Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Eni and RenOils, the Italian national vegetable and animal oils and fats Consortium established in 2016 to ensure the correct management of the collection, transport, storage, processing and reuse of vegetable oils and animal fats, are promoting the recovery of used cooking oils (UCO) for biofuel production.

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Oil Waste Production Italy 247

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 12, 2025

Ultra-low viscosity oils are becoming the norm for modern engines, especially smaller units prioritizing efficiency. Unfortunately, the trend has resulted in conflicting opinions about the actual usefulness of thinner oils. Compared to something like the common 5W-30, these are incredibly thin oils.

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Oil Emissions Engine Toyota 104

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to clean up oil spills inexpensively and efficiently without harming marine life. —Vikas Nandwana.

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Oil Water Mariner Pollution 243

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has approved draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships. This builds on current mandatory energy efficiency requirements to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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Oil Gas Chevron Houston 221

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels.

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Oil Waste Diesel Fuel 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Aemetis announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary in India, owner and operator of a biodiesel plant located near the Port of Kakinada on India’s east coast, was selected by the three government-controlled oil marketing companies (OMCs) and a major oil refiner to supply approximately 8,000,000 gallons of biodiesel over the next two months.

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India Oil Supplies Purchase 243

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Oil prices fell back suddenly over the last few trading sessions, dragged down by some forces beyond the oil market. A rebound for the greenback led to a steep decline in oil prices on Friday. At the same time, sudden turmoil in the broader financial system also bled over into the oil market.

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Oil Prices Oil Price Market 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Panama Emissions Fuel 283

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Underinvestment in oil and gas development extended into a second year in 2021 even as global energy demand rebounded, raising the prospect of price shocks, scarcity and growing energy poverty, according to a new report by the International Energy Forum (IEF) and IHS Markit. —Joseph McMonigle, secretary general, IEF.

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Price Oil Asia Gas 416

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

IHS Markit Crude Oil Markets service expects up to 10 MMb/d of world oil production will be cut or shut-in from April to June 2020 as oil storage fills up and output from financially strapped companies begins to fall. If oil cannot be sold or stored, it cannot be produced. Something has to give. And it will.

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Oil Saudi Arabia Production Russia 186

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. The environment is rough at temperatures of more than 100 degrees, and what you fractionate could dissolve your membrane. A paper on the work is published in Science.

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Oil Energy Polymer Carbon 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2017

AB 1328 gives California water agencies access to information on potentially hazardous chemicals used in oil and gas operations. AB 1197 will ensure their spill management teams are adequately trained and prepared in the event of an oil spill. These other operations account for the majority of all oil and gas production in California.

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Water Oil California Gas 186

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Like the issue of oil drilling in Hermosa Beach. The classic slogan that Stop Hermosa Beach Oil movement has created, Keep Hermosa Hermosa” couldn’t be more right-on, because over the years Hermosa has been kept Hermosa.

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Climate Change Climate Oil Chevron 358

Green Car Congress

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. Their features include resistance to high temperatures and aggressive environments (acids and alkalis) and durability at extremely low temperatures.

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Russia Range Environment Market 435

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of a strategy to continue providing low-emissions solutions for harsh offshore operating environments, Siemens has opened a fully robotized and digitalized plant in Norway that will develop and manufacture energy storage technologies for both marine and offshore oil and gas applications. —Bjørn Einar Brath.

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Energy Storage Mariner Li-ion Oil 239

Green Car Congress

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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Oil Green Hydrogen Fuel 195

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m talking about the people who work for and represent E&B oil. These are the people who in the face of science that says we must transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy or destroy the futures of our children and all who come after them, still want to drill for oil that should never be burned.

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Climate Change Climate Oil Carbon 322

Creative Greenius

MAY 9, 2015

When Chevron, or Phillips 66, or ExxonMobil or E&B oil companies give schools and nonprofits funding money they do it for one reason only. Sold them out to the very oil companies who are destroying their chance of having a decent future. And they will damn sure remember who went along for the ride to get that oil company money.

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Oil Chevron Climate Change Companies 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Conventional oil and gas discoveries during the past three years are at the lowest levels in seven decades and a significant rebound is not expected, according to a new report by global business information provider IHS Markit. —Keith King, senior advisor at IHS Markit and a lead author of the IHS Markit E&P trends analysis.

