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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Proposed oil sands monitoring by 2015. The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled “The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring” in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region with a program that will sample more sites for more substances more frequently.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

The investments mark the first significant collaboration between a DAC developer and the energy industry, with two global energy leaders investing in DAC as a mechanism to reduce emissions from transportation and enable permanent capture of existing atmospheric CO 2 that can be utilized both in oil production and in direct synthesis of fuels.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. mb/d for 2035 to 2040.

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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. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MARCH 13, 2015

Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of June 30, 2015 from a lofty national average just under $3.70, tumbling almost every subsequent week before bottoming and bouncing from $2.02 the end of January, according to gasbuddy.com.

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). 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 Source: Maugeri 2012.

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MARCH 17, 2013

PetroJunín, joint venture formed by PDVSA (60%) and Eni (40%), has started production from the Junín-5 giant heavy oil field, located in the Faja del Orinoco—the area with the largest untapped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, according to Eni. Junin 5 block in the Orinoco. Deepwater Angola. Eni is operator of Block 15/06 with 35%.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Daimler and The Linde Group are partnering with oil and gas companies TOTAL, OMV, Avia and Hoyer this year to build 20 new hydrogen fueling stations in Germany, with 13 to be completed by the end of 2015. Daimler and Linde are each investing around €10 million for ten fueling stations each. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MAY 13, 2014

GE Oil & Gas and energy exploration and production company Devon Energy signed a new technology collaboration agreement (TCA) to drive innovations that will enhance the performance and economics of unconventional oil and natural gas projects as the demand for energy grows worldwide.

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Oklahoma City Oklahoma Oil Water 225

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MAY 6, 2014

FCA also plans to consolidate its small gasoline engine lineup with a new family to be launched in 2015. FCA and the industry in general have made great strides in improving the efficiency of the internal combustion engine. Variable displacement oil pump. Variable flow water pump and electric auxiliary water pump.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) —Wang et al.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Second, LNG is, and has been, less expensive than MGO and is now in some regions cheaper than heavy fuel oil (HFO). Moreover, to comply with IMO’s 2020 global sulfur limit, ships must either switch from HFO to more expensive very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) or use HFO with a scrubber, if they have one installed. —Pavlenko et al.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Statoil is awarding Aker Solutions a contract for a new type of rig designed for increased oil recovery. The category B rig is designed and equipped for the industrialization of drilling and intervention services in existing production wells. It is designed for mid-water operations (100-500 meters water depth), and is capable of.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Left: distribution of mining leases and forests in 2015. Mining leases are shown as white polygons overlying Landsat imagery for 1985 and 2015. Green areas indicate forests, bright white areas indicate non-forested ground, and blue areas are water. Right: case study mining operations. Figure from Sonter et al.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of the Interior has proposed new regulations that include more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment used in offshore oil and gas operations. Require compliance with the latest industry standards contained in API Standard 53.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. Priuses can burn oil. Two out of our four Priuses burn oil. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4

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MARCH 22, 2015

As of 30 June 2014, there were approximately 47,000 active oil and gas leases on public lands, and approximately 95,000 oil and gas wells. Other reforms will also include important measures to target where oil and gas leasing occurs and protect sensitive areas that are too special to drill. Fracking regulations.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Renewable diesel is becoming available at fleet card locks Renewable diesel, a substitute for conventional petroleum diesel, is produced from renewable resources such as natural fats, vegetable oils and greases. Renewable diesel is a drop-in alternative to petroleum diesel and requires no vehicle modifications.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Group has released GREET 2015 models and associated reports. Shale oil: developed energy and GHG emissions intensities of U.S. shale oil production with operation data from Bakken and Eagle Ford plays.

