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APRIL 6, 2022

By the middle of this decade greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Canadian oil sands production should be in decline even as production continues to grow, according to a new comprehensive report by S&P Global Commodity Insights that takes into account current technology trends and production growth. GHG intensity improvements do add up.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

bp has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from used cooking oil in co-processing process with crude oil at its plant in Lingen, Germany. This is the first industrial production facility in Germany to use this process for SAF production based on biomass waste and residues. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The data speaks to a major problem for the petroleum industry and oil prices as it recovers from unprecedented demand declines for most of 2020. A persistent rebound in global oil markets requires profitability in transportation products. and 1.1%, respectively. But that won’t happen until demand recovers.

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MAY 29, 2020

A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to clean up oil spills inexpensively and efficiently without harming marine life. —Vikas Nandwana.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Roskill expects demand for molybdenum to drop by more than 8% in 2020. Other uses for molybdenum include catalysts for the petroleum industry, inks for circuit boards, pigments and electrodes. In the first half of 2020, the Brent crude oil price crashed from US$67.3/bbl bbl in April 2020. decline in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

By making use of a previously undesired side effect in oil recovery, researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have developed a method that yields up to 20% more heavy oil than traditional methods. Generally, less than 10% of heavy oil may be produced from reservoirs by natural flow after drilling the well.

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JULY 18, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published in the journal Science joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. —Thompson et al.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

LG Chem and Korean biodiesel producer and exporter Dansuk Industrial will form a joint venture to build Korea’s first next-generation hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) plant. HVO is a next-generation bio-oil produced through hydro-treatment of vegetable raw materials such as waste cooking oil and palm by-products.

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JULY 9, 2015

As the new aviation biofuel roadmap indicates, Japan is ready to accelerate development and use of sustainable aviation fuels by the 2020 Olympics. The roadmap explored the use of six feedstocks: municipal waste, microalgae, natural oils, waste food oil, non-edible biomass and woody biomass.

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JUNE 18, 2021

As part of the THINKTANK Industrial Resource Strategies, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been working with Audi on the pilot project “Chemical Recycling of plastics from automotive manufacturing.” The material cycles closed in this way save valuable resources, energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is €450-550/tonne. The participants are Vertoro B.V. (NL);

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Nidec Corporation’s Board of Directors approved a resolution to acquire the shares of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., After completion of the acquisition, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool will become Nidec-Shimpo’s third main business.

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OCTOBER 29, 2016

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the regulatory authority for international shipping, decided to implement a global sulfur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) (5,000 ppm) on fuel oil starting 1 January 2020 during its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), meeting for its 70 th session in London.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Oil production growth from the United States, Brazil, Canada and Norway can keep the world well supplied, more than meeting global oil demand growth through 2020, but more investment will be needed to boost output after that, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual report on oil markets.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Canadian oil sands production has fully recovered from last year’s “COVID-19 Shock”—the largest contraction of upstream production in Canadian history—and has exceeded pre-pandemic levels. The latest forecast by the IHS Markit Oil Sands Dialogue expects Canadian oil sands production to reach 3.6 MMbd in 2030.

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JUNE 1, 2023

European lawmakers have been promoting the by-product of industrial meat farming as a way of reducing the carbon impact of transport fuels.They are now setting their sights on planes and to a lesser extent ships. Scaling up industrial meat farming is neither doable nor desirable. However, there is not enough fat to go around.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2019

The Government of Alberta, Canada, is now allowing curtailed operators to drill new conventional oil wells without being restricted by production limits. Oil production in Alberta in September 2019 was 16.75 Non-conventional (or oil sands) production, which constituted 83.8% —Sonya Savage, Minister of Energy. Background.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Gold Hydrogen is a novel source of carbon neutral hydrogen produced from depleted oil reservoirs that are ready for plug and abandonment, extending the life of wells that would otherwise be a significant burden. billion in 2020. According to recent studies, the global green hydrogen market size was valued at US$0.3 billion by 2028.

