In January, a Moldovan cargo ship ran aground near the popular beach resort of Kilyos, spilling 96 tons of fuel oil and 25 tons
of diesel oil into the area's bays and out to sea.
The Guardian, March 14, 2016: EU green transport target «may have increased greenhouse gas emissions»: «European Union renewable energy targets may have increased greenhouse gas emissions because the dirtiest biofuels produce three times the emissions
of diesel oil, according to the most complete EU analysis yet carried out.
Not exact matches
Large integrated
oil companies are known as such because they not only produce
oil, but they also refine it into finished products, such as jet fuel, gasoline, heating
oil, and
diesel, and sell it via a network
of gasoline stations.
It is a mirror image
of what happened with distillate products in the winter, when weak demand for
diesel and heating
oil left a big surplus in those products, and hammered independent refiners» earnings at a time when those products are normally in high use.
High demand for
diesel and home heating fuel in particular means refineries are willing to pay more for crude
oil, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Servi
oil, said Tom Kloza, global head
of energy analysis at
Oil Price Information Servi
Oil Price Information Service.
At the end
of last year, the price
of a litre
of diesel was 59.64 rupees, meaning it has risen by 10.5 percent so far this year, not quite keeping pace with the rise in Brent crude
oil.
In Indonesia, which ended gasoline subsidies in 2015 and lowered the
diesel subsidy to 500 rupiah (3.6 U.S. cents) per litre in 2016, retail prices also haven't risen by as much as the price
of crude
oil.
Suncor provides a good, diversified example
of the sector — Suncor markets
oil sands products from a variety
of operations, both mining and in situ operations, and sells both diluted bitumen and synthetic products including
diesel fuel.
Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline,
diesel, heating
oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before
oil supplanted coal, wood and whale
oil, the dominant energy sources
of the day.
But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside
of the integrated nature
of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world
oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude -
oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude
oil, and marketing gasoline,
diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.
Britain, France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Scotland — and yes, China — have all announced they will eventually prohibit the sale
of gas - and
diesel - fuelled vehicles, sending shockwaves through auto and
oil sectors.
Thanks to the so - called shale revolution, the US has enough
oil that it's actually exporting more than 3 million barrels a day
of gasoline and
diesel to the rest
of the world.
However, clear price trends in respect
of crude
oil, natural gas, products like gasoline &
diesel augur well for both upstream & downstream companies.
Regional
oil and
diesel supply business can earn you a whole lot
of money to make you a millionaire in a short time.
This regional market has pipelines running both in and out
of it, and
oil is used by refineries within the region to produce gasoline,
diesel fuel and other products.
Last week's strange
diesel exports are more likely an anomaly than a trend: As the U.S. continues to ramp up output
of light, sweet, Texas
oil, refiners» ability to pump out
diesel will be threatened, and the U.S. will soon face a shortfall, Fitch's BMI Research analysts said Wednesday in a note.
According to Mike Muller, Vice President
of Crude Trading & Supply at Shell Trading, the soaring
diesel fuel demand and the buying
of crude
oil to fill strategic reserves have been the key drivers
of this year's higher
oil demand growth.
With petrol prices last week climbing over 140p for a litre
of unleaded fuel for the first time ever (according to Experian Catalist) and the cost
of diesel lingering around record highs, sentiment towards the
oil companies has unsurprisingly started to fall again.
TRADITIONAL ANSWER Off - grid mines have typically bought and operated their own
diesel or heavy fuel
oil power generating facilities, as security
of energy supply is an important factor in the mining industry
A return to US$ 100
oil would accelerate investment in electric vehicles and bring forward the moment
of cost parity with petrol and
diesel engines, at which point the
oil industry risks losing its footing forever and going into run - off.
Although current U.S. law prohibits raw crude from being sold abroad, the sale
of 3.5 million barrels a day
of refined products such as gasoline and
diesel is, ostensibly, helping to keep a cap on the price
of oil elsewhere in the world.
With finance ministry refusing to cut excise duty to give relief to the common man from petrol hitting a 55 - month high
of Rs 74.63 a litre and
diesel at a record high
of Rs 65.93,
oil PSUs have since April 24 not changed fuel rates.
The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude
oil,
diesel and heavy fuel
oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat
of erratic energy supply on the economy.
Curiously, the hike in the price
of kerosene came at a time when the price
of crude
oil had dropped to record low, with the price
of petroleum products, such as kerosene, fuel and
diesel, among others, dropping significantly in a number
of countries, like the United States.
