Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States.

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Austin Gas Emissions Production 218

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Transportation fuels.

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Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale 309

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Gasoline section shows results for fuel derived from both conventional oil and oil sands. However, the range in values for shale and conventional gas overlap, so there is a statistical uncertainty whether shale gas emissions are actually lower than those of conventional natural gas. Click to enlarge.

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Gas Coal Emissions Gasoline 284

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year, with accompanying disposal costs of about $5 billion per year. Finding water to buy for fracking operations in the West, for example, has become increasingly challenging and expensive for oil and gas companies.

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Oil Gas Oil-Sands Water 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. billion cubic meters) of annual natural gas output within two years. China Petroleum and Chemical Corp.

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Coal Gas Purchase Energy 225

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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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Oil Gas Oil-Sands Illinois 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

Shell Canada Energy’s Scotford Upgrader, close to its refinery near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, uses hydrogen to upgrade high viscosity extra heavy crude oil (bitumen) into a wide range of synthetic crude oils. will use Air Products’ hydrogen to treat certain olefinic synthetic gas liquids at its Redwater Fractionation facility.

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Canada Hydrogen Oil-Sands Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

While oil will remain the most widely used fuel, overall energy demand will be reshaped by a continued shift toward less-carbon-intensive energy source as well as steep improvements in energy efficiency in areas such as transportation, where the expanded use of advanced and hybrid vehicles will help push average new-car fuel economy to 48 mpg (4.9

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Personal Global Transportation Fuel 408

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The two leaders discussed practical ways the United States and Canada could encourage the development of clean energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change. US and Canadian officials will meet in the coming weeks to launch the clean energy dialogue.

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Obama Canada Cleaning Clean 170

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery.

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Coal Carbon Gas Energy 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The combined company will be the largest owner and operator of natural gas pipelines and storage assets in North America with approximately 67,000 miles of natural gas transportation pipelines. Largest independent transporter of petroleum products in the United States, transporting approximately 1.9 and Washington state.

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El Paso North America Gas Purchase 225

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MAY 2, 2010

This global climate change problem becomes manageable only if society deals quickly with emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal in electric power plants, they state. Readily available reserves of oil and gas are sufficient to take atmospheric CO 2 to at least 400 ppm. Kharecha et al. Kharecha, Charles F.

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Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change 239

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft assessment on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing activities on drinking water resources in the United States. sand mining and chemical production) outside of the stated water cycle; site selection and well pad development; other infrastructure development (e.g.,

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Water EPA Oil-Sands Oil 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

On September 10 th , the EIA reported a production decline in the Lower 48—essentially shale production—of 208,000 BOPD (barrels of oil per day). Rather, Goldman Sachs was grabbing all the headlines with its $20 call on oil. Pundits will claim otherwise, suggesting that oil in the 50s or 60s will spur activity.

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Oil Prices Oil Oil-Sands Price 150

Green Car Congress

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. A hurricane might also create its own spills, the new research indicates.

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Oil Oil-Sands Mexico Water 210

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JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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Oil-Sands Gas Water Oil 250

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

C2A has been licensed to use an ultra-efficient gas infusion technology for the transfer of CO 2 into liquids for algae feedstock and to remove oxygen that can become toxic to algae. In parallel, scientists are also working to develop technology to effectively extract the oil. Carbon2Algae (C2A).

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Canada Oil-Sands Mariner Oil 286

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. million bpd. Reduced GHG impact. For CTL, life-cycle GHG emissions would roughly double.

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MIT Oil-Sands Commercial Available 250

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AUGUST 17, 2011

However, biodiesel from advanced biomass has an inherent environmental advantage of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction that can be realized once every step of the production chain is fully optimized and decarbonized, the researchers said. for conventional diesel from the United States. tons/ha/year). —Shirvani et al.

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Oil-Sands Production Grid Saudi Arabia 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is offering additional opportunities for energy companies to conduct oil shale research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects on public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Earlier post.) Potential lessees may nominate up to 160 acres for RD&D. Earlier post.) Secretary Salazar.

