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Phillips 66 to convert Alliance Refinery to terminal facility

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The conversion is expected to take place in 2022. The Alliance Refinery, located on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 25 miles south of New Orleans, employs approximately 500 employees and 400 contractors. Alliance receives domestic crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico by pipeline and US tight oil by marine transport.

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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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The nation’s largest brine producer, Texas Brine, and its affiliates have salt positions in New York, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana that will enable access to major load centers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the Gulf Coast. Texas Brine gas storage cavern wellhead. Credit: Texas Brine Company).

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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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These two units will form the basis of two new LNG transport corridors in the Great Lakes and Gulf Coast regions. million tons per annum) at its Shell Geismar Chemicals facility in Geismar, Louisiana, in the United States. will provide terminaling, storage, transportation and distribution of LNG. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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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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USDA awarding $136M to five major research projects focused in part on developing cellulosic drop-in aviation fuels

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University partners from the states of Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Iowa will lead the projects, which focus in part on developing aviation biofuels from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources. A team of researchers led by Louisiana State University received $17.2

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Prometheus Innovations (Lafayette, Louisiana).

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Hydrous ethanol has been used in the United States as a transportation fuel for at least one hundred years. Use of Hydrous Ethanol in the United States. This moonshine was hydrous ethanol. Earlier GCC post.]