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APRIL 25, 2010

Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc. Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc. 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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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The study, published as an open-access paper in Nature , offers a closer look at the relationship between decreasing demand for oil and a resilient, varied oil market—and the carbon footprint associated with both. 2021) “Carbon implications of marginal oils from market-derived demand shocks.” —Mohammad Masnadi.

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APRIL 28, 2014

CSIRO notes that the idea of using a coal engine to generate electricity is not new; it was successfully investigated in the US some 20 years ago for use in diesel locomotives before development was terminated by persistently low oil prices. —CSIRO Energy Group Executive, Dr. Alex Wonhas. DICE development network.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Unconventional vehicle sales. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 14, 2015

AEO2015 presents updated projections for US energy markets through 2040 based on six cases (Reference, Low and High Economic Growth, Low and High Oil Price, and High Oil and Gas Resource) that reflect updated scenarios for future crude oil prices. trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in the Low Oil Price case to 13.1

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Already the growth of renewable diesel production is impacting feedstock markets, with many analysts identifying growth in renewable diesel as a factor contributing to recent record soy oil prices. —“Animal, vegetable or mineral (oil)?”.

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APRIL 22, 2013

According to the report, “ Forecast of On-Road Electric Transportation in the US (2010-2035) ”, this figure could increase to as high as 30 million EVs depending on advances in battery technology. These scenarios provide projections based on EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2012 Reference Case, advances in battery technology (e.g.,

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron, already the largest thermal heavy oil producer, is optimizing thermal production in heavy oil fields by leveraging information technology to improve the percentage recovery as well as the economics. the steam required, represented by barrels of water, to produce one barrel of oil) from a peak of almost 8.5

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Among their findings were: RFS2 is satisfied at extreme oil prices (at least $215/barrel). This oil price encourages biofuel use in the RFS2 timeframe, but not in the long run. The simulation evolves the LDV parc, stepping through 2050, although most of the analysis in the paper focuses on simulations through 2022.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

ChemCatBio , a consortium within the US Department of Energy, awarded funding to LANL in support of the project as one of 9 projects to accelerate the development of catalysts and related technologies for the commercialization of biomass-derived fuels and chemicals. Andrew Sutton of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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JUNE 10, 2011

an energy and gasification technology company, has received a $5.0 Coal is an abundant natural resource that is becoming even more critical in helping India achieve its ambitious growth objectives over the coming years. Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc., million shares of SES common stock. —H.S. Bawa, Vice Chairman of Zuari.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Examples of emerging oil sands related technologies and trade-offs. The paper is an examination of how various choices about the scale of the life cycle analysis applied to oil sands (i.e., Why then the focus on oil sands? Credit: ACS, Bergerson and Keith. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 26, 2013

The price disparity between crude oil and other resources, coupled with the emergence of cheap and abundant shale gas, especially in the United States, is opening up opportunities to produce cheaper gasoline, according to a new report from Lux Research.

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

Uncertainty range of the aviation GHG emissions under the High Oil price scenario (the most optimistic for biojet adoption), given in a box plot depicting the minimum, quartile, and maximum values. To reveal the achievable environmental benefits of emerging technologies such as biofuels, the economic motives of actors (i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy released its inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report (DOE-QTR)—an assessment of the Department’s energy technology research and development portfolios. Furthermore, DOE will only support technologies that emit less carbon than incumbents—in keeping with our national energy goals.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. While Global Bioenergies continues with the demonstration phase of the technology, it will now amplify its strategy aimed at diversifying the resources compatible with its isobutene fermentation process.

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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. Singh, Dharik S. Mallapragada, Rakesh Agrawal and Wallace E.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6 Such an increase in capacity could prompt a plunge or even a collapse in oil prices, he suggests.

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JULY 25, 2013

With prices expected to increase in the long term, however, the world oil price in real 2011 dollars reaches $106 per barrel in 2020 and $163 per barrel in 2040, according to IEO2013. Despite rising fuel prices, use of liquids for transportation increases by an average of 1.1% per year, or 38% overall, from 2010 to 2040.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

CLEEN is the FAA’s principal environmental effort to accelerate the development of new aircraft, engine technologies, and to advance sustainable alternative jet fuels, in conjunction with aviation industry leaders such as GE Aviation. HEDFs are currently used in air and sea-launched cruise missiles used by the US military forces.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Accenture timeline for evolution of electrification technologies, the “game-changing” subset of the disruptive technologies. Accenture has identified 12 technologies that it concludes have the potential to disrupt the current views of transport fuels supply, demand and GHG emissions over the next 10 years.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Overcapacity could also undercut oil prices and encourage a long-term equilibrium of lower prices based on higher market exposure to low Saudi production costs. Further, in theory, higher oil production also shortens the time horizon to full depletion. —Krane (2017). Jim Krane (2017) “Beyond 12.5: 2017.08.052.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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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. The technology is now ready for its first commercial-scale demonstration. VTT Technology 91. Source: VTT. 0.7 €/liter (app.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Initial results indicate the giant basin still holds an estimated 60 billion to 70 billion barrels of technically recoverable resources. These results significantly alter the understanding of the Permian Basin’s resource potential, according to the company. —John Roberts.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Plant-level CO 2 emissions can be greatly reduced by using the CCS technology, the study found, without much increase in capital cost. Even with CCS, the liquid product costs are comparable to recent crude oil prices. For a liquids-only configuration, CCS is a cheaper option when the CO 2 price exceeds $12/tonne.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. ” We acknowledge that some of the difference between the estimates for the time until oil replacement and the time until oil depletion could be reduced in response to changes over time. The forecast was published online 8 Nov. —Malyshkina and Niemeier.

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APRIL 1, 2015

Still, with a resource potential both vast and untapped, the nation has never been far from energy investors’ minds. The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere. Oil prices are set at $77.50

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MAY 26, 2009

The brief is based on the book, Acting in Time on Energy Policy (Brookings 2009), edited by Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Oil security policy. If the price later rose above $90, the tax would disappear.

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APRIL 6, 2017

billion barrels of conventional oil were discovered, roughly 45 days of global crude consumption or 0.2 Russia’s exploration activities, which were hit not only by plummeting oil prices but also by a targeted sanctions regime, suffered a double blow during this period. In 2016, only 3.7 percent of global proved reserves.

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MAY 22, 2013

Sensitivity analyses of the major economic drivers suggest technological and market developments that would bring the corresponding figures down to $385, $255, and $168/bbl, the researchers said in their paper, published in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. million project. Klein-Marcuschamer, D., Dietzgen, R. Gresshoff, P.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The symposium was organized into four panels that addressed key issues: (1) Why vehicle electrification matters; (2) vehicle technologies; (3) infrastructure; and (4) policy options. 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. Base case economics for EVs in North America are very challenging, absent significant disruption in oil price or battery cost. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 30, 2016

Optimized internal combustion engines are the major contributor to the reduction of passenger car GHG emissions with significant improvements until 2020 and the subsequent penetration of more effective alternative technologies into the fleet. The additional abatement potential of these technologies is approx. 34 Mton CO 2 e (WTW).

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JULY 12, 2011

According to a recently published report commissioned by the Victoria (Australia) Department of Transport from AECOM, electric vehicle (EV) technology offers the state of Victoria potentially significant economic benefits by the late 2020s. The analysis is based on central forecasts of oil price, electricity. Source: AECOM.

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APRIL 10, 2009

A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.

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