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Petrobras Biocombustível To Invest US$2.4B in Biodiesel and Ethanol Production

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Studies for the project developed in partnership with Portuguese company Galp Energia, which calls for the annual production of 330,000 cubic meters (330 million liters, 87 million gallons US) of vegetable oil in Brazil and 320,000 cubic meters (320 million liters, 85 million gallons US) of biodiesel in Portugal, will be continued.

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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 use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. Global markets. Transportation. Remove policy and regulatory barriers to natural gas as a transportation fuel.

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

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Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Earlier post.)

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