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Harvey Gulf orders Wärtsilä 746 kWh battery systems for another four LNG-powered supply vessels

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Louisiana-based Harvey Gulf placed this latest order with Wärtsilä in October. © Wärtsilä Corporation. The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its advanced Energy Storage System (ESS) to be retrofitted on four Harvey Energy class LNG-fueled Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs). © Harvey Gulf. .

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Gulf Coast Basin (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas): The University of Texas at Austin plans to quantify coal from mines and coal ash from power plant resources and refuse as feedstocks for rare earth elements and critical minerals within the US Gulf Coast Basin. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,497,376.

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BP to acquire unconventional US onshore assets from BHP for $10.5B; transforming US onshore oil & gas business

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The acquisition will bring BP extensive oil and gas production and resources in the liquids-rich regions of the Permian and Eagle Ford basins in Texas and in the Haynesville gas basin in Texas and Louisiana. 109,000 boe/d from Alaska. billion, subject to customary adjustments. 315,000 boe/d from the US onshore business, c.320,000

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Defense Logistics Agency contracts for 450,000 gallons of drop-in biofuel from Dynamic Fuels and Solazyme for the Navy; largest single government biofuel purchase yet

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and Syntroleum Corporation. The fuel for the Navy will be manufactured at Dynamic Fuel’s Geismar, Louisiana, renewable fuels plant using US-sourced yellow grease (used cooking oil) as well as Solazyme’s tailored algal oil as feedstocks. Solazyme, Inc., The fuel will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in May 2012. Earlier post.)

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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& They’ve been joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming in the suit.& Swelling vehicle prices was another issue.&

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