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Thailands BAAC, Bangchak Petroleum to grow oil palm trees for biodiesel

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Thailand’s Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) and Bangchak Petroleum Plc have teamed up to grow oil palm for a biodiesel project. Prem Tinsulanon in the 1980s to operate Thailand’s old Bangchak oil refinery. tonnes of oil palm in Thailand last year. Bangkok Post.

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ExxonMobil plans five-year investment of $185B to develop new energy supplies; 21 major oil and gas projects to begin production between 2012 and 2014

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Exxon Mobil Corporation plans to invest approximately $185 billion over the next five years to develop new supplies of energy to meet expected growth in demand, Chairman and CEO Rex W. A total of 21 major oil and gas projects will begin production between 2012 and 2014. billion oil equivalent barrels.

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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. That’s a big sum.

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