Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Chemical recycling has great potential for this: If plastic components can be produced from pyrolysis oil instead of petroleum, it would be possible to significantly increase the proportion of sustainably manufactured components in automobiles. These plastic components are processed into pyrolysis oil by chemical recycling.

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APRIL 13, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) pathways for certain biofuels that are produced from canola/rapeseed oil ( earlier post ) and is providing an opportunity for comment on the Agency’s lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis of these pathways.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Global oil demand is expected to decline in 2020 as the impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, constricting travel and broader economic activity, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest oil market forecast. The IEA now sees global oil demand at 99.9

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Their stability and selectivity can be tuned by thermal crosslinking to separate simple hydrocarbon mixtures and complex crude oil fractions. The membrane selectivity can be tuned to the lower end of the typical nanofiltration range (200 to 1000 gram mole ?1 A paper on the work is published in Science.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2020

Tesla’s Model S Long Range Plus now carries an official EPA-rated range of 402 miles—a 20% increase compared to a 2019 Model S 100D with the same battery pack design. This is the first US EV to break the 400-mile range mark. All Model S Long Range Plus vehicles will receive the new 402-mile rating. The newest 8.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2022

The membranes, with their ultrathin tunable selective layers, offer an innovative membrane development solution for energy-efficient crude oil fractionation. These membranes preferentially separate paraffin over aromatic components, making them suitable for integration in hybrid distillation systems for crude oil fractionation.

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JULY 18, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published in the journal Science joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. —Thompson et al.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel).

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JULY 4, 2023

BASF feeds pyrolysis oil from end-of-life (EOL) tires at the start of the production in Ludwigshafen, replacing 100% of the fossil resources otherwise needed for the product. In summer 2023, pinqponq is expanding its range to include the “bike” product category, which is designed to simplify urban commuting.

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JULY 14, 2023

More than three-fourths of all oil and gas production in the US Gulf of Mexico has a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity than the basin-wide average, according to a new S&P Global Commodity Insights analysis. The 2 kgCO 2 e/boe to nearly 50 kgCO 2 e/boe range includes 99% total 2022 production covered by the US Gulf of Mexico analysis.

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MAY 23, 2019

Lubricants—a more than $146-billion market serving numerous applications, automotive among them—are produced from base oils derived from petroleum mineral oils (mineral base oil) or synthetic oils such as poly-?-olefins olefins (PAOs) (synthetic base oil).

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JULY 1, 2020

BASF is launching an engineering plastic that is particularly suited for automotive parts that come into contact with hot oil. The new polyethersulfone (PESU) Ultrason E0510 C2TR shows very good tribological properties, high oil resistance and excellent dimensional stability also with broad ranges of temperature fluctuations.

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MAY 19, 2022

Together with its partner Nordic Marine Oil, Neste is piloting a new Neste Marine 0.1 is a range of low-sulfur marine fuels (Neste MGO DMA and Neste MDO DMB) with a sulfur concentration of less than 0.1%. Nordic Marine Oil specializes in the supply of bunker fuels and lubricating oil to the shipping industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Oil markets have returned to relatively stable ground with Brent prices within a narrow $40-$45 per barrel range and could conclusively pass the $50 per barrel mark in the second half of 2021, according to Roger Diwan and the IHS Markit Energy Advisory Service. bbl in 2020 and $49.25/bbl bbl in 2021—up $7.09/bbl bbl and $5.25/bbl,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2021

Canadian oil sands production has fully recovered from last year’s “COVID-19 Shock”—the largest contraction of upstream production in Canadian history—and has exceeded pre-pandemic levels. The latest forecast by the IHS Markit Oil Sands Dialogue expects Canadian oil sands production to reach 3.6 MMbd in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

Biocrude oil produced via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biomass could provide a low-carbon supplement for transportation fuel supply. However, physical processes—such as fractional distillation as used in oil refineries—are cheaper and more reliable. Distillation increased the H:C (4.2–13.7%); 1 , respectively.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2019

ExxonMobil announced an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15 th discovery on the Stabroek Block. Mako-1 encountered approximately 164 feet (50 meters) of a high-quality oil bearing sandstone reservoir. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The Stabroek Block is 6.6

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Indian Oil Corp, the country’s largest fuel marketing company, plans to secure fuel supply contracts from teams participating in the Formula 1 championship. “We We expect to manufacture the fuel for Formula 1 cars and obtain the required certifications within three months,” Indian Oil Chairman Shrikant Madhav Vaidya said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Fortiva Hemi brings novel enzymes to liquefaction that deliver greater than 10% oil yield improvement and up to 1% ethanol yield gain above Novozymes’ industry leading Fortiva Revo liquefaction solutions. Effective across the broadest pH and temperature ranges, it is also the most flexible liquefaction solution available to ethanol producers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Researchers at the Qingdao University of Science and Technology report producing gasoline-range liquid hydrocarbons from the catalytic cracking of rubber seed oil (RSO) using using USY (ultrastable Y zeolite) as a heterogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel. 2014.01.049.

