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Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2012
A new study by researchers from Stockholm University concludes that automobile tires may be a potential previously unknown source of carcinogenic dibenzopyrenes—a type of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—to the environment. 20% mineral oils such as extender oils/ softeners. when complex.
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DECEMBER 31, 2012
Today’s measures will provide flexibility for Maritime Provinces to make adjustments required to comply with the regulations and ensure Canadian families are not penalized for heating their homes with home heating oil. —Peter Kent.
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MARCH 25, 2012
There was a brief exception in the spring of 2010, however, after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill brought environmental issues back to the forefront. These results are based on Gallup’s annual Environment poll, conducted 8-11 March.
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JUNE 7, 2010
Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. Reduced transmission friction thanks to the use of low viscosity oils. Variable flow oil pump. Variable displacement oil pump. Variable displacement oil pump.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2011
Increasing crude processing intensity and energy intensity with worsening oil quality. OQ: Crude feed oil quality. Switching to heavy crude oil and synthetic crude oil derived from oil sands bitumen in refineries could double or triple refinery emissions and add 1.6-3.7 PI: Crude processing intensity.
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JANUARY 27, 2011
Statoil Canada has produced first oil from its SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) Leismer Demonstration Project (LDP) in the Canadian oil sands after initiating steam injection in September 2010, one month ahead of schedule.
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MAY 28, 2010
The recent oil spill has spurred a significant shift in Americans’ environmental attitudes, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. However, in two months’ time, that trend has reversed, and the pro-environment position has regained the strength it showed for most of the last decade. Click to enlarge.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Global energy intensity, 1981-2010. Global energy intensity—defined as total energy consumption divided by gross world product—increased 1.35% in 2010, the second year of increases in the context of a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article from the Worldwatch Institute.
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DECEMBER 16, 2009
Oil is a strategic commodity second to none—it underlies the global economy and even the American way of life. Of course, other countries benefit from this fact, with about $900 million flowing out of the US to buy foreign oil every day, and about 40% of that going to OPEC. [ Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.
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JULY 22, 2011
Summary of the current oil sands developments (mining and in-situ) and associated land use. Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent released an integrated monitoring plan for the oil sands region. fail in its goal of generating the data necessary to provide assurance that the oil sands are. design addresses.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2013
The carbon intensity (CI) of Alberta oil sands production has significantly decreased over the last 40 years, according to a new study by a team from Stanford University published as an open access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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APRIL 10, 2010
Americans are more likely to say the US should prioritize development of energy supplies than to say it should prioritize protecting the environment, according to a recent Gallup poll. Results are based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,014 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted 4-7 March 2010. Click to enlarge.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 19, 2013
Each year, 80 million tonnes of oil are shipped off Canada’s East and West Coasts. Oil tankers have been moving along Canada’s West Coast since the 1930s. In 2009-2010, there were about 1,500 tanker movements on the West Coast, among 475,000 vessel movements in the area. million tonnes of oil was shipped out of Vancouver.
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OCTOBER 27, 2011
a Canadian integrated oil company, reported an increase in third quarter crude oil production year-on-year of about 4% due to oil sands production that was 14% higher compared with the same period a year earlier. Conventional oil production slightly declined due to a combination of factors. Cenovus Energy Inc.,
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2010
Sustainable Oils, a producer of renewable, low carbon and domestically produced camelina-based fuels, provided the hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel used to create the 50-50 HRJ8-JP8 blend used in an all-engine biofuel flight test in a US Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II. The Air Force is committed to reducing our reliance on foreign oil.
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
UK Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, unveiled a well-capping device developed by the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen. The well-capping device was built in order to seal off an uncontrolled subsea well in the event of a major well control incident—i.e.,
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JUNE 6, 2011
TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)
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MARCH 28, 2013
Suncor Energy is not proceeding with the Voyageur bitumen upgrader project in the Canadian oil sands. The oil market environment in the North America has changed significantly, Total notes. Since 2010, market conditions have changed significantly, challenging the economics of the Voyageur upgrader project.
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FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Canada is moving forward with the requirement for an average 2% renewable content in diesel fuel and heating oil. —Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment. Canada’s Renewable Fuels Regulations were published on 1 September 2010. The regulations already require an average of 5% renewable content in gasoline.
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JUNE 12, 2010
Researchers at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) have converted the marine macroalgae Enteromorpha prolifera , one of the main algae genera for “green tide”—massive algal blooms caused by eutrophication of marine water bodies—to bio-oil by hydrothermal liquefaction in a batch reactor at temperatures of 220-320 °C. and Enteromorpha sp.,
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JUNE 23, 2011
Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.
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FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Conceptual sketch of future metabolomics challenges and opportunities from May 2010 NSF-JST workshop on metabolomics. NSF and JST had held a joint workshop in May 2010 to identify and prioritize key strategic areas for metabolomics research. Click to enlarge.
