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October 1, 2004
Chemicals control legislation
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...
October 1, 2004
Emissions regulations and fuel specifications
For many years, CONCAWE has produced a regular update to their report on ‘motor vehicle emission regulations and fuel specifications’. Over the years, this has become a key compilation and read...
October 1, 2004
Understanding gasoline volatility and ethanol effects
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 Biofue...
September 21, 2004
Guidance document for application of the EU Commission’s guidelines for monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions
Report no. 10/04: This document was prepared by a CONCAWE ad hoc group to address concerns from a number of member companies with regards to the level of uncertainty implied by the EU Commission’s G...
May 17, 2004
European epidemiology studies of asphalt workers a review of the cohort study and its results
Report no. 8/04: An overview is provided of the first set of results of an epidemiology study programme on asphalt workers in selected European countries. This report contains a brief description of t...
April 23, 2004
CONCAWE Review • Spring 2004
Volume 13, issue no. 1: CONservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe was CONCAWE’s original ‘raison d’être’ and gave the association its name. Water quality issues have been less in focus in...
April 21, 2004
European downstream oil industry safety performance statistical summary of reported incidents – 2002
Report no. 6/04: The ninth such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes statistical work accident data for the downstream oil industry’s own employees as well as contractors for the year 2002.
Dat...
April 20, 2004
Occupational health auditing
Report no. 5/04: This document describes an approach to occupational health auditing, intended to meet the needs of CONCAWE member companies. It includes examples of typical questions and model answer...
April 1, 2004
Whole Effluent Assessment (WEA)
Introduction Refineries handle significant volumes of water, often comparable to the amount of hydrocarbons they process. In common with many industries some of this is discharged as an effluent.
T...
April 1, 2004
Safety
Producing and handling petroleum products that are primarily designed to burn is a fundamentally hazardous pursuit. It is no surprise, therefore, that the oil industry has been at the forefront of...
April 1, 2004
Joint European Well-to-Wheels study
The Well-to-Wheels (WTW) study carried out jointly by EUCAR, JRC/IES and CONCAWE was completed at the end of 2003. The study considered a wide range of primary energy sources, automotive fuels and pow...
April 1, 2004
Advanced vehicles and fuels
The recent update to the EU Fuels Directive specifies a maximum sulphur content of 50 mg/kg in gasolines and diesel fuels from 2005, with ‘appropriately balanced geographic availability’ of sulphu...
March 21, 2004
Gasoline volatility and ethanol effects on hot and cold weather driveability of modern European vehicles
Report no. 3/04: A joint test programme has been carried out by CONCAWE and GFC to evaluate the impact of gasoline volatility and ethanol on the driveability performance of modern European vehicles. E...
February 21, 2004
Fuel effects on emissions from modern gasoline vehicles part 2 – aromatics, olefins and volatility effects
Report no. 2/04: The influence of gasoline quality on exhaust emissions has been evaluated using four modern European gasoline cars with advanced engine technologies/after treatment systems. Part 1 of...
January 17, 2004
Chronic toxicity studies on white oils
Report no. 1/04: This report summarises the results of experimental studies undertaken to investigate the chronic toxicity and carcinogenic potential of two highly refined mineral white oils of medium...
October 23, 2003
Celebrating 40 years of CONCAWE
Volume 12 • Number 2: It is now 40 years since a small group of leading oil companies decided to pool their resources and expertise to deal with the emerging environmental issues associated with oil...
October 1, 2003
Air quality
At the start of CONCAWE’s life in 1963, air quality was seen mainly as a ‘local air’ issue and the bulk of legislation in force was based on the prevention of nuisance. How things have change...
October 1, 2003
Water and waste
Water is an essential resource that has, over the years, come progressively higher on the international agenda because of its intimate relationship with both human health and ecosystem development....
October 1, 2003
Safety
In an industry that deals with inflammable and potentially explosive products, safety considerations have to be paramount. Since the mid 1990s CONCAWE, with the input of its member companies, has b...
October 1, 2003
Oil pipelines
CONCAWE first became involved with oil pipeline safety issues in the mid 1960s when it started collecting information and statistics on incidents and spills related to European cross-country oil pi...
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