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T&E study finds EU has replaced Russian oil barrel-for-barrel as continent fails to cut demand

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JULY 31, 2023

Since the EU imposed sanctions on Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, there has been a redrawing of the global oil map, a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. Instead of cutting demand, Europe has simply replaced imports from Russia with oil from other producing countries. C carbon budget.

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Oil Russia Saudi Arabia Ukraine

Neste studying transitioning Porvoo refinery to a renewable & circular site; ending crude oil refining in mid-2030s

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Building on its capability of proactive transformation, Neste has initiated a strategic study on transitioning its refinery in Porvoo, Finland to non-crude oil refining and into a globally leading renewable and circular solutions site. Neste will also continue to actively study opportunities of green hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery.

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Oil Renewable Finland Mariner

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

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JULY 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected both consumer and commercial transportation, but global oil demand will probably continue to grow through 2030, according to a new study. In three of the four scenarios, global oil demand continued to grow through 2030. Lines represent global oil demand by study scenario.

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Oil Climate Global Stimulus Package

Study finds carbon emissions benefits of reduction in oil demand depend on size of drop and global oil market structure

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

New research led by Mohammad Masnadi, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, offers a closer look at the relationship between decreasing demand for oil and a resilient, varied oil market—and the carbon footprint associated with both.

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Oil Carbon Global Market

Researchers find carbon-nanotube-based fluids improve enhanced oil recovery methods

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Researchers in India are using multi-wall carbon nanotube-optimized surfactant-polymer flooding for enhanced oil recovery. In an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , they report that their experimental application of carbon nanotube-based fluids yielded an oil recovery factor of approximately 70% of the original oil in place.

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Oil Carbon Polymer India

Study suggests microbe produces methane from crude oil all by itself

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as seeps. This microbe, an archaeon named Methanoliparia , transforms the hydrocarbons by a process called alkane disproportionation: it splits the oil into methane (CH 4) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Their open-access results are published in the journal mBio.

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Oil Mariner Mexico Gas

UH researchers developing autonomous robot for subsea oil and gas pipeline inspection

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. Preliminary studies were funded by UH’s Subsea Systems Institute.

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Oil Gas Chevron Houston

ORNL computational study finds 15% bio-oil mixture in two-stroke marine engines can cut NOx 13% with efficiency parity

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APRIL 15, 2022

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a new computational model of a two-stroke scaled marine engine, with reduced chemical mechanisms for diesel, biodiesel, bio-oil, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). For the study, the surrogate is based on the bio-oil produced by Dynamotive Energy Systems.

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Mariner Oil Engine Emissions

Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

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JANUARY 24, 2022

In this analysis, I examined the relation between crude-oil production and crude-oil reserves in the world overall and in the United States alone. The variable of interest was the amount of crude oil produced as a percentage of proved reserves of crude oil. For the world, production of crude oil in 1980 represented 3.4%

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Oil Production United States 2020

Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

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MAY 1, 2023

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32

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Coal Pollution Davis San Francisco

Japanese, Russian companies partner on feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia & Japan

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JANUARY 1, 2021

Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC), Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), and Itochu Corporation are partnering on a joint feasibility study of a blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia and Japan. Toyo Engineering Corporation and?Irkutsk

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Japan Russia Companies Oil

T&E study: Europe’s growing use of animal fats in fuels is becoming increasingly unsustainable; 8,800 dead pigs for Paris-NY flight

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JUNE 1, 2023

Europe’s growing use of animal fats to power its cars and planes is becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a new study by Cerulogy funded by European NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Airlines such as Ryanair and Wizz Air have recently struck large deals with oil suppliers for what are termed ‘sustainable aviation fuels’ (SAF).

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Fuel Oil Waste Transportation

Itochu and partners launch feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between Eastern Siberia and Japan

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Itochu Corporation and Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC); Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC); and Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO) have agreed to undertake a detailed study for the commercialization of a blue ammonia value chain between Eastern Siberia and Japan.

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Japan Oil Corporation Carbon

TUAT team develops more efficient method to recover heavy oil using novel chemical flooding

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

By making use of a previously undesired side effect in oil recovery, researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have developed a method that yields up to 20% more heavy oil than traditional methods. Generally, less than 10% of heavy oil may be produced from reservoirs by natural flow after drilling the well.

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Oil Water Sodium Polymer

JFE Steel, Emirates Steel and Itochu to study building supply chain for low-carbon ironmaking

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

JFE Steel Corporation, Itochu Corporation and Emirates Steel Arkan, the largest steel company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will conduct joint detailed feasibility studies on the establishment of a supply chain of ferrous raw material for green ironmaking with low-carbon emission at the project site in Abu Dhabi.

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United Arab Emirates UAE Supplies Carbon

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

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AUGUST 13, 2021

However, a new lifecycle study by a team from Stanford University and Cornell University has concluded that total greenhouse gas emissions from the production of blue hydrogen are quite high, particularly due to the release of fugitive methane. Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of fugitive, unburned methane are shown in red.

