Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually.

Diesel 397

Diesel Renewable Green San Antonio 397

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2016

Shell Oil Company has signed an agreement with Ryder System for 15 liquefied natural gas (LNG) heavy-duty vehicles supporting oil and gas logistics operations in Lafayette, La. and Houston, Texas. Ryder Dedicated Transportation Solutions has more than 200 customers in the oil and gas sector. service locations.

Louisiana 150

Louisiana Texas Oil Diesel 150

Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Tesla has used a new Texas state law to exempt its Austin gigafactory from Austin’s environmental regulations, as reported by Austin Business Journal. Tesla’s Texas gigafactory is commonly referred to as being in Austin, but it is actually situated not far outside the city’s official borders.

Texas 52

Texas Austin Tesla Water 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

Hydrogen 281

Hydrogen Carbon Production Houston 281

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses.

Water 303

Water North Dakota Oil-Sands Engine 303

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

GTI (Gas Technology Institue) is leading a high-profile program on Hydraulic Fracturing Test Sites (HFTS) in the Permian Basin, bringing together government and industry to improve recovery, continue enhancing environmentally responsible methods of optimizing production, and lowering costs in the Midland and Delaware Basins.

Delaware 210

Delaware Production Texas New Mexico 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2021

The project will convert an existing hydrocracker for the production of low-carbon renewable diesel from soybean oil, resulting in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions compared to hydrocarbon diesel. Petroleum products produced at the Wynnewood refinery are purchased by Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing.

Renewable 221

Renewable Diesel Energy Production 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. by James Stafford of Oilprice.com.

Water 150

Water Texas Oil Mexico 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

The energy index of the GSCI increased more than twice as much as the industrial metals index on a percentage basis during 2021, the next highest commodity index group price change. WTI crude oil makes up the largest share of the overall GSCI at more than 21%. The precious metals index was the only one to decline.

Price 273

Price Energy Oil Gasoline 273

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

With oil prices low and showing no sign of an immediate rebound, the industry is beginning to pull back on spending. Oil prices have dropped around 30 percent since summer highs, raising fears among producers across the globe. Yet, many oil majors are relatively diversified, with large holdings downstream.

Oil Prices 268

Oil Prices Oil Price Chevron 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2023

an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCS) solutions and enhanced oil recovery. Acquiring Denbury reflects our determination to profitably grow our Low Carbon Solutions business by serving a range of hard-to-decarbonize industries with a comprehensive carbon capture and sequestration offering.

Companies 195

Companies Mississippi Carbon Louisiana 195

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

Air Products heralded the successful operation of a US Department of Energy (DOE) demonstration project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from hydrogen production for use in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1 Click to enlarge.

Oil 186

Oil Hydrogen CO2 Production 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide.

MIT 210

MIT Oil Texas Carbon 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. As is the nature of the junk-bond market, lots of money flowed to companies with much riskier drilling prospects than, say, the oil majors. The situation will compound itself if oil prices stay low.

Oil Prices 270

Oil Prices Oil Price North Dakota 270

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

Oil 210

Oil New Mexico Texas Mexico 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2017

shale industry might have just received a huge windfall with the nine-month extension of the OPEC cuts. shale industry could be reaching the end of the low-hanging fruit. shale industry could be reaching the end of the low-hanging fruit. Overall, however, production is still expected to increase. That could be at an end.

Production 170

Production Oil Eaton 2017 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Global demand for refined products dropped substantially in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Less petroleum demand and the associated lower petroleum product prices encouraged refinery closures, reducing global refining capacity, particularly in the United States, Europe, and Japan. million b/d in 2022 and by an additional 1.6

Global 448

Global China Kuwait Oman 448

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

Argentina 150

Argentina Oil Oil Prices Chevron 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects to receive approximately $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development in unconventional oil and natural gas (UOG) recovery. Anadarko Production Company and Shell Exploration and Production Company have both agreed to host the test site on their acreage.

Oil 150

Oil Gas Virginia Delaware 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Industria e Comercio, unveiled two new 100% renewable base oil—the main component of motor oils—products: a renewable polyalphaolefin (PAO) Group IV and a renewable version of its NovaSpec Group III+ base oil. The new base oil products add to Novvi’s growing portfolio of renewable oils.

