus for producers. In 2012, 62.5% will be in the oil sands. Source: Lux Research. Click to enlarge.

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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. Repeated investment activities on the same company were counted as multiple. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Exxon Mobil has started production at its Kearl oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada ahead of schedule; the expansion is expected to double overall capacity to 220,000 barrels of bitumen a day, with the expansion itself ultimately expected to reach 110,000 barrels per day. Kearl will access approximately 4.6 Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 8, 2013

ConocoPhillips has entered into an agreement to sell its 100% interest in the Clyden oilsands leasehold to Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada for approximately $720 million (C$751 million) before customary adjustments. billion from the sale of non-strategic assets as part of its 2012-13 asset disposition program.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Separately, Solazyme and Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, a leading global agricultural processor, signed strategic collaboration, manufacturing and market development agreements in which Solazyme and ADM will produce Solazyme’s tailored algal oils in ADM’s advanced fermentation plant at Clinton, Iowa. Solazyme, Inc., Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

has successfully extracted shale oil from the Onnagawa shale formation (at a depth of 1800m) of the Ayukawa Oil and Gas in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture. This marks Japan’s first successful extraction of shale oil in the country. kl was crude oil. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. On 8 October, JAPEX recovered 100.6

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MARCH 14, 2012

In 2011, 49% of the raw materials that Neste Oil used to produce its renewable fuel was certified—an increase of 28 percentage points on the figure for 2010, and nearly quadruple in terms of tonnage. Neste Oil aims to increase its usage of certified raw materials a further 10 percentage points on the 2011 figure during 2012.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Natural gas will represent around half of Shell’s total production by 2012, said Shell CEO Peter Voser in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 8 October. His talk was describing the energy company of the future. Within [the global energy] market, oil and gas are both indispensable and our core business.

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APRIL 5, 2013

General Electric will build a new Global Research Center in Oklahoma dedicated to driving innovation and technological advancements in the oil and gas sector and bringing products to market faster. At GE, we see a tremendous opportunity in the oil and gas space.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Greenstar Recycling has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture (JV) with Vadxx Energy , LLC to convert recovered plastic into synthetic crude oil using Vadxx’s thermal depolymerization process. Vadxx oil is also light, with API gravities primarily between 35 and 45 degrees.

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Bridgestone launched its guayule research initiative in 2012, when it broke ground on a guayule processing and research center in Mesa, Arizona. Today, the company operates the research center in Mesa, as well as a 281-acre guayule farm in Eloy, Arizona.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

JX Nippon Oil, Idemitsu Kosan Co, Cosmo Oil Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu KK are collaborating to test a fixed-fee EV charging service at 27 of their affiliated gas stations in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture during the first quarter of 2012.

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