Net zero Oil Majors: worth the cost?
…model a typical Oil Major with 1Mboed of upstream production, 1Mbpd of refining and marketing, a gas marketing business and 5MTpa of annual chemicals production. We estimate this Oil Major…
CO2 concentrations in industrial exhaust streams?
…hydrogen from SMR in the refining, ammonia, chemicals and blue hydrogen industries). These are the most promising options for CCS, in our view. This simple data file aggregates data into…
Our Top Ten Research Notes of 2020
…of becoming bubbles. Our research has covered many examples in 2020: deep geothermal, supercapacitors eclipsing batteries, industrial efficiency initiatives such as fully subsea offshore or next-generation refining; and backing up…
Carbon accounting: philosophical investigations?
…combined like building blocks. For example, the total CO2 intensity of a gallon of gasoline can be calculated from the CO2 intensity of development, production, transport, refining and marketing (data…
Ethanol: getting wasted?
…are laid out on pages 14-15. The rise of corporate carbon offsetting could re-shape the US biofuels industry, with implications for farmers, the ethanol industry and the US refining industry….
Lithium: reactive?
…reason is moving into lower-grade ores. Second is energy intensity, as each ton of lithium emits 50 tons of CO2, c50% due to refining spodumene at 1,100◦C, mostly using coal…
Neodymium market: our top ten facts?
…of rare Earth materials, mining over 100kTpa, and refining c80% of global supply. Companies are also ramping up outside of China. One of the largest producers is MP Materials (NYSE-listed),…
Paper production: energy economics?
…by chopping down trees, shredding the logs, boiling this sawdust in a cocktail of chemicals (e.g., sodium hydroxide, sulphides) at 150-175ºC for several hours to extract the cellulose fibers, refining…
Oil and War: ten conclusions from WWII?
…1944, ‘Little Inch’ started up, carrying gasoline and oil products along the same route, but starting even further south, at the US Gulf Coast refining hub, between Texas and Louisiana….
Graphite producers: leading companies?
This data-file screens 15 companies that are developing graphite mines and downstream refining facilities, to upgrade their output into highly pure spheronized graphite that can be used as an anode…