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Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

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KMI) and El Paso Corporation on Sunday announced a definitive agreement whereby KMI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of EP in a transaction that will create the largest midstream and the fourth-largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $94 billion and 80,000 miles of pipelines.

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Sunoco Idles Eagle Point Refinery; Will Evaluate Feasibility of Using it to Produce Alternative Fuels in the Future

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Sunoco purchased the Eagle Point Refinery in January 2004 from El Paso Corporation. The company intends to idle Eagle Point until market conditions improve and will evaluate this decision and other options on an ongoing basis, including the feasibility of using the facility to produce alternative fuels in the future.

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BP Biofuels, Texas AgriLife Research partner to advance cellulosic biofuel feedstock development

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The collaboration will utilize AgriLife Research’s diverse high biomass energy crop breeding program and BP Biofuels’ position as one of the few global energy companies growing commercial-scale biomass crops for liquid fuels. —Tom Campbell, technology vice president at BP Biofuels.

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TravelCenters of America LLC planning to install 50 on-island DEF dispensers in 2011

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Sites will feature dedicated DEF dispensers at the fueling islands, while large storage tanks will be installed away from the fuel island. Installations will utilize new dispenser and POS systems that will make purchasing DEF quicker, more efficient and customer friendly. All TA and Petro branded locations currently offer 2.5

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. RNG is a key part of UPS’ strategy to increase alternative fuel consumption to be 40% of total ground fuel purchases by 2025, supporting the logistics leader’s efforts to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its ground fleet 12% by 2025. Atlanta, Ga.;

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Cornell energy center receives $12.6M in renewed funding for alkaline fuel cell work

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million for a four-year period to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media. Cornell’s Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 million grant from the DOE Office of Science.

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UTEP Awarded Nearly $1.3M for 4 DOE Projects On Engine and Turbine Efficiency and CO2 Capture

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The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 Choudhuri, director of UTEP’s Combustion and Propulsion Research Laboratory, will lead research on oxyfuel combustion—the combustion of gaseous fuels with nearly pure oxygen instead of air. Ramana, Ph.D.,

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