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OCTOBER 25, 2009

Artist’s rendering of a GE Frame-7 gas turbine, similar to the units that GE Oil & Gas is supplying for the Gorgon project. billion barrels of oil (boe). In addition to natural gas supply for domestic Australian use, Gorgon is slated to contribute to meeting Asia’s growing need for cleaner energy. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The new Civic will reach European showrooms in early 2012. The new 2012 Honda Civic will feature a cleaner, more powerful and fuel efficient diesel engine to deliver lower running costs for owners. Improvements to Honda’s 2.2-liter Honda’s i-DTEC engine received a number of enhancements in the quest for lower emissions.

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APRIL 22, 2009

for Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation. The steam methane reformer will have a hydrogen production capacity of more than 50 million standard cubic feet per day and is projected to be completed in the second quarter of 2012. Alex Masetti, vice president - North America Tonnage Gases at Air Products.

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APRIL 18, 2013

to hold warming to 2 °C as outlined in the IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 (ETP) 2 °C Scenario (2DS). The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s. The world must slow the growth of energy demand as well as make its energy supply cleaner, the IEA said.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

The company announced the pipeline project in 2010 and placed it onstream in August 2012 to begin supply of more than 1.2 Hydrogen is widely used in petroleum refining processes to remove impurities found in crude oil such as sulfur, olefins and aromatics to meet the product fuels specifications.

Hydrogen

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Hydrogen is widely used in petroleum refining processes to remove impurities found in crude oil such as sulfur, olefins and aromatics. Removing these components allows gasoline and diesel to burn cleaner and makes hydrogen a critical component in the production of cleaner fuels needed by current internal combustion engines.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco with eAssit ( earlier post ) will be the first model of the new 2013 Malibu lineup to reach dealer showrooms in North America, starting in the first quarter of 2012. The 2013 Malibu Eco is the first Chevrolet vehicle to feature eAssist, GM’s light electrification system already introduced in the Buick lineup.

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MARCH 17, 2011

Air Products will increase the supply of hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Company LP, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO), at Marathon’s Garyville, La. The increased supply of hydrogen, required to meet production demands at the refinery, will occur in two increments with the first in 2011, and the second in 2012.

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JULY 21, 2012

Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. —Al-Sabawi and Chen (2012). Honeywell’s UOP Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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MARCH 21, 2012

Under the respective agreements, Volkswagen will provide both companies with two products each—the new 2012 Passat TDI and 2012 Jetta TDI—in order to closely examine the effects that the fuels produced by Amyris and Solazyme will have on Volkswagen clean diesel technology and the environment. Solazyme and Amyris.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

would be designed to capture up to 90% of its carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery and sequestration in an adjacent oil field. IGCC plants gasify solid fuels into syngas, which then is used by a gas turbine combined-cycle system to generate electricity, providing a cleaner, economical coal-to-power option. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 9, 2010

Air Products’ joint venture company based in Sichuan, China has signed a long-term agreement to build a hydrogen production facility for PetroChina Company Limited, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. This project will help make cleaner transportation fuel available to meet China’s growing demand.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

As part of the collaboration, Clean Energy Fuels will initially purchase two MicroLNG plants from GE Oil & Gas. The 250,000-gallon capacity marks a 67% increase over the capacity of the MicroLNG plant that GE Oil & Gas first introduced in January 2012 (150,000-gallon capacity). Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Oh presented a paper on the work, which was the result of two years of research activity in conjunction with Bombardier Recreational Projects, at the ASME 2012 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference. Initially, they used an off-the-shelf, synthetic-blend, TCW3-rated two-stroke engine oil.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

These efforts and other productivity improvements will help to improve the BPCL Kochi Refinery’s conversion of heavy crude, allowing for the production of cleaner fuels to meet Euro IV/V specifications. billion on their 2012 financial statements. a gas turbine to produce power for the Air Products facilities.

Hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

UPES is executing this project in collaboration with Indian Oil and it is entirely funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) of the Government of India. Air Products India installed, and in January 2012 commissioned, a hydrogen fueling dispenser in Pragati Maiden, Delhi to serve a fleet of hydrogen-powered auto rickshaws.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Results from the world’s first civil flight powered by 100% biofuel that met petroleum fuel specifications without blending released by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) show that the biofuel used in the flight last October is cleaner than and as efficient as conventional aviation fuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The same agricultural processing operations we use to transform canola into oil for food and meal for animal feed also provide ADM with the ability and scale to efficiently produce cleaner-burning, renewable biodiesel. Since 1 July 2011, all diesel fuel an d heating oil sold in Canada must contain at least 2% biodiesel.