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Hydrogen Gas Coal Exhaust

T&E study claims EU’s biofuels policy has wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands

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JULY 6, 2021

Europe’s demand for biodiesel for cars and trucks has likely wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands since the introduction of the EU’s green fuels law in 2010, according to a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E). Palm oil reached its highest level, capping a decade of growth that has seen palm oil consumption treble.

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Netherlands Oil South America 2010

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. EH&E) and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H. —David MacIntosh.

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric

Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

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JUNE 15, 2021

The study considers five different powertrains (internal combustion engine, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, fuel-cell-electric, and battery-electric) and 12 cost components (purchase cost, depreciation, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repair, taxes, registration fees, tolls and parking, payload capacity and labor).

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Maintenance Cost Of Chad Plug-in

Bentley launches 3-year research study on EV powertrains: OCTOPUS

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AUGUST 8, 2020

Bentley Motors has launched a three-year research study on electric vehicle powertrains, utilizing a fully integrated, free from rare-earth magnet e-axle that supports electric vehicle architectures. This reinforces Bentley’s ambition to lead sustainable luxury mobility and introduce the first fully electric Bentley by 2026.

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Bentley Motor Motors Motoring

RSB & Bioledger release biofuels blockchain case study

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MARCH 16, 2021

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) and software company Bioledger released a case study on the potential of a blockchain database to support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified in securing the supply of sustainable renewables.

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Singapore Waste USA Oil

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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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 study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St. Overall, the report indicates that a majority of PM 2.5

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Global St. Louis Fuel Pollution

BNL team uses nc-AFM to find sulfur and nitrogen atoms in crude oil molecules

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NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory and users from ExxonMobil have developed a new approach to identifying atoms that are neither carbon nor hydrogen within a specific type of molecule in crude oil. Crude oil is one of the most complex molecule mixtures on the planet.

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Oil Pollution Hydrogen Carbon

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

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate

New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

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MAY 13, 2022

In early 2020, UK-based independent testing firm Emissions Analytics published a study claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions ( earlier post ). The next stage is then to take that chemical profile and study the toxicity of each.

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Exhaust Emissions Pollution Legal

Woodside, 6 Japanese partners to conduct feasibility study on lower-emissions ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Woodside Energy; Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC); Marubeni Corporation; Hokuriku Electric Power Company; The Kansai Electric Power Co.; In last year’s study, the parties sought to address the feasibility of establishing a supply chain in relation to economics and CO 2 emission reduction.

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Australia Japan Supplies Emissions

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The team studied trends in air pollution in Africa to determine impacts on human health and economic development in 54 African countries. In addition to the toll on human health, air pollution imposes economic costs, the study found. billion IQ points across the continent. Economic output lost to air-pollution-related disease was $3.0

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

S&P Global report forecasts absolute emissions from Canadian oil sands to decline even as production grows

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APRIL 6, 2022

By the middle of this decade greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Canadian oil sands production should be in decline even as production continues to grow, according to a new comprehensive report by S&P Global Commodity Insights that takes into account current technology trends and production growth. million barrels per day during this period.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Global

Study quantifies impact of oil and gas emissions on Denver’s ozone problem

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AUGUST 12, 2016

The first peer-reviewed study to directly quantify how emissions from oil and natural gas (O&NG) activities influence summertime tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) pollution in the Colorado Front Range confirms that chemical vapors from oil and gas activities are a significant contributor to the region’s chronic ozone problem.

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Ozone Oil Gas Emissions

DOE to award up to $88M for oil and natural gas recovery research

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JANUARY 11, 2019

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy announced up to $88 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects enhancing technologies for oil and natural gas recovery under two separate funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). million barrels of oil per day (MMb/d)) to 56.5%

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Oil Gas 2017 2014

New study confirms extensive gas leaks in the North Sea; recommends stricter guidelines for handling of abandoned wells

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel have found that considerable quantities of the greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water from abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea. The new study by GEOMAR scientists confirms this initial estimate on a larger data basis.

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Gas Escape Oil Mariner

ExxonMobil, Georgia Tech and Imperial College London publish joint research on potential breakthrough in membrane technology for oil refining

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JULY 18, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published in the journal Science joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. —Thompson et al.

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Georgia London Oil Polymer

Lifecycle study finds pennycress could make a greener bio-jet fuel

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AUGUST 3, 2021

A common farm weed could make a jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at The Ohio State University. The study was published recently in the journal Applied Energy. The data for the models came from existing studies about biofuel production.

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Fuel Renewable Oil Ohio

France’s high court rules in favor of ending tax benefits for palm oil diesel

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

France’s Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in the country, ruled in favor of excluding palm oil from the list of biofuels that enjoy tax incentives. Oil company Total has estimated it is worth between €70 million and €80 million per year. The EU is the second largest importer of crude palm oil in the world.

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Oil Tax Diesel Green

Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and U.S. trends

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MARCH 26, 2019

In this analysis, I examined the relation between crude-oil production and crude-oil reserves in the world and in the United States. The variable of interest was the amount of crude oil produced as a percentage of proved reserves of crude oil. For the world, production of crude oil in 1987 represented 3.0%

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Oil Production United States 2017

TotalEnergies and ENEOS to study sustainable aviation fuel production at ENEOS Negishi Refinery

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APRIL 16, 2022

TotalEnergies and ENEOS Corporation jointly conduct a feasibility study to assess the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in ENEOS Negishi Refinery in Yokohama, Japan. The companies have already started to conduct the study for feedstock procurement and production of SAF related to this project.