Oil 150

Oil Renewable Texas Houston 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Global oil discoveries fell to a record low in 2016 as companies continued to cut spending and conventional oil projects sanctioned were at the lowest level in more than 70 years, according to the International Energy Agency, which warned that both trends could continue this year. Oil discoveries declined to 2.4

Oil 150

Oil 2016 Oil-Sands Global 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Oil and gas producers rely on flaring to limit the venting of natural gas from their facilities. Methane—which can be a byproduct of oil production—is a powerful greenhouse gas. Industry and regulators operate under the assumption flares are constantly lit and that they burn off 98% of methane when in operation.

North Dakota 221

North Dakota Gas Oil Michigan 221

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.

Austin 210

Austin Universal Texas Gas 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2015

US oil and gas rig counts dropped to their lowest level in over four years, falling by an additional 74 units for the week ending on January 16. The lower count provides fresh evidence that low oil prices are forcing drillers to pare back operations and slash spending. That pushed companies to focus on wet gas and oil.

Oil Prices 150

Oil Prices Oil Price Mexico 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Researchers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have found in their tests that using soybean oil in tires can potentially increase tread life by 10% and reduce the tiremaker’s use of petroleum-based oil by up to seven million gallons each year.

Oil 231

Oil Oklahoma Michigan Texas 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2012

As part of a larger reorganization of its Global Oilfield and Mining Solutions business, BASF is establishing a dedicated Global Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Business Development unit. Houston is recognized as the global hub for the oil and gas industry.

Oil 225

Oil Global Houston Chile 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

urea production. Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

Coal 186

Coal Texas Oil CO2 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

If West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices stabilize at or above $60 per barrel, major parts of the United States shale sector that are currently dormant will ramp up, according to an analysis by experts in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Baker III and Susan G.

Oil Prices 150

Oil Prices Oil Price Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final updates to its 2012 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) performance standards for storage tanks used in crude oil and natural gas production and transmission. In addition, the rule streamlines compliance and monitoring requirements for tanks that have already installed controls.

EPA 186

EPA Oil Standards Gas 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

Air Products has entered a long-term agreement with Shell Oil Company for the supply of a significant portion of the hydrogen requirements at Shell’s Deer Park, Texas refinery. Air Products’s planned integrated hydrogen pipeline in the Gulf Coast. The hydrogen supply will commence in mid-2013. Click to enlarge.

Hydrogen 199

Hydrogen Supplies Louisiana Production 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For decades, California led all US states in consumption of gasoline, but that position has been passed to Texas, which finds smaller year-on-year volume declines of 15.8%. The data speaks to a major problem for the petroleum industry and oil prices as it recovers from unprecedented demand declines for most of 2020.

Gasoline 321

Gasoline 2020 Wyoming New Jersey 321

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2011

The Board of Directors of Marathon Oil Corporation has approved moving forward with plans to spin off Marathon’s downstream business, creating two independent energy companies. Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) will be a global upstream company based in Houston, Texas. Strengthened ability to attract and retain talent.

Oil 210

Oil Oil-Sands Houston Corporation 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins. billion barrels of discovered recoverable resource. —Darren Woods.

Papua New Guinea 191

Papua New Guinea Emissions Carbon Guyana 191

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2019

Petroleum refineries in the US Gulf Coast increasingly rely on merchant suppliers, rather than their own production, to provide the hydrogen used to reduce the sulfur content of fuel, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA only collects data on hydrogen produced by SMR units.

Hydrogen 236

Hydrogen 2017 2012 Louisiana 236

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3 million in federal funds.

Oil 225

Oil Gas Oil-Sands Illinois 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). lipolytica by both removing and overexpressing specific genes that influence lipid production. —Blazeck et al.

Austin 220

Austin Texas Florida Grant 220

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. The renewable jet and diesel produced at the Riverbank plant will supply the aviation and trucking industries with low carbon, low emission, renewable fuel. Earlier post.)

Renewable 186

Renewable Carbon Diesel Engine 186