据钻机地带8月26日彭博社报道，埃克森美孚(Exxon Mobil Corp.)旗下帝国石油有限公司(Imperial Oil Ltd.)将在加拿大的一个新设施生产可再生柴油，这是一系列宣布计划生产低排放生物燃料的炼油企业中的最新一家。
埃克森美孚周三在一份声明中表示，该项目预计将于2024年启动，每天生产约2万桶可再生柴油，将使加拿大运输部门的排放量每年减少约300万吨。
随着对全球变暖影响的日益警觉促使公司和政府加大力度遏制温室气体排放，Imperial Oil与菲利普斯 66 和瓦莱罗能源公司（Valero Energy Corp.）等主要原油精炼商一道提高了生物燃料的产量。据联合国本月的一份报告警告称，如果不立即采取行动控制碳排放，将会出现更多灾难性的天气变化。
埃克森美孚燃料和润滑油公司总裁伊恩·卡尔在声明中表示，加拿大提出的低碳燃料政策鼓励开发低排放燃料，为包括交通在内的经济中难以脱碳的部门做出有意义的贡献。
位于艾伯塔省埃德蒙顿附近的Strathcona炼油厂的新综合设施将使用当地种植的植物原料和氢，并将碳捕获和存储作为制造过程的一部分。随着越来越多的化石燃料炼厂宣布计划进入市场，大豆油价格今年已上涨逾40%。大豆油通常用于生产可再生燃料。
郝芬 译自 钻机地带
原文如下：
Exxon Unit Joins List of Refiners Making Biofuels
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Imperial Oil Ltd. will produce renewable diesel at a new facility in Canada, the latest in a string of refiners announcing plans to make lower-emissions biofuels.
The project is expected to produce about 20,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel when it starts in 2024, which could reduce emissions in the Canadian transportation sector by about 3 million metric tons per year, Exxon said in a statement Wednesday.
Imperial joins major crude-oil refiners such as Phillips 66 and Valero Energy Corp. in boosting output of biofuels as increasing alarm over the impact of global warming spurs companies and governments to step up efforts to curb greenhouse gases. A United Nations report this month warned of more catastrophic weather shifts without immediate action to rein in carbon emissions.
“Canada’s proposed low-carbon fuel policies incentivize the development of lower-emission fuels that can make meaningful contributions to the hard-to-decarbonize sectors of the economy, including transportation,” Ian Carr, president of ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants Co., said in the statement.
The new complex at the Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, will use locally grown plant-based feedstock and hydrogen with carbon capture and storage as part of the manufacturing process. Prices for soybean oil, often used to make renewable fuels, are up more than 40% this year as more fossil-fuel refiners announce plans to enter the market.
