Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2011
The 100,000 barrels-per-day expansion takes upgrading capacity at Scotford to 255,000 barrels-per-day of heavy oil from the Athabasca oil sands. The Scotford Upgrader processes oil sands bitumen from the Muskeg River Mine and Jackpine Mine.
Green Car Congress
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.,
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2009
The provincial government of Alberta and the federal government of Canada will invest C$865 million (US$822 million) in a large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Athabasca oil sands. A total of $100 million has been budgeted this fiscal year for engineering and design work. Quest public disclosure document.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2012
Statoil has made the investment decision to develop the Mariner heavy oil field development in the UK North Sea. The field is estimated to produce for 30 years, with average production of around 55,000 barrels of oil per day over the plateau period from 2017 to 2020. detailed engineering. billion (US$1.9
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2012
RTP is a fast pyrolysis process in which biomass is introduced into a vessel and rapidly heated to 500 °C by a tornado of hot sand and then rapidly cooled within seconds. approx 75 wt%) of liquid bio-oil from residual forestry or agricultural biomass. The process generates a relatively high yield (i.e.,
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States. —David Allen, professor of chemical engineering at UT’s Cockrell School of Engineering and principal investigator.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2012
Twelve of Canada’s oil sands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oil sands through collaborative action and innovation. This would improve plant reliability.
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