Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2014

Rosneft and BP Exploration Operating Company Limited signed a Heads of Agreement on Domanik tight oil formations. In BP’s Energy Outlook 2035 , released in January, the company’s analysts suggested that Russia will become one of the world’s top tight oil suppliers, although far behind the US. The Domanik region in Russia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

Statoil has confirmed communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Norway has not seen a similar oil discovery since the mid-eighties.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2012

Well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas emissions for in situ SAGD and surface mining pathways generated employing GHOST/TIAX/ GHGenius combination and comparison with SAGD, mining and conventional crude oil literature pathways (all results are on a HHV basis). 74% of WTW emissions in our oil sands pathways. Credit: ACS, Bergerson et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2015

Even as financial commentators on CNBC are starting to come around to the idea of a bottom in oil prices, the key question for US oil producers remains one of timing. How long will the oil price slump last? Is this a relatively short term event like 2008, or a longer term slump like the one in the mid 1980’s?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

s (Shell) Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea. Shell has committed to provide for the following emergency contingencies: the availability of a capping stack to shut off any flow of oil if other shut-off systems fail; the capability to capture and collect oil from that stack; and.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

HWDP can be at the upper limits of the shear rams on older BOP stacks, which are intended to cut through pipe in an extreme well control event. Examples include: Drilling in HP reservoirs necessitates heavyweight drill pipe (HWDP). New material formulations have come to play in this specific area.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

relating to methane pyrolysis was granted the Innovation Award by the German Gas Industry and additionally won the audience award of the ERDGAS 2018 Zukunftswerkstatt, an event staged by the Zukunft ERDGAS industry initiative. Resources. In 2018, the research of KIT and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. Geißler, A.

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Green Car Congress

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. —BSEE Director Brian Salerno. billion dollars to the Treasury in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2012

s Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for Alaska’s Beaufort Sea. This decision follows the bureau’s review of the plan and consultations with federal and state partner agencies involved in Arctic oil spill response. The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

The carbon capture process at the Scotford oil sands upgrader will capture about 35% of emissions. The signing of the funding agreement was announced as part of an event marking the earlier start-up of Shell’s 100,000-barrel-per-day expansion of its Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), bringing total capacity to 255,000 barrels per day.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The deeper an oil well, the higher the pressure, and the higher the risks associated with tapping oil from wells. The main challenge presented in many of these models is the precise prediction of the pressure profile in addition to liquid/gas volumes and flow rates at various points along the oil well.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2014

The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) anticipates two awards being made: the first for $7 million in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and fossil-fuel-based Clean Energy Systems (CES); the second for $2 million in the area of international oil and natural gas. International Oil and Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2016

A study led by chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments are the result of operational inefficiencies and not inherent to the extraction process itself. —Kevin Schug. Zacariah L. Taylor, Doug D.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

A study by researchers in Canada and the US shows that oil sands development is a greater source of polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) contamination to the Athabasca River and its tributaries than previously realized. Bitumen production in the Alberta oil sands has increased rapidly, rising from 482,000 to 1.3

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement, which establishes a framework for US offshore oil and gas companies and Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) jointly to develop transboundary reservoirs ( earlier post ), was enacted today as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act ( H.J.Res.59 59 ) which President Obama signed into law.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The event aimed at leveraging Extended Producer Responsibility as a strategic mechanism towards achieving a circular economy in the automotive industry. The first session of the workshop was on “EPR Regime in Used Oil & Plastic Waste Management. There were thematic presentations by industry experts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) rig in 2010 contaminated more than 1,000 square miles of seafloor. The complexity of the event has made it difficult for scientists to determine the long-term fate of oil in this ocean environment.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 28, 2022

Musk’s appearance at the 2022 ONS conference has been announced by the event’s organizers themselves. The 2022 ONS conference promises to be an important event. The Tesla CEO also warned about the dangers of letting the oil and gas industry deplete the Earth of its fossil resources at the 2014 ONS.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

While Russia holds significant leverage in influencing oil and gas prices, it pales in comparison to China’s position in several strategic industries critical to the energy transition, says report author Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and materials at the Baker Institute. —Baker Institute report Need Nickel?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the paper, Nataliya Malyshkina and Deb Niemeier point out that the peak of oil production is estimated to occur approximately between 2010 and 2030, and note that all those dates are considerably earlier than their estimate of the time until renewable replacement technologies are viable in the market (around 2140).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

California’s Interagency Working Group on Refinery Safety released its draft report outlining steps and recommendations to improve public and worker safety at and near the state’s oil refineries. Improving Public and Worker Safety at Oil Refineries. The fire created a vaporized plume that spread to surrounding communities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The country’s increased production of crude oil, natural gas, and corn-based ethanol created unforeseen demands and safety challenges on their long-distance transportation via pipelines, tank barges, and railroad tank cars. Prior to 2005, railroads had little experience carrying ethanol and crude oil in large quantities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

FWS said then that it is not yet known if herbivory events like the one in 2020 occur periodically or if abnormally dry conditions made food and moisture sources scarcer for native small mammals in the area. Balancing resource extraction with survival of rare plants. The Colorado Plateau and associated land tenures. Carrell et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

Earthquakes attributable to human activities are called “induced seismic events” or “induced earthquakes.” In addition, carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events, because significant volumes of fluids are injected underground over long periods of time.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

Global Bioenergies (GBE), the company developing a process converting renewable resources into isobutene via fermentation ( earlier post ), and SkyNRG, world market leader in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will collaborate to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has determined it is appropriate that deepwater oil and gas drilling resume, provided that operators certify compliance with all existing rules and requirements, including those that recently went into effect, and demonstrate the availability of adequate blowout containment resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Hydrocarbons are ubiquitous in the oceans, even in areas with minimal crude oil pollution, but what hadn’t been recognized until now is the likely quantity produced continually by living oceanic organisms. The researchers caution that their results do not in any way diminish the enormous harm caused by oil spills. Lea-Smith, D.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) made a final investment decision in the Stones ultra-deepwater project, a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas development expected to host the deepest production facility in the world. The Stones field has significant upside potential and is estimated to contain more than 2 billion boe of oil in place, according to Shell.

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Plug in America

APRIL 24, 2024

It is here where members of the Sioux Nation began what was to rapidly grow into a historic demonstration against the Dakota Access (oil) Pipeline—challenging the notion that the fossil fuel industry could have its way on and near Tribal lands. Standing Rock.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

With assets exceeding US$270 billion, China Energy has set a number of world records including being the largest producer of coal, thermal power, renewable energy, and coal-to-oil and coal chemical products. The hydrogen fueling station in Beijing has continued to serve local vehicles since the events concluded.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Like the issue of oil drilling in Hermosa Beach. The classic slogan that Stop Hermosa Beach Oil movement has created, Keep Hermosa Hermosa” couldn’t be more right-on, because over the years Hermosa has been kept Hermosa.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 16, 2023

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. Jet-HR2 has been able to track the desired trajectory in the air for hovering.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ever since the 1970’s, when he and his brother would take turns sitting in gas lines on Saturday mornings during a severe gas shortage, Earl Cox had been interested in the development of a vehicle that could run on something other than oil-based fuel. His interest grew deeper when he was an officer in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

fuel-specific oil consumption. Achates Power has made excellent progress overcoming the challenges commonly associated with two-stroke engines: emissions, fuel economy, oil consumption and durability. Similar engine-out emissions levels. Less than 0.1% Reduced weight and complexity. brake thermal efficiency. Herold, Michael H.

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