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MARCH 21, 2014

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. million acres on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. billion in bid revenues.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects to receive approximately $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development in unconventional oil and natural gas (UOG) recovery. Selected UOG projects. Lead organization. Description. C-Crete Technologies LLC. The Institute of Gas Technology.

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JUNE 8, 2011

developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, and Catchlight Energy LLC (CLE), a 50-50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Chevron Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company focused on providing liquid transportation fuels from sustainable forest-based resources, have signed a feedstock supply agreement.

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JUNE 29, 2016

BIOX Corporation and World Energy announced a 50/50 joint venture to acquire and operate a 90 million US gallon (USG) (341 million liter) biodiesel production facility in Houston, Texas. Each company has committed US$10 million to the World Energy BIOX Biofuels joint venture. —Alan Rickard, CEO of BIOX.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales. billion in high bids. billion.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed a draft environmental impact statement regarding multiple oil and gas lease sales tentatively scheduled between 2012 and 2017 in the Western and Central Gulf of Mexico planning areas, offshore the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. —Kelly Oskvig, program officer for the GRP’s Safer Offshore Energy Systems initiative. University of Mississippi. Description.

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JUNE 13, 2012

The announcement provides the opportunity to expand the use of non-food, energy crops for liquid biofuels and to help meet state mandated Renewal Portfolio Standards (RPS). Enrolled producers will receive establishment assistance and five years of annual production support under BCAP. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) administers BCAP.

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MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. Mississippi State University, $273,120. Boise State University, $493,210. Lincoln University, $94,258.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the consolidated Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 in New Orleans on 20 June 202012. The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) and BioJet International have formed a strategic business relationship. CERT members collectively own and manage more than 30% of the coal west of the Mississippi; 40% of domestic uranium; and 10% of known national oil and gas reserves in the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

is pursuing plans to double production capacity at its Columbus, Mississippi, facility through construction of a second facility incorporating KiOR’s commercially proven technology. Cellulosic gasoline and diesel company KiOR, Inc. —Vinod Khosla. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 30, 2021

Department of the Interior today announced nearly $249 million in Fiscal Year 2020 energy revenues to the four offshore Gulf oil and gas producing states – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and their coastal political subdivisions (CPS).

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AUGUST 1, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy. Scalable CO 2 electrocatalysis technologies.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Responders to the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon incident have scheduled a controlled, on-location burn of oil from the spill to begin at approximately 11 a.m. The explosion and fire on, and subsequent sinking of, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig left some 1,000 barrels of oil (42,000 gallons) per day flowing from the broken drill pipe.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

billion, including the assumption of debt and the value of the minority interest in Encore Energy Partners LP. The transaction positions Denbury as one of the largest crude oil-focused, independent North American exploration and production companies. Denbury Resources Inc. —Phil Rykhoek, Chief Executive Officer of Denbury.

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MAY 3, 2011

CLE’s purchase of products is contingent on, among other things, satisfaction of product specification criteria and RIN certification of the products as cellulosic biofuels under the US Renewable Fuel Standard. KiOR expects to begin production at its Columbus facility in the second half of 2012. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Agrisoma’s goal is to maximize production of carinata seed grown in the southeastern US. Brassica carinata (carinata) is a non-edible oilseed crop used to produce industrial oil with highly desirable fuel chemistry for ‘drop in’ aviation fuels. and Applied Research Associates Inc.),

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

We believe these investments will yield significant production growth and reward our shareholders for years to come. By 2017, we expect our net crude oil and natural gas production to grow about 20 percent to 3.3 billion is planned for exploration and production activities, including major natural gas-related projects.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Pending final regulatory permitting, these two new liquefaction units are expected to begin operations and production in about three years. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

A new report by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) shows strong growth in new geothermal power projects continuing through 2009. Mississippi. MW of power to the US geothermal energy output. New Mexico. Washington. unspecified. The report found a total of 144 projects under development that could add between 4,699.9

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Consisting of 45 acres of open saltwater ponds, the facility will be used for research on optimizing algal productivity and increasing the rates of conversion of biomass into renewable oils. These species are then collected and processed into renewable oils and many other valuable co-products.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The MOU with AltAir contemplates the production and purchase of up to 750 million gallons of jet fuel and diesel fuel over 10 years (75 million gallons per year) derived from camelina oil. We urge the US government and the investment community also to do their part to further support this critical energy opportunity.

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JUNE 15, 2011

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has established four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program ( BCAP ) project areas to promote the cultivation of crops that can be processed into renewable energy. A project area must have specific boundaries that are approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Chesapeake Energy Corporation entered into multiple agreements to sell the vast majority of its Permian properties, substantially all of its midstream assets and certain noncore leasehold for total net cash proceeds of approximately $6.9 of Chesapeake’s production during the quarter. —Aubrey K.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 12 projects for the first round of funding from $1.4 Energy Secretary Steven Chu wrote an editorial for the 25 September 2009 special issue of the journal Science on carbon capture, in which he addressed the magnitude of the challenge. The first phase of these projects will include $21.6

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JUNE 17, 2012

Source: NAS, adapted from Southwestern Energy Click to enlarge. In the past several years induced seismic events related to energy development projects have drawn heightened public attention. —“Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies”.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Beijing Guoneng Yinghui Clean Energy Engineering Co., and others including the US Department of Energy (DOE), at the DOE’s research facility in Wilsonville, Ala., Southern Company subsidiary Mississippi Power currently is seeking regulatory approval to build a 582-megawatt plant using TRIG technology in Kemper County, Miss.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here, RME show advantages for primary energy and GHG, but disadvantages in terms of acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion. Increased eutrophication is a key characteristic of biofuels from energy crops when compared with fossil fuels. World Transport Biofuel Production. Source: “Assessing Biofuels”. Lifecycle GHG.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Region States Feedstocks Potential production capacity Land use.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

The United States needs to fundamentally rethink its policy of promoting ethanol to diversify its energy sources and increase energy security, according to a new research paper and accompanying policy paper by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Corn ethanol is capped at 15 billion gallons a year in the law.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Alliance Refinery, located on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 25 miles south of New Orleans, employs approximately 500 employees and 400 contractors. The refinery processes mainly light, low-sulfur crude oil. The refinery can also receive foreign crude oil by pipeline connected to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. This bio-oil has shown potential to be refined and used in current infrastructure and vehicles.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Noble Energy, Inc. The well encountered high-quality reservoir sands, with per well productivity anticipated to be approximately 250 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. At Dantzler, wireline logging data indicates that the well encountered over 120 net feet of primarily crude oil pay in two high-quality Miocene reservoirs.

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APRIL 19, 2024

New factories producing EVs and their batteries are bringing more jobs to the Southeast, but utilities are trying to meet the power demands of these factories with natural-gas power plants rather than renewable energy, reports Energy News Network.

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