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MAY 9, 2012

has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas and elsewhere to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a process it originally developed for algae harvesting. Three stages of oil recovery and water cleanup using OriginOil Technology.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Occidental announced that a wholly owned subsidiary— 1PointFive —has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity of Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) 1PointFive is building Stratos, the world’s largest DAC plant, which is expected to be commercially operational in mid-2025, in Ector County, Texas.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Ensyn is the first company to generate cellulosic RINs under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s expanded definition of Heating Oil under RFS2, which became effective in December 2013. Expanded definition. This additional category does not include fuel oils used to generate process heat, power, or other functions.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) have extended their Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of pyrolysis oil upgrading with the aim to produce second generation biofuels, announced in June 2010 ( earlier post ) to July 2011. The process is patent pending.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

Canada-based Osum Oil Sands Corp. has entered into definitive agreements with a group of investors to issue, on a private placement basis, $500 million in equity securities. Osum’s Taiga project in the prolific Cold Lake region continues to advance towards commercialization.

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DECEMBER 27, 2014

Petrobras has received authorization from Brazil’s National Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) to initiate the early production system of well 2-ANP-1RJS, located in Búzios field (formerly known as the Franco area), in the Santos Basin pre-salt. Petrobras submitted its declaration of commerciality for the field in December 2013.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

Longyear LLC, signed a non-binding letter of intent to support the construction of a commercial-scale wood-based cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Kinross; at the time, construction was projected to begin this year. In January, Valero invested in Mascoma ( earlier post ). billion gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Neste Oil is continuing its research into the potential for using algae oil as a feedstock for producing NExBTL renewable diesel by taking part in two research projects starting this summer to test various methods for growing algae in outdoor conditions. —Markku Patajoki, the Head of Neste Oil’s Biotechnology Group.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Canada-based Dynamotive and Genting Bio-Oil Sdn Bhd (GBO) of Malaysia have extended their August 2011 memorandum of understanding (MOU) through December 2012. In August 2011, the MOU was developed to explore the cooperation for the development of pyrolysis oil market in the South East Asia Region for a period of six months.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Subject to the entering into of definitive agreements with Forge, BIOX would operate and manage production at the facility. Renewable diesel and biodiesel are both produced from fats and oils. BIOX’s biodiesel meets North American (ASTM D-6751) quality standards.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

The project aims to demonstrate that co-production of high volume commodity fuels and low volume, high value co-products enables profitable biorefineries at commercial scale. million Phase 1 DOE award was made under the program “Project Definition for Pilot- and Demonstration-Scale Manufacturing of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biopower”.

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MARCH 21, 2011

The joint venture would market and sell lubricants employing Amyris’s synthetic renewable base oils derived from Biofene. The parties aim to sign definitive agreements in the second quarter of this year. Under the planned arrangement, Amyris would become the majority economic beneficiary of the joint venture.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Amyris also announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with Cosan to expand their joint venture, Novvi, to include renewable additives and finished lubricants for industrial, commercial and automotive uses in addition to the joint venture's original scope of renewable, base oils for such markets. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 4, 2013

United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. AltAir has partnered with an existing oil refiner for the operation of its first commercial facility. —AltAir CEO Tom Todaro.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems is developing the MaK M 46 DF, a new marine dual fuel engine platform for the commercial marine industry. —Detlef Kirste, MaK product definition manager. The engine is currently being tested at Caterpillar’s medium-speed engine facility in Rostock, Germany.

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JULY 10, 2012

Part of DOE’s “Clean Coal Power Initiative” (CCPI), the new polygeneration plant will incorporate CCS as well as utilize CO 2 for enhanced oil recovery. million tons per year of CO 2 will be transported via pipeline to Occidental Petroleum’s Elk Hills Oil Field, located less than 4 miles away. Approximately 2.6

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

These include differences in processing configuration, technologies used in the production facility, key parameters such as algal biomass productivity and oil content, the system boundary definition, the co-products that are produced, the methodology used to value co-products, and the end-product (i.e.,

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Butamax’s technology package will include the installation of novel corn oil separation technology. Installation of the patent-protected Butamax separation system has already commenced with commercial production expected this winter. This is an important milestone for Butamax and its partners. Today, our vision is becoming reality.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Kior said that if it is unsuccessful in finalizing definitive documentation with Khosla on or before 1 April 2014—i.e., The biomass-to-cellulosic fuel technology platform combines KiOR’s proprietary catalyst systems with FCC processes that have been used in crude oil refineries to produce gasoline for more than 60 years.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

A number of engineering, technical, regulatory, fiscal, commercial and permitting issues still need to be resolved as work on the potential $45-65+ billion project progresses. Pipeline routing definition work also continues based on the project summer field work activities, which will be extended south of Livengood.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects—entitled, “Project Definition for Pilot- and Demonstration-Scale Manufacturing of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biopower”—-for up to $12.9 This project will convert residual sludge and solids into biocrude oil, biogas, and fertilizer. million in federal funding.

