2010, Gas, Global and Oil-Sands

U Calgary study finds oil shale most energy intensive upgraded fuel followed by in-situ-produced bitumen from oil sands

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. Earlier post.). —Nduagu & Gates.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel

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

Green Car Congress

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 Tropical peatlands cover more than 25 Mha in Southeast Asia and are estimated to contain around 70 Gt of carbon. Earlier post.).

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate

Transcanada restarts Keystone oil sands pipeline operations

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil North Dakota Oklahoma

Suncor targeting 1M barrels per day by 2020, some 80% from oil sands; new strategic alliance with Total

Green Car Congress

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. Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. The agreement with Total is an important element of Suncor’s plans to more than double our oil sands production.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil 2020 2011

Researchers Suggest That Although CCS and Other Technologies Could Reduce Oil Sands GHG Emissions to Near Zero, That Strategy May Not Make Sense

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2010

Examples of emerging oil sands related technologies and trade-offs. The paper is an examination of how various choices about the scale of the life cycle analysis applied to oil sands (i.e., The source material is neither oil nor tar but bitumen, but is most generally described as an example of ultraheavy oil.”.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Coal

Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2012

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO 2 emissions (ranging between 5.4% to 9.3%) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon the supply scenario.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Emissions CO2

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

As the world population increases by the estimated 30% from 2010 to 2040, ExxonMobil sees global GDP rising by about 140%, but energy demand by only about 35% due to greater efficiency. The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply. Click to enlarge. Outlook for Energy.

Energy

Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands

ExxonMobil Outlook: 35% growth in energy demand by 2040; hybrids to account for ~50% of new vehicle sales

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Hybrids are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040. Without the projected gains in efficiency, global energy demand could have risen by more than 100%. Click to enlarge.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale

ExxonMobil plans five-year investment of $185B to develop new energy supplies; 21 major oil and gas projects to begin production between 2012 and 2014

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

Tillerson said that even with significant efficiency gains, ExxonMobil expects global energy demand to increase by 30% by 2040, compared to 2010 levels. Demand for electricity will make natural gas the fastest growing major energy source and oil and natural gas are expected to meet 60% of energy needs over the next three decades.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Oil Oil-Sands 2012

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

Over the same period, energy intensity, a key measure of energy use per unit of economic output, is set to improve globally led by rapid efficiency gains in the same non-OECD economies, under these projections. OECD oil demand peaked in 2005 and in 2030 is projected to be roughly back at its level in 1990.

Energy

Energy Economy Global Oil-Sands

Study finds that switch to heavy and synthetic crude oils could double or triple refinery emissions

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Increasing crude processing intensity and energy intensity with worsening oil quality. OQ: Crude feed oil quality. Switching to heavy crude oil and synthetic crude oil derived from oil sands bitumen in refineries could double or triple refinery emissions and add 1.6-3.7 PI: Crude processing intensity.

Oil

Oil Oil-Sands Emissions Hydrogen

PDVSA and PetroChina move ahead with 400,000 barrel per day oil refinery in China; processing Orinoco heavy and extra-heavy crude

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

To be sited at Jie Yang City, Guangdong Province, the Nanhai refinery will be operational in early 2015, with a capacity to process 400,000 barrels of heavy and extra heavy crude oil per day (400 kbd) from the Orinoco Oil Belt. Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ) pegged Venezuela’s 2011 reserves at 211 billion barrels, up from 99.4

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Venezuela Oil Oil-Sands

BP closes out 2013 with deepwater finds in Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola; new activity offshore Brazil

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2014

BP also confirmed the recently-announced Pitu oil discovery in the frontier deepwater of the Potiguar basin off Brazil’s equatorial margin, announced by Petrobras. The well, which penetrated multiple Paleogene-aged reservoir sands, was drilled to a total depth of 29,221 feet (8,907 meters). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

Angola

Angola Mexico Brazil 2013

Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. 2010, to above 140 $/bbl in constant 2010 dollars).

Oil

Oil Oil-Sands Fuel Economy Transportation

Researchers Say Mix of Policies and Current or Near-Term Technologies Could Phase Out US CO2 Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2030

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

This global climate change problem becomes manageable only if society deals quickly with emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal in electric power plants, they state. Readily available reserves of oil and gas are sufficient to take atmospheric CO 2 to at least 400 ppm. Kharecha et al. Kharecha, Charles F.

Coal

Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change

Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

Chevron

Chevron Oil Oil-Sands Production

Federal Judge rules California Low Carbon Fuel Standard violates Commerce Clause of US Constitution

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Judge O’Neill also ruled that California Air Resources Board (ARB) failed to establish that there are no alternative methods to advance its goals of reducing GHG emissions to combat global warming. Supremacy and Commerce clauses.

California

California Carbon Standards Fuel

Study concludes transport regulations should focus on energy-intensity-based fuel standards along with regulation of upstream carbon-intensity; decomposing transport GHG emissions into 3 factors

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2011

Decomposition of greenhouse gas emission in transportation (A), relevant actors (B), and corresponding policy instruments (C). volume and GHG-based fuel standards) to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from on-road transportation need to evolve towards energy-intensity-based fuel standards (e.g., Creutzig et al.

Transportation

Transportation Emissions Carbon Standards

Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Right now, here in 2008 the cat is on the roof for global warming. “We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press Monday. How’s mom doing?”

