FEEM Workshop on Oil and Commodity Price Dynamics

 

On June 5 and 6, 2014, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei is organizing at its headquarters in Milan the 2014 International Workshop on "Oil and Commodity Price Dynamics". The ambition of the workshop is to provide participants with updated and high-quality perspectives on a number of issues which are crucial to understand the complexity and the evolution of the international oil markets, the dynamics of the price of oil, the financialization and the interconnections of oil, energy and non-energy commodity derivatives markets.

Waste Plastic Depolymerisation Plant

 

The plastics and rubber or tires are polymers and are long chain hydrocarbons.
Plastics are manufactured from petroleum products.
These can be recycled 2 to 3 times and lastly they are thrown and used in filling grounds.
We have developed the low temperature plastic / rubber depolymerisation process.
This process is used for almost all types of polymer waste except PVC and PET.
Depolymerisation converts waste materials into following products:
Synthetic oil (similar to light diesel oil)
Hydrocarbon gas which is used to heat the depolymerisation reactor
Charcoal
The metals and glass materials are recovered from the waste before feeding to the reactor.
Synthetic oil can be further purified to obtain petrol (gasoline), Naphtha, Jet fuel, diesel and heavy oil.
Diesel can be used to generate electricity.

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Game Changer: Unconventional Gas and Oil and the Energy Landscape

 

A panel of national experts—Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist of Environmental Defense Fund; Nancy Pfund, Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Investors; Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine; Tupper Hull, Vice President of Strategic Communications for Western States Petroleum Association - engage in a discussion about unconventional oil and gas, including its potential impact on the economy and environment, and its overall influence on the energy landscape of the future. Recorded on 03/06/2014. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center"

Tom Farrell: Future of Energy Development in the U.S.

 

Featuring Tom Farrell, President & CEO, Dominion Resources.

Tom Farrell speaks about the future of energy development in the U.S. He addresses the risks associated with fracking for natural gas such as groundwater contamination, earthquakes, and leakage, but says it will also lead to 725,000 direct jobs and more than 1 million indirect jobs in the U.S. Farrell also discusses the heavily-fracked Marcellus Shale Region, saying that if it were a country, it would rank eighth in the world for natural gas production.

Offshore Installations and Drilling Rigs in Norway

 

Deep water = Outer space ?

Waltersmith Petroman Oil outlines its Nigeria-centric strategy

 

Abdulrazaq Isa, founder and chief executive of Waltersmith Petroman Oil, says the Nigerian oil and gas producer's strategy is focused on delivering oil solely to the 170 million people of Nigeria.

By not exporting production Isa says this strategy is aligned with government policy aimed at adding value to the overall growth and expansion of the country's middle class.

The company forecasts that with a combination of its own and foreign capital one billion dollars of oil revenue will be generated over the next five years.

HSE in Oil and Gas 2014: Steven Wright, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating...

 

Chris Mawer of Karachaganak Petroleum speaking at the 4th International HSE in Oil & Gas in Russia & CIS Conference in Moscow, Russia.

The HSE in Oil and Gas: Russia and CIS Conference is a platform for discussing and solving issues on streamlining regulation, environmental protection, emergency preparedness, staff training, compliance with international standards and asset integrity management

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Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 500 Companies Over $1 Billion

Renewable energy is dismissed by some as being only for ‘greenies’ or as some kind of fringe technology, but a recent report has shown mainstream Fortune 500 companies are using it to save hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Collectively, they are saving about $1.1 billion dollars, according to the report put out by Ceres, David Gardiner & Associates, Calvert Investments, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Some of the companies and their annual savings mentioned are:

 UPS ($200 million)

Cisco Systems ($151 million)

PepsiCo ($120 million)

United Continental ($104 million)

General Motors ($73 million).

AT&T has installed 11 MW of renewable energy (as of 2013). Hewlett-Packard purchased 13% of their electricity from renewable sources in 2012. IBM has saved about $477 million from its efforts to conserve energy. Both Wal-Mart and Dell could save about one billion each through similar efforts.

Read more: http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/30/renewable-energy-saves-fortune-500-companies-1-billion/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

U.S. oil tankers built on spec face choppy waters as export ban eases

NEW YORK - U.S. ship builders are making a $500 million (292 million pounds) bet on robust domestic demand for crude oil from newly-tapped shale fields by building new tankers without having lined up customers to lease them.

Philly Tankers AS, majority-owned by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard is building four ships on spec, and Seabulk Tankers Inc, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings Inc, is building another two. The 330,000-barrel ships, which cost about $125 million each, conform to the 1920 Jones Act, which requires ships moving between U.S. ports to be U.S.-built, -crewed and -flagged, making them about three times more costly to build and operate than a comparable foreign-flagged ship.


Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-oil-tankers-built-spec-051707536.html