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plans to invest more than $1 billion to install a new delayed coker unit at its Antwerp refinery to convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oils into transportation fuels products such as marine gasoil and diesel fuel. The investment addresses an industry shortfall in capability to convert fuel oil to products such as diesel.

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MAY 19, 2023

The company leverages its advanced pretreatment technology to deliver clean, high-quality RD and SAF feedstocks, which enable partners to produce premium renewable fuels. The purity of the feed reduces the revamp cost of converting existing conventional refining units to process renewable feedstock, while also lowering carbon intensity.

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JULY 9, 2012

the developer of a cost-effective catalytic decarboxylation (CDC) process for making jet fuel, diesel and high-octane gasoline from renewable plant oils or animal fats ( earlier post ), has joined the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA) and is beginning its commercial scale-up program. AliphaJet can use vegetable oil or animal fat.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

to build a small-scale gas-to-liquid demonstration facility in Houston. The purpose of the GTL Pilot Plant is to commercially demonstrate converting stranded natural gas resources to synthetic crude oil. The company is switching its focus to GTL. BFLS originally intended to develop biofuel-fired power projects.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation. OriginOil, Inc.,

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MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies , with support from the United Soybean Board (USB), recently received American Petroleum Institute (API) certification on two motor oil formulations (5W-20 and 5W-30) that contain a synthetic ester made from high oleic soybean oil. Petroleum synthetic oils typically score between 6.0

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Neste Oil celebrated the official opening of Europe’s first pilot plant for producing microbial oil from waste and residues at its site in Porvoo, Finland. —Lars Peter Lindfors, Neste Oil’s Senior Vice President, Technology. Neste Oil announced in December 2011 that it was going to invest €8 million (US$10.4

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. Bolin, Chairman, Eagle Oil & Gas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has landed its third technology license for its methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd. China’s Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals Co. China’s Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Bloom Energy is the world’s leading provider of stationary fuel cells and SHI is one of the world’s largest shipbuilding companies. The two companies have already taken an important first step towards commercializing the maritime use of fuel cells for propulsion and auxiliary power.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that China’s Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co. has licensed Honeywell’s UOP methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. In 2011, Honeywell’s UOP announced a similar project with China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd.,

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Pyrolysis then commences and the plastic becomes a vapor.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Gevo recently developed a chemical-based catalytic process to convert low-value “fusel oils”—a mixture of alcohols that are byproducts from fermentation processes such as ethanol production—into renewable isoprene. Fusel oils from the ethanol industry alone equate to about 2.5

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AUGUST 3, 2022

This will be the first HEV engine for the company in the region. liter I-4 engine will build out in the first quarter of 2023. More than $14 million will be invested to convert existing die cast machines and cells for the new engine. Etobicoke Casting will produce the oil pan for the new engine. The Tigershark 2.4-liter

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From 2022, new homes and buildings, such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well as buildings undergoing major renovations, will be required to install electric power under new legislation announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 22 November Car charging pile. Other buildings will also start installing charging piles.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Honeywell announced a new ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Ethanol offers producers a widely available, economically viable feedstock.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

one of the world leaders in algae-based “Green Crude” oil production, and Phillips 66, an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, have entered a strategic joint development agreement aimed at taking production of algae crude oil a significant step toward commercialization. San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

PT Pertamina (Persero)—the national oil company of Indonesia—will use Honeywell UOP technologies to produce advanced biofuels at its Plaju and Cilacap refineries in Indonesia. UOP also will revamp the existing refinery at Cilacap to process 6,000 barrels per day of vegetable oils and fats to produce advanced biofuels.

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JUNE 23, 2022

He also continued his calls for the oil industry to increase refinery capacity to increase production. Crude oil is always the top contributor to the prices US drivers see at the pump. including refineries in Canada, are being similarly converted. Hence, the importance of increasing crude oil production.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

The front end of this innovative pilot-scale system makes use of fast pyrolysis—the rapid heating of biomass to 400–600 °C in the absence of oxygen followed by cooling the resulting vapors into a liquid bio-oil—-an efficient method for converting all fractions of biomass (about 70% of the total mass and energy) into a liquid product.

