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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The project will reduce the volumes of coal needed in the iron ore reduction process, thereby cutting CO2 emissions. ArcelorMittal Europe is also implementing projects in almost all its Flat Products sites to use gases from different sources for blast furnace injection. Hydrogen and the blast furnace. Smart Carbon with hydrogen.

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APRIL 17, 2021

This decrease was driven largely by a decrease in emissions from fossil fuel combustion resulting from a decrease in total energy use in 2019 compared to 2018 and a continued shift from coal to natural gas and renewables in the electric power sector. Preliminary outlook for 2020. CO 2 emissions decreased 2.2% from 2018 to 2019.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. Gt C (15 Gt CO 2 ) per year, according to the study.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Four rare earth elements (REEs) recovery projects managed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) ( earlier post ) have made significant progress in the development of a domestic supply of REEs from coal and coal by-products by successfully producing REE concentrates.

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APRIL 7, 2021

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts an increase in demand for petroleum products during the 2021 summer driving season as the impacts of COVID-19 diminish in the United States. million b/d from March 2020. million b/d from 2020. MMBtu in 2020 to $3.31/MMBtu gal on 22 March. gal by September.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. The decline in 2020 of -5.2% to 0.6%], potentially only the third such decline since 1990 (the others in 2009 and 2020). CO 2 emissions from coal use are expected to grow 1.0% [0.2% growth) for coal, but decline by 2.3%

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

billion investment (100% basis) to continue production at its Kennecott copper operation in the United States. Rio Tinto Kennecott represents nearly 8% of US annual copper production. Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the top producing copper mines in the world with production at more than 20 million tons.

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JUNE 4, 2013

In a new report, energy, mining and minerals consultancy Wood Mackenzie projects that despite efforts to limit coal consumption and seek alternative fuel options, China’s strong appetite for thermal coal will lead to a doubling of demand by 2030. It is very unlikely that demand for thermal coal in China will peak before 2030.

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JULY 19, 2012

Celanese TCX production process. TCX builds on Celanese’s acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. The customers are the same, and the supply chain is the same. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 18, 2013

by 2020, and 64% by 2050. The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s. In 1990 the underlying carbon intensity of supply was 57.1 The world must slow the growth of energy demand as well as make its energy supply cleaner, the IEA said. Source: IEA. tCO 2 /toe).

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AUGUST 28, 2017

On 27 October 2016, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced that beginning on 1 January 2020, the maximum sulfur content allowed in marine bunker fuel will be reduced from 3.50% mass by mass (m/m) to 0.50% m/m (35,000 ppm to 5,000 ppm)—five years earlier than many expected. Earlier post.) —Kurt Barrow.

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JUNE 9, 2011

A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) found that without climate policy, CTL has the potential to account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The bauxite agreement between Vale and Hydro will be terminated and, following the transactions, Glencore will continue to supply approximately 30% of Alunorte’s long-term bauxite requirements from MRN. The transaction will have no impact on the physical supply contracts or cost to Hydro Aluminium Metal. MRN started production in 1979.

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

Investment slumped by 30% in 2020. Current non-OPEC production would fall by 20 million barrels per day by 2030 without further upstream capex investment , according to the report. Fear of a mismatch between demand and future supply could start to materialize in this time frame, ,hte report says.

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MAY 21, 2012

Overview of the Bluegas catalytic coal methanation process. billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. Click to enlarge. pure methane).

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. in 2020, it could rebound quickly to previous levels as soon as 2021, depending on the persistence and longevity of the pandemic. MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The European Commission presented an Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials , the 2020 List of Critical Raw Materials and a foresight study on critical raw materials for strategic technologies and sectors from the 2030 and 2050 perspectives. A secure and sustainable supply of raw materials is a prerequisite for a resilient economy.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Tesla has faced significant scrutiny over water use at its Gigafactory Berlin over the years, though the automaker has recently highlighted its water recycling efforts in production at the plant. Vogel noted that Giga Berlin used just 300,000 cubic meters of water in 2022, although it had been approved for up to 1.8 million cubic meters.

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JULY 25, 2013

However, fossil fuels continue to supply nearly 80% of world energy use through 2040. Natural gas is the fastest-growing fossil fuel, as global supplies of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane increase. To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 Liquid fuels.

