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MAY 10, 2022

Oil and gas giant Shell has partnered with Penske Truck Leasing to launch a new joint initiative to support light-duty electric vehicle charging at Penske locations. Shell is not the first oil industry giant to venture into EV charging. The companies announced the partnership yesterday at the Advanced Clean Transportation Act Expo.

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JULY 19, 2016

formed in 2011 to produce renewable base oils and lubricants from Amyris’ Biofene—Amyris’s brand of a renewable, long-chain, branched hydrocarbon molecule called farnesene (trans-ß-farnesene). Base oils, currently derived from the crude oil refining process, are the building blocks of lubricating oils. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will award more than $4.4 The grants, funded by a portion of the state’s annual utilities gross receipts tax, are intended to encourage new markets for alternative fuels, fleets and technologies across Pennsylvania. The projects are: Natural Gas. liter 400 HP engine.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: The Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill on Coastal Ecosystems. Rabalais, Ph.D.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Alta Resources, LLC and Blackstone Capital Partners, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group have formed Alta Energy Partners which will invest up to $1 billion to acquire and develop unconventional oil and gas assets in North America. Founded in 1999 by Joseph G.

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JUNE 4, 2015

The town of Titusville, Pennsylvania, considers itself the birthplace of the oil industry. After locals struck crude near the appropriately-named Oil Creek, what is now viewed as the first commercial oil well was dug there. Locals began pumping oil out of the ground in 1859--and the rest, as they say, is history.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. 812,610 to retrofit two collection tank trucks to run on straight vegetable oil and for two storage tanks. Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Ettline Foods Corp. Advance Materials Corp.

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MAY 3, 2021

Selected projects fall under 12 areas of interest, corresponding to the selected US basins that have the potential to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals. DOE Funding: $1,499,817.

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MAY 11, 2016

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Pennsylvania State University as the lead institution to establish the University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

The agreement, which is subject to XTO stockholder approval and regulatory clearance, will enhance ExxonMobil’s position in the development of unconventional natural gas and oil resources. XTO is a US producer engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and development of quality, long-lived oil and natural gas properties in the United States.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

As a leader in US crude oil export ports and a major economic engine of Texas and the nation, Port of Corpus Christi is the largest port in the United States in total revenue tonnage. The company has corporate offices in San Antonio, Houston and Monterrey, Mexico.

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MARCH 14, 2023

In the third quarter of 2022, new ethylene crackers came online in Port Arthur, Texas, and Monaca, Pennsylvania, adding a combined 156,000 b/d of domestic ethane cracking capacity. Ethane prices nearly doubled during the first six months of 2022, from approximately 37 cents/gallon (gal), or $5.65 MMBtu, according to Bloomberg Finance, L.P.

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MAY 1, 2012

about 10 miles southwest of downtown Philadelphia, the Trainer complex has a crude oil processing capacity of 185,000 barrels per day and processes mainly light, low-sulfur crude oil. Trainer received crude oil by tanker from West and North Africa and Canada. Other products include home heating oil and low-sulfur fuel oil.

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OCTOBER 7, 2012

The Utica Shale has a mean of 940 million barrels of unconventional oil resources and a mean of 208 million barrels of unconventional natural gas liquids. The Utica Shale assessment covered areas in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Click to enlarge. Kirschbaum, M.A., Schenk, C.J., Ryder, R.T.,

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Lightweight metals leader Alcoa is expanding its R&D center in Pennsylvania to accelerate the development of advanced 3D-printing materials and processes. The $60-million expansion is under construction at the Alcoa Technical Center near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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JUNE 29, 2016

World Energy is an advanced biofuels supplier based in Boston with more than 200 million gallons (600,000 metric tons) of production capacity in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas and more than 16 million gallons of biofuels storage servicing major markets in North America and beyond. —Alan Rickard, CEO of BIOX.

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APRIL 11, 2018

BP is a global producer of oil and gas with operations in 70 countries. BP also has one of the largest operated renewable energy businesses of any major international oil and gas company. BP estimates that by 2035 the share of renewables could grow to more than 10%—a rate of growth not seen in recent history.

