STUFF

Toyota dropping plans for widespread EV sales.

Fed officials discovered Chevron piped HC gases around monitoring equipment at San Fran refinery for 4 years. Criminal investigation underway.

Shenzhen 1 of 5 Chinese cities and 2 provinces selected to launch pilot emissions trading programs next year. Intended to apply to ~800 facilities across 26 econ sectors.

Senate passed bill to bar US airlines from cooperation with EU carbon market. Also released bill sweetening inventives to capture CO2 from smokestacks as long as it's used to produce oil.

Mecca planning first clean E project. Jan selection from bidders for 385Gwh/y, including 100Mw of solar capacity. City will own power plants. Kingdom now has ~3Mw of solar capacity.

1Mw solar array on top of Orlando convention center. Largest rooftop array in SE. Solar World panels installed by Solar Source. Offsets ~10% of building's el use. El bills $1M/mo. In FL, arrays need to withstand wind speeds of 150mph. System cost $8.8M in '08. Today's price < 1/2 of that. Center going to add 400Kw more.

DOE wants to dispose of U-233 stocks.

Eni (Italy) $125M project to convert Venice refinery into biorefinery to produce biodiesel using their own patented tech developed with Honeywell. 2Q13 launch, completion end of '13. Feedstocks from non-edible natural oils, animal fats. Fuel has improved performance over soy biodiesel or petrol-based. Jetfuel option. Also announced significant NG discovery in Pakistan. Est 300-400BCF reserves.

Arcata Cal approved plan for biodiesel plant.

USDA developed near-IR reflectance spectroscopy system able to test oil seeds to reduce inefficiencies in biodiesel processing that stem from variable oil content in seeds.

Brazil to double planned investment to $998M through '14 in biofuels, biochems.

Euro utilities set to open 6x as many coal power plants than NG by '15. Just great.

China wind power capacity could reach 300Gw by '20. This year to install 15Gw.

GOM oil flows to increase ~28% by '22 to 1.8Mb/d.

ND NG production in July 718MCF/d, new record.

GE, Petrobras signed ~ $1.1B subsea wellhead production contract.

5 LNG projects to be developed on Canada west coast could be in service from '14 to '19.

Power Grid Corp of India may exceed $18B spending plan to upgrade network.

Iraq's Kurd region to increase '13 exports to 250Kb/d.