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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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To transition towards decarbonization, we need a significant and timely acceleration in the production of green fuels. Collaboration and investments in innovative projects are the most important ways to reach a net zero fuel value chain. Green methanol is the only market-ready and scalable available solution today for shipping.

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MCW Energy Group: successful initial testing of extraction of up to 99.9% of hydrocarbon content from oil sands tailings pond samples

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MCW Energy Group, a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction technology, announced successful results of processing random Alberta oil sands tailings ponds samples in a series of preliminary laboratory tests. It has two operations, MCW Fuels and MCW Oil Sands Recovery, LLC.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad. Two-step methanol and synthesis in water- and gas-cooled reactors operating along the optimum extraction route.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people. ” —UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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