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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Worldwide energy consumption will grow by 53% between 2008 and 2035 with much of the increase driven by strong economic growth in the developing nations, especially China and India, according to the reference case in the newly released International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Health Canada is the Canadian Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health; Environment Canada is the Federal agency tasked with, among other things, protecting the environment. the 2008-2012 global recession). —Rouleau et al.

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MARCH 24, 2009

and Petro-Canada have agreed to merge. Upon completion of the transaction, the combined entity will operate corporately and trade under the Suncor name, while maintaining the brand presence of Petro-Canada in refined products. Current crude oil and natural gas production of approximately 680,000 boe per day (boe/d).

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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. The 1,000-mile/1,607-km pipeline will run from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Much of the oil sands resource (5% - 14% ore grade by wt.)

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total. Canada-based Suncor Energy Inc., Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. In addition, Suncor has entered into a strategic partnership with Total E&P Canada Ltd.,

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JULY 29, 2011

Canada is awarding C$10M (US$10.5 million) from Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) SD Tech Fund to a consortium led by N-Solv Corp. Other members of the consortium are oil sands producer Suncor Energy Inc. This partially upgrades the oil to 13-16°API from a value of approximately 8°API for the raw bitumen.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Suncor Energy has received conditional approval for its oil sands fluid tailings management plan from Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board ( ERCB ). Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through the oil sands extraction process, and are held in massive “ponds”. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 7, 2010

Total E&P Canada Ltd., a Total subsidiary, has signed an agreement with UTS Energy Corporation (UTS) to acquire UTS Corporation with its main asset, a 20% interest in the Fort Hills oil sands mining project in Alberta, Canada. The Fort Hills project is operated by Canada’s Suncor Energy Inc. billion (US$1.09

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Canadian Oil Sands Trust, the largest stakeholder (36.74%) in the Syncrude oil sands project, announced plans to increase the synthetic crude oil production capacity at Syncrude Mildred Lake upgrader to 425,000 barrels per day by 2020 from 350,000 now. Marcel Coutu, Canadian Oil Sands’ President and CEO. and Imperial Oil.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Total E&P Canada Ltd., As a consequence of the transaction, NLP will be jointly owned by Total Canada and SinoCanada, with 50% each. Total Canada acquired the remaining 60% interest when it purchased Synenco Energy Inc. A 2008 estimate of contingent resources of the Northern Lights Project published by Synenco was 1.08

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DECEMBER 11, 2010

Canada-based MEG Energy’s board of directors has approved 2011 capital investment of approximately $900 million and the final cost estimate for the 35,000 barrels per day Phase 2B oil sands expansion at the Christina Lake in-situ project. identify additional resource on MEG’s 800 square miles of 100%-owned oil sands leases.

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JULY 25, 2009

BP and Irving Oil will not be moving forward at this time with a proposed second refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, as a result of global economic and industry conditions. It became clear, particularly over the past year, that the market conditions for refining have changed since BP and Irving Oil entered this memorandum of understanding.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

A study by researchers in Canada and the US shows that oil sands development is a greater source of polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) contamination to the Athabasca River and its tributaries than previously realized. Bitumen production in the Alberta oil sands has increased rapidly, rising from 482,000 to 1.3 Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel is to be trialed in day-to-day use in Finland by a fleet of road tanker trucks from the beginning of June onwards. The trial will last around a year and will involve 23 vehicles in Neste Oil livery operated by seven different companies.

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MARCH 2, 2013

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. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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MARCH 24, 2009

have launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. Honeywell and Ensyn announced their intention to form the joint venture in September 2008. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

The process takes agricultural feedstocks such as animal fat, crop seed oil and restaurant grease, and converts them into drop-in liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Further processing converts the hydrocarbon liquid into the desired fuel such as gasoline, natural gas, jet fuel, diesel, lubricating oil, solvents or diluents. Maher, Kathlyn M.

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APRIL 27, 2011

The Brazil plant, contracted from CompactGTL in 2008, demonstrates a fully integrated small-scale GTL facility, at 200,000 scf/d capacity, incorporating: Gas pre-treatment. The CompactGTL team was supported by Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd during the process design stage of the contract. Pre-reforming. Waste heat recovery.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This trend is driven primarily by finished motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil which are increasingly exported to Latin America. Distillate exports, which include diesel fuels and fuel oils, represent a more significant share of total available product. Annual U.S. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy; the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation; and ConocoPhillips will work together to test technologies for producing methane gas from hydrate deposits on the Alaska North Slope. The method was successfully demonstrated during a 1-week test conducted by Japan and Canada in northwestern Canada in 2008.?.

