Green Car Congress
MAY 22, 2023
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, which covers an area of approximately 2,635 hectares—about the six times the size of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria—is expected to be Africa’s largest oil refinery and the world’s largest single-train facility. Sinopec-built atmospheric tower on its way to Dagote in 2019.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2015
With the huge reduction in its revenues and growing discomfort among its members such as Venezuela, Libya and Nigeria over its current production levels, is OPEC really getting weaker? Containing some of the largest proven oil and gas reserves in the world, Venezuela is one of the founding members of OPEC. Nigeria’s dilemma.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2015
The PFT process removes a portion of the heavy end of the barrel (asphaltenes) using less energy than would be required to remove the same heavy ends in a coker at an on-site upgrader, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This places oil sands within the same GHG intensity range as 45% of crude oil supplied to US refineries in 2012.).
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2011
As part of the analysis, DOS commissioned a detailed study of greenhouse gas life-cycle emissions that compared Canadian oil sands crude with other selected reference crudes. This range is equivalent to annual greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of fuels in 588,000 to 4,061,000 passenger vehicles. —FEIS.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 17, 2011
However, biodiesel from advanced biomass has an inherent environmental advantage of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction that can be realized once every step of the production chain is fully optimized and decarbonized, the researchers said. King (2011) Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas analysis for algae-derived biodiesel.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Although crudes derived from the Canadian oil sands are more carbon-intensive than the average oil refined in the United States, they are within the range of some other crude oils produced, imported, or refined in the United States, including crudes from Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, and California heavy oil production, according to the report.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
Proved additions were also made in a diverse range of countries including the United States, Norway, Nigeria, Angola and Australia. Utilizing 31 December 2008 liquids and natural gas prices, proved reserves replacement was 2.0 billion oil-equivalent barrels, split approximately evenly between liquids and gas.
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