Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

With both population and consumption growing worldwide, the capacity of the world’s economy to require less energy for each unit of output has been a rare positive trend for the environment. In addition to technological advances, price developments play a key role in determining overall energy usage, Worldwatch notes.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

In January 2015 Sasol announced it was delaying a final investment decision on the proposed project near Lake Charles, Louisiana to conserve cash in response to lower oil prices. Sasol’s foundation businesses are cash positive at a US$40 per barrel oil price.

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JUNE 2, 2017

The present business environment requires that the shipping industry moves further towards eco-friendly operations due to environmental concerns, recent international regulations, as well as rises in fuel oil prices.

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MAY 9, 2020

—Jim Burkhard, vice president and head of oil markets, IHS Markit. IHS Markit expects oil demand in the second quarter of 2020 to be 22 MMb/d less than a year ago. Oil is produced in a wide variety of environments, which means there is no fixed equation and decision factors vary. There is no fixed equation.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

The low levels in discoveries come as a result of a pullback during the past 10 years in the wildcat drilling that targets conventional oil and gas plays—most drastically after oil prices collapsed in 2014. —Keith King, senior advisor at IHS Markit and a lead author of the IHS Markit E&P trends analysis.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Although oil and gas have been produced in the Arctic region for years, many of the vast oil and gas fields that initiated interest in the Arctic are in decline. The high oil price is again driving investment in E&:P in this region as the focus gradually moves offshore from the prolific onshore areas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

The collapse of oil prices has ground shale drilling to a halt, but the one region where drilling is still active, and even increasing, is in West Texas. The rash of deals exemplify the latest trend as the oil markets slowly move towards balance and oil prices continue to languish below $50 per barrel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The party is over for tight oil. Despite brash statements by US producers and misleading analysis by Raymond James, low oil prices are killing tight oil companies. Reports this week from IEA and EIA paint a bleak picture for oil prices as the world production surplus continues. Party On, Dude! Conclusions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Electrification will also reduce oil dependence, providing foreign policy benefits and the potential to reduce real oil prices and oil price volatility. Electrification will reduce emissions, with the scale determined by the carbon intensity of the power sector. Vehicle technologies. —Deutch and Moniz.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

High oil prices, persistent differences in gas and electricity prices between regions and rising energy import bills in many countries focus attention on the relationship between energy and the broader economy. However, this does not imply a new era of oil abundance, the report cautions.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

the future of the economy and the environment. Rising Oil Prices Lead to Investments in Natural Gas. Oil markets are traditionally sensitive to a pick up in economic activity. As the economy continues to slowly improve over the next 12 months, Cascadia predicts that oil will hit $100 per barrel.

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APRIL 1, 2015

The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere. Investor confidence in Argentina has been damaged by heavy-handed nationalist politics, including the nationalization of oil company YPF in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We would expect that new reserves of conventional and unconventional oil may become available for exploration due to geological exploration and advances in oil extraction techniques or that extraction from less feasible oil fields becomes more economically attractive. All of these factors would change our predicted outcome.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The production costs for most chemicals via microbial fermentation are currently high compared to oil-derived products primarily because of operating costs associated with feedstock and feedstock processing. Acetogens are anaerobic bacteria, which cannot grow in oxygenated environments. In this study, researchers tested how C.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

BP has sanctioned the $9-billion Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the United States, despite the current low oil price environment. Today, the leaner $9-billion project, which also includes capacity for water injection, is projected to be profitable at or below current oil prices.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Volatility hurts us too, for as we’ve learned the price of oil can rise sharply in a short period of time. This means our economic stability is at stake because of our reliance on oil. In fact, four of the last five recessions were started by an oil price spike. [

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JUNE 12, 2015

“NEB and GNWT study finds 200 billion barrels of oil in the Sahtu,” gushed CBC News , referring to a region of the sprawling territory that cuts across three provinces and touches the Arctic Ocean. Knowledgeable oilmen like Hogg say that the Canol, while highly prospective, is a long-term game that will have to wait until oil prices rise.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

