Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Putin has highlighted on various occasions the contribution Russia’s mineral wealth, in particular oil and natural gas, must make for Russia to be able to sustain economic growth, promote industrial development, catch up with the developed economies, and modernize Russia’s military and military industry. percent of GDP in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

State-owned oil companies are retaining their dominant position in the world petroleum industry according to Energy Intelligence ’s annual ranking of the world’s top 50 oil and gas companies, which was published today in Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW). The Top 10 companies in this year’s rankings are: Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A team at the Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has shown that burning fuel at high pressure can significantly increase the size of the soot particles that are produced. A paper on their work is published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At left is a catalyst that selects for carbon dioxide and reduces it to a negatively charged formate, which is pulled through a gas diffusion layer (GDL) and the anion exchange membrane (AEM) into the central electrolyte. The ions recombine into formic acid or other products that are carried out of the system by deionized (DI) water and gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

Detailed high-resolution maps of urban change are crucial for studying greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, population exposure to extreme weather events and air pollution, land-use change dynamics, ecosystem carbon losses, urban sustainability and development pathways. Huang, Y.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait enjoy some of the lowest production costs in the world, at about $10 and $8.50, respectively, according to Rystad Energy data. Last week, Denbury Resources Inc. And this line in the sand is vastly different for private American producers than it is for kingdoms such as Saudi Arabia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ) pegged Venezuela’s 2011 reserves at 211 billion barrels, up from 99.4 According to OPEC figures, then, Venezuela has now surpassed Saudi Arabia in terms of oil reserves (296.5 billion barrel—third globally, behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. billion barrels the year before.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province. The resource base estimate of just this oil trap is 338 bcm of gas and more than 100 million tonnes of oil [approximately 733 million barrels]. Its resources account to more than 1.3 The first oil was extracted.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Repsol and Alliance Oil Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint exploration and production (E&P) venture that will serve as a growth platform for both companies in the Russian Federation, the world’s largest oil and gas producer. Russia was the largest producer of crude oil in 2009, surpassing Saudi Arabia.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

Unlike a spark ignition gas engine or diesel engine, HCCI produces a low-temperature, flameless release of energy throughout the entire combustion chamber. Earlier post , earlier post.). An HCCI engine ignites a mixture of fuel and air by compressing it in the cylinder.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2014

Its resources account to more than 1.3 A total of some 30 structures were found in three East Prinovozemelskiy areas of the Kara Sea, and the entire resource base of the three areas is estimated at 87 billion barrels or 13 billion tonnes of oil equivalent. billion tons of oil equivalent.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

There could be a question mark over Saudi Arabia’s plan, announced in 2012, to invest $109bn in 41GW of solar power by 2032. Saudi Arabia burns up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day to generate over 50% of its electricity. Oil at $60/barrel could mean a natural gas price as much as $0.90/MMBtu

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Oil Prices Oil Price Carbon 268

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The Tour lab previously used a derivative of asphalt—specifically, untreated gilsonite, the same type used for the battery—to capture greenhouse gases from natural gas. This time, the researchers mixed asphalt (Asp) with conductive graphene nanoribbons and coated the composite with lithium metal through electrochemical deposition.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2011

The company is implementing novel recycling systems to eliminate waste and reduce cost: a photo-bioreactor containing algae purifies wastewater and waste gas from the fermentation system and their solid waste is dried and pelletized for use in wood-burning furnaces and stoves. The US is the Saudi Arabia of biomass.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2018

Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode. The ions meet to make water, which exits the fuel cell. 2018.02.008.

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Energy Storage Georgia Conversion Saudi Arabia 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

A development team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, in collaboration with international research partners, have successfully used ceramic membrane technology to develop a scalable hydrogen generator that makes hydrogen from electricity and fuels including natural gas, biogas and ammonia with near zero energy loss. Clark et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2017

The researchers suggested that the molybdenum layer likely hinders oxygen gas permeation, impeding contact with the active platinum. The Mo-coated catalyst generated increasing amounts of hydrogen gas for 24 hours with the light on, and inhibited water reformation when the light was off. —Garcia-Esparza et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” technology has unlocked reserves of oil and natural gas previously thought of as unrecoverable. Any increase in price would be hastened by a decision from OPEC and Saudi Arabia in particular, to reduce production. There is no doubt that supply has increased. That is a good thing.

