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SandRidge Energy and Repsol enter $1B Mississippian oil play JV in Kansas

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Oklahoma-based oil and gas company SandRidge Energy, Inc. In addition to paying for its working interest share of development costs, Repsol will pay an amount equal to 200% of its working interest to fund a portion of SandRidge's cost of development until the additional $750 million drilling carry obligation is satisfied.

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HollyFrontier to build $350M renewable diesel unit at Artesia refinery; 125M gallons/year

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The RDU will have a production capacity of approximately 125 million gallons a year (9,000 BPD) and allow HollyFrontier to process soybean oil and other renewable feedstocks into renewable diesel. The Navajo Refinery has a crude oil capacity of 100,000 barrels per day.

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DOE awarding $22 million for algal fuel and biomass feedstock supply chain projects

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million goes to four projects intended to boost the productivity of sustainable algae, while cutting capital and operating costs of commercial-scale production. Based in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii Bioenergy will develop a cost-effective photosynthetic open pond system to produce algal oil. Nearly $16.5

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Researchers demonstrate sustainable integrated process for wastewater algae to biocrude via hydrothermal liquefaction

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A team at the University of Kansas has demonstrated the feasibility of an integrated wastewater algae-to-biocrude process using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) that can sustainably cultivate algal biomass for biofuel production. Flow diagram of the solvent extraction and product recovery method used. Credit: ACS, Roberts et al.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, helps farmers and forest land owners with start-up costs of planting new energy crops that can take several years to reach maturity until harvest, a timeline designed to parallel the construction schedule of commercial-scale energy facilities that will use these crops.

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NREL teaming with Oorja to validate direct methanol fuel cell technology in material handling applications

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The total cost of the project is just more than $2 million; NREL will contribute $900,000 to fund the project and Oorja will provide $1.2 Earp Distribution (Kansas City, Kan.), Methanol offers high fuel density and low fuel and fueling infrastructure costs. and Commerce, Calif.), and Testa Produce (Chicago).

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass. Woody biomass, oil seed, grasses, cereal crop residue.

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