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Oil Commercial Oil-Sands Wyoming 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

On-road transportation accounts for approximately 20% of United States energy consumption. not reformulated) gasoline; and (4) crude oil production is 100% conventional crude (most oil sands production occurs outside of our spatial modeling domain—i.e., Associated tailpipe emissions alone account for 40?60%

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

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JUNE 17, 2015

Exxon Mobil has started production at its Kearl oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada ahead of schedule; the expansion is expected to double overall capacity to 220,000 barrels of bitumen a day, with the expansion itself ultimately expected to reach 110,000 barrels per day. Kearl will access approximately 4.6 Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Angola Nigeria 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

Both Jeep Active Drive and Active Drive Low 4x4 systems include the Jeep Selec-Terrain system, providing up to five modes (Auto, Snow, Sand and Mud modes, plus exclusive Rock mode on the Trailhawk model). Forged connecting rods and an aluminum oil pan aid weight savings. The system instantly engages when 4x4 traction is needed.

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Jeep SUV Africa Fuel Economy 247

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

World oil prices remain high in the IEO2011 Reference case, but oil consumption continues to grow; both conventional and unconventional liquid supplies are used to meet rising demand. In the IEO2011 Reference case the price of light sweet crude oil (in real 2009 dollars) remains high, reaching $125 per barrel in 2035.

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Oil-Sands Oil 2008 Oil Prices 220

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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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Oil-Sands Oil North Dakota Oklahoma 218

Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Hansen is giving us 12 months to get our act together: “ The next President and Congress must define a course next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation. Do something to lower gas prices, and you might exacerbate warming and, potentially, terrorism.

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2008 Climate Change Climate Oil-Sands 150

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MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. Greenhouse gas LCA analysis. What Keystone XL would carry. Earlier post.)

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate 250

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. times the average for fuel consumed in the United States.

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Oil-Sands Oil 2010 Production 186

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. billion tonnes of CO 2 each year by 2030 —or about 40 percent of what the United States currently emits from all sources.

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Portland Carbon Coal Emissions 141

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6

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Oil Oil-Sands Price Production 261

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. Earlier post.). The RFA “They Said What?”

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Oil-Sands Oil Wisconsin United States 220

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APRIL 10, 2013

An innovative oil-upgrading technology that can increase the economics of unconventional petroleum resources has been developed under a US Department of Energy-funded project. In the case of oil sands bitumen, the API gravity is increased from 8 API to more than 20 API, eliminating the need for diluent for pipeline transportation.

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Sodium Oil-Sands Oil Molten Salt 199

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We have the evidence today that they engaged in the single most traitorous act ever perpetrated against the United States of America. If you’re feeling the impact of today’s $5 a gallon gas and rising food prices and worried about the dropping equity in your home then wait till you see what’s coming in your immediate future.

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Climate Change Climate 2008 Carbon 186

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MAY 24, 2009

Oil sands supply chain. A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)— The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs Climate Change — claims that prudent greenhouse gas regulations can limit emissions from Canadian oil sands while still enabling robust development of the energy resource.

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Oil-Sands Climate Change Oil Climate 150

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Crude and lease condensate includes tight oil, shale oil, extra-heavy crude oil, field condensate, and bitumen (i.e., oil sands, either diluted or upgraded). oil shale), and refinery gain. OPEC oil producers are the largest source of additional liquid fuel supply between 2010 and 2040.

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Asia Transportation Oil-Sands Oil Prices 341

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

Comparison of the percent differential for WTW (well-to-wheel) GHGs from gasoline produced from WCSB oil sands using different production processes relative to gasoline produced from reference crudes. The proposed Project is not likely to impact the amount of crude oil produced from the oil sands.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Oklahoma 253

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline for transporting oilsands-derived crude to Gulf Coast refineries would have “ no material impact ” on US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a new Insight report by IHS CERA. This indicates that oil sands can grow using rail; it is already happening. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Venezuela Oil-Sands Oil Canada 275