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JULY 6, 2018

When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers’ club , OPEC was probably too busy with its upcoming June 22 meeting to concern itself with that dangerous alliance. What’s more, they might not be alone in this attempt to curb OPEC’s clout on the global oil market. The timing is right. The boom in U.S.

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APRIL 5, 2023

EIA projects that the United States will continue to be an integral part of global oil markets and a significant source of supply in these cases, as increased exports of finished products support US production. It also assumes the Brent crude oil price reaches $101 per barrel (b) (in 2022 dollars) by 2050.

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MAY 22, 2019

Low-speed electric vehicles (LSEVs) could reduce China’s demand for gasoline and, in turn, impact global oil prices, according to a new issue brief by an expert in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “ million of them—roughly 30% more units than conventional electric vehicle makers did.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Russia-based Nornickel has begun prototyping new nickel- and cobalt-based alloys, which are of high demand in the aviation, space, nuclear, chemical and oil and gas industries. The project is implemented at the company’s Kola Division. Nornickel’s Kola Division in Russia is represented by Kola MMC, a wholly owned key production site.

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JULY 22, 2020

Brazilian researchers have demonstrated a new chemical approach for producing biodiesel from domestic cooking oil waste by using lithium hydroxide mixed with either sodium hydroxides or potassium hydroxides as catalysts. With the right proportions of catalysts, the group was able to produce biodiesel with an average yield of 90%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

Oil demand for transportation fuel see its “ demand will flatten out ,” after 2030, Couse said. Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, sees Couse’s forecast as the highest EV sales margin yet to be forecasted by a major company in the oil sector. Maybe even decline. ”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. —Wu et al. The team analyzed the products by Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). —Wu et al.

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OCTOBER 8, 2016

Caelus Energy Alaska, LLC, a privately held independent exploration and production company, announced that its subsidiary, Caelus Energy Alaska Smith Bay LLC, has made a significant light oil discovery on its Smith Bay state leases on the North Slope of Alaska. This discovery could be really exciting for the State of Alaska.

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JULY 24, 2015

A team at South China University of Technology has developed a one-pot process to convert the diesel distillate and residual oil fractions in bio-oil into high-quality fuels by catalytic hydrocracking with combined CoMoS/Al 2 O 3 and HZSM-5 catalysts. A paper on their process is published in the journal Fuel. 2015.05.002. 2015.05.002.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel (NExBTL), has signed a contingent commercial off-take agreement with Cellana, an algae biomass developer based in the United States. The agreement will enable Neste Oil to purchase Cellana’s algae oil for use as a feedstock in the future for producing renewable fuel.

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JULY 6, 2018

When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers’ club , OPEC was probably too busy with its upcoming June 22 meeting to concern itself with that dangerous alliance. What’s more, they might not be alone in this attempt to curb OPEC’s clout on the global oil market. The timing is right. The boom in U.S.

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MARCH 8, 2016

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford has developed a simple but highly selective catalytic process for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into diesel-range alkanes under mild conditions over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. This approach has low selectivity, however. Zhuang, M. Gong and Y.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With their two motors, the base models of the Audi Q8 50 e-tron and the Audi Q8 Sportback 50 e-tron generate 250 kW in boost mode and 664 N·m of torque, and they get a range of up to 491 km (305 miles) (SUV) and up to 505 km (314 miles) (Sportback), in accordance with the WLTP. This lowers consumption and increases range.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

BMW is adding two plug-in hybrid (PHEV) variants to the new BMW 7 Series range, including the first BMW M model in the range. seconds and completes the mid-range sprint from 80 – 120 km/h (50 – 75 mph) in 2.7 The effectiveness of the oil separation process has also been enhanced compared with the predecessor engine.

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APRIL 30, 2020

California is the seventh-largest oil-producing state in the US. The state’s crude oil production in 2018 was approximately 162 million barrels—mainly from onshore wells—down from 174 million barrels in 2017 and a recent high of 205 million barrels in 2014.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Jaguar I-Pace gets more range, but not a higher EPA range rating. And do hybrids need special motor oil? The Mustang Mach-E has a very interesting origin story. Connecticut tries to steer away from incentivizing Teslas. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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MARCH 8, 2014

(PDVSA) is moving forward with a series of new heavy oil developments in the Orinoco Oil Belt that will allow a significant increase in production, while requiring the development of massive new infrastructure, Ruben Figuera, director of new developments in the Orinoco Oil Belt, told delegates to the World Heavy Oil Congress 2014 in New Orleans.

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