Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

Due to the collapse in oil prices, IHS Markit expects US producers are in the process of curtailing about 1.75 The oil market fear that characterized March and the extreme price pressure that producers felt in April have galvanized producers across North America into unprecedented action. However, nearly 1.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2013

Exxon Mobil Corporation will develop the Hebron oil field offshore the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador using a gravity-based structure that will recover more than 700 million barrels of oil, an increase from earlier estimates. The platform is being designed for daily production of 150,000 barrels of oil.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. Increased pressure is created as the belt passes over rollers which decrease in diameter.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

Green ammonia will be stored in tanks onboard the vessel, then exported to smaller shipping vessels and carried to the international market for ammonia. H2Carrier has developed a proprietary design for a vessel which will produce, store and export green ammonia, the P2XFloater. Earlier post.)

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What exactly does the oil industry have in store for charging companies?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

ExxonMobil has started production at Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block, Liza Phase 2, bringing total production capacity to more than 340,000 barrels per day in only seven years since the country’s first discovery. Liza Unity on her way to Guyana. The Liza Unity arrived in Guyana in October 2021.

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Guyana Production Oil Store 259

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2017

Michigan State University researchers are experimenting with harvesting seed oil to make biofuels. In a recent study published in the journal The Plant Cell , the researchers show that the chloroplast, where plant photosynthesis occurs, also participates in new ways to provide seed oil precursors. They also store a lot of energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard. Part of the energy stored in the flywheel is used to drive the generator that begins producing electrical power.

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Diesel Renewable Energy Storage Belgium 195

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Russia’s Gazprom has begun oil production at the offshore Prirazlomnoye field in the Arctic—the first development on the Russian offshore Arctic shelf. Recoverable oil reserves for the field are 71.96 Extracted oil is stored in three concrete caissons covered with double-clad sheet steel, resistant to corrosion and wear.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. point out in their paper. —Rooney et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

liter hydrogen engine stores compressed hydrogen in a high-pressure tank and precisely injects hydrogen via direct injectors. In addition, engine oil consumption during driving is kept to a minimum, resulting in virtually no CO 2 emissions. The 3-cylinder, 1.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2016

The 2 June 2016 OPEC meeting will be held amid a backdrop of oil prices near $50 per barrel, a sharp drop in Nigerian production due to sabotage, turmoil in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia operating with a new oil minister, and Iran aggressively pumping close to pre-sanction levels.

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Saudi Arabia Iran Store Oil 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH has developed a technology that binds hydrogen gas with a carrier oil. The Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies company, based in the northern Bavarian city of Erlangen, offers a solution: a process it has developed by which green hydrogen is bound to an organic carrier—an oil. Earlier post.)This

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Porsche Hydrogen Oil Spain 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified two key genes required for oil production and accumulation in plant leaves and other vegetative plant tissues. In one test plant, they achieved almost twice the oil yield by weight that can be obtained from canola seeds. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the excess crude flowing from the oil patch, there is also an abundance of market indicators that while important, tend to produce a lot of noise that makes any accurate estimate nearly impossible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2021

A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and WWF finds that nearly 20% of tropical Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) overlap with concessions for extractive industries such as mining, oil and gas. The total area of overlap is 376,449 square miles (975,000 square kilometers), about the size of Egypt. Grantham et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It will produce low-carbon fuels such as renewable diesel from waste in the form of used cooking oil, waste animal fat and other industrial and agricultural residual products, using technology developed by Shell. The facility will not use virgin palm oil as feedstock. Transport Hub and Offshore Storage) project.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC), Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), and Itochu Corporation are partnering on a joint feasibility study of a blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia and Japan. Toyo Engineering Corporation and?Irkutsk Ammonia is liquefied under relatively mild conditions, i.e. -33 ?C

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

Concept of the subsea oil recovery system. BP is working to deploy a subsea oil recovery system over the largest leak source in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon Rig that it hopes will capture up to 85% of the oil rising from the sea floor following the sinking of Deepwater Horizon on 22 April. Not to scale. Click to enlarge.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Not only will it ditch gas and oil from your routine, but also electric mowers are quieter, smaller, and easier to store. The post CRAFTSMAN’s 20-inch corded electric mower ditches gas and oil at $201 in New Green Deals appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

