article thumbnail

Honeywell UOP technology selected for new 300K bpd oil refinery in Iraq

Green Car Congress

The Iraq State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), under the Ministry of Oil for Iraq, has selected Honeywell’s UOP to provide key technologies to process 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of domestic crude oil into gasoline and diesel fuel at a new refinery in Nassiriya, Iraq. Refining capacity in Iraq is expected to reach 1.6

Iraq 186
article thumbnail

IEA says oil supplies may not keep up with demand

Green Car Congress

Instead, much of the world’s hopes are pinned disproportionately on Iraq. A year ago, after the IEA released its 2013 WEO, I wrote about how the IEA was placing a surprising amount of faith in the ability of Iraq to scale up its oil production. Since then, Iraq has been plunged back into a state of war. million bpd by 2035.

Oil 257
article thumbnail

Biden authorizes release of more than 180M barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve; 1M bpd for 6 months

Green Car Congress

The US and other member states of the International Energy Agency (IA) agreed earlier in March to release 60 million barrels of oil reserves to compensate for supply disruptions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the US supplying 30 million. The release is by far the largest yet from the national reserves.

Oil 418
article thumbnail

IEA: non-OPEC oil supply tops 43 mb/d for first time in decades; global demand to reach 92.4 mb/d in 2014

Green Car Congress

Global oil supplies increased by 310 kb/d in November to 92.3 Year-on-year, November supplies rose by 810 kb/d, as a 1.9 OPEC crude supply fell by 160 kb/d in November to 29.73 OPEC crude supply fell by 160 kb/d in November to 29.73 Global demand is now seen advancing by 1.2 mb/d in both 2013 and 2014, to reach 92.4

article thumbnail

Average 2020 crude carbon intensity for California rose 7% to 13.41 gCO2e/MJ

Green Car Congress

In 2020, although the volume of crude supplied to refineries dropped to 476,730,992 barrels from 584,313,143 the year before, the average carbon intensity (CI) rose to 13.41 The annual crude average carbon intensity values are a volume-weighted average of the carbon intensities for the crudes supplied in a given year.

2020 243
article thumbnail

IHS CERA meta-analysis finds lifecycle GHG emissions for fuel produced solely from oil sands crude average 11% higher than from average crude refined in the US; high variability

Green Car Congress

Although crudes derived from the Canadian oil sands are more carbon-intensive than the average oil refined in the United States, they are within the range of some other crude oils produced, imported, or refined in the United States, including crudes from Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, and California heavy oil production, according to the report.

Oil-Sands 388
article thumbnail

IEA raises forecast global oil consumption in 2013 to 90.8 mb/d

Green Car Congress

Global crude oil supplies fell by 170 kb/d in December, to 91.2 OPEC crude supply in December fell to its lowest level in a year at 30.65 mb/d on lower output from Saudi Arabia and Iraq. OPEC crude supply in December fell to its lowest level in a year at 30.65 mb/d on lower output from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

2013 225