article thumbnail

New Mexico Adopts Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program

Green Car Congress

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) adopted by a vote of four to three greenhouse gas reduction regulations—called the most stringent in the US—that will reduce global warming pollutants through a regional cap on greenhouse gas emissions. New Mexico Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Regulation.

article thumbnail

NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

Green Car Congress

But EMIT has demonstrated another capability: detecting the presence of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This image shows a methane plume 2 miles (3 kilometers) long that NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission detected southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

article thumbnail

EIA: US Permian Basin oil production and resource assessments continue to increase

Green Car Congress

As production in other regions fell throughout most of 2015 and 2016, the Permian provided a growing share of US crude oil production. As of 21 April 2017, the number of rigs in the Permian Basin reached 340, or 40% of the 857 total oil- and natural gas-directed rigs operating in the United States. million b/d) in that month.

Oil 170
article thumbnail

GTI plans second Permian Basin field test site to maximize hydraulic fracturing efficiency and increase production

Green Car Congress

GTI (Gas Technology Institue) is leading a high-profile program on Hydraulic Fracturing Test Sites (HFTS) in the Permian Basin, bringing together government and industry to improve recovery, continue enhancing environmentally responsible methods of optimizing production, and lowering costs in the Midland and Delaware Basins.

Delaware 210
article thumbnail

Alon USA receives go ahead for Bakersfield, CA rail terminal and refinery project; Bakken light crude

Green Car Congress

The project also entails the addition of up to three boilers; construction of process unit upgrades and/ or modifications; repurposing of existing tankage; and relocation and modernization of existing Liquefied Propane Gas (LPG) truck rack and upgrades to the sales rack. Background.

USA 231
article thumbnail

Sapphire Energy and Phillips 66 parter on co-processing of algae crude oil with conventional crude

Green Car Congress

Once the study is finished, the companies will work together to complete the EPA certification process to register a new fuel product entering the market. Sapphire Energy is now producing crude oil daily from algae biomass cultivated and harvested at the company’s Green Crude Farm, located in Columbus, New Mexico.

Oil 199
article thumbnail

California ARB greenlights states GHG cap-and-trade program

Green Car Congress

The regulation will cover 360 businesses representing 600 facilities and is divided into two broad phases: an initial phase beginning in 2012 that will include all major industrial sources along with utilities; and, a second phase that starts in 2015 and brings in distributors of transportation fuels, natural gas and other fuels.