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The low-dose benzene debate needs a sharp blade

The health effects of benzene have been a major concern for regulators and health experts for many years. This has led to significantly lower regulatory threshold limits (such as occupational exposure...

Read more 12 Mar 2018

The EU refining industry and the challenge of the IMO global sulphur limit for bunker fuels

As refineries face the prospect of a 0.5% m/m global sulphur limit in marine fuel oil by 2020, a number of studies have been carried out to assess the challenges they will face in meeting the demand f...

Read more 12 Mar 2018

New Concawe web-based water use/effluent quality survey

A new survey aims to address EU initiatives on the sustainable use of water resources. In recent years the development and implementation of EU legislation, including the Water Framework Directive, th...

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Concawe Safety Management Group: strategy review

Improvement in European downstream oil refining industry safety performance is evident over the years since the first Concawe safety report in 1993. However, the Safety Management Group (SMG) recognis...

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Recent studies on real driving emissions of diesel passenger cars

Real driving emissions (RDE) from passenger cars has come under close scrutiny in recent times due to a perceived divergence between stated certification and measured on-road performance. This has bee...

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Concawe Review 26.2

Three of the five articles in this edition of the Review once again illustrate the prescience of the founders of an Association working on the ‘Conservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe’ back...

European cross-country oil pipelines

The Concawe Oil Pipelines Management Group (OPMG) has collected data on the safety and environmental performance of oil pipelines in Europe since 1971. Information on annual throughput and traffic, sp...

Read more 18 Sep 2017

Real-world emissions measurements of a GDI passenger car with and without a gasoline particulate filter

A new study aims to evaluate the effects of a gasoline particulate filter on NOx and PN emissions from GDI passenger vehicles under real driving conditions. Emissions have been the focus of worldwide...

Read more 18 Sep 2017

Validation of a simulation model for the assessment of CO2 emissions of passenger cars under real-world conditions

The gap between real-world fuel consumption and manufacturers’ figures has been increasing since 2001. Could the use of generic simulation models making use of on-road test data provide a more accurate approach to measuring fuel consumption and CO2 emissions?

Read more 18 Sep 2017

Using forest carbon credits to offset emissions in the downstream business

Current policy conditions are not generally conducive to the use of voluntary carbon credits in the refining sector. Could the development of ‘carbon neutral’ petrol and/or diesel fuel using forest carbon credits provide a solution?

Read more 18 Sep 2017

Concawe Review 26.1

Find out the articles of this Concawe Review: Using forest carbon credits to offset emissions in the downstream business. Could forest carbon credits become a viable trading option for the EU ref...

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Concawe Review Special Symposium Edition

The future of the transport system Drive trains and fuels for road transport, Neville Jackson (Ricardo) Challenges for hybridisation and electrification of vehicles as a route to decarbonisati...

Concawe Review 25.2

Contents of this Concawe Review: A review of REACH registration for petroleum substances in 2016. Addressing the tensions that REACH presents for the regulatory compliance industry Cat-App: ca...

Read more 07 Feb 2017

A review of REACH registration for petroleum substances in 2016

Ten years on — addressing the tensions that the REACH regulation has created for the regulatory compliance community....

Read more 07 Feb 2017

Downstream oil industry safety statistics for 2015

The 2015 safety statistics report presents data on personal injures and process safety, highlighting trends over the past 22 years of data collection....

Read more 07 Feb 2017

Optical gas imaging: from qualitative to quantitative

New technology capable of quantifying fugitive emissions using infrared imaging may eventually serve as a full replacement for Method 21....

Read more 07 Feb 2017

Concawe Review 25.1

These are the contents on this Concawe Review: The impact of emission reduction scenarios on air quality limit values. A study of the air quality compliance issues for PM and NO Effect of fuel...

Concawe Review 24.2

Find out the contents of this Concawe Review: Estimating the forward cost of EU legislation for the EU refining industry; Estimating the marginal CO2 footprints of refinery products; Natu...

Downstream oil industry safety statistics for 2013

Safety management systems are widely recognized by the oil industry as an essential tool for collecting and analysing safety incident data and continuously improving the safety of employees and contra...

Abating fugitive VOC emissions more efficiently

This article summarizes the Concawe study, ‘Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions—results of comparative field studies’, that compares the two BAT (best available technique...

Concawe Review 24.1

The articles in this Concawe Review describes on ongoing work by Concawe to further contribute to the safety of everyone working in our industry, to improve the environmental performance in the manufa...

Spark versus compression ignition in a new energy environment

Dieselisation of the fuel market is accelerating as commercial transport increases and as the fuel consumption of new passenger cars decreases. At the same time, the recent US revolution in shale gas...

CONCAWE Review – Year of air 2014 (special issue)

The Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution (2005) has been under review since 2011 with the first of five stakeholder meetings taking place in January 2012. The underpinning work is very complex and rel...

CONCAWE Review – Spring 2014

As the world’s population moves towards 9 billion, societal expectation is that we find solutions to the fundamental problems of meeting increasing energy requirements whilst reducing the impact on...