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JUNE 16, 2011

The collaboration will focus on the development and worldwide commercialization of a family of surfactants derived from Amyris Biofene for use in a range of products, including consumer packaged goods, personal care products and industrial applications. Amyris, Inc., Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 25, 2016

In the civilian environment, fuel cell-powered unmanned vehicles can be used in a range of surveying and monitoring applications, including power transmission lines, railroad facilities, mining operations, oil and gas pipelines and platforms along with other critical infrastructure.

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JUNE 10, 2010

have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to form a new partnership that will serve as a platform to test, develop and market BioOil (Dynamotive’s fast-pyrolysis oil) for application in stationary and marine slow- and/or medium-speed diesels globally. (MES), and Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 8, 2024

Also, a richer product mix and pricing actions in the commercial vehicle segment aid revenue growth. The remaining comes from the commercial vehicle business — around 18% and the India passenger vehicle business — 12%. The automaker revved past the turnover milestone as it managed to sell around 1.4

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JANUARY 20, 2011

In anticipation of targeted initial commercial production of isobutanol in the first half of 2012, it has entered into a number of letters of intent and is negotiating the final terms of several definitive agreements with future customers and partners in the chemicals and fuels markets, including: Lanxess Inc.,

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

Previous studies have attempted to explain the slow commercialization of cellulosic and algal biofuels qualitatively, however few have presented financial analysis across the sector, the authors observe. Over the last decade, the second-generation biofuels industry has struggled to reach commercialization. —Miller et al.

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JULY 7, 2014

The MHDV markets’ enormous dependency on oil and the implications of this on domestic energy security and climate change have pushed national and regional governments to examine policies and programs that will speed adoption of various fuel efficiency and alternative fuel technologies through infrastructure development and economic incentives.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Approximately 90% of the CO 2 produced from the gasification process, or about 2 million tons per year, will be transported via pipeline to the Elk Hills oilfield, less than four miles away, and sequestered in an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) application. The estimated capital cost for the project is approximately $2.3

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JANUARY 20, 2010

The project is 138 kilometers due east of SQM’s Salar de Atacama, the largest and highest operating margin lithium production in the world, and 210 kilometers north of FMC’s Hombre Muerto production, the second highest operating margin commercial production in the world. This is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2010.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

The RAD Lab is a collective for art making, commercialization, education, outreach, and research at the intersection of dance and robotics. And I was like, “It could definitely dance. That definitely could do a lot of dancing.” And I was like, “We could definitely do a dance with all of the robots. Definitely.

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The reason is that the 40,000-litre fuel tank at his petrol pump has been empty as the fuel tankers from the oil depot supply point have not been able to refuel it in the past two days. “Else, transporters would have definitely opposed it earlier,” he remarked.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That report, authored by group co-chairs, Agriculture and Energy Secretaries Vilsack and Chu, and EPA Administrator Jackson, lays out a strategy to advance the development and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels targets.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Dresser-Rand believes that the patented VX Cycle is the first technology to provide a cost-effective small-scale LNG production process with capacities as low as 1,500 gallons per day—smaller than any other LNG production system commercially available today. Source: Expansion Energy. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 13, 2023

Together, the proposals would reduce oil imports by approximately 20 billion barrels. The medium-duty vehicle standards continue to be based on a work-factor metric designed for commercially-oriented vehicles, which reflects a combination of payload, towing and 4-wheel drive equipment.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

the developer of technology for efficient and non-destructive ( earlier post ) extraction of oil from algae, led a consortium in a recently submitted application for a grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 targeting the beneficial use of CO 2. OriginOil, Inc.,

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JULY 7, 2023

The objective is to enter into a definitive rare earth supply agreement to support Stellantis’ commitment to build resilient supply chains and reach carbon net zero by 2038 and to help accelerate NioCorp’s path to commercial production of magnetic rare earth oxides in the US. Stellantis N.V. and NioCorp Developments Ltd.

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