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APRIL 11, 2017

In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US crude oil production, which averaged an estimated 8.9 EIA expects that domestic refinery production, including gasoline blendstock output, will be about 20,000 b/d lower this summer than last summer. gal last summer.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

A flood of bearish news has pushed down oil prices to their lowest levels in months, with WTI nearing $45 per barrel and Brent flirting with sub-$50 territory. With a bear market back, there is pessimism throughout the oil markets. Also, the ban on oil exports kept oil stuck within US borders.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The global energy map is changing significantly, according to the 2012 edition of the Internal Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook ( WEO-2012 ). — WEO-2012. A surge in unconventional and deepwater oil boosts non-OPEC supply over the current decade, but the world relies increasingly on OPEC after 2020.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Upstream spending is back to pre-2008 levels as producers, excluding NOCs (national oil companies) and OPEC organizations, are expected to spend close to $270 billion in 2013. Unconventional oil will be a key area of focus for producers. In 2012, 62.5% will be in the oil sands. Cost to replace each barrel of oil produced.

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APRIL 13, 2012

The ratio between the spot prices of crude oil and natural gas has been generally increasing since January 2009, but it has climbed rapidly in recent months, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The crude oil-to-natural gas spot price ratio has implications for production and consumption.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC has been selected to supply Calumet Specialty Product Partners, L.P. Calumet is a specialty petroleum products manufacturer, operating 135,000 bpd of refining capacity in the United States, and producing some 1,500 different products.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

EIA’s AEO2012 projects a continued decline in US imports of liquid fuels due to increased production of gas liquids and biofuels and greater fuel efficiency. Under the Reference case, domestic crude oil production is expected to grow by more than 20% over the coming decade; already, domestic crude oil production increased from 5.1

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

He says a deal is more likely than not due to the enormous financial pressure Iran is experiencing because of falling oil prices. Iran’s oil exports have more than halved from their pre-sanctions level of about 2.5 percent in 2012, the year that tough western sanctions took effect. And sanctions have taken their toll.

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JUNE 13, 2012

seen in 2010, according to the newly released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2012. The “Arab Spring” affected oil and gas supplies—most notably the complete, albeit temporary, loss of Libyan supply—while the tragic Fukushima accident in Japan had knock-on effects for nuclear and other energy sources around the world.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Production capacity must be established, and technology, vehicle cost and infrastructure barriers must be addressed to achieve large-scale market introduction. This report provides a progress update toward achieving the goal: The status of vehicle sales and future production volume estimates. Production capacity. Think City EV.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

If You’re a Free Range Oil Producer. Despite low oil prices, Saudi Arabia is maintaining its investment in its oil industry. as the drop in oil prices over the last year has put a strain on the nation’s finances.". for 2015 (based on actual average monthly prices through August of 53.97

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JULY 25, 2013

The Brent crude oil spot price averaged $112 per barrel in 2012, and EIA’s July 2013 Short-Term Energy Outlook projects averages of $105 per barrel in 2013 and $100 per barrel in 2014. To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 Liquid fuels.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Comparison of coal consumption and CO 2 emissions for co-production and separate production of liquids and power. The main reason for the better performance and economics of the dry-feed [Shell] system is the larger fraction of CO and H 2 , the main reactants in a FT reaction, in the gasifier products compared to the GE system.

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APRIL 1, 2015

The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere. Yet unlike the production boom unleashed by the shale revolution in the United States, Argentina’s vast shale plays have remained comparatively idle.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Spot LNG prices in Asia spiked to nearly $30 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) for a few weeks in January 2021 during extreme cold weather and transportation challenges before settling back to normal ranges in the first half of the year. Outside of the United States, utilization rates suffered.

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JUNE 20, 2012

—Bartis 2012. The other two key findings from Bartis’ introductory report are: Where security shortfalls impede hydrocarbon production or transport, current and future US Air Force partnership-building capabilities offer security improvements that could promote greater production of petroleum and natural gas resources.

