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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. On 30 June, the Research Board awarded 17 grants totaling $1.5

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National Academies’ Gulf Research Program awards $10.8M to address systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations

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The six projects were selected after an external peer-review process. Louisiana State University. Louisiana State University. Florida Maxima Corporation. —Kelly Oskvig, program officer for the GRP’s Safer Offshore Energy Systems initiative. Lead Organization. Description. Oklahoma State University.

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DOE Awarding $612M to Three Carbon Capture and Storage Projects; Matched by $368M in Private Funding

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The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. Potential additional applications for funding of large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage projects are pending further review. Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (Decatur, Ill.)-The

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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While in the corporate bond world, the credit ratings agencies rated the bonds of thousands of companies and were not dependent on any one company for fees, subprime mortgage-backed credit derivatives were being produced by a small number of banks. and (b) Could emissions credits based on faulty assumptions or inadequate review be revoked?

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

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That plant, in Norco, Louisiana, will have the capacity to produce more than 9,300 barrels per day of renewable diesel product. More recently, UOP signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at another facility in Louisiana. Earlier post.) Hydroprocessing. Earlier post.)

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