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CRUDE OIL

Mapping Chinese supply

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Documenting the emissions and net energy of a crude supply could be essential to meeting national emission and energy security targets. Using data from hundreds of fields worldwide, a well-to-refinery study presents a high-granularity profile of China’s crude oil supply in terms of emissions and energy return on input.

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Fig. 1: Observed and projected growth in share of global unconventional production and Chinese oil imports.

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