Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

For Chevron, this means (a) managing down the cost of steam generation for injection into the field and (b) using information technology to be able to “dial in” the steam at the optimum pressure and temperature to specific locations in the strata of the field—and then recovering that newly flowing oil. Source: Chevron.

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Chevron Oil Oil-Sands Production 244

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

The EPA’s target reduction reflects the technical challenges and high costs of commercializing so-called second-generation biofuels. Asia produced 12% of the world’s biodiesel in 2010, a 20%t increase from 2009, mostly using palm oil feedstock in Indonesia and Thailand. Sugarcane ethanol supplies 41.5%

2010 256

2010 Brazil Global Argentina 256

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2011

The Abqaiq-Yanbu natural gas liquids pipeline, which runs parallel to the Petroline to the Red Sea, has a 290,000-bbl/d capacity. Use of the alternate routes would increase the cost of transportation. The East-West Pipeline has a nameplate capacity of about 5 million bbl/d. Other alternate routes could include the deactivated 1.65-million

Oil 297

Oil Panama Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates 297

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 30, 2023

The United States, as of 2022, was the world’s largest producer of biodiesel and ethanol, with Brazil and Indonesia the next largest producers. According to John Deere, corn ethanol has a Greenhouse Gas Intensity 44% – 52% lower than gasoline, and soybean diesel 66% less than petroleum diesel.

All-Electric 97

All-Electric Illinois Brazil Gasoline-Electric 97

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. —Al-Sabawi and Chen (2012).

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Renewable Fuel Oil Diesel 247

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The cost of fully implementing the Kyoto Protocol (in terms of lost economic growth) has been estimated at roughly $180 billion a year. In the next thirty years, a substantial percentage of greenhouse gas increases will come from carbon emissions by developing countries. in 2100—the equivalent of US$40 trillion a year.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244