Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Exxon Mobil Corporation’s affiliate, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production South Africa Limited, will soon begin exploration activities offshore South Africa. The Impact Oil and ExxonMobil areas offshore South Africa. South Africa has no significant crude oil production. Source: Petroleum Agency SA.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

As the first batch of pilot projects of CNPC in the new energy field, the hydrogen stations in operation lay a foundation for the company’s future extensive deployment of hydrogen stations and the construction of hybrid stations of oil, gas, electricity, and hydrogen. CNPC) is an integrated international energy company.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Saudi Arabia’s ambitions for an EV supply chain are part of the diversification of the national economy away from oil, a project guided by the government’s Vision 2030 reform plan announced in 2016. Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Company will supply feedstock in the form of decant oil. Earlier post.)

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Saudi Arabia Supplies Building Chevron 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2014

Solaris energy tobacco is optimized for seed production for energy applications, not leaf production. Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from Solaris, a new hybrid tobacco plant optimized for seed production for energy applications. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2012

CNOOC Limited—China’s largest producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world—is acquiring all of the Common Shares of Canada-based energy company Nexen Inc. It is the second-largest oil producer in the UK North Sea.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. The product can also be cracked back to hydrogen gas for further applications.

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South Africa Hydrogen Green Africa 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. trillion in 2018, a level similar to 2017.

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MAY 13, 2013

GOS is exclusively focused on large-scale mining and processing of the world’s kerogen rich oil shale deposits to oil, with potential for add-on electricity production and associated minerals extraction. Lifecycle GHG for oil shale. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 15, 2011

between 2008 and 2009 due to the global financial crisis, global oil consumption recovered by 3.1% About one third of this growth came from China, which now uses more than 10% of the world’s oil. of total oil consumption in 2010. of total oil consumption in 2010. After falling 1.5% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 87.4

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Oil Global Oil-Sands Saudi Arabia 287

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

Exxon Mobil Corporation plans to invest approximately $185 billion over the next five years to develop new supplies of energy to meet expected growth in demand, Chairman and CEO Rex W. Tillerson said that even with significant efficiency gains, ExxonMobil expects global energy demand to increase by 30% by 2040, compared to 2010 levels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.

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Coal Clean Cleaning Financing 243

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Flows through the Strait in 2011 were roughly 35 percent of all seaborne traded oil, or almost 20 percent of oil traded worldwide. ”. They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straits. million bbl/d in 2009-2010. —US EIA. Source: EIA.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In its International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050. IEO2019 contains energy consumption projections for 16 regions of the world. —Linda Capuano, EIA Administrator. Light-duty vehicles.

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Asia Energy 2018 India 220

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Occidental and Carbon Engineering are also adapting Stratos’ front-end engineering and design study for a DAC plant to be built at King Ranch in Kleberg County, which is part of the South Texas DAC Hub that was selected to receive a grant from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. Earlier post.)

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Carbon Engine Companies Texas 150

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH has developed a technology that binds hydrogen gas with a carrier oil. One challenge for the adoption of green hydrogen as an element of a clean energy strategy is how to make sufficient quantities of green hydrogen available in economically viable ways. Earlier post.)This

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Porsche Hydrogen Oil Spain 259

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

As the world population increases by the estimated 30% from 2010 to 2040, ExxonMobil sees global GDP rising by about 140%, but energy demand by only about 35% due to greater efficiency. Even as demand increases, the world will continue to become more efficient in its energy use, according to the 2015 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a developer of Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, is planning to implement its natural gas distribution technology in western Africa. Energtek CEO Lev Zaidenberg, CTO Yuri Ginzburg and other staff members recently concluded a series of visits and meetings in Africa. Energtek Inc., Earlier post.). Energtek CEO Lev Zaidenberg.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

The CEO of Stellantis India shared that Stellantis has already exported the C3 to Africa and the C3 Aircross to Malaysia and Indonesia. The company is considering exporting Jeep vehicles from India to other Southeast Asian markets and Africa. It also exported some Jeep vehicles from India to Japan.

