Carbon implications of marginal oils from market-derived demand shocks.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 2021
Historique:
received: 21 11 2020
accepted: 18 08 2021
entrez: 4 11 2021
pubmed: 5 11 2021
medline: 5 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Expanded use of novel oil extraction technologies has increased the variability of petroleum resources and diversified the carbon footprint of the global oil supply

Identifiants

pubmed: 34732864
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03932-2
pii: 10.1038/s41586-021-03932-2
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

80-84

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Mohammad S Masnadi (MS)

Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. m.masnadi@pitt.edu.

Giacomo Benini (G)

Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Hassan M El-Houjeiri (HM)

Technology Outlook, Technology Strategy and Planning Department, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Alice Milivinti (A)

Center for Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

James E Anderson (JE)

Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA.

Timothy J Wallington (TJ)

Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA.

Robert De Kleine (R)

Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA.

Valerio Dotti (V)

Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy.

Patrick Jochem (P)

Institute of Networked Energy Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany.

Adam R Brandt (AR)

Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. abrandt@stanford.edu.

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