Energy, Gas, Oil and Waste

EPA and DOE to provide more than $1B to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas sector

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JULY 2, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Energy (DOE) are partnering to provide more than $1 billion in funding to help reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector through the creation of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program.

EPA

EPA Oil Gas Emissions

DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four new projects to receive up to $8.4 million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO). ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK).

Oil

Oil Oklahoma Gas Houston

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. The life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the two pathways were 11.2 Skaggs et al.

Waste

Waste Diesel Renewable Convert

Alphabet Energy closes $23.5M Series C; thermoelectric waste-heat-to-power for oil & gas and automotive

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

Waste

Waste Oil Gas Power

Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

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APRIL 6, 2022

Suncor Energy, a Canadian integrated energy company that is one of the top oil sands producers in the country, will strengthen its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels to accelerate progress towards its objective to be a net-zero company by 2050. Suncor also plans to divest its wind and solar assets.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Wind Renewable

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Vault agreed to provide 1.6

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Fuel Louisiana

VTT and partners to assess bio- and waste-based oils suitable for power plants and ships; BioFlex project

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APRIL 11, 2020

In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. We are also conducting experiments to examine the suitability of the oils for applications.

Waste

Waste Oil Finland Power

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

An upgrade from the previous fueling station offering oil, gas, hydrogen, electric charging services, the integrated complex can produce 1,000 kilograms of hydrogen a day, with a purity of 99.999%. Sinopec Fuel Oil Sales Co., 1 hydrogen energy enterprise, it has built nine hydrogen fuel cell supply centers across China.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen China Waste Oil

Indian Oil signs MOU with LanzaJet on sustainable aviation fuel production in India

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian Oil Corporation, India’s leading energy major, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LanzaJet to explore the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in India. As a rapidly developing country, India’s energy transition will play a pivotal role in global energy markets.

India

India Oil Fuel Production

EcoCeres makes first cellulosic ethanol shipment to Europe

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JUNE 5, 2023

EcoCeres , an Asia-based bio-refinery company, announced its first shipment of 100% agricultural waste-produced cellulosic ethanol to the European markets, a milestone the company achieved after commissioning another facility in China.

Europe

Europe Waste Asia Renewable

In a US first, the oil and gas sector will pay fines for excess methane emissions

Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Photo by Juan Mt on Pexels.com The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fine oil and gas companies for emitting excess methane – the first federal government tax ever on greenhouse gas emissions. It’s responsible for around one-third of global warming. That’s EPA’s stick; here are its carrots.

Oil

Oil Gas Emissions Waste

bp acquires 30% stake in Green Biofuels, UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil fuels

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel).

Oil

Oil Green Hydrogen Fuel

Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The team is back in the lab to find a fix. Resources.

Water

Water North Dakota Oil-Sands Engine

Audi researching industrialization of chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste from manufacturing

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JUNE 18, 2021

The results of the project indicated that the chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste is both technically feasible and environmentally and financially promising. The material cycles closed in this way save valuable resources, energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Waste

Waste Audi Manufacturer Industrial

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

And It’s Not The One Which Rewards Dirty Energy Mercenaries With New Clean Energy Jobs. That’s granting the workers who pocketed great salaries and benefits, while filling our air and water with toxic waste, a free pass from taking any responsibility for their actions. That ain’t justice. None of them are innocent bystanders.

Coal

Coal Oil Clean Cleaning

Haldor Topsoe and Hyundai Oilbank sign MOU to develop green energy solutions

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Hyundai Oilbank refines 520,000 barrels of oil a day and supplies oil products and services through 2,500 gas stations in Korea. Notably, Hyundai Oilbank has completed the vertical integration in the petrochemical aromatic business from crude oil to BTX.

Hyundai

Hyundai Green Energy Oil

Neste and CIM collaborate to supply sustainable aviation fuel to France to support SAF blending obligations

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Neste and CIM, part of NOVEN Group in France, the leading independent French group of companies providing oil storage and supply services, are collaborating to enable the supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel into France.

France

France Supplies Fuel Waste

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Gold Hydrogen is a novel source of carbon neutral hydrogen produced from depleted oil reservoirs that are ready for plug and abandonment, extending the life of wells that would otherwise be a significant burden. Green hydrogen production, however, is energy intensive and expensive. —Zach Broussard, Director of Gold H2 at Cemvita.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Production Oil Renewable

ElectraTherm and Navy to demonstrate shipboard waste heat recovery

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JANUARY 10, 2018

ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Creare, and the US Naval Academy (USNA) to demonstrate gas turbine waste heat recovery as part of a Small Business Innovation Research project. Hot water is the only fuel consumed by the Power+.

Waste

Waste Exhaust Maryland Gas-Electric

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. Using readily available, sustainable bio-waste material will provide Sparc with a strong environmental value proposition when compared with conventional sources of hard carbon.

