Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Shell marked the official opening of the Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada, and the start of commercial operations there. The governments of Alberta and Canada contributed C$745 million and C$120 million respectively to Quest. Support from the local community was essential to building Quest, Shell noted.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

One of the planned pilot projects, funded cooperatively by the DOE Office of Fossil Energy with industry cost share, combines the resources of the oil and gas industry with PNNL’s technology. Oil and gas extraction across the US and Canada pumps subsurface water to the surface as part of the extraction process.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Board of Directors of Canada-based Athabasca Oil Corporation has given the go-ahead to the company’s $536-million Hangingstone 1 SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) Project; the company also reaffirmed that its Light Oil Division is on track to meet its year-end production target of 10,000 to 11,000 barrels of oil.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. Oil sands mining and reclamation cause massive loss of peatland and stored carbon. —Rooney et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

Canada-based CO 2 Solutions Inc., an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, announced that it has exceeded the second set of technical performance milestones for its oil sands project. However, the cost of conventional CCS technologies is prohibitive to broad commercial deployment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

He also continued his calls for the oil industry to increase refinery capacity to increase production. Crude oil is always the top contributor to the prices US drivers see at the pump. Refined product prices are set by the marginal supply costs of bringing the incremental barrels of products to market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2010

Total will not use carbon capture technology in the first phase of its Joslyn North Mine oil sands project, citing excessive cost. In 2009, the company suggested it was considering carbon capture and storage in its oil sands projects in Canada. What we still need to improve is the cost aspect. Edmonton Journal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Approximately 50% of renewable diesel production is currently being sold into Canada; all of the SAF is being delivered to Shell Aviation; and the renewable hydrogen plant capacity was demonstrated. —Todd Borgmann, Calumet CEO Montana Renewables enters the third quarter running 12,500 barrels per day (bpd) of renewable feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

Russia’s Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed agreements to implement a long-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement concluded in August 2011 jointly to explore for and to develop oil and natural gas in Russia and to share technology and expertise. The initial cost of preliminary exploration is estimated at more than US$3.2 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. This announcement is a result of NRCan’s Oil and Gas Clean Tech Program. Cenovus Energy will test an oil sands extraction technology using a solvent-driven process.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2012

The project, with an estimated capital cost of $660 million, is a 90-kilometer (56-mile) pipeline system that will transport bitumen and diluent between the Fort Hills oil sands mine site and the Voyageur Upgrader located north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. and Teck Resources Limited and is operated by Suncor Energy Operating Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2011

the construction and has initiated start-up of its Nipisi heavy oil pipeline and Mitsue diluent pipeline which will service the Pelican Lake and Peace River oil sands regions of Alberta. Pembina Pipeline Corporation has completed. Nipisi heavy crude and Mitsue condensate pipeline systems. Dotted green.) Source: Pembina.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

About 63% of today’s nuclear generating capacity comes from plants that are more than 30 years old, since many were built in the aftermath of the 1970s oil shocks. While plant lifetime extensions require substantial investment, they generally yield a cost of electricity that is competitive with wind and solar in most regions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The expansion of the reversed Seaway Pipeline will more than double its capacity to 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) by mid-2014 and transport oil originating in the Canadian oil sands and the US Bakken shale from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast at Houston, with an extension to Port Arthur/Beaumont. Enbridge Inc. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The RDU will have a production capacity of approximately 125 million gallons a year (9,000 BPD) and allow HollyFrontier to process soybean oil and other renewable feedstocks into renewable diesel. The Navajo Refinery has a crude oil capacity of 100,000 barrels per day.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2010

Examples of emerging oil sands related technologies and trade-offs. The paper is an examination of how various choices about the scale of the life cycle analysis applied to oil sands (i.e., The source material is neither oil nor tar but bitumen, but is most generally described as an example of ultraheavy oil.”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Canada is awarding C$10M (US$10.5 million) from Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) SD Tech Fund to a consortium led by N-Solv Corp. The N-Solv process is also expected to have lower operating and capital costs than SAGD with fewer restrictions on the reservoir conditions under which it can operate.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total. Canada-based Suncor Energy Inc., Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. In addition, Suncor has entered into a strategic partnership with Total E&P Canada Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

