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CONCAWE Review • Autumn 2009

Volume 18 • Number 2 • Autumn 2009: At the end of May this year, I took over from Alain Heilbrunn as the Secretary General of CONCAWE. As I had hoped and expected, I have inherited an organisation...

Benchmarking of refinery CO2 emissions

The EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) foresees a number of mechanisms for distributing emission allowances amongst market players. In the first and second emission trading periods under...

Best Available Techniques (BAT) for the mineral oil and gas refineries

Industrial sites in Europe are required to have an operating permit issued under the national implementation of the IPPC Directive. The permit conditions require that the emissions to air and to wa...

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Impact of marine fuels quality legislation on EU refineries at the 2020 horizon

Over the years the oil refining system in the EU has developed and adapted to meet the evolving demand, in both qualitative and quantitative terms, while coping with an ever-changing supply of crude o...

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Substance Information Exchange Fora (SIEFs) for petroleum substances

Like all other chemical substances that are manufacture in, or imported into, the European Economic Area (EEA), either as such or in preparations or, under certain circumstances, in articles, petr...

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The footprint of petroleum fuels

There are various circumstances, in particular in the context of life cycle analyses (LCA) where it may be desirable to establish the footprint of fossil fuels in terms of cost, energy or greenhous...

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CONCAWE Review – Spring 2009

Volume 18 • Number 1: When Concawe's director joined CONCAWE in late 2004, he took the helm of an organisation which had already proved its value to the oil industry through more than 40 years of te...

Downstream oil industry safety statistics

The collection and analysis of accident data is an essential element of a modern safety management system, and its importance is recognised throughout the oil industry. CONCAWE has been compilin...

Performance of European cross-country oil pipelines

Since 1971, CONCAWE has been collecting data on spillages from cross-country oil pipelines in Europe. The information is collated in an annual report which includes an analysis of the human and enviro...

Reducing the sulphur content of marine fuels

IMO’s MARPOL Annex VI legislation has so far been based on the concept of SECAs, i.e. it seeks targeted sulphur reductions in those specific areas where emission density is high and sulphur impac...

CONCAWE Review – Autumn 2008

Volume 17 • Number 2: The implementation process of the REACH legislation is fast approaching the registration phase. CONCAWE is working hard with its members to prepare the registration dossiers, a...

Advanced combustion engines for low emissions and high efficiency

Air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles have fallen dramatically over the past two decades as a result of continuing improvements in engine and after treatment technologies to meet lower regulated...

Particle emissions from modern vehicles

Ultra-low sulphur fuels have enabled the introduction of modern engine and after-treatment technologies in order to meet increasingly stringent exhaust emissions limits. Through these improvements,...

Advanced combustion engines for low emissions and high efficiency

European road traffic has increased dramatically over the past several decades and the same growth is now being seen in many other parts of the world. This increased demand has brought new challeng...

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CO2 emissions from EU refineries

The current focus on climate issues and, more specifically, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is generating much debate regarding emission sources and reduction options. Oil refineries are amongst the so...

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Cost-benefit analysis and air quality policy

Air quality policy measures implemented in the past decades have successfully reduced national pollutant emissions in all European countries. Not surprisingly, it now becomes more difficult to identif...

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Cost-benefit analysis for air quality policies

An article published in CONCAWE Review Vol. 15, No. 2, described the methodology for assigning a monetary value to the effects of air pollution on human health. In the present article we briefly re...

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Mandatory collaboration of all registrants under REACH

Under the new REACH Regulation1 all chemical substances will have to be registered with the European Chemical Agency (ECHA). This includes petroleum substances that are manufactured in, or impor...

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The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive

In the Autumn of 2005, during the preparatory work by DG Environment to revise the current Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive, CONCAWE published the results of a small but im...

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CONCAWE Review – Spring 2008

Volume 17 • Number 1: Earlier this year, CONCAWE became aware of a discussion around the status of gasoline under the REACH legislation. This discussion could have led to a momentous change that wou...

The compliance challenge from measuring PM10 concentrations

The First Air Quality Daughter Directive (1999/30/EC) establishes limit values for ambient concentrations of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter (PM10) and lea...

The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register

The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Regulation (E-PRTR) came into force on 24 February 2006, replacing the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) Decision....

The future composition of the EU road fuel pool

The transport sector in general, and particularly road transport, is the focus of much attention at the moment. Demand for mobility keeps increasing, driving up demand for both vehicles and fuels, whi...

CONCAWE Review – Autumn 2007

Volume 16 • Number 2: Environmental issues are, in many ways, at the heart of public concerns today. Quite naturally CONCAWE gets involved in these issues and brings its contribution in a variety of...