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MAY 22, 2020

Due to the collapse in oil prices, IHS Markit expects US producers are in the process of curtailing about 1.75 Due to the collapse in oil prices, IHS Markit expects US producers are in the process of curtailing about 1.75 These reductions are not permanent. However, nearly 1.4

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MARCH 25, 2023

In February, API’s industry data showed petroleum demand of 19.8 million barrels per day (Mb/d) at its second highest for the month since 2020, a rebound in oil production and record level exports, with reductions in inventories and domestic refining activities when compared to January 2023. Distillates demand fell by 4.4%

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AUGUST 28, 2017

On 27 October 2016, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced that beginning on 1 January 2020, the maximum sulfur content allowed in marine bunker fuel will be reduced from 3.50% mass by mass (m/m) to 0.50% m/m (35,000 ppm to 5,000 ppm)—five years earlier than many expected. The two industries are vastly unprepared.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that establishes the required renewable fuel volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for 2019, and biomass-based diesel for 2020. Biomass-based diesel volumes for 2020 will increase by 330 million gallons over the standard for 2019.

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APRIL 15, 2017

shale has thrown in another unknown in the mix of factors driving the price of oil. This year, shale output forecasts combine with OPEC’s production cuts, geopolitical factors, and unexpected outages to further complicate supply/demand and oil price forecasts by Wall Street’s major investment banks. In recent years, U.S. shale output.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

US shale production—the chief source of rapid growth that made the United States the world’s largest oil producer—is slowing down fast, says a new report by IHS Markit. It all represents the strongest headwinds for shale producers since the oil price collapse in 2015. Modest growth is expected to resume in 2022.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions.

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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 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. —Miettinen et al.

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APRIL 18, 2020

IHS Markit is forecasting that global commercial vehicle production (GVW 4-8) volumes in 2020 compared to 2019 will be down 22% (more than 650,000 units) to 2.6 decline in global real GDP in 2020. The local industry is already recovering, with commercial vehicle plants re-opened. China slowly gaining momentum after shutdown.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The rise of electric cars has led many analysts to make predictions about the future of the oil industry. ExxonMobil and OPEC have both made statements indicating confidence that the majority of vehicles on the world's roads will continue to be powered by fossil fuels for the next few decades.

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MAY 31, 2020

Energy investment is set to fall by one-fifth in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the start of 2020, global energy investment was on track for growth of around 2%, which would have been the largest annual rise in spending in six years. Global investment in oil and gas is expected to fall by almost one-third in 2020.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Goodyear’s new tire features three different carbon blacks that are produced from methane, carbon dioxide, and plant-based oil. The use of soybean oil in tires is a significant Goodyear innovation that helps keep a tire’s rubber compound pliable in changing temperatures.

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APRIL 30, 2021

In the period 2016-2020, the port of Rotterdam reduced its total carbon emissions by 27%. In 2020, Rotterdam achieved a 12% reduction in emissions, compared to 8% in the Netherlands as a whole. The carbon emissions of Rotterdam’s industrial sector fell by 1.1 Last year, Rotterdam’s power plants cut their carbon emissions by 1.9

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APRIL 13, 2021

The biojet fuel, made from used cooking oil, will be delivered to French airports starting in April 2021. Total started up production at the La Mède biorefinery—converted from a former oil refinery—in 2019. Total will not use vegetable oils as feedstock. An 8-megawatt solar farm that can supply 13,000 people.

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MARCH 7, 2020

Leading short sea ro-ro operator UECC and sustainable marine biofuel pioneer GoodFuels have launched a joint trial of GoodFuels Bio-Fuel Oil (MR1-100 or BFO) on UECC’s ro-ro vessel M/V Autosky. The biobunkering, which will take place in the Port of Rotterdam, will be the first in a series of bunkering operations between March and May 2020.

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MAY 3, 2021

In 2020, EnergyX announced a pilot partnership with Orocobre Limited ( earlier post ) to deliver high-quality and comprehensive solutions that will lead to a cleaner, more efficient lithium extraction. In 2020 global supply was roughly 315k tons; this is expected to rise to 5.5M tons by 2040.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Canadian oil sands production is set to enter a period of slower annual production growth compared to previous years. Large scale oil sands projects take two, three, four or more years to be brought online and so the reality of a slower pace of investment and growth in the Canadian oil sands is taking shape. —Kevin Birn.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. in 2020, it could rebound quickly to previous levels as soon as 2021, depending on the persistence and longevity of the pandemic.

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JULY 21, 2022

million b/d since the start of 2020, contributing 184,000 b/d to the global decline in 2021. Global demand for refined products dropped substantially in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its June 2022 Oil Market Report, the IEA expects net global refining capacity to expand by 1.0 million b/d in 2023.

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