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Gevo signs master services agreement with McDermott for sustainable aviation fuel facilities

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The first facility, Net-Zero 1, is expected to be located near Lake Preston, South Dakota. The Net-Zero 1 plant is expected to produce up to 65 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), diesel, renewable gasoline that, when consumed, is designed to have a lifecycle net-zero greenhouse gas footprint.

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Gevo options SD site for expansion project; 45M gallons per year renewable jet fuel and gasoline

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The production facility planned for Lake Preston is contemplated to produce about 45,000,000 million gallons per year collectively of jet fuel and renewable gasoline products. We like the scale of plant that could be built at the Lake Preston site, it has the potential to produce large amounts of our products.

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Gevo and HCS Group to produce renewable low-carbon chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel in Europe

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The resulting hydrocarbons are distilled to ATJ and isooctane products. Net Zero Project production facilities are being designed to produce energy-dense liquid hydrocarbons—SAF and renewable gasoline—using renewable energy and Gevo’s proprietary technology.

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ARB staff posts five more LCFS fuel pathways: biodiesel, RD, ethanol

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The baseline CI value for gasoline is 95.86 The plant uses a standard FAME transesterification process to produce biodiesel and has a production capacity of 13.5 The plant produces approximately 250 million gallons of RD annually; the product is marketed under the NExBTL trademark. g CO 2 e/MJ; for diesel fuel, it is 94.71

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The DOS SEIS accordingly takes a detailed look at life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of petroleum products from Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) oil sands crudes compared with reference crudes and the potential impact the pipeline might have on climate change as well as on the future development of the oils sands resource in Canada.

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Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

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is not important as long as all facets of fuel production (feedstock production, feedstock transportation, fuel production, fuel transportation and storage, and ILUC) and fuel use are similarly considered. For LCA analysis, the model used for calculation (CA-GREET, GHGenius, etc.) Midwestern Governor’s Association.

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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The earlier 2011 Final EIS was developed contemporaneously with the start of strong growth in domestic light crude oil supply from tight oil formations, such as those formations found in North Dakota’s Bakken region. Domestic production of crude oil has increased significantly, from approximately 5.5 million bpd in 2010 to 6.5

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