Abstract
Exxon Mobil Corporation has undertaken
voluntary actions to continuously improve energy
efficiency in our operations for many years.
From 1973 to 1999, we improved the energy
efficiency of our refineries and chemical plants by
over 35 percent - saving the cumulative equivalent of
1.8 billion barrels of oil and reducing carbon dioxide
emissions by over 200 million tonnes.
In 2000, we redoubled our efforts with
deployment of our Global Energy Management
System (GEMS), which utilizes international best
practices and benchmarking to identify energy
efficiencies at each of our refineries and chemical
plants. Thus far, we have identified opportunities to
improve the energy efficiency of these facilities by an
additional 15 to 20 percent.
At full implementation, savings are expected to
total $500 million to $1 billion per year, with an
associated reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of
about 10 million tonnes per year - roughly equivalent
to removing 1.5 million cars from the world's roads.
Eidt, B. D. (2005). Global Energy Management System. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5607.