Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Shell has selected Ascension Parish in Louisiana as the location for a potential natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. Shell’s Gulf Coast GTL facility would be one of the first of its kind built to commercial scale in the United States. Louisiana has cultivated GTL projects with Shell and other global energy companies in recent years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

BASF has produced its first commercial volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) from renewable raw material, and is offering this product to customers for testing and commercial use. BASF currently produces BDO and BDO equivalents at its sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany; Geismar, Louisiana; Chiba, Japan; Kuantan, Malaysia; and Caojing, China.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell plc will not move forward with the proposed 140,000 barrels per day Gulf Coast gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Louisiana and will suspend any further work on the project, which was estimated to cost some $12.5 Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. Earlier post.)

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JULY 21, 2012

UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. That plant, in Norco, Louisiana, will have the capacity to produce more than 9,300 barrels per day of renewable diesel product. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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