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Oil Gas Oil Prices Water 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Their stability and selectivity can be tuned by thermal crosslinking to separate simple hydrocarbon mixtures and complex crude oil fractions. These membranes preferentially separate paraffin over aromatic components, making them suitable for integration in hybrid distillation systems for crude oil fractionation. —Chisca et al.

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Polymer Oil Carbon Pollution 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

In alignment, Bloom Energy has created a dedicated, cross-functional team of engineers to adapt Bloom Energy’s Servers to the unique requirements of the marine environment. SHI and Bloom Energy are actively working towards the next milestone in this development with a target to present the design to potential customers in 2022.

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Industrial Industry Energy Mariner 459

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Noise wrecks quantum computers because the quantum states they use for computation are affected by the slightest disturbances from the environment. The biggest areas are in rugged environments, because diamond is an extremely robust material. So industries like space, and oil and gas. So it could be good for long-term accuracy.

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Environment Industrial Industry Carbon 134

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.]. Eutrophication of non-marine aquatic environments [kg N-eq.]. Eutrophication of non-marine aquatic environments [kg P-eq.]. Land occupation in an urban environment [m 2 / year]. Toxicity of marine aquatic environments [kg 1,4-DC-eq.]. Smog formation [kg NMVOC-eq.].

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Mariner Climate Change DC Cars 435

Creative Greenius

APRIL 24, 2014

I’ve never personally witnessed any passion out of Ted or felt that he had the fire in his belly on the environment or was any kind of climate action hero. . Oil Drilling in Hermosa Beach. I never have in the 21 years I’ve lived in Torrance, which is where Ted is from and started on his road to higher and higher office.

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Green Climate Change Oil Climate 326

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2015

In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. The Saudis obviously miscalculated the degree to which their shift would negatively impact oil prices.

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Saudi Arabia Oil Iraq Iran 150

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 6, 2021

Michael Liebreich, who founded BloombergNEF (originally New Energy Finance), is passionate about helping the environment, and thus humans. He recently said that the oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars because it wants to delay electrification.

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Hydrogen Oil Financing Recharge 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2020

The second quarter of 2020 will see the largest volume of liquids production cuts, including shut-in production, in the history of the oil industry, according to IHS Markit. The Great Shut-In, a rapid and brutal adjustment of global oil supply to a lower level of demand is underway. Some will be impacted more than others.

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Oil 2020 Global Oil Prices 170

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 11, 2022

Isn’t it odd that Tesla has a bad Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) score yet oil companies have good ones? When you look at what Tesla is doing for the environment and compare those actions with how oil companies are profiting off of poisoning our environment, it just doesn’t make sense.

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Oil Companies Tesla Environment 126

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

“There is evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are socially inequitable, that they encourage smuggling and waste, and distort economies in ways that undermine economic efficiency while harming the environment and the climate,” wrote Jim Krane, the Wallace S. 5 consumer of oil,” Krane said.

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Saudi Arabia Global Fuel Oil 397

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2021

Technical innovations include solenoid valve control, a variable capacity oil pump, an electric thermostat and an optimized lubricant and cooling setup. The revised eight-speed benefits from a newly designed transmission structure that reduces oil leakage and improves control stability and gear shift response.

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PHEV Kia Gasoline Diesel 435

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2022

Tire particles are composed of materials including synthetic rubber, filling agents, oils and other additives. about 30% of its tread erodes and enters the environment. million metric tons of tire wear particles flow into the environment each year in the United States. They also cite a recent study that estimated more than 1.5

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Oregon Environment Pollution Grant 415

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The assets are designed to record any changes in the marine environment that may occur during testing of the collector system.

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Mariner Water Environment Oil 418

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Researchers in the US have developed a catalytic upcycling process using platinum nanoparticles supported on perovskites to convert single-use polyethylene (PE) (such as grocery bags) into value-added high-quality liquid products (such as motor oils and waxes). Most end up in landfills or the environment. —Celik et al.

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Oil Waste Polymer Convert 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

By honing its prototype hydrogen engine in the harsh environment of motorsports, Toyota aims to contribute to the realization of a sustainable and prosperous mobility society. Except for the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil during driving, which is also the case with gasoline engines, hydrogen engines emit zero CO 2 when in use.

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Hydrogen Toyota Engine Gasoline-Electric 448

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward. The vast majority of US offshore oil production occurs in the Gulf of Mexico. —Secretary Jewell. Areas off the Atlantic coast are not included in this program.

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Mexico 2017 Oil Gas 150

Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. None of them are innocent bystanders.

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Coal Oil Clean Cleaning 355