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DECEMBER 26, 2011
JAPEX), will postpone making a final investment decision (FID) for the Hangingstone Oil Sands Expansion Project ( earlier post ) in Alberta Province, Canada, based on a longer-than-expected approval process with the Alberta authorities. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., operations by more than 300%.
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MAY 24, 2010
To understand how the use of dispersants impacts the degradation of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a rapid response grant to scientist David Valentine of the University of California at Santa Barbara and colleagues. Some evaporate easily, some do not. Some dissolve in water and some do not.
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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., The source material is neither oil nor tar but bitumen, but is most generally described as an example of ultraheavy oil.”.
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AUGUST 29, 2012
The report provides nine different Tailings Technology Deployment (TDD) Roadmaps to accelerate the implementation of oil sands tailings solutions in Alberta. After oil sands ore is excavated from the ground (surface mining operations, not in situ production), warm water is added to wash the bitumen off the. The OSTC was formed in 2010.
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JUNE 21, 2012
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. billion barrels of oil and 3.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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JANUARY 3, 2012
Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. has exercised its option to divest its 40% interest in the MacKay River oil sands project to Cretaceous Oilsands Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroChina International Investment Limited, for C$680 million (US$672 million) in cash. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.). properties.
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MAY 6, 2010
In a fuel environment, anaerobic conditions prevail whenever heterotrophic microbial respiration consumes oxygen at a rate that exceeds diffusion. The corrosion of pipelines, tanks, storage units, and associated equipment increases the risk of the release of hazardous materials to the environment, with concomitant pollution issues.
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AUGUST 1, 2013
Neste Oil is part of a fleet demonstration program of a new blend of diesel fuel in Coburg, Germany. The Diesel R33 project is a follow-up to a trial conducted in Coburg and Munich in 2010-2011. Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Crops - UFOP. Test bus for the Diesel R33 project. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)
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MAY 27, 2010
These forces could snap offshore oil pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico and other hurricane-prone areas, the study suggests. The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) region provides nearly 30% of the United States oil supply and 20% of its natural gas. Major oil leaks from damaged pipelines could have irreversible impacts to the ocean environment.
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JULY 6, 2021
Europe’s demand for biodiesel for cars and trucks has likely wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands since the introduction of the EU’s green fuels law in 2010, according to a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E). Europe has burned around 39 million tonnes of palm and soy biodiesel alone in its cars and trucks since 2010.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Flowback water treatment is a critical sustainability issue for the oil and gas industry. Using biochar could help oil and gas companies save money and responsibly treat flowback water for reuse. One to five million gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals are required for the fracking of each well.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2010
In the paper, Nataliya Malyshkina and Deb Niemeier point out that the peak of oil production is estimated to occur approximately between 2010 and 2030, and note that all those dates are considerably earlier than their estimate of the time until renewable replacement technologies are viable in the market (around 2140).
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Scientists from agencies involved in the report attribute the lower dissolved oxygen levels to microbes using oxygen to consume the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Using field sampling and laboratory experiments, the scientists found that half-lives of some components of the oil were in the range of 1.2
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Creative Greenius
MAY 23, 2010
I’m not the least bit intimated or scared by any of the people now arguing against saving ourselves – whether they’re with the oil, coal or gas industries or in the highest reaches of the Republican Party or atop the US Chamber of Commerce. And I’m just the guy to tell that truth whether you want to hear it or not.
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DECEMBER 13, 2010
GE intends to make an offer for 100% of Wellstream Holdings PLC, a leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the sub-sea production industry. —Claudi Santiago, President and CEO, GE Oil & Gas. billion ($1.3
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JULY 10, 2015
A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.
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MAY 7, 2009
FY 2010 Budget requests are in green, the FY 2009 additional appropriation (Recovery Act funding) is in red. President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 $26.4 However, the FY 2010 budget complements the $38.7 There are three primary funded organizations within DOE: National Security; Energy and Environment; and Science.
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AUGUST 17, 2012
The air quality measurements were carried out using an automated monitoring station on the cruise ship Costa Pacifica which followed a fixed weekly route in the Western Mediterranean during 2009 and 2010. Ships traditionally use heavy fuel oil which, from 2012, can have a sulfur content of up to 3.5% sulphur content of up to 4.5%
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MARCH 6, 2020
Over the past decade, Neste has transformed itself from a regional oil refining company into a global leader in renewable and circular solutions through breakthrough innovation. Sunfire will provide a megawatt-scale high temperature electrolyzer for use in industrial environments as part of the E-CO2MET research and development project.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Many of the resulting environmental problems can be addressed by stepping up efforts to meet new EU targets, according to the latest report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The EEA’s annual report under the Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) assesses the environmental impact of transport across Europe.
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APRIL 3, 2013
The survey found that two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor building the pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada’s oil sands region through the Midwest to refineries in Texas. Current opinions about whether global warming is a very serious problem are similar to those in 2009 and 2010. Click to enlarge. Keystone XL.
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DECEMBER 12, 2017
million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. Well leakage through cement is a problem that increases maintenance costs and poses threats to surrounding communities and the environment.
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