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Oil sands GHG lifecycle study using operating data finds lower emitting oil sands cases outperform higher emitting conventional crude cases; a call for more sophisticated tools and reporting

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JULY 7, 2012

Well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas emissions for in situ SAGD and surface mining pathways generated employing GHOST/TIAX/ GHGenius combination and comparison with SAGD, mining and conventional crude oil literature pathways (all results are on a HHV basis). 74% of WTW emissions in our oil sands pathways.

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Oil-Sands Oil Gas-Electric Emissions

CAPP forecasts oil sands development still drives steady Canadian oil production growth to 2030

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JUNE 12, 2014

However, the new forecast represents a slowing of future oil sands production growth compared to the predictions of last year’s forecast. According to CAPP’s 2014 Crude Oil Forecast, Markets and Transportation , total Canadian crude oil production will increase to 6.4 CAPP forecast. Click to enlarge. In 2013, 1.9

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Oil-Sands Oil Production 2013

Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The team is back in the lab to find a fix. Shamlou, Elmira & Vidic, Radisav & Khanna, Vikas.

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Water North Dakota Oil-Sands Engine

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate

Researcher urges more effort on assessment of land and water impacts of oil sands production; reference point for other unconventional fuels

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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Oil-Sands Water Oil Fuel

US State Department Issues Permit for Alberta Clipper Pipeline for Oil Sands Crude Delivery to US

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. Petroleum exploration and exploitation, by comparison, has gotten a free pass.

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Oil-Sands Oil Wisconsin United States

Two Lifecycle Studies Find Greater Range in GHG Emissions from both Conventional and Oil Sands Derived Crude Than Previously Shown; Oils Sands Emissions Comparable to Conventional Oil Production in Some Cases

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JULY 24, 2009

Two new lifecycle studies have found that direct greenhouse emissions from producing, transporting and refining oil-sands derived crude, while greater on average than those from conventional crudes, can also overlap the conventional crude range, depending upon a number of factors.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Range

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Comparison of the percent differential for WTW (well-to-wheel) GHGs from gasoline produced from WCSB oil sands using different production processes relative to gasoline produced from reference crudes. Source: FEIS, Appendix V. Click to enlarge. The NETL study serves as a key input for analyses conducted by EPA and DOE.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Oklahoma

Ecofys report concludes current European regulations underestimating GHG reductions

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The study was commissioned by the European Oilseed Alliance (EOA), the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) and the European Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry (FEDIOL). Even for conventional oil production fields, because larger existing fields get depleted, the extraction efforts increase while smaller fields are taken in operation.

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Oil-Sands Oil 2014 Fuel

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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MARCH 2, 2013

Comparison of proposed Keystone XL route to previously proposed project segment. The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska.

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate

New petroleum refining lifecycle model finds the variability in GHG emissions from refining different crudes as significant as magnitude expected in upstream operations

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Comparison of GHGenius, JACOBS, TIAX, and the new PRELIM gasoline greenhouse gas (GHG) estimates using base case estimates and variations from the scenario analysis. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson. Click to enlarge. —Abella and Bergerson.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Hydrogen

Marathon Oil splitting in two

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JANUARY 15, 2011

The Board of Directors of Marathon Oil Corporation has approved moving forward with plans to spin off Marathon’s downstream business, creating two independent energy companies. Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) will be a global upstream company based in Houston, Texas.

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Oil Oil-Sands Houston Corporation

Road Test: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Limited AWD

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APRIL 18, 2022

The “wet” part of a DCT means it uses oil to improve lubrication and cooling. A “dry” DCT does not use oil, but is the more fuel efficient of the two types. Note: For our purposes here, a continuously variable transmission (CVT) does not have gears, so is not part of this comparison. The tail end is where things get interesting.

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Hyundai MPG Clean Cleaning

Study finds well-to-wheels GHG emissions of GTL diesel lower than that of petroleum diesel when co-product displacement is considered

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Gas-to-liquids (GTL) process systems boundary with co-product displacement. For petroleum-derived transportation fuels, this includes feedstock. They considered a single product slate from raw gas: LPG, 8.4%; condensate, 17.8%; GTL Naphtha, 23.1%; GTL diesel, 40.7%; GTL normal paraffin, 2.4%; and GTL lubricant base oils, 7.5%.

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Diesel Emissions Oil-Sands Production

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy To Partner on Coal-to-Gas and Coal-to-Hydrogen Facilities with Carbon Capture and Storage

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery.

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Coal Carbon Gas Energy

Argonne releases GREET 2014 lifecycle analysis software; unified graphical toolbox and database

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

The GREET (The Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation Model) team at Argonne National Laboratory has released a new version of the widely used GREET lifecycle analysis tool, GREET 2014. The results of different vehicles can be viewed side by side for comparison.

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2014 Oil-Sands Emissions Carbon

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Oil sands GHG lifecycle study using operating data finds lower emitting oil sands cases outperform higher emitting conventional crude cases; a call for more sophisticated tools and reporting

CAPP forecasts oil sands development still drives steady Canadian oil production growth to 2030

Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Researcher urges more effort on assessment of land and water impacts of oil sands production; reference point for other unconventional fuels

US State Department Issues Permit for Alberta Clipper Pipeline for Oil Sands Crude Delivery to US

Two Lifecycle Studies Find Greater Range in GHG Emissions from both Conventional and Oil Sands Derived Crude Than Previously Shown; Oils Sands Emissions Comparable to Conventional Oil Production in Some Cases

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

Ecofys report concludes current European regulations underestimating GHG reductions

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

New petroleum refining lifecycle model finds the variability in GHG emissions from refining different crudes as significant as magnitude expected in upstream operations

Marathon Oil splitting in two

Road Test: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Limited AWD

Study finds well-to-wheels GHG emissions of GTL diesel lower than that of petroleum diesel when co-product displacement is considered

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy To Partner on Coal-to-Gas and Coal-to-Hydrogen Facilities with Carbon Capture and Storage

Argonne releases GREET 2014 lifecycle analysis software; unified graphical toolbox and database

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