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 compiling statistical data for the European downstream oil industry for 11...
The ‘Greenhouse gas emissions trading Directive’ (2003/87/EC), due to take effect in 2005, will require oil refineries to obtain permits for emitting CO2 and, more generally, greenhouse gases (GHG). The scheme will be based on allocated or purchased emission permits...
Volume 13, issue no. 2: At the end of this year, Jean Castelein will leave CONCAWE as he reaches his well earned retirement from formal business life. Jean joined CONCAWE in December 2000 and has presided over an important period of activity for the association. The...
Although well researched in the past, there has been little recent work on fuel effects on driveability performance or evaporative emissions from European gasoline vehicles. Recently, the Biofuels Directive has stimulated interest in blending ethanol into...
The future of chemicals control in the EU (under which petroleum substances are regulated) has been under discussion for several years. Following the EU Commission’s White Paper on a Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy (February 2001), the Commission issued its...