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JULY 15, 2016

In 2013, Boeing and SAA launched their sustainable aviation fuels collaboration and in 2014, Project Solaris became the first focus project that converted oil from the Solaris plant seed into bio-jet fuel. Sunchem holds the exclusive rights for an international industrial patent named “Solaris Seed Tobacco”. Sunchem and Solaris.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This project allows EIFER to research steam electrolysis technology, which has been tested and evaluated at the cell and stack level in our laboratories for several years now, at the systems level as part of its industrial application. Two smaller modules were put into operation at Boeing back in 2015. Earlier post.).

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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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JULY 22, 2011

In the Permian Basin, approximately one additional barrel of oil can be recovered for each 6,000 cubic feet (6 Mcf) of compressed CO 2 injected into the oil field. TCEP will begin delivering CO 2 to Whiting when the plant commences operations in late 2014 or early 2015; construction is scheduled to begin at the end of this year.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., liter SKYACTIV-D (diesel) engine that runs on 100% bio-based fuel made from used cooking oil and microalgae fats supplied by Euglena Co., Initiating consideration of the possibility of joint research for hydrogen engine development (Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Yamaha Motor).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The WEO finds that the extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output in the United States will mean a sea-change in global energy flows. barely rises in OECD countries, although there is a pronounced shift away from oil, coal (and, in some countries, nuclear) towards natural gas and renewables. Oil demand reaches 99.7

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In addition to coal mining, other major sources of methane emissions globally include wetlands, agriculture, and oil and gas facilities. Kholod said that when a closed mine is flooded, water stops methane from leaking almost completely within about seven years. Ukraine reported that all its mines abandoned that year were flooded.

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Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine 321

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JUNE 18, 2015

Etihad Airways, together with Boeing, Total, Takreer and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, launched a joint industry roadmap for the sustainable production of aviation biofuels in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). bio-oils and fats) are fed into a reactor catalytically de-oxygenated. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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UAE United Arab Emirates Waste Oil 150

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AUGUST 9, 2015

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade (C 6 –C 18 ) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species. a heavy oil (bp 240–310 °C) with 7 wt% yield.

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Gasoline Hawaii Oil Polymer 150

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JUNE 5, 2012

The Green Dolphin concept design is a five-cargo-hold CSR (Common Structural Rules) double-hull bulk carrier that meets current and future expected air and water emissions regulations. tonnes (about 4,700 gallons US heavy fuel oil), and daily fuel consumption at 10 kn slow-steaming of 6.4 Wash water holding tanks are also included.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Putin has highlighted on various occasions the contribution Russia’s mineral wealth, in particular oil and natural gas, must make for Russia to be able to sustain economic growth, promote industrial development, catch up with the developed economies, and modernize Russia’s military and military industry. Live by Energy….

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APRIL 1, 2009

By 2015, the report finds, corn ethanol could show greenhouse gas emissions of 40,068 gCO 2 eq/GJ (HHV)—a 25% reduction from the 2005 level of 53,466 gCO 2 eq/GJ and a 37% reduction from the 1995 level of 63,977 gCO 2 eq/GJ. By comparison, gasoline shows full lifecycle GHG emissions of 88,764 gCO 2 eq/GJ in 2015, up 2.5%

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MAY 12, 2015

Shell’s revised EP proposes the drilling of up to six wells within the Burger Prospect, located in approximately 140 feet of water about 70 miles northwest of the village of Wainwright. In April the Department announced proposed regulations to better protect human lives and the environment from oil spills.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

A horizontal injection well is used to introduce oxygen and water into the seam; the oxygen supports a limited and controlled amount of combustion, raising the temperature of the coal and boiling the water to generate steam. billion), with a planned in-service date in 2015. The overall cost of the project is approximately C$1.5

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The coatings repel both water and oily liquids and are stable at higher pressures and temperatures. PDMS is a biocompatible silicone oil that is also used in medical applications. The ease with which they can be produced should make application on an industrial scale practical. and McCarthy, T. doi: 10.1002/anie.201509385.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries. watt utility, $2.37/watt watt residential scale.

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