Waste

Waste Sodium Carbon Lithium Ion

Lux Research projects methanol-to-gasoline most competitive route for liquid fuels from natural gas or waste

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JULY 26, 2013

The price disparity between crude oil and other resources, coupled with the emergence of cheap and abundant shale gas, especially in the United States, is opening up opportunities to produce cheaper gasoline, according to a new report from Lux Research. Waste biomass is a ubiquitous alternative. times the current production.

Waste

Waste Gasoline Gas Fuel

Refuel Energy to build 3000 bpd RD, SAF plant in Southern Ontario using Topsoe technologies

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APRIL 21, 2022

Refuel Energy Inc. Planned feedstocks include a mix of waste fats, oils and greases , such as regionally-sourced used cooking oil, animal fats and non-edible crop oils. is planning to build a 3,000 barrels per day (bpd) renewable fuel plant (Refuel YYZ) in Southern Ontario.

Building

Building Energy Renewable Oil

New UK energy strategy pushes new nuclear; up to 8 additional reactors

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APRIL 9, 2022

It has been designed to use less uranium and produce almost a third less long-lived radioactive wastes compared with water reactors in operation today. This will not only provide cleaner energy for vital British industries to move away from expensive fossil fuels, but could also be used for cleaner power, transport and potentially heat.

Energy

Energy Wind Cleaner Gas-Electric

DOE awarding nearly $65M for biofuels research to reduce airplane and ship emissions

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $64.7 Renewable Natural Gas. Quasar Energy Group will use an anaerobic digestor to convert food waste to SAF precursors.

Emissions

Emissions Waste Conversion Gas-Electric

Neste Oil de-emphasizing microbial oil R&D for renewable diesel; seeking other uses for cellulosic biomass

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular.

Oil

Oil Renewable Diesel Waste

LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

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AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has partnered with the Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd. LanzaTech has developed gas fermentation technology that can directly convert waste CO 2 gases into acetates. Source: LanzaTech.

Waste

Waste Fuel India Energy

LanzaTech and SK Innovation partner on process to produce butadiene from waste gas

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

SK innovation, one of the world’s leading energy and petrochemical companies, and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, are working together to develop a new process technology for the production of 1,3 butadiene, a platform chemical used in many high growth industries globally.

Waste

Waste Gas United States Convert

Jumbo and Goodfuels partner to test drop-in Bio-Fuel Oil on offshore decommissioning project

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Leading global heavy lift shipping and offshore transportation and installation contractor Jumbo, and commercial, sustainable marine biofuel company GoodFuels, are partnering to test Goodfuels’ marine Bio-Fuel Oil on an offshore decommissioning project.

Oil

Oil Mariner Fuel Netherlands

Carinata now a listed feedstock for CORSIA HEFA Sustainable Aviation Fuels

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APRIL 27, 2021

A recent update by The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) now includes carinata as a renewable fuel feedstock for hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with a similar greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint as waste and residuals, such as used cooking oil, for the same fuel type.

Fuel

Fuel Waste Renewable Brazil

GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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APRIL 4, 2011

Gas-flaring countries and trends. A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue.

Waste

Waste Gas Equatorial Guinea Gas-Electric

$4M ARPA-E award to Lanzatech to improve design of bioreactors for waste-gas-to-fuels fermentation technology

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

Waste

Waste Gas Design Fuel

TotalEnergies doubling sustainable aviation fuel production at Grandpuits

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JUNE 8, 2023

TotalEnergies’s SAF is produced from waste and residues from the circular economy (animal fats, used cooking oils, etc.) It will be supplied with organic waste from the biorefinery, and will prevent the emission of almost 20,000 tons of CO 2 every year. and also e-fuel synthetic fuels for aviation.

Fuel

Fuel Production Waste Gas

ABS grants Alfa Laval the marine industry’s first approval in principle (AIP) for firing boilers with methanol

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Alfa Laval offers a range of oil-fired and oil and exhaust gas-fired boilers for ships. The most natural choice for boilers is to fire them with the vessel’s primary fuel, but methanol’s low-flashpoint nature and the differences in its energy density require a new approach to the burner and fuel supply systems.

Mariner

Mariner Grant Oil Exhaust

Neste Oil produces NExBTL renewable diesel from waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry

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MAY 15, 2012

Neste Oil has again expanded the range of renewable raw materials it uses by beginning to produce NExBTL renewable diesel from waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry at its Singapore refinery. After the fillets have been removed, the fat content of the gutting waste can be as high as 30-35%.

Waste

Waste Renewable Oil Diesel

AP Ventures makes follow-on investment in small-scale GTL company Greyrock Energy

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MAY 7, 2019

London-based AP Ventures has made a follow-on investment in Greyrock Energy , Inc. a provider of small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology. Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels.

Companies

Companies Energy Gas-Electric Hydrogen

Shell to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels facilities for SAF and renewable diesel; 820,000 tonnes/year

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell will build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Once built, the facility will be among the largest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Building Waste

EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels.

Mariner

Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner

Diamond Green Diesel to more than double renewable fuel capacity using second Honeywell Ecofining unit; 675M barrels renewable diesel per year

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp. The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste fats into a high-quality renewable diesel fuel. This standard requires a minimum volume of transportation fuels sold in the US to contain renewable fuel as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Green Fuel

Why Aren’t Energy Flows Diagrams Used More To Inform Decarbonization?