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JULY 10, 2022

will license Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as used cooking oil and waste animal fat at their refinery in Izmir, Türkiye. The new Ecofining plant is being designed to convert approximately 8,300 barrels per day of waste feeds/feedstocks to SAF, renewable diesel, and other products.

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DECEMBER 14, 2013

Topchiev Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis (TIPS) are creating a company that will bring a new gas-to-liquids technology to market to turn gas or biomass into fuel. This new method requires fewer conversion steps to convert gas or biomass into higher hydrocarbons, with fuel the main application. Earlier post.). Kolesnikova, E.;

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JANUARY 12, 2022

stake in Biojet AS , a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction waste into lower-emissions biofuels and biofuel components. The company anticipates commercial production to begin in 2025 at a manufacturing plant to be built in Follum, Norway. ExxonMobil is acquiring a 49.9%

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JUNE 13, 2011

the Brazilian company established for the worldwide development, production and commercialization of renewable base oils made from Biofene, Amyris’s renewable farnesene. Base oils are the building blocks of lubricant oils, currently derived from a mixture of fractions from the crude oil refining process.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

The conclusion of the successful open season confirmed strong market support for a pipeline with approximately 900,000 bbl/d of firm, long-term contracts to transport crude oil from the oil sands area in Western Canada to Eastern Canadian refineries and export terminals. Eastern Canada currently imports approximately 700,000 bbl/d.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

The Boeing-COMAC Technology Center’s first research project will explore opportunities to refine waste cooking oil, often described in China as “gutter oil,” into sustainable aviation biofuel. Finding ways to convert discarded “gutter oil” into jet fuel could enhance regional biofuel supplies and improve biofuel’s affordability.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Cool Planet Energy Systems, a renewable fuels and biochar company ( earlier post ), closed on its targeted $100 million Series D financing. Catalytic Conversion: Cool Planet has developed a number of proprietary catalytic conversion processes to convert these useful hydrocarbon components into different types of fuels.

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APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria’s OCM technology is the first commercially viable process to directly convert natural gas to ethylene, a key building block for the global petrochemicals industry and a new basis from which to produce transportation fuels. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons).

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost. Comstock Inc.,

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JUNE 13, 2010

a Canadian forest products company, have formed a partnership to build the world’s largest commercial fast pyrolysis plant in High Level, Alberta. The partnership, High North BioResources Limited Partnership, will build and operate a plant capable of processing 400 bone-dry tonnes of biomass per day into 85 million (22.5

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JULY 7, 2021

Crude oil tanker company Euronav NV announced a Joint Development Program (JDP) with the largest shipbuilder in the world, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and classification societies Lloyd’s Register and DNV, to help accelerate the development of dual fuel Ammonia (NH 3 ) fitted VLCC and Suezmax vessels. million (US$66.4

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JUNE 8, 2015

The ethanol plant is fully integrated into the functions and logistics of St1 oil refinery in Gothenburg and has an annual production capacity of 5 million liters (1.3 In the hydrolysis stage, the feedstock is diluted with warm water in order to convert it into slurry. million gallons US) of advanced bioethanol.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

and Cosan SA Industria e Comércio have executed a binding agreement to establish a joint venture for the worldwide development, production and commercialization of renewable base oils. Base oils are the building blocks of lubricant oils, currently derived from a mixture of fractions from the crude oil refining process.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium uses a catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanics building blocks. The plant will produce several tons of YXY building blocks per year to support product development. Over the past years we have made tremendous progress to develop a low-cost production process to convert biomass into YXY building blocks.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with Mansfield Oil Company to distribute isobutanol-based fuel into the petroleum market. In addition the companies signed a commercial off-take agreement—Gevo’s second commercial off-take agreement to date and its first in the fuel industry.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Global Bioenergies’ goal is to provide a bio-based isobutene process meeting the requirements for all the applications, i.e. able to compete pricewise with fuels and materials derived from oil. The higher the performance, the lower the production costs, and thus the broader the range of applications that can be exploited profitably.

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