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MAY 11, 2020

This, they suggest in a paper in Joule , will emerge via three overlapping technology generations: Generation 1 is based on an expansion of current-day Haber-Bosch ammonia production using CO 2 sequestration or offsets. Ammonia production is currently responsible for ~1.0% Total NH 3 production is shown as a dotted orange curve.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The project has received financial support from Gassnova CLIMIT and is a follow-up to the company’s recently launched climate roadmap to reduce emissions towards net zero while growing supplies to the green transition. The smelting furnace is fed with quartz and various types of carbonaceous materials: coke, coal, charcoal and wood chippings.

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APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. —EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski.

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JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. However, maintaining current rates of domestic petroleum production (about 5.1 Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. emissions, according to the report.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The differences from AEO2013 to AEO2014 result from different fuel prices, updated manufacturer product offerings, changing technology attributes, and an updated view of consumer perceptions of infrastructure availability for E85 vehicles. Natural gas overtakes coal as the largest fuel for US electricity generation.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

The decline of coal use in the European Union and United States is overshadowed by surging natural gas and oil use around the world, according to the researchers. About 40% of global carbon dioxide emissions were attributable to coal use, 34% from oil, 20% from natural gas, and the remaining 6% from cement production and other sources.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Further, Volkswagen has signed off a comprehensive decarbonization program aimed at achieving a fully CO 2 -neutral balance in all areas from fleet to production to administration by 2050. We will be systematically aligning production and other stages in the value chain to CO2 neutrality in the coming years. billion) by 2023.

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MARCH 27, 2014

The updated version includes a longer-term outlook by expanding the time horizon from 2010 and beyond to 2020 and beyond. The report aims to establish a consensual well-to-wheels (WTW) energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions assessment of a wide range of automotive fuels and powertrains relevant to Europe in 2020 and beyond.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Shale gas offsets declines in other US supply to meet. This larger resource leads to about double the shale gas production and more than 20% higher total lower-48 natural gas production in 2035, with lower natural gas prices, than was projected in the AEO2010 Reference case. consumption growth and lower import needs.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

per gallon, EV penetration in the US could reach 6% of the light-duty vehicle fleet by 2020, whereas with gasoline at $3.34, the EV share could be 9%. Thus production is removed only as well output declines, which would take 1-2 years in the absence of new fracking activity in those regions. The share is less than 1% now.

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MARCH 19, 2015

The project will run from 2015 to 2020 in a redevelopment area of the Methil Docks in Methil, Fife, Scotland’s third largest council area. In the project, Toshiba will deploy its hydrogen energy management system (H 2 EMS), which is designed for optimal production and storage of hydrogen based on electricity supply and demand forecasts.

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JUNE 2, 2014

The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). For Option 2, EPA projects annual CO 2 reductions between 13% and 14% in 2020 (reaching 23% below 2005 emissions) and 17% in 2025 (reaching 23% to 24% below 2005 emissions).

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PRTM projects that the global EV value chain will likely be greater than US$250 billion by 2020. For example, as one of the major players in lithium batteries for cell phones, China has established the production capability and value chain to cost-effectively produce lithium batteries in scale. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2020

In February 2020, ASTM International approved and published the sixth annex to D7566, establishing criteria for the production and use of catalytic hydrothermolysis jet fuel (CHJ), a type of synthetic kerosene. Earlier post.). IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. s petroleum-based jet.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Unconventional liquids become increasingly important in the total supply of liquid fuels, according to IEO2011. World oil prices remain high in the IEO2011 Reference case, but oil consumption continues to grow; both conventional and unconventional liquid supplies are used to meet rising demand. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Kawasaki has already been collaborating with Iwatani and Electric Power Development in hydrogen mass production and transportation. Shell will bring its own deep expertise in energy transportation to the efforts to unlock large supplies of hydrogen and develop international standards for marine transportation. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In the New Policies Scenario, the WEO ’s central scenario, the United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas by 2020 and is almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035. By around 2020, the United States is projected to become the largest. Energy demand. Renewables.

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Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. In the 4th quarter of 2021, the International Energy Agency reported that average European wholesale electricity prices were more than four times their 2015-2020 average. In the U.K.,

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