Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The report estimates consumption to have been more than 500,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2016. Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Consumption of MTBE and other derivatives in China was estimated at 230,000 b/d in 2016. MTG units involve high capital costs and are only cost-competitive when oil prices are high.

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2000 2016 Fuel China 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

BASF and Russia’s Gazprom signed a legally binding basic agreement to swap assets of equivalent value. In October, Wintershall also substantially expanded its production and reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea through an asset swap with Statoil. billion barrel of oil equivalent. Start of production is planned for 2016.

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Gas Oil Production Russia 218

Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Company researchers were encouraged to look for oil substitutes, pursuing any manner of energy that didn’t involve petroleum.

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Lithium Ion Recharge Batteries Battery 91

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. I want it to be all of California. That’s pitiful.

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Solar Installation California Building 210