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Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

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Strategic Biofuels announced that its Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Test Well Program was successfully completed at the company’s Louisiana Green Fuels Project (LGF) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. LGF is the first renewable diesel fuel project to achieve this milestone.

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Darling International and Valero Considering Forming a Joint Venture for Renewable Diesel

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Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana.

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Valero providing construction financing for Valero-Diamond renewable diesel JV

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A subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation will provide financing to Diamond Green Diesel LLC, a previously announced joint venture project between Darling International and Valero Energy Corporation ( earlier post ), for the construction of its renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana.

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US DOE offers $241M conditional loan guarantee to renewable diesel plant based on UOPs hydrotreating/isomerization process

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering a conditional commitment to Diamond Green Diesel, LLC, the proposed joint venture between Valero Energy Corporation and Darling International Inc. The project will produce renewable diesel fuel primarily from animal fats, used cooking oil and other waste grease streams. Earlier post.).

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience. Mr. Donovan drafted the “Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative” for the State of Louisiana. Donovan (20 December 2009). About the Author. Mr. Donovan is CEO of Renergie, Inc. Renergie”).

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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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CEMEX USA will partner with RTI International to demonstrate a dry sorbent CO 2 capture technology at one of its cement plants in the United States. A system to concentrate CO 2 from two steam methane reformer waste streams will be designed, constructed, and demonstrated at Port Arthur, Texas. Simon Sandstone reservoir.

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760. The work will result in the development of a first-of-its-kind aircraft gas turbo-electric engine with a sCO 2 waste heat recovery cycle. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Raytheon Technologies Research Center.

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