With the government removing fuel subsidies and
oil marketers refusing to sell
diesel at pump prices, the cost
of doing business in Nigeria is expected to double over the next three months especially as
oil hits a benchmark price
of $ 38 per barrel with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicting a further drop to $ 20 per barrel by mid-year.
In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue
of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port
of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds
of thousands
of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement
of rules regulating
diesel trucks.
As part
of the recommendations in the report by the Senate Committee on Works on the National Roads Fund Establishment Bill 2017, a levy
of N5 will be imposed on every litre
of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and Automobile General
Oil (
diesel) imported or refined in the country.
New York City has invested in some 900,000 gallons
of renewable
diesel — made mostly from animal fat and vegetable
oil instead
of petroleum.
, but not one research includes production
of the batteries to pollution, while they happily add the refinement
of crude
oil and cost
of it's extraction and transport for Petrols and
Diesels.
BP, under fire nationally for all the obvious reasons, was a player pushing against an Albany bill to reduce the level
of of sulfur in home heating
oil sold in the state to the levels in
diesel trucks - a measure that narrowly passed the state Senate after a party - line vote against it by the GOP minority.
Objections to the pipeline were raised by 17
of the 18 people who spoke for nearly 90 minutes at a Town Board meeting Wednesday about the plan to pipe Bakkan crude
oil and refined gasoline,
diesel and heating
oil close to or along the state Thruway corridor from Albany to New Jersey.
Following the global report indicating that Ghana's market has been flooded with toxic
diesel, it has been reported that data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that Bulk
Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), the state owned strategic reserve holder, accounts for a significant 25 %
of the total quantity
of diesel imported into the country for the first six months
of 2016.
Following the global report indicating that Ghana's market has been flooded with toxic
diesel, it has been reported that data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that Bulk
Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), the state owned strategic reserve holder, accounts for a significant 25 %
of the total quantity
of diesel imported into the country for the first...
The Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, on Tuesday sentenced two petroleum dealers to 20 years» imprisonment without an option
of fine for stealing Automotive Gas
Oil, otherwise known as
diesel, using forged documents.
There was pandemonium on Ibadan and Abeokuta streets in the Ilasamaja area
of Lagos State on Friday after the police discovered about 10 houses which dug wells linked to
oil pipelines through which
diesel was siphoned.
Even the
oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline,
diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms
of CO2 - equivalent per barrel
of refined petroleum products, meaning total
oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those
of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.
The environmental impact is potentially huge; I mean that was a boat carrying
diesel fuel, about 5 tons
of oil and lubricants [and] 154 passengers.
If
oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind
of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent
of the U.S.
oil supply used for transportation in the form
of jet fuel, gasoline, and
diesel, according to Weeks.
«
Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline,
diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO
of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead
of recycled carbon as a feedstock.
«If you just squeeze the
oil out
of algae, what you basically get is vegetable
oil, which you can convert to
diesel,» says Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biologist at the University
of California, San Diego.
Whether sold as bulk crude
oil and natural gas or as retail electricity, gasoline or
diesel, the major exporters
of OPEC, Russia and others harbor some
of the lowest domestic energy prices in the world.
A new report charges that several
oil and gas companies have been illegally using
diesel fuel in their hydraulic fracturing operations, and then doctoring records to hide violations
of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
Published in Scientific Reports, the study mixed eight chemicals found in the odour
of oil rapeseed flowers with clean air and with air containing
diesel exhaust.
When I rang Hugh Spencer, director
of the research station, he was repairing a
diesel generator and was covered in
oil.
The objective
of the current program is 1,000 hours
of co-gasification
of pyrolysis
oil and black liquor, which makes a total
of about 125 tons
of the biofuel dimethyl ether (DME), popularly known as green
diesel.
Not all
of them are going to be run on
diesel; they are running some
of them
of this crude
oil distill that they get from a, literally across the street.
In fact, the country is currently firing all
of its thermal power plants — LNG, coal,
diesel and fuel
oil — said Sauer, who added that it's «quite unusual.»
«With all this
oil exploration,
diesel trucks and new
oil wells, people wondered: Is there a huge amount
of air pollution making the snowpack darker?»
Neste
Oil — the world's largest producer
of renewable
diesel — has launched the commercial production and sales
of renewable naphtha for corporate customers; the company is one
of the first to supply bio-naphtha on a commercial scale.
NExBTL naphtha is produced as part
of the NExBTL renewable
diesel refining process at Neste
Oil's... Read more →