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Asia India Citroen Bhutan 96

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MARCH 11, 2015

Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the excess crude flowing from the oil patch, there is also an abundance of market indicators that while important, tend to produce a lot of noise that makes any accurate estimate nearly impossible.

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Oil Prices Oil Price South Africa 150

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Cepsa—the Spain-based multinational oil and gas company—will invest more than €3 billion to establish the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, creating the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe in southern Spain. The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Renewable Europe Green 397

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APRIL 18, 2012

USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. These new estimates are for conventional oil and gas resources only. Geological Survey (USGS) released today. The US imported approximately 11.4

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The global energy map is changing significantly, according to the 2012 edition of the Internal Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook ( WEO-2012 ). The IEA said these changes will recast expectations about the role of different countries, regions and fuels in the global energy system over the coming decades.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. The burning of solid biofuels, such as wood for indoor heating and cooking, is another major source of PM 2.5 , accounting for an additional 740,000 deaths, especially across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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JULY 28, 2014

In a new report ( Transportation Forecast: Global Fuel Consumption ), Navigant Research forecasts total road transportation energy consumption will grow from 81.1 The United States is currently the largest consumer of energy in the road transportation sector, with nearly 23.1 of total energy consumption by 2035.

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Transportation Global Fuel Alternative Fuels 255

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% However, this growth in energy demand is significantly lower than the 3.4% Oil demand grows at an average rate of 0.7% billion cars in 2015 to 1.8

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Commonwealth countries can cut their cumulative oil bill by £2 trillion (US$3.2 Member countries come from six regions: Africa (19); Asia (8); the Americas (3); the Caribbean (10); Europe (3); and the South Pacific (11). The Commonwealth is home to two billion people. The association has roots as far back as the 1870s. disaster.

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AUGUST 7, 2021

Enel’s Eugenio Montale power plant in La Spezia (Liguria region) will be used as an initial test site for the activities covered by the agreement, thus launching a sustainable energy transition path for the site.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

We are looking forward to this collaboration and are confident that we can make a major contribution to sustainable energy supply in the future. The company with German roots and headquarters in Kassel and Hamburg explores for and produces gas and oil in 13 countries worldwide. —Prof Wetzel.

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Kits Hydrogen Industrial Industry 273

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Removing fossil fuel subsidies would have only a small effect on CO 2 emissions and renewable energy use, according to a new study led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and published in the journal Nature. First, these subsidies generally apply only to oil, gas, and electricity. This equates to 0.5-2

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Emissions Fuel CO2 Oil 186

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MARCH 17, 2012

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO 2 emissions (ranging between 5.4% and incidental energy losses due to flaring, fugitive emissions, etc.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 29, 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought a stream of reports about the country’s energy exports. The EU bought about 85 percent of the natural gas that Russia shipped out (via pipelines from Western Siberia) and nearly 55 percent of the crude oil and refined oil products that Russia exported (via pipelines and tankers).

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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. The pandemic has created disruption in the global energy sector, but low gas prices will ultimately stimulate demand growth as the economy recovers.

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Gas Global Industrial Industry 243

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Sasol recently signed a joint venture agreement with Australia-based Origin Energy Limited for the purposes of exploring for coal bed methane (CBM) in Botswana. The partners say that discovery of large volumes of CBM in Botswana could be used to generate power and liquid fuels in southern Africa.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory.

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Nigeria Africa Solar Grid 68

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JULY 8, 2016

Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption.

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Oil Gas-Electric Universal Africa 150

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. —Stephen Cornell. —Stephen Cornell.

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Oil Prices Louisiana South Africa Oil 150

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MAY 21, 2014

Dresser-Rand will showcase its Guascor biogas engines—with ratings from 140 to 1240 kW—to visitors attending the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) Biennial Conference & Exhibition 2014. Dresser-Rand is among the largest suppliers of rotating equipment solutions worldwide.

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