2008

2008 Climate Change Climate Oil-Sands

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Life cycle inventories have typically been presented at global, national, or regional levels—sufficient for understanding global processes such as climate change and fossil fuel depletion, but insufficient for the analysis of local processes such as air pollution, according to the researchers. the contiguous US).

Gasoline

Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution

ExxonMobil Outlook projects hybrids and advanced vehicles to account for nearly 50% of cars globally by 2040; fuel demand for for personal vehicles to peak and decline, while commercial transportation demand rises 70%

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Exxon Mobil Corporation’s new The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 , released last week, projects that global energy demand in 2040 will be about 30% higher than it was in 2010 as population grows to 9 billion and global GDP doubles. By 2040, heavy duty fuel demand will be up about 60 percent versus 2010.

Personal

Personal Global Transportation Fuel

EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Dashed red line shows 2010 consumption of 87 MMbbl/d. Crude and lease condensate includes tight oil, shale oil, extra-heavy crude oil, field condensate, and bitumen (i.e., oil sands, either diluted or upgraded). oil shale), and refinery gain. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

Asia

Asia Transportation Oil-Sands Oil Prices

Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

The financial pages of Canadian newspapers have been full of headlines lately announcing the potential of two large shale oil fields in the Northwest Territories said to contain enough oil to rival the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana. billion barrels. enthused the Financial Post.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil North Dakota Oil Prices

Increase in US rig count will not cap oil prices

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

The impact of rising oil prices on North American light tight oil (LTO) production is said to be a “Catch 22”, the title of Joseph Heller’s popular 1961 novel set in WWII. Too many analysts continue to believe drilling and service has the same problem with rising oil prices. by David Yager for Oilprice.com.

Oil Prices

Oil Prices Oil Price Oil-Sands

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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%

Climate

Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

They deliberately suppressed and illegally covered up the EPA’s 2007 ENDANGERMENT FINDING that said the government should begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions because global warming posed serious risks to the country. Right now, here in 2008 the cat is on the roof for global warming. So anyway, how’s everything else?

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate 2008 Carbon

MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. The interim report analyzed the economics of natural gas project development options in Cyprus with a focus on exports. —Sergey Paltsev. Click to enlarge.

Cyprus

Cyprus MIT Gas Gas-Electric

Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Seeking Alpha Home The Macro View Stocks & Sectors Global Markets ETFs Investing Ideas Breaking News Transcripts Register | Login Email: Password: Forgot Your Password? before 2010. Think Global managers want to develop the car plant and launch an engineering center, perhaps alongside. market b y the end of 2009. ENON.OB ) ).

Manufacturer

Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Find investors, resumes, and free research Get Cleantech Blog in your email Enter your email address: Subscribe in a reader Join us on Linked In Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook GHGBlog.com - The Greenhouse Gas Blog Loading. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Then we are done!

Grid

Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands

GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Lutz is a man given to hyperbole — called global warming "a crock of shit" — but in this case, hes right. "The Volt continues to be one of our highest priorities among all GMs future product programs and remains on track for a November 2010 launch," spokesman David Darovitz told Automotive News.

Volt

Volt GM Chevrolet EV1

Pew Survey finds broad support for Keystone XL; splits on fracking; slippage in seeing warming as very serious

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

A new US survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted 13-17 March among 1,501 adults, found broad public support for the Keystone XL pipeline project; regional, gender and partisan differences in views of fracking; and a slippage in the percentage of Americans who say that global warming is a very serious problem, compared to October 2012.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands 2006 2009 Global

EV Driven

U Calgary study finds oil shale most energy intensive upgraded fuel followed by in-situ-produced bitumen from oil sands

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

Transcanada restarts Keystone oil sands pipeline operations

Suncor targeting 1M barrels per day by 2020, some 80% from oil sands; new strategic alliance with Total

Researchers Suggest That Although CCS and Other Technologies Could Reduce Oil Sands GHG Emissions to Near Zero, That Strategy May Not Make Sense

Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

ExxonMobil Outlook: 35% growth in energy demand by 2040; hybrids to account for ~50% of new vehicle sales

ExxonMobil plans five-year investment of $185B to develop new energy supplies; 21 major oil and gas projects to begin production between 2012 and 2014

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

Study finds that switch to heavy and synthetic crude oils could double or triple refinery emissions

PDVSA and PetroChina move ahead with 400,000 barrel per day oil refinery in China; processing Orinoco heavy and extra-heavy crude

BP closes out 2013 with deepwater finds in Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola; new activity offshore Brazil

Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

Researchers Say Mix of Policies and Current or Near-Term Technologies Could Phase Out US CO2 Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2030

Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

Federal Judge rules California Low Carbon Fuel Standard violates Commerce Clause of US Constitution

Study concludes transport regulations should focus on energy-intensity-based fuel standards along with regulation of upstream carbon-intensity; decomposing transport GHG emissions into 3 factors

Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

ExxonMobil Outlook projects hybrids and advanced vehicles to account for nearly 50% of cars globally by 2040; fuel demand for for personal vehicles to peak and decline, while commercial transportation demand rises 70%

EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

Increase in US rig count will not cap oil prices

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Pew Survey finds broad support for Keystone XL; splits on fracking; slippage in seeing warming as very serious

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