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Oil Prices Oil Price Saudi Arabia 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

It will probably trigger worldwide emulation over the next decades that might bear surprising results—given the fact that most shale/tight oil resources in the world are still unknown and untapped.” “The shale/tight oil boom in the United States is not a temporary bubble, but the most important revolution in the oil sector in decades.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

The method is also capable of cleaning oil spills from beaches and separating oil from drill cuttings, the solid particles that must be removed from drilling fluids in oil and gas wells. In addition, the requirement for large amounts of water can deplete the supply of local fresh water resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

tonnes per capita, despite a decline due to the recession in 2008-2009, high oil prices and an increased share of natural gas. Natural gas consumption increased globally by 2.2% The largest growth took place in China (+22%), Saudi Arabia (+13%) and Japan (+12%). the United States (16%). the European Union (11%).

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Green Car Congress

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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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. The larger uptake of unconventional resources is reflected in a higher fossil EBR of 1.65

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

With this new round of RD&D leases, we hope to move closer to responsibly and sustainably developing our oil shale resources. Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen—a solid organic precursor to oil and gas—from which hydrocarbon gases and liquids (HCs) can be obtained through the application of heat.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2011

These measures constitute the first mandatory global greenhouse gas reduction regime for an international industry sector. of global greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts led by China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and South Africa resulted in a waiver for new ships registered in developing countries. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

for the first quarter of 2011, according to data from the California Department of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). The US heavy oil resource approaches 100 billion. Of the total worldwide oil resources of 9–13 trillion barrels, 15% is estimated to be heavy (i.e., in 1988 to just above 2.3 75,000 bpd.

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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. The pipeline.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia’s energy resources are enormous and Europe’s dependence on them is deep and pervasive. Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. Shell quickly chimed in to say it would sell off its 26.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

One of the things that we’re going to be talking about today is investing in the kind of technology that will allow us to use coal, our most bountiful natural resource here in the United States, without polluting our planet. Percent reduction from 2005 baseline). Renewable fuel. Advanced biofuel. Biomass-based diesel. Cellulosic biofuel.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 2, 2008

According to this EPRI document most conventional power plants use from 200 gallons up to 900 gallons per MWH, depending on whether the plant uses natural gas, coal, or nuclear fuel, and depending on the cooling technology employed. (in Water consumption per MWH for a new natural gas plant is around 250 gallons per MWH.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. Lienhard V, and collaborators at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia. Resources.

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MIT Low Cost Water Gas 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

A team at the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, is proposing the use of terpineol as an octane booster for gasoline in a spark ignited (SI) engine. Resources. Vallinayagam, S. Vedharaj, Nimal Naser, William L. Roberts, Robert W. 2016.09.034.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Governments might link low-carbon technology with foreign and security policy, as they did with oil and gas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The F-T wax can be manufactured using renewable energy and any carbon-containing resources including biomass, CO 2 , natural gas, coal—and the resulting carbon residue from the hydrogen-depleted wax. Resources. —Gonzalez-Cortes et al. Gonzalez-Cortes, D. Slocombe, T. Aldawsari, B. Kuznetsov, E. Liberti, A.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

The argument emerged that having contributed to the collapse of world oil prices, US LTO was the new global swing producer, replacing OPEC leader Saudi Arabia in that role. This view was supported by the news June 9 reporting LTO pioneer Continental Resources Inc. production declines. I’m adding to my short position in spreads”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Sadara is expected to deliver annual revenues of approximately $10 billion within a few years of operation while contributing significantly to Saudi Arabia’s industrial diversification. The planned product portfolio will add value chains to the Kingdom’s natural resources and complement the existing chemical landscape.

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