The transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but is also at the forefront of energy transition. ADI has previously written about electrification of transportation and the supporting infrastructure needs and alternative fuels such as hydrogen and bio-based ethanol. U.S. diesel demand in 2019 was 122 million barrels and despite […]
2023 Refining Industry Outlook: A year of recalibration
Going into this past year, 2022 was meant to be the beginning of the end for petroleum refiners, but another spanner was thrown in the works. With most countries coming out of lockdown and entering post-COVID life, the expectations were that a lot of the trial and tribulations of the past two years would leave […]
Modeling oil & gas, chemical, and petrochemical industry greenhouse gas emissions
Oil and gas companies are making decarbonization commitments that include mainly cutting Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions although they are under growing pressure to also cut Scope 3 emissions. To this end, there is growing interest in understanding and benchmarking GHG emissions across the value chain from exploration and production through […]
Greener skies: Part II: A jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel market outlook
We discussed the COVID-impact on aviation, regulatory drivers of decarbonization in aviation, and several commitments and investments made by airlines globally in the previous blog. In this blog, we will discuss how growing supply, techno-economic advancements, and feedstock supply will drive global sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) demand growth. There are several ways to manufacture SAF […]
Much ado about nothing: Expanding ethanol blending in the summer
The Biden Administration temporarily removed restrictions on summer gasoline sales with higher ethanol blends to lower gas prices. Since ethanol from corn is cheaper than crude oil-based gasoline, increasing the blending limits allow gas stations to potentially sell gasoline at lower prices. The measure suggests a potential increase in the demand for ethanol although there […]
Greener skies: Part I: A jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel market outlook
Aviation is one of the hard-to-abate industries when it comes to decarbonization. COVID-induced lockdowns and the recession that closely followed slashed global aviation demand by 42% in 2020 compared to 2019. This also resulted in the lowest CO2 emissions from the aviation industry in over two decades dropping from about a billion tons of CO2 […]
Hydrothermal liquefaction for renewable fuels
Rapid growth in the adoption of alternatives to fossil fuels is driven by the lower lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of alternative fuels. Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), pyrolysis, photocatalysis, and gasification are some of the technologies to produce biofuels at various stages of technology advancement and commercialization today. HTL is one of the more promising technologies […]
Floating light: The potential of hydrogen as a marine fuel
The global shipping industry is one of the hard-to-abate industries when it comes to decarbonization. While it constitutes a small share of global CO2 emissions today, it may see astronomical amount of growth if left unchecked. Global shipping industry demand is expected to see a 275% increase by 2050 compared to 2020 levels. To address […]
2022 Refining Outlook: Cautious optimism in the wake of a challenging transition
Looking back, 2021 was likely more frustrating for petroleum refiners globally than 2020. Refiners had reconciled to the black swan year of 2020 represented by the pandemic, the resulting lockdowns, and fuel demand destruction. However, 2021 was supposed to mark a return to normalcy, and, to a large extent, the world made a lot of […]
Latin America’s growing reliance on U.S. fuel exports: Part V − Focus on Peru
In a series of blogs, ADI has provided a snapshot of the refining industry landscape in major Latin American that rely on imports to meet fuel demand. We have covered Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Ecuador so far. In the last blog of this series, today we will be discussing Peru. This blog series draws on […]
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