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.

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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

million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). This program is part of the?Wells

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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

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

Volkswagen fueling car carriers with fuel derived from used cooking oil; GoodFuels BFO

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The fuel is produced from materials such as used oil from restaurants and the food industry. The first car freighter was refueled for the first time with this oil in mid-November 2020 and a second ship is due to follow at the beginning of 2021. This way, we reuse waste oil in an environmentally compatible way.

Oil

Oil Fuel Mariner Climate Protection

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

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JULY 13, 2016

Schlumberger, a new investor from the oil and gas industry, led the round with participation from GM Ventures and Osceola Capital Management, LLC. The new capital will be used to scale Alphabet Energy’s production for the oil and gas and automotive industries, both under intense regulatory pressure to curb emissions.

Waste

Waste Oil Gas Power

Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. The waste from olive oil production—which contains pesticides and toxic organic compounds, is acidic and with a high salinity—is environmentally harmful and costly to discard.

Waste

Waste Convert Oil Spain

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. EPA administrator Michael S. (D-NJ), Get started here. –

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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

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.

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India Oil Fuel Production

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.,

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Hydrogen China Waste Oil

bp begins producing SAF by co-processing used cooking oil at Lingen refinery

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

bp has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from used cooking oil in co-processing process with crude oil at its plant in Lingen, Germany. This is the first industrial production facility in Germany to use this process for SAF production based on biomass waste and residues.

Oil

Oil Germany Legal Washington

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 Industrial Industry

Here’s a list of every county suing Tesla for its handling of hazardous waste

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Yesterday, it was reported that various counties in California were suing Tesla for violations of the State’s health code for “intentional or negligent disposal of hazardous waste.” The post Here’s a list of every county suing Tesla for its handling of hazardous waste appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Waste San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles

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.

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Oil-Sands Oil Wind Renewable

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.

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Europe Waste Asia 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

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. Shamlou, Elmira & Vidic, Radisav & Khanna, Vikas. Desalination. doi: 10.1016/j.desal.2021.115513.

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Water North Dakota Oil-Sands Engine

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

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.

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France Supplies Fuel Waste

JGC & Cosmo Oil to use Honeywell Ecofining technology in first commercial-scale SAF project in Japan

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

JGC Holdings Corporation and Cosmo Oil Company will use Honeywell Ecofining technology ( earlier post ) for the first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel project in Japan. The project will convert used cooking oil locally collected in Japan into renewable jet fuel meeting ASTM D7566 standards with start-up scheduled in 2025.

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Japan Oil Commercial Renewable

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.

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Waste Gas United States Convert

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

Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

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. Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being.

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Coal Oil Clean Cleaning

BP and Johnson Matthey license Fischer-Tropsch technology to waste-to-biofuels producer Fulcrum BioEnergy for biojet

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

BP and Johnson Matthey (JM) have signed an agreement with Fulcrum BioEnergy to license their Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology to support Fulcrum’s drive to convert municipal solid waste into biojet fuel.

Waste

Waste Sierra Convert Nevada

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

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

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

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

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. Cemvita Factory’s mission is to reimagine heavy industries such as oil & gas and mining for the net-zero economy.

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Hydrogen Production Oil Renewable

$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

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.

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Fuel Waste Renewable Brazil

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

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Renewable Natural Gas. Alder Energy will convert miscanthus, a highly promising biomass crop, to SAF through their advanced pyrolysis oil technology, a process that utilizes heat, pressure, and solvents to deconstruct the miscanthus into oils for conversion to SAF. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion.

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Emissions Waste Conversion Gas-Electric

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

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

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

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

The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste fats into a high-quality renewable diesel fuel. The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste feedstocks into Honeywell Green Diesel, a high-quality fuel that is chemically identical to petroleum-based diesel.

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Renewable Diesel Green Fuel

Neste-led project verified 50% methane emission reduction at palm oil mills using belt filter press

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MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. Increased pressure is created as the belt passes over rollers which decrease in diameter.

Oil

Oil Emissions Malaysia Indonesia

BTG and GoodFuels exploring options for joint investment to convert pyrolysis oil to low-carbon fuel for ships

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Biomass technology group BTG plans to set up a new high-tech technology company that can convert crude pyrolysis oil into diesel fuel suitable for the shipping sector. It will be the first refinery in the world for an advanced marine biofuel based on pyrolysis oil. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

Oil

Oil Convert Mariner 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.

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Fuel Production Waste Gas

ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech and Primetals to build €87M commercial-scale waste-gas-to-ethanol plant

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JULY 13, 2015

The resulting bioethanol can cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% compared with conventional fossil fuels. Today, this waste gas stream is either flared or used to heat and power the steel mill. LanzaTech’s technology, however, recycles the waste gases and ferments them with a proprietary microbe to produce bioethanol.

Waste

Waste Commercial Gas Building

LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Sekisui , a multibillion dollar Japanese diversified chemicals company and LanzaTech report making significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol or other new products. 20,000 liter per year MSW pilot facility. Garbage is an important resource.

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Waste Conversion 2013 Convert

Malaysia Airlines flies first flight in Malaysia using sustainable aviation fuel

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The historic flight MH7979 utilizing the Airbus 330-200 aircraft departed Amsterdam Airport Schiphol at 12:55 pm local time using a blend mixture of approximately 38% SAF made e.g. from used cooking oil, and conventional jet fuel, and arrived in Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 09:00 am local time.

Malaysia

Malaysia Fuel Waste Cleaner

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

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

The design utilizes cellulosic hydrogen from waste forest and orchard wood along with onsite CO 2 carbon sequestration and zero carbon intensity hydroelectric electricity. The industrial site has 710,000 s.f.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Supplies Industrial

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

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

Volkswagen fueling car carriers with fuel derived from used cooking oil; GoodFuels BFO

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

Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

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

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

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

bp begins producing SAF by co-processing used cooking oil at Lingen refinery

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

Here’s a list of every county suing Tesla for its handling of hazardous waste

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

EcoCeres makes first cellulosic ethanol shipment to Europe

ElectraTherm and Navy to demonstrate shipboard waste heat recovery

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

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

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

JGC & Cosmo Oil to use Honeywell Ecofining technology in first commercial-scale SAF project in Japan

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

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

BP and Johnson Matthey license Fischer-Tropsch technology to waste-to-biofuels producer Fulcrum BioEnergy for biojet

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carinata now a listed feedstock for CORSIA HEFA Sustainable Aviation Fuels

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

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

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

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

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

Neste-led project verified 50% methane emission reduction at palm oil mills using belt filter press

BTG and GoodFuels exploring options for joint investment to convert pyrolysis oil to low-carbon fuel for ships

TotalEnergies doubling sustainable aviation fuel production at Grandpuits

ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech and Primetals to build €87M commercial-scale waste-gas-to-ethanol plant

LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

Malaysia Airlines flies first flight in Malaysia using sustainable aviation fuel

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

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

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