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UrbanX Group signs FEED contract with Hyundai Engineering for renewable diesel facility in Bakersfield

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The company will produce its XRD renewable diesel from vegetable oil, fats and waste cooking oils through a proprietary process. UrbanX holds a license for Chevron Lummus Global’s patented ISOCONVERSION process which produces the cleaner fuel from waste feedstock, in a joint development with Applied Research Associates.

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Chevron announces $32.7B capital and exploratory budget for 2012; LNG and deepwater investments propel a step change

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Chevron Corporation announced a $32.7 Included in the 2012 program are $3 billion of planned expenditures by affiliates, which do not require cash outlays by Chevron. By 2017, we expect our net crude oil and natural gas production to grow about 20 percent to 3.3 billion capital and exploratory spending program for 2012.

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GE Oil Gas Awarded $400+M Contract for Gorgon Natural Gas Projects; GE Turbomachinery to Drive LNG Production and World’s Largest CO2 Injection Project

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Artist’s rendering of a GE Frame-7 gas turbine, similar to the units that GE Oil & Gas is supplying for the Gorgon project. billion barrels of oil (boe). In addition to natural gas supply for domestic Australian use, Gorgon is slated to contribute to meeting Asia’s growing need for cleaner energy. Click to enlarge.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

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But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Like the issue of oil drilling in Hermosa Beach. The classic slogan that Stop Hermosa Beach Oil movement has created, Keep Hermosa Hermosa” couldn’t be more right-on, because over the years Hermosa has been kept Hermosa.

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Flight and static engine tests of ReadiJet 100% renewable biojet show significant reduction in emissions, slight improvement in fuel consumption

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Results from the world’s first civil flight powered by 100% biofuel that met petroleum fuel specifications without blending released by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) show that the biofuel used in the flight last October is cleaner than and as efficient as conventional aviation fuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

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The feasibility study will consider two options: a 2 million tons per year (roughly 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day) facility and a 4 million tons per year (roughly 80,000 boepd) facility. Sasol continues to advance upstream oil and gas activities in Mozambique, Nigeria, Gabon, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Canada and South Africa.

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University of Texas at Austin study measuring methane emissions released from natural gas production

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With a goal of obtaining scientifically rigorous, representative data from multiple producing basins, the study brings together Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the university and nine of the nation’s leading natural gas producers: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BG Group plc, Chevron, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.,

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