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. Biofuels will account for 9% of global transport fuels. per year growth, and accounts for 93% of global energy growth.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

million b/d, as production in Nigeria and Libya tentatively recovered along with steady increases for Saudi Arabia and Iran, according to an S&P Global Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials. —Eklavya Gupte, senior editor for S&P Global Platts. million b/d, the lowest since February 2003, S&P Global Platts data showed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6 World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Source: Maugeri 2012. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2016

million barrels per day (mb/d) in April 2015. Moreover, supply outages in places like Iraq and Nigeria have also knocked at least a quarter of a million barrels per day offline, an unexpected disruption that put upward pressure on prices in March. That has sparked a renewed sense of optimism among oil traders. More output is bearish.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The International Energy Agency sees North American shale peaking towards the early part of the 2020s and declining thereafter, all but making it a blip on the radar when looking at oil production from a long-term standpoint. Moody’s Investors Service sees the contraction as too little to make a significant dent in the global supply gut.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2015

In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. The Financial Times quoted analysts as estimating the Saudi budget deficit in 2015 at $130 billion.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week launched the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the current edition of its annual flagship publication assessing the threats and opportunities facing the global energy system out to 2035. Click to enlarge. The passenger vehicle fleet doubles to almost 1.7 billion in 2035.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Global sonic boom incidence. Source: The ICCT. The fleet of SSTs would emit an additional 1.6

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. Speaking at a 2015 defense forum , Work—a barrel-chested retired Marine Corps colonel with the slight hint of a drawl—described a future in which “human-machine collaboration” would win wars using big-data analytics.

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