Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio 257

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

This team is leveraging research in nanotechnology to reduce CO 2 emissions associated with the extraction and upgrading process, and treatment of produced water generated during the oil recovery. The materials also have the potential to be used as filters for contaminated water.

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Oil-Sands Water Oil Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale. Heavy metals in soil.

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Ozone Water Oil-Sands Oil 199

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. The stages of the hydraulic fracturing water cycle. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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Water EPA Oil-Sands Oil 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. To meet this challenge, many governments and organizations are investing in new technology to help lessen the use of fossil fuels. Eronen says, laughing.

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Store Solar Building Oil-Sands 105

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

HPCSS has been used in oil recovery in Alberta for more than 30 years, AER noted. The heat softens the bitumen and the water dilutes and separates the bitumen from the sand. On 24 June, AER received reports of an unnamed standing body of water impacted by bitumen coming to the surface from underground source.

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2009 Oil-Sands Water Oil 329

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2015

This release includes the following expansions and updates: Major expansions and updates: Water consumption of fuel production pathways: developed and updated water consumption for hydrogen from various sources, petroleum fuels, biofuels, and hydro-electric power. Shale oil: developed energy and GHG emissions intensities of U.S.

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Oil-Sands Li-ion Fuel Economy Waste 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2011

between 2008 and 2009 due to the global financial crisis, global oil consumption recovered by 3.1% About one third of this growth came from China, which now uses more than 10% of the world’s oil. of total oil consumption in 2010. of total oil consumption in 2010. After falling 1.5% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 87.4

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Oil Global Oil-Sands Saudi Arabia 287

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. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive.

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Oil Gas Oil-Sands Water 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

EO28), were identified in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water using a new application of the Kendrick mass defect and liquid chromatography/ quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Surfactants reduce the surface tension between water and oil, allowing for more oil to be extracted from porous rock underground.

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Oil-Sands Colorado Water Oil 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., On 9 December, EPA released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation, indicating that ground water in the aquifer contains compounds likely associated with gas production practices, including hydraulic fracturing. Earlier post.)

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EPA Wyoming Oil-Sands Water 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2013

PetroJunín, joint venture formed by PDVSA (60%) and Eni (40%), has started production from the Junín-5 giant heavy oil field, located in the Faja del Orinoco—the area with the largest untapped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, according to Eni. Junin 5 block in the Orinoco. Deepwater Angola. Eni is operator of Block 15/06 with 35%.

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Angola Venezuela Oil Oil-Sands 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Source: USOS, DWQ. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Utah Water Oil 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

C2A also has the rights to an organic removal technology from Mitton Valve Technology. For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. We’re asking plants to do what they do best.

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Canada Oil-Sands Mariner Oil 286

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Possible Land Use Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

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Oil-Sands Oil Commercial Available 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Canadian researchers have developed a large-scale economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands (natural bitumen) and oil fields. The process can extract hydrogen from existing oil sands reservoirs, with huge existing supplies found in Canada and Venezuela. Proton Technologies is commercializing the process.

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Oil-Sands Oil Hydrogen Venezuela 375

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

This surge in exploration and production from unconventional sources has been accompanied by public concerns about various environmental issues—including air quality, water quantity and quality, and human health impacts. Measurements on the variation of air emission composition and magnitude by natural gas and oil plays need to be made.

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Gas Oil-Sands Emissions Oil 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Incorporated CCLUB (Carbon Calculator for Laud Use Change from Biofuels) with two new feedstocks (poplar and willow), new organic carbon emission factors for soil depth of 100 cm, and new land-use change results. Added water consumptions for the major pathways as an additional life-cycle analysis metric.

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2014 Oil-Sands Emissions Carbon 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Results from a new modeling assessment of contamination in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) suggest that officially reported emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in that region have been greatly underestimated. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g., Average emissions densities from Shen et al.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Pollution 220

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

G&G data and information are used to identify sand and gravel resources suitable for coastal protection and restoration; site renewable energy installations; and locate oil and gas resources. The PEIS also evaluates reasonably foreseeable environmental effects in adjacent state waters.

