Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

Oil remains the world’s leading fuel, but its 33.1% Coal’s market share of 30.3% The “Arab Spring” affected oil and gas supplies—most notably the complete, albeit temporary, loss of Libyan supply—while the tragic Fukushima accident in Japan had knock-on effects for nuclear and other energy sources around the world.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The Middle East becomes the world’s second-largest gas consumer by 2020 and third-largest oil consumer by 2030, redefining its role in global energy markets. Oil use grows, but in a narrowing set of markets. Mobility and oil. The decline in oil use in OECD countries accelerates. Source: IEA.

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MAY 17, 2012

High oil prices, impending emissions regulations and technical advancements are propelling the market faster than we expected. On 6-7 June, Zeus will host an LNG-Fueled Marine Advancements meeting to present the survey, review trends and tour a new LNG-turbine propulsion system by GE. What surprised us is the rate.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Separately, a new report by Pike Research forecasts that green chemistry represents a market opportunity that will grow from $2.8 billion pound, $3-billion worldwide market. Genomatica expects Bio-BDO to be competitive at oil prices of $45 per barrel or at natural gas prices of $3.50 billion in 2011 to $98.5

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APRIL 23, 2018

million barrels per day over the last five years, IHS Markit says in the new report from its oil markets and research team. Current global total liquids oil demand growth is at similar levels to what was recorded during the 2003 to 2007 commodity super-cycle, referred to as the “golden age” of refining. Source: IHS Markit 2018.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

North American start-ups have attracted 76% of transactions (377) and 87% of investment dollars ($6 billion) since 2003 due to the booming heavy oil and tight oil/shale gas market. European companies have also raised significant funding, with $770 million from 107 transactions, Lux found.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2020

All producing countries are subject to the same brutal market forces. —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. But under these market conditions, it is pretty clear where production will be cut.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Although co-production plants are much more costly than liquids-only configurations in terms of capital cost, Hari Mantripragadaa1 and Edward Rubin found, because of the high electricity revenues the cost of liquid product is lower than that of the liquids-only case, at market prices of electricity. Mantripragada and Edward S.

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APRIL 8, 2015

In North America, nearly 37% of new light duty vehicles sold in North America are expected to have the feature by 2020, with the rate expected to hit 46% by 2024 and grow steadily. Western Europe leads in adoption of SSVs, and Navigant expects the market there to be close to saturation by the end of the decade.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

Overall, Navigant expects the worldwide market for light-duty NGVs to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3% Navigant expects Asia Pacific to remain the largest market, with more than 1.56 Various regional factors affect the markets for natural gas vehicles (NGVs), Navigant observes. million, accounting for 2.6%

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AUGUST 6, 2015

A flood of bearish news has pushed down oil prices to their lowest levels in months, with WTI nearing $45 per barrel and Brent flirting with sub-$50 territory. With a bear market back, there is pessimism throughout the oil markets. Low oil prices will sooner or later force a cutback in production.

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Green Car Congress

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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DECEMBER 21, 2015

In a new report, Electric Vehicle Market Forecasts , Navigant research projects that under its base scenario, global sales of light duty electrified vehicles (i.e., The growth of PEV market share will be aided in part by the number and variety of PEV offerings coming to the market over the next several years. million in 2024.

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JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs.

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

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Further, improved supply prospects for natural gas are likely to lead to decoupling of oil and gas markets, according to the study. The world is nearing a paradigm shift in oil demand. The predominant role of oil in the global energy mix is facing an ever greater challenge from a number of emerging trends.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Reference case projections for US energy markets through 2035. EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. The result is a continued fall in US oil imports, to the extent that North America becomes a net oil exporter around 2030.

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JULY 2, 2013

The underlying assumption is that the world will immediately use whatever oil can be pumped from the ground, and that supply is independent of demand—that is, oil exploration investments bear no relation to the current oil price or expectations of future demand.

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APRIL 15, 2015

On the desalination front, Netherlands-based Salttech has developed breakthrough technology called Salttech DyVaR, for which STW has the exclusive license in North America. But there is no turning back now. Salttech is a think tank with brilliant engineers and scientists who are always asking how they can make it better.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

However, a slowdown is being signaled with just two of the high-potential BRIC markets likely to see increased sales this year. China will lead the sector’s volume growth, with particular strength in SUVs, though IHS expects the market to slow from 2014. North America. from last year.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

New energy research from business information provider IHS Markit has identified more than five billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in numerous smaller, previously bypassed, or underperforming reservoirs outside North America that offer oil and gas operators a shorter-cycle path to production than new, frontier projects in undeveloped areas.

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APRIL 18, 2020

Key regional insights on a few major markets follows: For the North American market, IHS Markit forecasts a production decline of more than 30% in Class 4-8, or about 198,000 units from previous forecasts, as the economic slump combines with rapidly ebbing replacement pressure to undermine new orders.

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AUGUST 25, 2015

OPEC next gathers December 4 in Vienna, just over a year since Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced at the previous OPEC winter meeting the Saudi decision to let the oil market determine oil prices rather than to continue Saudi Arabia's role of guarantor of $100+/bbl oil. percentage points.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Because the carbon intensity metric of fuels within the LCFS accounts not only for a fuel’s physical characteristics, but also the energy necessary to bring the transportation fuel to market in California, chemically identical fuels are assigned different carbon intensities under the LCFS, the complaint notes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jack Rosebro, founder of Perfect Sky in Los Angeles [and a contributor to Green Car Congress ], spoke of the need for government policy makers to move beyond incremental changes that are not providing enough incentive for the market to produce alternatives to oil as the almost exclusive source of energy for road and rail transportation.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

. “While we saw drops in EV battery shipment in the first quarter caused by customers’ battery inventory adjustment, we expect to see improved market environment backed by launches of new EVs in North America,” SK On Chief Financial Officer Kim Kyunghoon said in a post-earnings conference call.

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MAY 22, 2020

Due to the collapse in oil prices, IHS Markit expects US producers are in the process of curtailing about 1.75 The oil market fear that characterized March and the extreme price pressure that producers felt in April have galvanized producers across North America into unprecedented action.

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