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Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

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The Penwell facility will be the first gasoline manufacturer in the world to incorporate carbon capture and sequestration. The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery. The TIGAS technology enables us to cut both the production cost and the lifecycle carbon footprint of everyday fuel by 50%.

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NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The instrument can also measure carbon dioxide. The cube (left) shows methane plumes (purple, orange, yellow) over Turkmenistan. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. kilometers) long, from a major waste-processing complex.

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BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

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Oil remains the world’s leading fuel, but its 33.1% Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% The fossil fuel mix continues to change with oil, the world’s leading fuel at 33.1%

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