Oil Pr Research Articles

Capturing the Effects of Oil Price Uncertainty in Carbon Integration Network Design

Carbon integration is a novel concept that targets the recovery and allocation of industrially emitted CO2 streams into CO2-using sinks, with the goal of attaining a CO2 allocation strategy that meets a desired carbon dioxide emission reduction target and an ultimate aim of minimizing the cost of the network while maximizing any revenue. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is considered one of the most attractive CO2 sink options. CO2 streams that are delivered and injected into EOR sites are great revenue sources for CO2-supplying entities. Since oil pricing heavily affects the revenue generated via CO2 streams injected into EOR sites, this paper studies the effect of oil price fluctuations onto the design of carbon integration networks. Hence, oil pricing has been selected as the main uncertainty parameter and has been fed into a linearized multiperiod carbon integration model using stochastic data. Since oil prices vary periodically, this model has been formulated over several time periods, in which the oil pr...

Canada moves to protect its environment

Ever since we heard it some months ago, the suggestion by Associated Press science editor Alton Blakeslee that man is a virus that is chewing up the earth and its environs and is now reaching out to destroy the moon has haunted us. It's the sort of disquieting thought that twists and turns in your mind like a bad dream. Yet it was a fitting concept to carry into last week's Earth Day. For the more you think about it, the more you come to realize that Mr. Blakeslee has summed up man's present condition with numbing accuracy. In the light of Mr. Blakeslee's remark, the journey of the tanker Manhattan through the ice-clogged Arctic comes off somewhat less nobly than Humble Oil's PR department would have you believe. Visions of a trans-Alaska or Mackenzie River pipeline don't fare much better. In fact, such ideas seem almost sinister. Instead of the epic adventures of other ...