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Mariner Oil-Sands Congress Oil 199

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

There is only so much salt you can dissolve in a glass of water. Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. The particles can compose up to 80 percent of the liquid’s weight while leaving it no more viscous than motor oil.

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Lithium Ion Battery Batteries Li-ion 145

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 15, 2009

The process also uses less than half the water per gallon than required for the production of gasoline from conventional crude, and about one-third to one-quarter of the water per gallon required for the production of gasoline from oil sands oil, Bolson said. gallons of water per gallon of ethanol.

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Commercial Oil-Sands Water Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

GREET models five groups of air pollutant emissions: NO x ; non-methane volatile organic compounds (VOCs); primary particulate matter less than 2.5 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.,

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Both scientific research and industrial experience have found that bitumen-derived crude oil (i.e., crude from the oil sands) is no more corrosive in transmission pipelines than other crudes, according to Natural Resources Canada (NRC). In the absence of water, the crude oil is noncorrosive. —ASTM G205.

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Oil-Sands Oil Water Canada 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2011

Initial results show that two catalysts are effective in hydrocarbon production and reducing alkoxy-aromatics/phenols, while one catalyst was not very effective (similar to sand), in agreement with the low activity of the guaiacol pulse test. L of bio-oil was generated for future testing. Hydrothermal Liquefaction.

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Fuel Production Oil-Sands Oil 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.

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Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. Oil sands mining and reclamation cause massive loss of peatland and stored carbon. —Rooney et al.

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Oil-Sands Oil Carbon Conversion 270

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Diluted bitumen has no greater likelihood of accidental pipeline release than other crude oils, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). The NRC committee was not asked to address whether the consequences of a diluted bitumen release differ from those of other crude oils. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Transportation Congress 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

A team from the University of Plymouth (UK) and Environment Canada has identified, for the first time, individual soluble naphthenic acids (NA) in the process water resulting from the oil sands industry in Canada. Frank (2011) Diamonds in the Rough: Identification of Individual Naphthenic Acids in Oil Sands Process Water.

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Oil-Sands Water Oil Canada 186

Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Here’s the version I remember hearing in New Jersey: A man goes on vacation and his brother agrees to housesit for him — feeding the cat, picking up the newspapers and mail, watering the plants, etc. Stop pretending and sticking your head in the sand – you’re only exposing a large target when you do that.

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2008 Climate Change Climate Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

Contrary to claims made by industry and government in the popular press, the oil sands industry substantially increases loadings of toxic PPE [priority pollutants] to the AR and its tributaries via air and water pathways. Schindler says some of the metals interact with organic pollutants, making them more toxic.

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Oil-Sands Pollution Oil Universal 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers at the Universities of Calgary and Alberta are collaborating on a project for the microbial remediation of oil sands tailings—the waste byproducts of oil sands surface mining that are collected in large manufactured settling basins called tailing ponds. —Golby et al. m below the surface.

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Oil-Sands Oil Environment Water 244

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Things have gotten so seriously dire with the acceleration of climate change that I took a leave of absence from my professional career and have been working full time pro bono as a community organizer and climate change activist. Stop pretending and sticking your head in the sand – you’re only exposing a large target when you do that.

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Climate Change Climate 2008 Carbon 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

Genome Alberta is a not-for-profit organization based in Calgary which initiates, funds, and manages large-scale projects in genomics and other related areas. Gerrit Voordouw at the University of Calgary, will sample and explore the biological processes at work in oil wells, oils sands, tailings ponds, and coal beds.

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Oil-Sands Oil Coal Production 150

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Here’s the basic recipe: Blend cement with larger amounts of sand and other aggregates. Then add water, to trigger a chemical reaction with the cement. Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires. Let sit as it cures into a rock-solid mass.

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Portland Carbon Coal Emissions 143