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Fuel Production Japan Waste

ExxonMobil discovers more oil offshore Guyana at Mako-1 well on the Stabroek Block

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

ExxonMobil announced an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15 th discovery on the Stabroek Block. Mako-1 encountered approximately 164 feet (50 meters) of a high-quality oil bearing sandstone reservoir. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The Stabroek Block is 6.6

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Guyana Oil 2019 2009

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

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APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels. —Liu et al.

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Oil Waste Diesel Engine

DOE-sponsored study concludes billions of barrels of oil potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in US

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JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

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Oil New Mexico Texas Mexico

Li-ion battery waste used in biodiesel production from discarded vegetable oil

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JULY 22, 2020

Brazilian researchers have demonstrated a new chemical approach for producing biodiesel from domestic cooking oil waste by using lithium hydroxide mixed with either sodium hydroxides or potassium hydroxides as catalysts. The work marks one of the first times lithium has been used for such purposes.

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Waste Li-ion Oil Lithium Ion

New study suggests reported PAH emissions in oil sands region greatly underestimated

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Results from a new modeling assessment of contamination in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) suggest that officially reported emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in that region have been greatly underestimated. Average emissions densities from Shen et al. are represented by the dashed black line. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Pollution

PNNL study finds algal oil could replace 17% of US petroleum oil imports

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APRIL 13, 2011

A new Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) study shows finds that oil from algae grown in outdoor raceway ponds located in the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes could replace 17% of the United States’ imported oil for transportation. —Mark Wigmosta, lead author and a PNNL hydrologist.

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Oil Water South Carolina Climate

Rice University lab study suggests foam may maximize enhanced oil recovery efforts

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Results of a Rice University laboratory study suggests that using foam may maximize enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Oil resides in formations of rock and sand in small cracks and crevices that have proved devilishly difficult to tap. Drillers pump various substances downhole to loosen and either push or carry oil to the surface.

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Oil United Arab Emirates Universal Oil-Sands

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In addition to coal mining, other major sources of methane emissions globally include wetlands, agriculture, and oil and gas facilities. The study is one of the first to account for methane leaking from old, abandoned mines. The study is the first to attempt to account for methane escaping from abandoned mines.

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Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine

T&E study finds EU has replaced Russian oil barrel-for-barrel as continent fails to cut demand

Neste studying transitioning Porvoo refinery to a renewable & circular site; ending crude oil refining in mid-2030s

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

Study finds carbon emissions benefits of reduction in oil demand depend on size of drop and global oil market structure

Researchers find carbon-nanotube-based fluids improve enhanced oil recovery methods

Study suggests microbe produces methane from crude oil all by itself

UH researchers developing autonomous robot for subsea oil and gas pipeline inspection

ORNL computational study finds 15% bio-oil mixture in two-stroke marine engines can cut NOx 13% with efficiency parity

Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

Japanese, Russian companies partner on feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia & Japan

T&E study: Europe’s growing use of animal fats in fuels is becoming increasingly unsustainable; 8,800 dead pigs for Paris-NY flight

Itochu and partners launch feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between Eastern Siberia and Japan

TUAT team develops more efficient method to recover heavy oil using novel chemical flooding

JFE Steel, Emirates Steel and Itochu to study building supply chain for low-carbon ironmaking

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

T&E study claims EU’s biofuels policy has wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

Bentley launches 3-year research study on EV powertrains: OCTOPUS

RSB & Bioledger release biofuels blockchain case study

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

BNL team uses nc-AFM to find sulfur and nitrogen atoms in crude oil molecules

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

New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

Woodside, 6 Japanese partners to conduct feasibility study on lower-emissions ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

S&P Global report forecasts absolute emissions from Canadian oil sands to decline even as production grows

Study quantifies impact of oil and gas emissions on Denver’s ozone problem

DOE to award up to $88M for oil and natural gas recovery research

New study confirms extensive gas leaks in the North Sea; recommends stricter guidelines for handling of abandoned wells

ExxonMobil, Georgia Tech and Imperial College London publish joint research on potential breakthrough in membrane technology for oil refining

Lifecycle study finds pennycress could make a greener bio-jet fuel

France’s high court rules in favor of ending tax benefits for palm oil diesel

Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and U.S. trends

TotalEnergies and ENEOS to study sustainable aviation fuel production at ENEOS Negishi Refinery

ExxonMobil discovers more oil offshore Guyana at Mako-1 well on the Stabroek Block

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

DOE-sponsored study concludes billions of barrels of oil potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in US

Li-ion battery waste used in biodiesel production from discarded vegetable oil

New study suggests reported PAH emissions in oil sands region greatly underestimated

PNNL study finds algal oil could replace 17% of US petroleum oil imports

Rice University lab study suggests foam may maximize enhanced oil recovery efforts

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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