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JUNE 25, 2013

In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. Expanding the Better Buildings Challenge. The Better Buildings Challenge targets helping American commercial and industrial buildings becoming at least 20% more energy efficient by 2020.

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APRIL 22, 2009

for Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation. The facility will provide hydrogen and steam for Marathon’s heavy oil upgrade project at its Detroit refinery. The facility will provide hydrogen and steam for Marathon’s heavy oil upgrade project at its Detroit refinery.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Archer Daniels Midland Company will build a 265 million liter (70 million gallons US) biodiesel plant in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada, which will increase ADM’s North American biodiesel production capacity by 50%. Since 1 July 2011, all diesel fuel an d heating oil sold in Canada must contain at least 2% biodiesel.

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MAY 31, 2020

The World Energy Investment 2020 report’s assessment of trends so far this year is based on the latest available investment data and announcements by governments and companies as of mid-May, tracking of progress on individual projects, interviews with leading industry figures and investors, and the most recent analysis from across the IEA.

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JULY 31, 2017

a synthetic biology company producing bio-based chemicals, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its VerdePalm plant, Verdezyne’s first commercial-scale renewable chemicals manufacturing facility, in southern Malaysia. Importantly, the starting yeast will be made from the spent biomass that results from palm oil processing.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Waterfront Shipping Company Ltd. MOL), Westfal-Larsen & Co A/S (WL) and Marinvest/Skagerack Invest to build six new ships, with an option for building an additional three, all to be delivered during 2016. has reached an agreement with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. The Interlake Steamship Company is expected to be the first marine customer in this region, as it begins the conversion of its vessels.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Air Products’ joint venture company based in Sichuan, China has signed a long-term agreement to build a hydrogen production facility for PetroChina Company Limited, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. Phil Sproger, vice president-Business Development for Asia at Air Products.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

INFRA Technology group has developed and patented a proprietary Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology (INFRA.xtl), based on the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process, for the production of light synthetic oil—which is close to a product, characterized by Shultz-Flory alpha of 0.77—and

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JULY 19, 2018

Building on its years of experience and expertise in engine and powertrain applications, leading adhesives provider Henkel is actively investing in new technologies and products for efficient large-scale manufacturing of safe and reliable electric drive systems. In addition, it shows outstanding oil resistance.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

Citing “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union,” Amazon and iRobot have announced the termination of an acquisition deal first announced in August of 2022 that would have made iRobot a part of Amazon and valued the robotics company at US $1.4 Building robots means knowing failure. So, that’s not great.

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MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. Several companies are developing hydrogen high pressure injectors, including Bosch and Westport Fuel Systems. Achates Power is backed by the Oil and Gas Climate Investments and other investors.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

By 2030, hydrogen could play an important role in decarbonizing polluting, energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, oil refineries, power and heavy transport such as shipping, heavy-duty trucks and trains, by helping these sectors move away from fossil fuels. This comes as the Transport Secretary unveils the winners of a £2.5-million

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Air Products has signed a long-term agreement with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited ( BPCL ) and will build, own, and operate several new industrial gas production facilities in Kochi, Kerala, India. The company reported $41 billion in annual sales and total assets of $7.4 billion on their 2012 financial statements.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

SK innovation, one of the world’s leading energy and petrochemical companies, and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, are working together to develop a new process technology for the production of 1,3 butadiene, a platform chemical used in many high growth industries globally.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

General Motors will build a Chevrolet Impala sedan for retail and fleet customers that operates on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson announced today. Akerson said the bi-fuel Impala is an example of using affordable technology to reduce oil consumption and save consumers money at the pump.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

According to the terms of an incentive agreement with the state, the company at a minimum would spend $12.5 In addition, the company would qualify for Louisiana’s new Competitive Projects Payroll Incentive (12% payroll rebate for each GTL job), as well as the Industrial Tax Exemption Program.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Why would your Creative Greenius walk away from his high-paying, highly rewarding executive role at CBS EcoMedia where I was working to fund environmental, education, and wellness projects all across the USA, just as the company hit more growth milestones and was likely to pay generous bonuses? ” What a no-brainer.

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JUNE 16, 2012

The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016. for example, the company uses a new “three-wet” paint application that reduces electricity use along with CO2 and Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Startup US Fuel Corporation (USF), which plans to design, build, own and operate scalable facilities near coal mine sites to convert coal into synthetic fuels, will acquire coal-to-diesel intellectual property (IP) that USF co-developed with an executive team consisting of Paul Adams and Steve Luck.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Air Products has been awarded a contract with India’s University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) to build the country’s first solar-powered renewable hydrogen fueling station. Use of the company’s fueling technology is increasing and is above 500,000 hydrogen fills per year.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

a renewable oils and bioproducts company, has begun a collaboration with Qantas to pursue the potential for commercial production of Solazyme’s microbial-derived aviation fuel, Solajet, in Australia. Developing cleaner jet fuels is vitally important for the global aviation industry and for the Qantas Group. Solazyme, Inc.,

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Bangalore based charging infrastructure provider Sun Mobility and the world’s largest biggest independent oil trader has announced an investment of USD 50 million in Sun Mobility to provide electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Vitol invests USD 50 mn in Sun Mobility to develop EV infra .

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Teslarati

AUGUST 7, 2021

For years, Indian citizens have pleaded with Tesla CEO Elon Musk about the possibility of the electric automaker building and delivering cars in the country. While local manufacturing is something Americans take a lot of pride in, especially with cars, there are undoubtedly advantages to building things domestically.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. That’s right—eight years. —President Obama.

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JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. Chesapeake is also taking a 50% stake in that company.

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

We encourage companies to think ahead and consider switching to more environmentally friendly solutions for the long run. Callidus flares are used in hydrocarbon and petrochemical processing, oil and gas production and the steel and carbon black industries.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Harper's Magazine has a profile of an oil fixer, the sort of middleman without whom we don't get our daily dose. It's not a pretty picture, but it's how the oil business works. While he continues to be an operator in oil, he sees an new opportunity to make money on his connections to potentates and oil executives. "One

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APRIL 3, 2017

The next generation of cars will be cleaner and greener than ever—but a lot of the manufacturing processes that go into them are still pretty dirty. Machining: Machining often requires lubricants, which create fine oil mists that can be invisible to the eye. So what is a company to do? by Craig Widtfeldt, RoboVent.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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JULY 12, 2013

We can really see the momentum towards dual-fuel operation building now. The ME-GI engine we introduced—and immediately received orders for—in late-2012 confirmed the growing demand to have the option to run ships on LNG as well as HFO [heavy fuel oil] in the face of increasing fuel prices. Waterfront Shipping.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

As part of the collaboration, Clean Energy Fuels will initially purchase two MicroLNG plants from GE Oil & Gas. Clean Energy plans to use a standardized design of the new GE MicroLNG plants to build additional MicroLNG plants. The two companies are currently assessing the best locations for these first two LNG plants.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative builds on the first-ever US-China Electric Vehicle Forum in September 2009. The two leaders emphasized their countries’ strong shared interest in accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles in order to reduce oil dependence, cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote economic growth.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

This should allow us to change the way we build, operate and maintain our equipment; manufacture cleaner and more efficient products; develop imaginative energy sources and then store that energy for when it is needed most; and increase the use of lighter metals and composites for structures and products.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The fuel was supplied by SkyNRG, an aviation biofuels broker, and made by Dynamic Fuels, a producer of next-generation renewable, synthetic fuels made from used cooking oil. To the biofuels industry, we say: If you build it, we will buy it. and Syntroleum Corp. Commercial airplanes are equipped and ready for biofuels.

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