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JULY 23, 2010

2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. slight decrease compared to 2008 due to the reorganization of the sector, EBB said. biodiesel via non-EU destinations (mainly Canada) and. imports allegedly originating from Canada reached. 50 000 tonnes between March 2008 and March 2009.

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JULY 24, 2011

Keystone XL is a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from the US-Canadian border in Montana, through Cushing, Oklahoma, to carry crude from the Canadian oil sands to refineries on the US Gulf Coast. The State Department filed a draft Environmental Impact Statement in April of 2010.

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MAY 9, 2012

Emerald is expected to use Honeywell’s UOP/Eni Ecofining ( earlier post ) process technology to produce 85 million gallons per year of Honeywell Green Diesel from non-edible, second-generation oils and animal fats. In 2008, Honeywell’s UOP partnered with Ensyn Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Renewable diesel has been subjected to rigorous on-road fleet testing throughout the US and Canada. This includes non-food sources of transportation feedstocks that can be grown on marginal lands and with minimal water, such as camelina oil. The co-produced renewable jet fuels are from naturally occurring oils. ARV-14-021 ).

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JUNE 13, 2009

During dry periods, cattle in western Canada have ingested hay containing high quantities of stinkweed, with resulting poisoning, death and abortion. Field pennycress seed, however, is 36-40% wt oil—about twice that of soybeans. The USDA ARS currently has further studies on pennycress ongoing through 2010.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The Alberta government has successfully negotiated contracts for two projects that will advance the upgrading and refining of oil sands bitumen to diesel fuel. billion barrels of oil from conventional reservoirs throughout the province, potentially generating up to $25 billion in additional provincial royalties and taxes.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Perspective by Chris Hill, Manager, Central Fleet for the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and author of Hamilton’s Green Fleet Implementation Plan. [Mr. Hill is currently chair of the Ontario Chapter of NAFA Fleet Management Association, and a Green Party candidate for Canada’s Parliament in the next general election.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Ethanol production in the United States has increased to more than 9 billion gallons in 2008, most of it from corn. Close to a third of total corn use is expected to go to ethanol production in the 2008/09 corn crop year. gallon under the 2008 Farm Act, starting this year) and the $0.54

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The on-road demonstration, which ran from December 2007 to September 2008, put first- and second- generation renewable diesel fuels on the road in 59 long-haul commercial vehicles across Alberta. During winter months (16 December 2007 through 15 April 2008) 2% blends of FAME (100% canola methyl ester) and HDRD were used.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Backed by a $25-million US Department of Energy (DOE) award, the Honeywell UOP Integrated Biorefinery will utilize rapid thermal processing (RTP) technology ( earlier post ) to convert biomass into a pourable, liquid bio-oil (pyrolysis oil). approx 75 wt%) of liquid bio-oil from residual forestry or agricultural biomass.

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APRIL 30, 2009

In June 2008, ARB adopted a regulation that requires ocean-going vessels (OGV) within 24 nautical miles of California’s coastline to use lower-sulfur marine distillates in their main and auxiliary engines and auxiliary boilers, rather than the dirtier heavy-fuel oil called bunker fuel. Earlier post.). is a signatory. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 26, 2010

Large commercial ships such as oil tankers, cruise ships and container ships currently use fuel with very high sulfur content which, when burned, emits harmful levels of particulate matter and nitrogen oxide that can travel hundreds of miles inland, causing severe respiratory symptoms in children and adults.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The MOU with AltAir contemplates the production and purchase of up to 750 million gallons of jet fuel and diesel fuel over 10 years (75 million gallons per year) derived from camelina oil. AltAir Fuels LLC was formed in 2008 to develop projects for the production of jet fuel from renewable and sustainable oils. Earlier post.).

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MAY 28, 2010

East Resources has some 60 mmscfe/d (10,000 barrels oil equivalent per day) of production, predominantly in natural gas, with substantial medium-term growth potential. Shell’s 2009 North America tight gas production was some 140,000 boe/d (810mmcfe/d), an increase of 62% from 2008 levels, from a 3.7

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). Between 2008 and 2015, it is estimated that more than $15 billion will be spent to add processing capacity specifically for heavy crude blends in US refineries. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson.

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