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April 23, 2007
CONCAWE Review – Spring 2007
Volume 16 • Number 1: At the beginning of 2007, the EU Commission launched a series of proposals that will have a profound impact on our industry and on European society in general....
March 13, 2007
Sulphur dioxide emissions from oil refineries and combustion of oil products in Western Europe and Hungary (2002)
Report no. 2/07: This report examines the sulphur balances of European oil refineries and the sulphur contents of oil products based on a CONCAWE survey of 2002 actual data. Comparisons are made with...
January 21, 2007
Oil Refining in the EU in 2015
Report no. 1/07: In the next decade, the EU refining industry will be facing significant changes in demand both in absolute terms and with regard to the relative calls for its main products. Notably,...
December 22, 2006
European downstream oil industry safety performanceStatistical summary of reported incidents – 2005
Report no. 7/06: The twelfth such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes statistics on work-related personal injuries for the European downstream oil industry’s own employees as well as contractors...
November 1, 2006
The Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution— under the microscope
The European Commission adopted its ‘Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution’ (TSAP) in September 2005. This was the culmination of more than three years’ work undertaken in the Clean Air For Euro...
November 1, 2006
Evaluation of health impacts in an environmental cost benefit analysis
In CONCAWE Review Vol. 14 No. 2, Autumn 2004, a general introduction was given to the cost benefit analysis methodology (CBA) in which the net economic cost of certain decisions is evaluated by exp...
November 1, 2006
How can EU refineries cope with future transport fuels demand?
EU fuel demand and call on refineries The petroleum product market is dominated by transport fuels, particularly gasoline and diesel for road transport and jet fuel for aircrafts.
The evolution...
November 1, 2006
Pipeline integrity
In the spring issue of the CONCAWE Review we reported on COPEX 2006, the CONCAWE Oil Pipelines Operators Experience Exchange seminar that took place in Brussels at the end March of this year.
Th...
November 1, 2006
French service station study of ambient benzene levels (2005)
In 2005 a study programme was initiated by a group of French operators of service stations, including oil companies (represented by UFIP), supermarkets and independent retailers, to study levels of...
October 23, 2006
CONCAWE Review – Autumn 2006
Volume 15 • Number 2: In the past two years, a number of European refiners have joined CONCAWE, their principal motivation being to benefit from the work undertaken to prepare for the REACH legislat...
October 21, 2006
Motor vehicle emission regulations and fuel specifications – part 2 historic review (1996 – 2005)
Report no. 6/06: This report details the development of world-wide legalisation and regulations governing motor vehicle emissions, fuel specifications and fuel consupmtion from 1996 to 2005....
October 6, 2006
Motor vehicle emission regulations and fuel specifications: Part 1 – 2004/2005 update
Report no. 5/06: This report summarises changes in worldwide legislation and regulations governing motor vehicle emissions, fuel specifications and fuel consumption. Specifically it details current an...
October 5, 2006
Appendix to Report no. 5/06
Motor vehicle emission regulations and fuel specifications appendix to part 1 2004/2005 update
October 1, 2006
PETROTOX—CONCAWE’s ecotoxicity predictor for petroleum products
CONCAWE has been conducting a voluntary programme assessing the risks to man and the environment of petroleum substances in anticipation of proposed legislation (REACH). The process by which the risk...
August 13, 2006
Analysis of the CAFE cost benefit analysis
Report no. 4/06: This report discusses a few aspects of the Cost Benefits Analysis that was developed within the context of the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) programme of the European Commission.
The...
June 21, 2006
Techno-economic analysis of the impact of the reduction of sulphur content of residual marine fuels in Europe
Report no. 2/06: Annex VI of the IMO's MARPOL convention is coming into force in 2006 for the Baltic Sea and 2007 for the North Sea, imposing a 1.5% m/m sulphur cap on residual marine fuel (RMF) burne...
May 1, 2006
From science to advocacy
The development of Air Quality legislation involves an increasingly sophisticated use of science in a wide range of fields such as health impact assessment, modelling, emission control technologies an...
May 1, 2006
The case for Gothenburg
The UN-ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, which last year celebrated its 25th Anniversary, marked the first international response to the concerns over the impacts of long ra...
May 1, 2006
Groundwater and the groundwater daughter directive
The Groundwater Directive (GWD) is a daughter directive of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and has the potential to significantly affect downstream petroleum operations. It is currently undergo...
May 1, 2006
Reducing the sulphur content of residual marine fuels
The legislative context Residual fuel is a commodity used by sea-going vessels the world over. The quality specifications of residual marine or ‘bunker’ fuels (RMF) result essentially from self re...
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