Not exact matches
The last of a cluster of
oil processors that once lined Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, Chevron's Burnaby
refinery is hard - pressed to get its
required supply of crude from Kinder Morgan's 1,200 - kilometre Trans Mountain pipeline out of northern Alberta.
The climate - changing juggernaut snuck back into town in November via a letter from the New York State Thruway Authority to all «involved agencies» (municipalities that lie along the Thruway, which is the chosen route to transport Bakken crude
oil between Albany and the New Jersey
refineries) requesting approval as lead agency in the environmental review
required before construction of the pipeline can be approved.
Understanding how much energy is
required to pump fluid through a pipeline when it is flowing in the transitional state could help industries, such as
oil refineries, minimize energy waste and improve efficiency.
At issue are draft rules that
require annual greenhouse gas reporting from an estimated 13,000 sites, including
refineries, other
oil and gas sites, power plants, and many other types of industrial operations, such as cement and metals production.
These other options involve complex engineering and would
require significant capital investment — something
Refineries clearly don't want to do (and as Jim2 and stevepostrel also don't understand, oil companies don't own many U.S. refineries any more — they got out of that
Refineries clearly don't want to do (and as Jim2 and stevepostrel also don't understand,
oil companies don't own many U.S.
refineries any more — they got out of that
refineries any more — they got out of that business).
A Clean Fuels Standard will
require oil refineries and distributors to ensure that Washington's fuel supply gets cleaner over time, reducing carbon pollution from gasoline and diesel by 10 % over 10 years.
PRELIM can simulate up to ten specific
refinery process configurations, each
requiring a different amount of energy to process a crude and producing a different slate of final products including transportation fuels as well as heavy fuel
oil; hydrogen from the naphtha catalytic reforming proces;,
refinery fuel gas; and the possible production of coke or hydrocracking residue.
Many
oil and gas
refinery accidents are caused by faulty equipment, failure to adhere to the
required state and / or federal safety procedures, the negligence of subcontractors, and other third party negligence.