Canada

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JULY 12, 2011

Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the US. The investment will be made in three equal $50 million tranches, the first of which has been made and the other two are planned for June 2012 and June 2013. conversion premium.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. That’s right—eight years. —President Obama.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. A profound shift in the transportation sector sees global demand for oil peaking in about 2035.

North America

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APRIL 13, 2011

A 10 ppm average gasoline sulfur limit is likely in the US by the fall of 2015, while we expect Beijing to implement a 10 ppm limit as early as 2012. Sulfur is found naturally in crude oil. Overall, the majority of countries are moving toward low-sulfur, cleaner fuels. —Kiuru-Griffith, Executive Director of IFQC.

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MARCH 26, 2010

Large ships that operate in ECAs must use dramatically cleaner fuel and technology, leading to major air quality and public health benefits that extend hundreds of miles inland. To achieve these reductions, tougher sulfur standards will phase in starting in 2012, ultimately reaching no more than 1,000 parts per million by 2015.

Water

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JUNE 26, 2009

The California Air Resources Board adopted a regulation that will require new cars sold in California starting in 2012 to have windows that reflect or absorb heat-producing rays from the sun. Infrared reflective glass is the more efficient—and costly—technology for reducing vehicle cabin temperature. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 6, 2014

With its lower carbon emission, shale gas is a cleaner energy that has strategic significance to coal-consuming China. China’s seven most prospective shale gas and shale oil basins are the Jianghan, Junggar, Sichuan, Songliao, Subei, Tarim, and Yangtze. —Fu Chengyu, Chairman of Sinopec. Bcfd by 2020. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Currently, the Valley is designated non-attainment for the following federal health-based standards for PM 2.5 : the 1997 24-hour (65 micrograms per cubic meter) and annual (15 ug/m 3 ) standards, and the 2006 24-hour (35 ug/m 3 ) and 2012 annual (12 ug/m 3 ) standards. The 2020 deadline is for both 1997 standards.).

Pollution

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JUNE 19, 2013

Within ECAs, the sulfur content of fuel oil (expressed in terms of % m/m – that is, by weight) must be no more than 1.00% m/m; falling to 0.10% m/m on and after 1 January 2015. This date could be deferred to 1 January 2025, depending on the outcome of a review, to be completed by 2018, as to the availability of compliant fuel oil.

Fuel

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Ichthys will develop approximately 3 billion barrels oil equivalent of reserves, including around 500 million barrels of condensate. Ichthys will provide a long-term stable supply of cleaner energy to. INPEX is the operator—its first time in that role for a world-class project; Total holds a 24% interest.

Australia

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Correspondingly, the energy structure would become much cleaner, with the share of gasoline declining from 62% in 2012 to 29% in 2050 and the share of electricity increasing to 56% in 2050. trillion RMB higher than that of BAU scenario from 2012 to 2050. Its cumulative cost is 4.6

Transportation

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JUNE 6, 2011

The new Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network is expected to be operational in 2012. Hydrogen is widely used in petroleum refining processes to remove impurities found in crude oil such as sulfur, olefins and aromatics for meeting the product fuels specifications. billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day.

Hydrogen

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. In April 2012, the State Council approved the “Development Plan of Energy-Efficient and New-Energy Vehicles (2012?2020),” While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5

Coal

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JULY 12, 2013

The ME-GI engine we introduced—and immediately received orders for—in late-2012 confirmed the growing demand to have the option to run ships on LNG as well as HFO [heavy fuel oil] in the face of increasing fuel prices. We can really see the momentum towards dual-fuel operation building now.

Diesel

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The regulation puts in place a three-step process beginning in 2016 to create a path to bring cleaner diesel substitutes into the market. The Board also adopted a regulation governing alternative diesel fuels ( ADF ). The LCFS applies to liquid and non-liquid fuels. Diesel and Diesel Substitutes. 95.61 [ 1 ]. 94.47 [ 4 ]. 97.96 [ 2 ].

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

That means new jobs, cleaner water and air—and a working model for other states, and the nation, to use as we gear up to fight climate change and make our economy more competitive and resilient. The vote on the Proposed Decision is currently scheduled for 20 December 2012. —ARB Chairman Mary D. emissions). Use of revenues.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Coal could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry by scientists from Hebei University of Engineering in China published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. Oil, Gas and Coal Technology , Vol. and Zhang, Y. 215-229 doi: 10.1504/IJOGCT.2015.067490. 2015.067490.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Delaying the start of combustion, and giving the mixture of air and diesel fuel more time to mix thoroughly results in a cleaner combustion process. In the first phase of the project the university will install fuel pumps, in 2012. In this phase the CyclOx will still be produced by an external party from mineral oil.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The major sources of methane in California are livestock (~30% of the state’s methane emissions), followed by landfills and oil and gas production. This aligns with the federal government’s current goal of reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations by 40–45% below 2012 levels by 2025.

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