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

Energy

Energy Coal Oil Gas

Malaysia Airlines flies first flight in Malaysia using sustainable aviation fuel

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The flight marks Malaysia Airlines’ commitment to make SAF the cleaner and more viable energy option for regular flights by 2025. Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel is produced from sustainably-sourced, 100% renewable waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste.

Malaysia

Malaysia Fuel Waste Cleaner

Samsung Ventures makes strategic investment in renewable fuels company Raven SR

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MARCH 15, 2022

In 2021, Raven SR attracted funds totalling $20 million from global oil and gas major Chevron, Japanese trading house ITOCHU, hydrogen mobility leader and innovator Hyzon Motors, and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR’s technology is designed to produce more green hydrogen per ton of waste than competing processes.

Renewable

Renewable Companies Fuel South Korea

Neste Oil Looking to Waste-based Microbial Oil As Feedstock for NExBTL Renewable Diesel

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues with the help of various yeasts and molds for use as a feedstock for its NExBTL renewable diesel. Microbial oil produced in this way has already been successfully refined into NExBTL renewable diesel.

Oil

Oil Waste Renewable Diesel

ERTRAC publishes roadmap on energy carriers and powertrains; role for power-to-gas

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APRIL 7, 2014

The European Road Transport Research Advisory Council ( ERTRAC ) has published a new roadmap assessing energy carriers and powertrains in the context of the European target to achieve a 60% reduction in CO 2 emissions from transport by 2050. Liquid Air technically does not store any energy, as energy has been removed to create it.

Gas

Gas Energy Power Powered

Aemetis finalizes $7B of supply contracts for 100% of Riverbank Plant Production of SAF and RD for up to 10 years

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The facility is designed to use renewable hydrogen and zero carbon intensity hydroelectric electricity to hydrotreat sustainable renewable oils to produce SAF and RD. Founded in 2006, Aemetis has completed Phase 1 and is expanding a California biogas digester network and pipeline system to convert dairy waste gas into Renewable Natural Gas.

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Supplies San Francisco Los Angeles Production

EPA and DOE to provide more than $1B to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas sector

DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

Alphabet Energy closes $23.5M Series C; thermoelectric waste-heat-to-power for oil & gas and automotive

Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

VTT and partners to assess bio- and waste-based oils suitable for power plants and ships; BioFlex project

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

Indian Oil signs MOU with LanzaJet on sustainable aviation fuel production in India

EcoCeres makes first cellulosic ethanol shipment to Europe

In a US first, the oil and gas sector will pay fines for excess methane emissions

bp acquires 30% stake in Green Biofuels, UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil fuels

Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

Audi researching industrialization of chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste from manufacturing

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Haldor Topsoe and Hyundai Oilbank sign MOU to develop green energy solutions

Neste and CIM collaborate to supply sustainable aviation fuel to France to support SAF blending obligations

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

ElectraTherm and Navy to demonstrate shipboard waste heat recovery

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

Lux Research projects methanol-to-gasoline most competitive route for liquid fuels from natural gas or waste

Refuel Energy to build 3000 bpd RD, SAF plant in Southern Ontario using Topsoe technologies

New UK energy strategy pushes new nuclear; up to 8 additional reactors

DOE awarding nearly $65M for biofuels research to reduce airplane and ship emissions

Neste Oil de-emphasizing microbial oil R&D for renewable diesel; seeking other uses for cellulosic biomass

LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

LanzaTech and SK Innovation partner on process to produce butadiene from waste gas

Jumbo and Goodfuels partner to test drop-in Bio-Fuel Oil on offshore decommissioning project

Carinata now a listed feedstock for CORSIA HEFA Sustainable Aviation Fuels

GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

$4M ARPA-E award to Lanzatech to improve design of bioreactors for waste-gas-to-fuels fermentation technology

TotalEnergies doubling sustainable aviation fuel production at Grandpuits

ABS grants Alfa Laval the marine industry’s first approval in principle (AIP) for firing boilers with methanol

Neste Oil produces NExBTL renewable diesel from waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry

AP Ventures makes follow-on investment in small-scale GTL company Greyrock Energy

Shell to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels facilities for SAF and renewable diesel; 820,000 tonnes/year

EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

Diamond Green Diesel to more than double renewable fuel capacity using second Honeywell Ecofining unit; 675M barrels renewable diesel per year

Why Aren’t Energy Flows Diagrams Used More To Inform Decarbonization?

Malaysia Airlines flies first flight in Malaysia using sustainable aviation fuel

Samsung Ventures makes strategic investment in renewable fuels company Raven SR

Neste Oil Looking to Waste-based Microbial Oil As Feedstock for NExBTL Renewable Diesel

ERTRAC publishes roadmap on energy carriers and powertrains; role for power-to-gas

Aemetis finalizes $7B of supply contracts for 100% of Riverbank Plant Production of SAF and RD for up to 10 years

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