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NSF awards $2M to Rice U collaboration to explore direct conversion of CO2 into fuels

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The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

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The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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Waste Management piloting Rotopress collection trailers in North America; natural gas tractors

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In a pilot program, Waste Management, Inc. is introducing Rotopress waste collection trailers for the first time in North America. The entire waste load is continuously mixed and compacted during and following collection. This combined with the use of natural gas engines will greatly reduce noise levels. Milwaukee, Wis.

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bp acquiring US RNG producer Archaea in $4.1B deal

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Bioenergy is one of five strategic transition growth engines that bp intends to grow rapidly through this decade. It will accelerate our key bioenergy growth engine, creating a real leader in the biogas sector, and support our net zero ambition. billion in cash, as well as around $800 million of net debt.

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Neste to establish JV with Marathon Petroleum for production of renewable fuels in California

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As announced in Neste’s Financial Statement Release 2021, the project for a possible next worldscale renewables refinery in Rotterdam is in the engineering phase and we are approaching readiness for a final investment decision during the next months. —Peter Vanacker, Neste’s President and CEO.

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Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

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Javelina controls approximately sixty million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of hydrogen production through a combination of hydrogen entrained in the refineries’ waste gas that the facility processes, and hydrogen produced through a steam methane reformer process.

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SG Preston and IHI E&C partner on portfolio of renewable diesel and jet plants; 5 initial sites, 600M gallons total capacity

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SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada.

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