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MAY 15, 2012

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a follow-on study to its 2009 evaluation of the economic and environmental performance of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) and CTL with modest amounts of biomass mixed in (15% by weight) for the production of zero-sulfure diesel fuel. This equates to diesel prices in the range of $2.70

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APRIL 10, 2009

A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The latter is partly caused by “global warming constraints” and lower oil prices in general. The first casualties are falling in Europe, mainly the UK, where 16 companies went bankrupt in 2018, in comparison to zero in 2012. British accountancy firm Moore Stephenson stated that lower prices were the main cause.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

This larger resource leads to about double the shale gas production and more than 20% higher total lower-48 natural gas production in 2035, with lower natural gas prices, than was projected in the AEO2010 Reference case. In 2035, the average real price of crude oil in the Reference case is $125 per barrel in 2009 dollars.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

The EIA says this is the result of two factors: higher consumption from electric power plants, and a drop off in production. Bcf/d higher than the previous high reached in July 2012. Natural gas prices have traded below $3 per million Btu since the beginning of 2015. Average consumption of 36.1 Bcf/d in July of this year was 2.7

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Expanding into an area outside of the oil supermajors’ expertise is risky—batteries are a hard business to win even for industry veterans—but action is key as transportation and the grid increasingly march toward more electrification, Lux suggests.

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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. Source: Draft SEIS. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Greenhouse gas LCA analysis.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

The US Energy Information Administration released its Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2013) Reference case (the Early Release ), which highlights a growth in total US energy production that exceeds growth in total US energy consumption through 2040. Domestic oil production will rise to 7.5 Overall findings. than in AEO2012.

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MAY 22, 2013

The Q1 2013 index (top) shows that the 7 top automotive nations have seen their competitive positions shift since 2012 (bottom). None of the subsidy programs that ended at the end of 2012 were renewed. Extracting oil by fracking could stabilize the oil price over the next few years. Source: Roland Berger.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. That’s the problem.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

On September 10 th , the EIA reported a production decline in the Lower 48—essentially shale production—of 208,000 BOPD (barrels of oil per day). It took a full 6 to 7 months for the falling rig count to cast a shadow over production declines. A few weeks ago he stated that Saudi production could go no higher.

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MARCH 2, 2015

Winterkorn also emphasized that Volkswagen remains committed to its environmental goals, and noted that the present low level of oil prices would not change that. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. The CO 2 limits apply irrespective of fuel prices. The second half will be tougher than the first.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

That’s where government comes in.only the government can help influence [change] by having a price for carbon and technical incentives. ”. Mr. Immelt’s point is that the spike in oil prices to $147/barrel in 2008 is not enough on its own to get automakers to make electric vehicles. This could be another air mail idea.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Finally, it is difficult to imagine the Venezuelan market tumbling any lower than it already has; however, as oil prices plummet, the government’s access to foreign currency will continue to be limited, thus impairing vehicle production. million) below the market level recorded in 2012. Europe; Russia influences.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Liquid fuels production (OPEC crude and lease condensate, non-OPEC crude and lease condensate, and other) and consumption (by OECD and non-OECD regions) under three price cases in 2040. The Middle East OPEC member countries alone account for 90% of the total growth in projected OPEC crude and lease condensate production.

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MARCH 30, 2012

The report defines bio-based materials as industrial products made from renewable agricultural and forestry feedstocks, which can include wood, grasses, and crops, as well as wastes and residues. The difficult issue is determining how to create a labeling system for complex products (such as automobiles) that integrate numerous components.

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JUNE 20, 2011

The company aims to transform the chemical industry through the cost-advantaged, smaller-footprint production of bio-based chemicals as direct replacements for major industrial chemicals that are currently petroleum-based in a trillion-dollar global market. Genomatica expects to begin commercial production of Bio-BDO in 2012.

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APRIL 12, 2012

This is even the case under widespread adoption of the most promising technologies for all transportation modes, due primarily to limitations in biofuel production capacity and a lack of technologies that would drastically reduce CO 2 emissions from heavy trucks and intercontinental aviation, they found. —Dray et al. Lynnette M.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

High oil prices, persistent differences in gas and electricity prices between regions and rising energy import bills in many countries focus attention on the relationship between energy and the broader economy. Contributions to global oil production growth. Technology and oil. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge.

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