And, by reducing dependence on foreign oil imports, AVTA will no longer be subject to oil price volatility for its bus fleet—helping to create greater stability for budget forecasting for the fleet manager. Emissions Reductions: AVTA’s all-electric fleet will provide elimination of CO 2 , NO x , PM 10 and PM 2.5

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JANUARY 23, 2011

For example, at peak oil price in 2008, Indonesia was spending 40% of its budget on transport fuel—more than health, education and infrastructure development combined. Earlier post.) ” Some of the main lessons drawn from the report include: Fossil-fuel subsidies absorb serious amounts of money.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

The decline of global oil prices since 2014 and lower external demand has encouraged the government to create a favorable environment for business-driven regional economic development.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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MAY 22, 2013

The results of the study, which was conducted as part of the Queensland Sustainable Aviation Fuel Initiative , were presented at the Boeing-hosted Aero Environment Summit in Sydney. Pongamia pinnata is a legume tree which produces a seed rich in oil.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2010

Without strong climate policy, one might expect production of unconventional hydrocarbon fuels to increase dramatically in the coming decades as supplies of conventional oil become gradually tighter. A growing supply of unconventional transportation fuels would tend to moderate oil prices and would drive up emissions on a life cycle basis.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Thus, high energy prices lead to high food prices, as transport and fertilizers become more expensive. High oil prices increase the appeal of biofuels, and a subsequent increasing demand for corn and grain leads to higher food prices and additional food scarcity.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

As part of the report, which was requested by Senators Barbara Boxer (as Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works) and Susan Collins, the GAO makes several recommendations to Congress and for executive (i.e. Department or Agency-level) action. non-ethanol biofuels. specifies this year. per year for conventional ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

That’s where government comes in.only the government can help influence [change] by having a price for carbon and technical incentives. ”. Mr. Immelt’s point is that the spike in oil prices to $147/barrel in 2008 is not enough on its own to get automakers to make electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

When oil prices rose to new highs in the 1970s, Brazil invested in ethanol created from the its sugar cane crops. Commercially available baker’s yeast was used to break down the sugar cane into ethanol, but genetic tests showed that this yeast quickly disappeared in the harsh environment of industrial fermentation vats.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

Smart regulation can place a fair and reasonable price on the oil sands’ greenhouse gas emissions, providing the right incentive to reduce them, but ill-conceived regulation could undermine US and Canadian climate and security goals. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and the report’s author.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Oil companies are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to deal with a collapse in oil prices, now below $50 per barrel. Statoil, the semi-state-owned oil company from Norway, has been an offshore leader and Arctic pioneer. That delayed drilling for several consecutive years. Shell announced $4.16

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2012

Let’s be honest, our interest in green cars has not only been prompted by our willingness to do more for the environment, but also for our need for affordable driving as petrol prices spiral out of control. However, now a new study by Harvard Kennedy School suggests that may be about to change. It points [.].

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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. Prices rebounded to $60 for a few months, before falling once again below $50.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Stagnant oil prices continue to limit large-scale investments in global exploration worldwide, including deepwater plays, and many onshore US projects are not yet cash-flow positive, so energy investors are demanding financial returns. In this environment, reduced tolerance for exploration risk persists.

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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. —Secretary Jewell. The Proposed Final Program includes one sale in the northern portion of the Cook Inlet Planning Area.

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JUNE 26, 2009

In addition to high oil prices and the financial crisis, the increased use of new renewable energy sources, such as biofuels for road transport and wind energy for electricity generation, had a noticeable and mitigating impact on CO 2 emissions. Global CO 2 emissions from fuel use and cement production by region. Source: PBL.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Given the numerous barriers outlined.the committee judges that the consumption mandate for cellulosic biofuels is not likely to be met by 2022 without substantial improvement in technologies in the next few years and a stable economic and policy environment to encourage accelerated demonstration and deployment of cellulosic biofuels.

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APRIL 3, 2022

This collaboration comes at a timely moment, on the back of rising oil prices. NTU researchers will work closely with our partners to develop better catalysts, and more efficient reactors for extracting hydrogen. This will not only benefit its citizens, but also support the country’s vision of becoming a more sustainable nation.

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