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Mitsubishi Power & Texas Brine partner on large-scale salt cavern storage for hydrogen to support decarbonization efforts in the eastern US

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Mitsubishi Power Americas and Texas Brine Company are collaborating to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the eastern United States. Texas Brine gas storage cavern wellhead. Credit: Texas Brine Company). Texas Brine caerns available for storage.

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CenterPoint adding natural gas vehicles to fleet, more fueling stations

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CenterPoint Energy, a US energy delivery company, is adding 35 natural gas vehicles to its fleet across Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. Additionally, the company expects to provide natural gas service to at least 17 new compressed natural gas fueling stations built in the company’s service territory.

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. Novomer has secured site commitments in Rochester, NY, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Orangeburg, SC and Ithaca, NY where Phase 2 work will be performed. Alcoa will demonstrate and optimize the process at their Point Comfort, Texas aluminum refining plant. DOE Share: $25,000,000).

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NOAA: US Experienced Above-Normal Temperatures and Below-Normal Precipitation in April

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Conversely, Florida had its coolest, while South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas’ average temperature ranked among their 10 coolest. Both Louisiana and South Carolina experienced their sixth driest April. Conversely, it was Oregon’s tenth-wettest April on record. Other Highlights.

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Shell to build LNG units in Gulf Coast and Great Lakes regions; two additional LNG for transport corridors in North America

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million tons per annum) at its Shell Geismar Chemicals facility in Geismar, Louisiana, in the United States. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Great Lakes.

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EIA: planned capacity additions to US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve Cushing bottleneck

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Historically, Cushing was the midcontinent hub for distribution of both crude oil imported to the US Gulf Coast and West Texas crude oil production; pipelines were built and configured to move that crude oil north to Cushing, and then on to refineries throughout the Midwest. Flanagan South is currently scheduled to be online in mid-2014.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Purdue University.

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