Coal, Gas and Saudi Arabia

Aramco, Shandong Energy to collaborate on downstream projects in China; cooperation across H2, renewables and carbon capture technologies

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Shandong Energy Group is the third-largest coal mining group in China in terms of production volume. The MoU comes in the context of efforts to strengthen ties between Saudi Arabia and China; Saudi Arabia and China signed a strategic partnership agreement last week during a visit to the kingdom by President Xi Jinping.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia China Renewable Carbon

Air Products to acquire Shell’s coal gasification technology business and patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification; coal-to-fuels in China

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification. As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects.

Coal

Coal Saudi Arabia China Production

Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

A decade later, fossil fuels continue to constitute 80% of global energy consumed—as they have since about 1910, when coal consumption surpassed that of biofuels, the researchers wrote. In 2018, eight member states maintained $207 billion in fossil fuel subsidies, International Energy Agency (IEA) data show.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Global Fuel Oil

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

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JUNE 13, 2012

Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% Gas production globally grew by 3.1%; the US recorded 7.7% The EU’s decline in gas production was the highest on record (-11.4%).

Coal

Coal Oil Renewable Saudi Arabia

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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MAY 21, 2020

SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The end result is high purity hydrogen and a small amount of biogenic carbon dioxide, which is not additive to greenhouse gas emissions. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Green California

BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

There could be a question mark over Saudi Arabia’s plan, announced in 2012, to invest $109bn in 41GW of solar power by 2032. Saudi Arabia burns up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day to generate over 50% of its electricity. Oil at $60/barrel could mean a natural gas price as much as $0.90/MMBtu

Oil Prices

Oil Prices Oil Price Carbon

The War in Ukraine Disrupts Trade in Both Food and Fuel

Cars That Think

AUGUST 29, 2022

Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa).

Ukraine

Ukraine Russia Saudi Arabia Fuel

Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

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JULY 20, 2012

tonnes per capita, despite a decline due to the recession in 2008-2009, high oil prices and an increased share of natural gas. Natural gas consumption increased globally by 2.2% The largest growth took place in China (+22%), Saudi Arabia (+13%) and Japan (+12%). Coal consumption in China increased by 9.7%

2011

2011 Emissions CO2 Global

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of advanced lower-emission coal technologies. Percent reduction from 2005 baseline). Renewable fuel.

Obama

Obama Coal Clean Cleaning

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

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JANUARY 19, 2011

However, both cases result in global CO 2 emissions well above the IEA 450 scenario—a back-cast which illustrates what is required to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 ppm. Toward the end of the period, coal demand in China will no longer be rising and China is projected to become the world’s largest oil consumer.

Energy

Energy Economy Global Oil-Sands

IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The WEO finds that the extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output in the United States will mean a sea-change in global energy flows. 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.

Global

Global 2012 Energy Oil

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

This geographically diverse group comprises Brazil and Mexico in the Americas; South Africa and Nigeria in Africa; Egypt and Turkey in North Africa/Mediterranean; Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East; as well as Thailand and Indonesia in Asia. The OECD represents the developed economies.

Energy

Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands

Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

Recent trade deals and high-level cooperation between Russia and China have set off alarm bells in the West as policymakers and oil and gas executives watch the balance of power in global energy markets shift to the East. The company was also seeking financing for a gas project in Russia despite Western sanctions. “It

Russia

Russia Oil Saudi Arabia China

PHEV's and Water Consumption

Plug In Partners

APRIL 2, 2008

That’s because coal-fired and nuclear power plants that use steam to drive a turbine typically use water—vast amounts of water—to cool and condense the steam at the exhaust." Water consumption per MWH for a new natural gas plant is around 250 gallons per MWH. Or in Saudi Arabia where they use massive water flooding?

Water

Water PHEV Saudi Arabia Oil-Sands

War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. For natural gas, it is the world’s second largest producer , behind the United States and ahead of Iran, and its largest exporter. Consumption of E.U.-produced

Ukraine

Ukraine Russia Fuel Saudi Arabia

Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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MAY 6, 2019

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so. Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry.

Carbon

Carbon Europe Climate Change Saudi Arabia

UK, Saudi team shows hydrocarbon wax is a viable, safe medium for on-board hydrogen storage

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

The F-T wax can be manufactured using renewable energy and any carbon-containing resources including biomass, CO 2 , natural gas, coal—and the resulting carbon residue from the hydrogen-depleted wax.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Saudi Arabia Carbon Cheap

PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Examining the role of shale gas, PwC’s report suggests that at current rates of consumption, replacing 10% of global oil and coal consumption with gas could deliver emissions savings of around 3% a year (1gt CO 2 e per annum). Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina).

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Natural gas also plays a growing role in the transport sector, its share rising from 3% to 4%. The use of natural gas grows most in road transport, where its share rises from 1% to 3%. Currently the dominant use of gas in the transport sector is in gas compression for pipeline transport and distribution. —WEO 2011.

Oil

Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet

EV Driven

Aramco, Shandong Energy to collaborate on downstream projects in China; cooperation across H2, renewables and carbon capture technologies

Air Products to acquire Shell’s coal gasification technology business and patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification; coal-to-fuels in China

Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

The War in Ukraine Disrupts Trade in Both Food and Fuel

Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

PHEV's and Water Consumption

War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

UK, Saudi team shows hydrocarbon wax is a viable, safe medium for on-board hydrogen storage

PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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