—Joe Gorder, Valero Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, To produce renewable diesel, Diamond Green Diesel first pretreats used cooking oil and inedible animal fats to remove impurities. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually. The US restaurant industry generates an estimated 2.3

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Diesel Renewable Green San Antonio 397

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today, most capture capacity is used to collect carbon dioxide from natural gas processing plants and used for enhanced oil recovery. In 2021, some 73% of captured CO 2 went to enhanced oil recovery operations. The destination for captured CO 2 is also due to change significantly from the status quo.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Perhaps surprisingly, the greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen is more than 20% greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat and some 60% greater than burning diesel oil for heat, again with our default assumptions. Our analysis assumes that captured carbon dioxide can be stored indefinitely, an optimistic and unproven assumption.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Quest is designed to capture and safely store more than one million tonnes of CO 2 each year—equal to the emissions from about 250,000 cars. Quest is now operating at commercial scale after successful testing earlier this year, during which it captured and stored more than 200,000 tonnes of CO 2.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We I remember one guy who was irate just because he had to drive around us as he left a box store.” Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas.

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Oil Houston Golf Cart Aptera 98

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2023

The project takes advantage of the wealth of photovoltaic resources in Kuqa to achieve 20,000 tons per annum of green hydrogen by using solar power to electrolyze water, along with the capacity to store 210,000 cubic meters of hydrogen and transport 28,000 cubic meters per hour.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2013

Wedges for the sinks depict the amount of CO 2 stored (as a proportion of total reservoir capacity). The width of the pipeline network (green lines) is proportional to CO 2 flow; the largest CO 2 flow is approximately 36 MtCO 2 / yr for the $155/tCO 2 scenario (pipeline leaving the Athabasca oil sands area). Costs are in $US 2011.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

That includes oil companies (like Shell) and gas stations & convenience stores (like 7-Eleven). Everyone, their mother, and their dog can see that the auto industry is electrifying. Regarding the latter, the news this week is that 7-Eleven has launched its own EV charging network! The name of that charging network is 7Charge.

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Charging Auto Industry Store Oil 140

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Profound shifts in the regional distribution of oil demand and supply growth will redefine the refining industry and transform global oil trade over the next five years, according to the annual Medium-Term Oil Market Report (MTOMR) released by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The oil market is at a crossroads.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shell Lubricants announced the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

million gallon production mark for its ECO ULTRA line of recycled motor oil. billion gallons of used oil each year, of which about 10% is re-refined. The rest of the used oil is either improperly disposed of (damaging the environment) or burned as an industrial fuel. Universal Lubricants has hit the 1.5-million Earlier post.)

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Electrek

MAY 13, 2021

Also matched at Best Buy with faster shipping and in-store pickup as part of its Deals of the Day. Plus, no oil or gas is required, making it easier to use and better for the environment at the same time. Amazon is offering the Greenworks Pro 80V 21-inch Brushless Electric Lawn Mower for $399.99

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

The 100,000 barrels-per-day expansion takes upgrading capacity at Scotford to 255,000 barrels-per-day of heavy oil from the Athabasca oil sands. The Scotford Upgrader processes oil sands bitumen from the Muskeg River Mine and Jackpine Mine. Quest could capture and store underground some 1 million tonnes of CO 2 per year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

The goals of the test well program were to demonstrate that CO 2 , the main greenhouse gas that will be generated during the fuel production process, can be safely and securely stored deep underground and that the storage reservoir has sufficient capacity to store all the gas produced over the plant’s lifetime.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

VG Energy , a majority-owned subsidiary of Viral Genetics, is launching its first commercial product: LipidMax, a lipid enhancement compound based on VG’s Metabolic Disruption Technology (MDT) for use in the production of oils from algae and other plants or plant-like organisms. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

for the delivery of the first Intensium Flex Li-ion battery system to power and store energy for the ECO-H System. The ECO-H System is a patent-pending Hybrid Power Management System for the oil and gas industry developed by ECO-H Technologies and distributed by Tesco Corporation.

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