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DECEMBER 28, 2015

In its new Natural Gas Vehicles report, Navigant Research forecasts that global annual NGV sales—light-, medium- and heavy-duty—will grow 62.5% Various regional factors affect the markets for natural gas vehicles (NGVs), Navigant observes. million vehicles in 2015 to 3.9 million in 2025. million, accounting for 2.6%

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects.

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JUNE 19, 2012

GE has concluded a commercial alliance agreement with Norway-based Sargas AS to provide a gas turbine for one of the world’s first gas-fired plants with integrated carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). GE’s LMS100 turbine is a combination of proven frame and aero-derivative gas turbine technology.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

The latest crash in oil prices once again raises this prospect. On the one hand, lower oil prices – despite the recent rebound, prices are still down sharply from a few months ago – can cause some E&Ps to want to hold off on drilling new wells. The calculus on completing wells can cut two ways.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Oil prices are probably already high enough to spark a rebound in shale production. Even when US oil production hit a peak at 9.7 By the third quarter, oil prices had climbed back to above $40 and traded at around $50 per barrel for some time, replenishing some lost revenue. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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JUNE 5, 2012

The break-even crude oil price for a delivered biomass cost of $94/metric ton when hydrogen is derived from coal, natural gas or nuclear energy ranges from $103 to $116/bbl for no carbon tax and even lower ($99–$111/bbl) for the carbon tax scenarios. —Singh et al.

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MAY 11, 2010

General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. TGC will file a tariff with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to establish the cost of hydrogen for the retail dispenser. TGC infrastructure follows the populated core on Oahu.

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APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. With greater U.S.

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APRIL 7, 2021

EIA also forecasts the Brent crude oil price will average $64 per barrel this summer, a 78% increase from last summer’s average of $36 per barrel. That price increase paired with an increase in gasoline and diesel demand will likely increase the cost of regular gasoline and diesel fuel this summer. MMBtu in 2020 to $3.31/MMBtu

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JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs.

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JANUARY 31, 2009

A crude oil price of US$100/bbl results in an approximate cost of €0.56/L Furthermore, given the limitations on biomass conversion to biosynfuel, the FZK team sees an ongoing role for coal and natural gas derived synthetic fuels, likely combined with BTL in very large integrated XTL complexes. per liter (US$2.72-5.03/gallon

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Although co-production plants are much more costly than liquids-only configurations in terms of capital cost, Hari Mantripragadaa1 and Edward Rubin found, because of the high electricity revenues the cost of liquid product is lower than that of the liquids-only case, at market prices of electricity. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

Kazakhstan, rich in natural resources such as oil, gas, and metal, has huge potential for economic development but infrastructure constraints result in significant travel time and cost, and hinder access to foreign markets.

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JULY 17, 2012

Put simply, the empirical results merely reflect the fact that ethanol production increased during the sample period whereas the ratio of gasoline to crude oil prices decreased. Our resulting estimates suggest that increases in ethanol production “cause” reductions in natural gas prices but increases in unemployment.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

Say what you will about offshore oil and gas exploration, but it’s still alive and kicking—high production costs and all. The latest demonstration of the viability of deepwater projects, even in the post-2014 oil industry era, comes from none other than Brazil.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Growth in diesel fuel consumption will be moderated by the increased use of natural gas in heavy-duty vehicles. The United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas earlier than estimated a year ago. Biofuels grow at a slower rate due to lower crude oil prices and. Biomass and biofuels growth is slower.

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JULY 4, 2013

The horizontal red lines show the comparable price of gasoline (before tax, refining margin 0.3 $/gal, exchange rate: 1 € = 1.326 $) with crude oil prices 100 $/bbl and 150 $/bbl. VTT’s test-rig for the Ultra-Clean Gas process. The UCG process was developed for the production of low-cost synthesis gas from biomass.

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APRIL 25, 2010

Dimethyl ether is a diesel fuel replacement that can be produced from abundant resources including natural gas, landfill methane, coal and biomass. At current oil prices, DME can be produced and distributed at less than 1/2 the cost of conventional fuel.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The cost of a barrel of oil is now just a fraction of what it was several years ago, and fuel prices have mostly fallen across the globe as a result. Oil prices rise and fall, but most industry analysts suggest that the emergence of North American production has loosened OPEC's ability to set prices unilaterally.

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2015

This steady increase in seats available per flight result in increased fuel efficiency but at the cost of reduced passenger comfort and access to flights (fewer airports served and/or longer wait times between flights). Commercial aircraft accounted for 11% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the US transportation sector in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Technically feasible levels of energy efficiency and decarbonized energy supply alone will not be sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, according to a detailed modeling of the California economy performed by a team from Energy and Environmental Economics, the Monterey. Williams et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 8, 2009

integrating biological and thermochemical processing to produce biofuels and/or power could offer similar, if not lower, efficiencies and costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuel, according to a comparative analysis of 14 mature technology biomass refining scenarios.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The company will now expand its focus to other second- and third-generation carbon feedstocks, which are associated with even higher reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The principle of gaseous fermentation promoted by the company will also apply here, allowing a continuous, more efficient and more cost-effective production.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

The report comes as oil majors like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, and other companies, are developing at least a couple dozen oil shale and CTL projects, including 12 CTL facilities projected to produce 170 million barrels of liquid fuels per year at a cost of $2 billion to $7 billion per plant. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 23, 2012

EIA’s AEO2012 projects a continued decline in US imports of liquid fuels due to increased production of gas liquids and biofuels and greater fuel efficiency. EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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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. Nonetheless, high oil prices pushed production from the Canadian oil sands to 1.2 Total gas production grew 3.8% in 2008 to reach 27.4

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Real weighted average cost of capital is 7.5% Source: IRENA.

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JULY 12, 2011

the potential implications of electric vehicles for electricity consumption, management of electricity demand, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutant emissions. The analysis is based on central forecasts of oil price, electricity. However, as EV and PHEV prices gradually reach. operating cost savings increase.

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JULY 5, 2022

For many drivers there is a basic understanding of how traditional gasoline pricing functions: Oil prices based on availability and proximity in large part dictate how much a driver will pay at the pump. Pricing at a Glance Charging up your electric car at home sets a pricing baseline.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

A key barrier to achieving RFS2 is the high cost of producing biofuels compared to petroleum-based fuels and the large capital investments required to put billions of gallons of production capacity in place. Greenhouse gas emissions.

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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. In the New Policies Scenario, the WEO ’s central scenario, the United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas by 2020 and is almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035.

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APRIL 30, 2016

Despite the expected reduction in cost of alternative technologies, the share of new car sales will remain relatively small; the influence of these technologies on overall emissions currently remains marginal. The additional abatement potential of these technologies is approx. 34 Mton CO 2 e (WTW). Roland Berger study.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The transportation sector thus represents a significant fraction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions both globally and in the US—light-duty vehicles (LDVs) are responsible for 17.5% Electrification will also reduce oil dependence, providing foreign policy benefits and the potential to reduce real oil prices and oil price volatility.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The costs of these alternative energy technologies are falling rapidly, and they are on the path to becoming cost-competitive within the next five to ten years, if not sooner. Can it overcome barriers to rapid adoption once cost-competitive? The report, “What’s Next for Alternative Energy? Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are the private equity folks and other bottom feeders that are finding their way into the market but for the most part they are spending money on distressed assets, not new oil and gas wells. And these are only some of the challenges, the biggest being the cost of ramping up without cash flow to rely on.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers.

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