Total E&P Canada Ltd., a Total subsidiary, has signed an agreement with UTS Energy Corporation (UTS) to acquire UTS Corporation with its main asset, a 20% interest in the Fort Hills oil sands mining project in Alberta, Canada. per share) the cost of the acquisition for Total amounts to approximately CAD 1.15

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2021

Once the connection to the adapter is established to the vehicle and to the OnStar Vehicle Insights mobile app or website, fleet managers can begin receiving valuable vehicle insights on the OnStar Vehicle Insights platform, designed to lower the cost of vehicle maintenance while keeping their fleets up and running.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The US and Canada have submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the designation of an Emission Control area (ECA) around their coastlines in which stringent international emission controls would apply to ocean-going ships. The overall cost of the ECA is estimated at $3.2 Source: EPA Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2013

Northern Gateway’s West line, 36 inches in diameter, would transport an average of 525,000 barrels of oil sands crude per day to Kitimat. The provincial government has established, and maintains, strict conditions in order for British Columbia to consider the construction and operation of heavy-oil pipelines in the province.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with Natural Resources Canada. Companies can choose to further test their machines down to -26 °C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2010

Canada-based Solarvest BioEnergy has begun a cooperative Research and Development agreement with Dr. Suzanne Budge at the Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology at Dalhousie University to assist Solarvest in the characterization of lipids and fatty acids in algae. Gerri Greenham, President and CEO of Solarvest.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2016

and Canada-based Canfor Pulp Products Inc. In these trials, wood residue streams from Canfor Pulp’s kraft process were successfully converted into a stable biocrude oil. Australia-based Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd. CPPI), through its subsidiary Canfor Pulp Ltd., signed an agreement to form a joint-venture: Licella Pulp Joint Venture.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

The AEO2019 Reference case also projects significant continued development of US shale and tight oil and natural gas resources, as well as continued growth in use of renewable resources. US energy export growth is driven largely by petroleum exports including crude oil and products, and by additional liquefied natural gas exports.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

The 1,150-km (714-mile) Trans Mountain pipeline system (TMPL) is the only pipeline system in North America that transports both crude oil from the oil sands and refined products to the west coast. Only crude oil and condensates are shipped into the United States. —Ian Anderson, president of Kinder Morgan Canada.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

Which EV brand has the lowest ownership costs of any automotive brand? 2025 Mazda EZ-6 Honda plans to create an $11 billion EV hub in Canada. Land Rover Defender EV conversion by Bedeo According to an assessment by Consumer Reports, Tesla has the lowest ownership costs of any brand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) of Canada are working together to develop advanced gasification technology aimed at decreasing the cost and environmental impact of processing Alberta’s oil sands. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2009

World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) per day, according to a Worldwatch Institute analysis. Energy prices reflected this shift: oil peaked at $144 per barrel in July, then fell to $34 per barrel in December. Oil production reached 10.7

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

will serve customers in the United States and Canada, and will be certified to US EPA 2013 NO x and PM emissions levels. creates new opportunities for our OEM customers as a compact and lightweight engine that delivers best-in-class fuel efficiency and total cost of ownership. Like the new 5.0L Cummins ISV5.0 Cummins ISV5.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

With a total crude-oil capacity of some 120,000 barrels per day, the refinery primarily supplies gasoline, jet fuel and diesel to markets in Washington and Oregon, and manufactures heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt. Tesoro’s Anacortes refinery is located about 70 miles north of Seattle on the Puget Sound.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Province of Alberta (Canada) has executed a letter of intent with Swan Hills Synfuels to provide a C$285 million (US$273 million) grant in support of a underground coal gasification (UCG) project that will reduce emissions by capturing and sequestering more than 1.3 The overall cost of the project is approximately C$1.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

Cenovus is an integrated oil company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with an enterprise value of approximately C$26 billion. Cenovus anticipates achieving that growth at long term estimated average finding and development costs of approximately $8.00 An external evaluation of Cenovus Energy Inc.’s per barrel.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will research, develop, and demonstrate polyalkylene glycol (PAG)- based engine oil technology which can reduce engine friction relative to conventional petroleum-based and synthetic oils. These projects are being undertaken as part of the Clean Energy Dialogue with Canada. . $1,497,531. Ford Motor Company.

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