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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...
October 1, 2003
Health
CONCAWE has been working on health issues virtually since its inception. In the early years the focus was on occupational health in relation to oil industry workers.
Over the years, and particul...
October 1, 2003
Fuel quality and emissions
CONCAWE first embarked on work on fuels quality in relation to automotive emissions in the late 1970s.Since that time, tremendous progress has been made in reducing emissions from road transport, with...
July 21, 2003
Fuel effects on emissions from modern gasoline vehicles part 1 – sulphur effects
Report no. 5/03: The influence of gasoline quality on exhaust emissions has been evaluated using four modern European gasoline cars with advanced technologies designed to reduce fuel consumption and C...
July 13, 2003
The IPPC directive, refinery BREF and european refineries – a guidance manual
Report no. 4/03: This report has been prepared as a guidance manual for refining environmental and planning personnel who must prepare for the permitting and operational implications of the IPPC regul...
April 23, 2003
CONCAWE Review – Spring 2003
Volume 12 • Number 1: With Europe at the forefront of the ratification of the Kyoto protocol, CO2 and, more generally, greenhouse gases (GHG) are now definitely in the limelight and will be a ce...
April 1, 2003
Establishing Air Quality Limit Values
As part of the Commission’s Clean Air For Europeprogramme (CAFE), the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Centre for Environment and Health has been contracted to update its guidance with...
April 1, 2003
Oil in water analysis
The determination of the oil content of refinery effluent water has long been a subject of studies. CONCAWE first published a report on oil in water analysis in 1972.
Although we all know what â...
April 1, 2003
Modelling the European refining industry
Ten years of modelling experience It is now nearly 10 years since CONCAWE decided to develop a tool to model the European refining industry and evaluate the likely impact of future changes such as leg...
April 1, 2003
Occupational exposures to gasoline vapour
The risk assessment methodology requires data on exposure in order to make comparisons between so-called ‘no-effect-levels’, arising from health effect studies, and exposure cases as they occur...
April 1, 2003
Exposure of asphalt workers to bitumen fumes
Bitumen is a product with a long history of use as construction material in a wide variety of applications, such as road paving. Under normal ambient conditions bitumens are solid and do not presen...
April 1, 2003
EUCAR/JRC/CONCAWE well-to-wheels study
DG TREN’s initiatives on alternative fuels for road transport Following the publication of the Green Paper on the Security of Energy Supply in the autumn of 2001, the EU Commission and in particular...
April 1, 2003
Sulphur-free fuels are on the way
The final version of the revised EU Fuels Directive, 2003/17/EC, was published in March 2003. As expected, sulphur-free gasoline and diesel fuels (10 mg/kg maximum sulphur content), must be availab...
April 1, 2003
Emissions from modern gasoline vehicles
Over recent years, vehicle technologies have developed rapidly with significant improvements in emissions control. Exhaust catalysts were first required on European gasoline cars with the introduction...
February 28, 2003
Regulations to control emissions and fuel implications
Air quality and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are of continuing concern in the European Union. More recently, the EU Commission has raised security of energy supply as a further concern. Major progr...
February 21, 2003
European downstream oil industry safety performance statistical summary of reported incidents – 2001
Report no. 2/03: The eighth such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes own employees as well as contractor data for the year 2001 from 19 companies (representing some 90% of the European refining cap...
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