Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Chevron USA Inc. has paid $422,500 in penalties for supplying gasoline and diesel fuel in violation of California regulations designed to protect air quality. Chevron agreed to pay the penalties as part of three separate settlements it reached with the California Air Resources Board (ARB). In all, 15.9 In all, 15.9

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Chevron California San Jose Fuel 230

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Chevron Products Company, a Chevron USA Inc. division, maker of the Delo brand of heavy duty engine oils, lubricants and coolants, unveiled a new category of heavy duty motor oil designed to address the growth of severe duty applications in on- and off-highway markets.

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Chevron Fuel Economy Oil Economy 210

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JULY 6, 2011

GE Oil & Gas will supply three customized aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules to provide reliable electric power for a new Chevron floating production unit that will produce oil and gas from the Jack and St. million cubic feet of natural gas per day. The LM2500+G4. The LM2500+G4. Click to enlarge.

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Chevron Gas Supplies Production 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

UrbanX Renewables Group of Long Beach, CA, executed a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Hyundai Engineering Co., UrbanX renewable diesel can cut lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by up to 85%, according to Bruce Melgar, UrbanX president. It can also yield a prime sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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Renewable Diesel Long Beach Hyundai 221

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JUNE 30, 2014

Researchers from QUILL —the Queen’s University (Belfast) Ionic Liquid Laboratories—will display a novel process for removing toxic mercury from natural gas using ionic liquids at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. That’s why we call them ‘designer liquids’ as we can alter their properties to suit specific purposes.

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Mercury Gas Chevron CO2 210

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APRIL 10, 2021

The investment round was led by AP Ventures, a significant investor in breakthrough hydrogen technologies, and included New Energy Technologies, Chevron Technology Ventures, Osaka Gas USA, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Conventional ammonia production has a significant carbon footprint.

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Hydrogen Green Energy South Africa 377

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2021, Raven SR attracted funds totalling $20 million from global oil and gas major Chevron, Japanese trading house ITOCHU, hydrogen mobility leader and innovator Hyzon Motors, and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR’s technology is designed to produce more green hydrogen per ton of waste than competing processes.

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Renewable Companies Fuel South Korea 199

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Fortistar and Paloma Dairy have begun construction on a dairy digester renewable natural gas (RNG) facility, the Sunoma Renewable Biofuel Project. TruStar Energy, a Fortistar portfolio company and leading developer of natural gas fueling stations, will market and deliver the RNG fuel. The new facility will produce 1.6

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Fuel Chevron Gas Renewable 170

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States.

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Austin Gas Emissions Production 218

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. —Mark Zoback.

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Gas Asia Mercury Chevron 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2012

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell announced that two major milestones have been met in the state’s effort to bring Alaska’s North Slope natural gas to Alaskans and markets beyond. The North Slope holds more than 35 trillion cubic feet of discovered natural gas. Positioning North Slope gas for a large-scale gas pipeline project.

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Alaska Gas Canada Legal 277

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Participating investors included CTTV Investments LLC, the venture capital arm of Chevron Technology Ventures LLC; Flagship Ventures; Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. UltraClean Diesel has achieved US and Brazilian performance standards for on-road use, and achieves an 85% reduction in green house gas emissions.

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Chevron Renewable Diesel Convert 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Tobago is jointly owned by Shell (32.5%, as operator), Chevron (57.5%), and Nexen (10.0%) and is one of three fields producing through the Perdido drilling and production platform. Perdido produced its first oil and gas on 31 March 2010. Click to enlarge.

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Mexico Oil Gas Chevron 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

Major incidents at oil and gas refineries pose a significant risk to refinery workers and nearby communities while costing Californians an average of $800 million a year in disruption to fuel supplies. DIR, Cal OES, and CalEPA have collaborated to ensure that the two regulations are aligned. Annual public reporting of refinery safety metrics.

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Oil California Chevron Sacramento 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2018

During the last three years, companies operating in the Permian basin have drilled much longer laterals and used substantially more complex well completion design in their newer wells with the aim of reaching higher initial production (IP) rates. —Svetlana Doh, Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData.

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Oil Chevron Texas New Mexico 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. These efforts aim to design initial engineering studies to develop technologies to capture CO 2 generated as a byproduct of manufacturing at industrial sites.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas 236

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JANUARY 5, 2013

The platform is being designed for daily production of 150,000 barrels of oil. Source: Chevron. Hebron will be developed using a stand-alone gravity-based structure (GBS) consisting of reinforced concrete designed to withstand sea ice, icebergs and meteorological and oceanographic conditions. Location of Hebron field.

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Oil Chevron Canada Corporation 356

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APRIL 11, 2012

Clathrate hydrate formation and subsequent plugging of deep-sea oil and gas pipelines represent a significant bottleneck for deep-sea oil and gas operations. — Methane hydrates can freeze upon contact with cold water in the deep ocean, are a chronic problem for deep-sea oil and gas wells. Resources. David Smith, Adam J.

