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Air Products enters long-term agreement with Motiva for additional supply of hydrogen to Convent refinery

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Air Products has entered a long-term agreement with Motiva Enterprises LLC for an additional supply of hydrogen to be used by Motiva’s Convent, Louisiana refinery. Air Products has been supplying hydrogen to Motiva at Convent in part from an on-site steam methane reformer facility since 2006. Earlier post.).

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DOE Turns Down V-Vehicle Loan Applications

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million to re-equip and tool an existing manufacturing facility as VVC’s first regional assembly plant in Monroe, Louisiana. Varasano, a former Oracle Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton executive, founded VVC in 2006. The first loan application was for $79.9 million to complete engineering integration with VVC’s 30 US suppliers.

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Chevron sanctions $4B Big Foot Project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico

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Big Foot will be Chevron’s sixth operated facility in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and located approximately 225 miles (360 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 5,200 feet (1,600 m). First oil is anticipated in 2014.

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EPA researchers suggest US electricity consumers should be willing to pay 2-4x for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to health impacts

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2006) and Pope et al. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the US average retail price of electricity to the end consumer in the US in October 2012 was $0.1192/kWh, ranging from a low of $0.0835/kWh in Louisiana to a high of $0.3742/kWh in Hawaii.). values are given by Laden et al. 2002), respectively.

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EPA Approves On-Road Testing for Hydrous Ethanol Blends

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In June 2008, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative (Act 382) to develop an advanced biofuel industry in the state. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Each ethanol plant is to have a production capacity of five million gallons per year (5 MGY) of fuel-grade ethanol.

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EIA: planned capacity additions to US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve Cushing bottleneck

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With added flows into Cushing from the north and west, and limited pipeline capacity to move crude from Cushing to Gulf Coast refineries, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has traded at a substantial discount to crudes such as Louisiana Light Sweet and Brent.

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European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

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2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. The BP platform accident in Louisiana is only the. EU biodiesel production increased 16.6% in 2009 to 9 million tonnes, compared to the prior year, according to figures from the European Biodiesel Board (EBB). Direct Oil Use Consequences) i.e. among others the.

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