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US DOE awards KiOR loan guarantee supporting a more than $1B biofuels project; drop-in fuels from wood biomass

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The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. KiOR also has additional projects in various stages of development in Arkansas, Alabama and other southern states. Khosla Ventures incubated the company in 2007 and is the lead investor. KiOR, Inc.,

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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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Earlier, an existing coalbed methane well operated by El Paso Exploration & Production had been converted for CO 2 injection, and four wells drilled to monitor reservoir pressure, gas composition, water quality, and the CO 2 plume. The final phase, the development phase (2007–2018), will conduct large-volume carbon storage tests.

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