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MIT Oil Gas Chevron 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

A team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Chevron Corporation has examined the chemical composition and properties of several diesel fuels and blendstocks derived from Fischer?Tropsch Tropsch (FT) synthesis, hydroisomerization of lipids, and fermentation of sugar via the terpenoid metabolic pathway.

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Chevron Diesel Renewable Oil 231

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted Reaction Design one of seven awards for a project intended to support the full-scale implementation and operation of highly efficient coal-based power generation technologies with near-zero emissions. Reaction Design also leads the Model Fuels Consortium. Earlier post.).

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Coal Design Chevron Grant 186

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park is “evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.” Needless to say, in the seven decades hence, things have changed somewhat.

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Gas-Electric Honda Pollution 2016 52

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Source: Reaction Design. Reaction Design is introducing the first volume of the industry’s most well-validated available Model Fuel Library, the result of seven years of research and validation under the Model Fuels Consortium ( earlier post ). —Bernie Sanders, CEO, Reaction Design. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Design Engine Emissions 225

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% Mad Dog field development originally was designed to utilize a truss spar platform, equipped with facilities for simultaneous production and drilling operations. The prospect is operated by Chevron USA Inc., BHP Billiton has a 23.9%

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Mexico Oil Oil-Sands Chevron 220

Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park was considering ditching gas engines soon. But the ride was sponsored by Chevron from 1998-2012, and that company is pretty dedicated to poisoning small children anyway, so it was apt.

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All-Electric Gas-Electric Honda Gasoline-Electric 52

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Every one of those companies’ financial futures depends on that 5,795 gigatons of carbon being turned into greenhouse gas emissions that will literally cook the planet past the point of human habitation.

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Climate Change Climate Chevron Oil 358

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

Oil and gas services company Schlumberger defines artificial lift as any system that adds energy to the fluid column in a wellbore with the objective of initiating and improving production from the well. Artificial-lift systems use a range of operating principles, including rod pumping, gas lift and electric submersible pumps.

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Oil-Sands Companies Chevron Energy 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2016

Seneca Resources Corporation is the exploration and production (E&P) segment of National Fuel Gas Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas. Seneca explores for, develops and produces natural gas and oil reserves in California, Kansas and the Appalachian Region including the Marcellus and Utica Shales.

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Oil Solar California Chevron 150

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

working interest) and co-owners, BHP Billiton (23.9%) and Union Oil Company of California, an affiliate of Chevron USA Inc (15.6%), decided to re-evaluate the Mad Dog Phase 2 project after an initial design—pegged at some $20 billion—proved too complex and costly. In 2013, BP (operator, with 60.5%

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Mexico Chevron Oil Oil Prices 150

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 9, 2023

In a conversation with Elon Musk yesterday on Twitter, GM boss Mary Barra explained her company will begin to integrate the North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector design into its EVs beginning in 2025. And designing a second charging flap door on another part of the car to house a NACS port would be very expensive.

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Standards GM Plug Charging 86

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

billion Quest project will be built on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture owners (Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil) and with support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta. Shell will proceed with the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation in Canada. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Carbon Chevron 255

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JUNE 14, 2009

Gas hydrate accumulations at one of the drill sites (Walker Ridge). The Gulf of Mexico is thus the first offshore area in the United States with enough information to identify gas hydrate energy resource targets with potential for gas production. Source: JIP. Click to enlarge.

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Gas Industrial Industry Mexico 150

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JULY 22, 2010

Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell plan to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The companies have committed $1 billion to fund the initial costs of the system.

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Mexico Oil Chevron Mariner 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

LytEn produces hydrogen from the cracking of methane (fossil natural gas or renewable biomethane) through a proprietary process. For the LCFS pathway applications, LytEn is using landfill gas. renewable biomethane and the balance fossil natural gas or 100% renewable biomethane as feedstocks for the production of hydrogen.

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Gasoline Hydrogen Diesel California 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Until now, turbulent fluctuations in the exhaust gas stream have not been fully understood as one of the major sources of noise. The first developments in this direction have already been made, such as the chevron nozzle with its serrated trailing edge. Aircraft engine noise is a socially pressing issue with a wide range of causes.

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Engine Exhaust Chevron Light 231

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The province signed a Letter of Intent with Shell Canada Energy, on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project—a joint venture among Shell Canada (60%), Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Sands L.P. (20%)—to A total of $100 million has been budgeted this fiscal year for engineering and design work.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Carbon 186

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Distinguished Design Upgraded exterior this year The XT4 exterior has been redesigned for 2024 with an all-new front fascia with the reworked Cadillac chevron emblem being placed prominently in the new grille, all of which Cadillac says “advances its design standard.”

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Cadillac Escalade SUV MPG 55

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JUNE 21, 2010

Production of LS9 UltraClean Diesel provides an estimated 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional petroleum diesel, according to the company. LS9 was founded in 2005 and has received venture funding from Flagship Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Chevron Technology Ventures.

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Green Companies Fuel Chevron 186