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Solazyme and Ecopetrol Extend Partnership on Algae-Based Diesel Using Colombian Feedstocks

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Ecopetrol has a strategic goal to provide at least 450 million tons of fuel from renewable oil sources by 2015. Following this phase, the parties plan to move toward commercial deployment of renewable oil and fuel production. Solazyme, Inc., Solazyme, Inc., —Jonathan Wolfson, CEO of Solazyme.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Because these crops will be optimized to tolerate conditions such as drought and poor soils, they can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops, thereby avoiding competition with food production.

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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The report represents the first global, government-level consensus on sustainability indicators for bioenergy and is intended as a resource in helping countries assess and develop sustainable production and use of bioenergy for electricity, heat and transport. Click to enlarge. Environmental pillar. Soil quality. Water use and efficiency.

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Forecast: Global Biofuels Use to Double by 2015, Second-Gen Biofuels to Lag Expectations

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Indonesia and Malaysia will more than double production of palm oil biodiesel, while Germany will remain the largest producer of biofuels in Europe, according to the analysis. Nonetheless, despite India’s ethanol production expansion, Hart projects that Brazil will remain the leading global biofuels exporter.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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The Future of Natural Gas is the third in a series of MIT multidisciplinary reports examining the role of various energy sources that may be important for meeting future demand under carbon dioxide emissions constraints. That kind of substitution alone reduces those carbon emissions by a factor of three. —MITEI Director Ernest J.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier post.)

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