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MAY 21, 2013

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, in partnership with FTS International (FTSI) and Caterpillar Global Petroleum, is using Marcellus Shale natural gas to fracture wells via dual fuel technology. This marks the first time “field” gas has been used in northeastern Pennsylvania for this purpose. Caterpillar Global Petroleum is Caterpillar Inc.’s

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The goal of this program is to develop a working prototype of a formulated oil that reduces engine wear and fuel consumption for the existing ground vehicle fleet. As part of this program, Pixelligent will work with a team of leading tribology experts including: Argonne National Labs; the University of Pennsylvania Dept.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Other taxes (such as applicable sales taxes, gross receipts taxes, oil inspection fees, county and local taxes, underground storage tank fees and other miscellaneous environmental fees) were 10.44 cpg) and Pennsylvania (76.50 The federal tax on gasoline is 18.40 The average state gasoline excise tax is 20.88, down nearly.50

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded Pennsylvania State University a five-year research grant valued at roughly $10 million to develop biomass supply chains for the production of liquid transportation and aviation biofuels in the Northeast.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Hydraulic fracturing is a method used to improve gas and oil production from low permeability formations (shale and tight sand reservoirs). The injection pressure of the fluid creates factures that increase oil and gas flow, while the sand holds the fractures open.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

It appears that this truck began its career in Bristol, Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware River from New Jersey. This oil-change sticker shows that it was still in Pennsylvania in 1993. The lack of rust probably indicates a relocation to the west soon after. The engine is a 1.8-liter

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JANUARY 3, 2012

has received sufficient transportation commitments to support development of its 1,230-mile Appalachia to Texas pipeline (“ATEX Express”) that will deliver growing ethane production from the Marcellus/Utica Shale areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to the US Gulf Coast. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2023

Chemical analysis, including the use of Raman spectrography and X-ray fluorescence , showed that the ink was made from natural graphite, with its characteristic impurities, rather than Franklin’s usual standby, lampblack , which is a carbon-rich black pigment made from burned vegetable oil. This feature, common in today’s U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

The major investors from previous rounds participated, including The Blackstone Group, Khosla Ventures, Total Energy Ventures International (part of Total, one of the world’s major Oil and Gas groups), ATV, Globespan Capital Partners, General Motors, Arancia, and Sumitomo.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Acreage in Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be designated to grow giant miscanthus, a sterile hybrid warm-season grass that can be converted into energy to be used for heat, power, liquid biofuels, and bio-based products.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Pennsylvania, United States Solarflux's prototype unit is a simplified, lower-cost version of a decades-old concept, operating at Pennsylvania State University's campus in Berks County. In a first for commercial Fresnel projects, this installation uses molten salts—not thermal oil—in the pipes.

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JUNE 28, 2012

USDA recently awarded a Value Added Producer Grant to the Ohio Soybean Council to help initiate a pilot project through Ohio State University’s Bioproducts Innovation Center to refine bio-jet fuel from soybean oil produced by farmer-owners of Ohio’s Mercer Landmark cooperative in western Ohio.

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JULY 2, 2012

The refinery, the oldest continuously operating one on the east coast, processes 330,000 barrels of oil per day into various refined products and was scheduled for shut down in August of 2012. Global asset manager The Carlyle Group L.P. and Sunoco, Inc. Earlier post.). This transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Pennsylvania, United States Solarflux's prototype unit is a simplified, lower-cost version of a decades-old concept, operating at Pennsylvania State University's campus in Berks County. In a first for commercial Fresnel projects, this installation uses molten salts—not thermal oil—in the pipes.

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JUNE 13, 2012

This Arkansas BCAP project area is sponsored by MFA Oil Biomass LLC, in Columbia, Mo. MFA Oil Biomass and partner Aloterra Energy LLC, operating in Ohio, will continue to coordinate the crop propagations, planting and mitigation and monitoring plan.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

million customers in Illinois (ComEd) and Pennsylvania (PECO), and gas to 485,000 customers in the Philadelphia area (PECO). Exelon Generation’s fossil generation portfolio consists of a number of intermediate and peaking stations, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Texas.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

with a commercial, 1,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant to be located at its Karns City, Pennsylvania facility. Due to the historically large gap between high oil prices and low gas prices in North America, we’re experiencing very strong interest from potential clients keen to take advantage of this arbitrage opportunity.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Other states are considering adoption of the same low carbon fuel standard as California, including Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. This will provide greater stability in profit margins, according to Clean Energy.

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MAY 30, 2010

Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. 41,400 km 2 ) of sea surface covered by oil slick and 46,000 sq.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A jet-setting career After receiving his bachelor’s degree in power engineering in 1948 from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Hissey joined Leeds and Northrup (L&N) in Philadelphia as an applications engineer. He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace Uncle Ted.” Later he was a principal engineer at Macro Corp.,

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