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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. Anadarko Production Company and Shell Exploration and Production Company have both agreed to host the test site on their acreage.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Air Products will supply a combined additional supply of more than 200 million standard cubic feet per day of hydrogen for Valero’s refineries in St. Charles, Louisiana and Port Arthur, Texas. Charles and Port Arthur locations, and also help to meet additional demands of customers on the Air Products pipeline system.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Air Products, the leading global hydrogen provider, held a dedication ceremony for what is now the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. Air Products had operated two hydrogen pipeline systems in Texas and Louisiana before joining them with a new 180-mile segment.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture to design and construct a crude oil pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas. Over the past three months, Cushing crude oil (West Texas Intermediate) has been trading at an average discount of approximately $12.57 per barrel and $10.54

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APRIL 25, 2011

will supply rotating equipment for the first full-scale production of renewable diesel fuel in the US. The Houston-based oil and gas equipment maker received the order from Diamond Green Diesel LLC. Houston Business Journal. Dresser-Rand Group Inc. Earlier post.). UOP is a Honeywell company.

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MARCH 16, 2019

Petroleum refineries in the US Gulf Coast increasingly rely on merchant suppliers, rather than their own production, to provide the hydrogen used to reduce the sulfur content of fuel, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA only collects data on hydrogen produced by SMR units.

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

and Syntroleum Corporation that produces synthetic fuels from animal fats and greases, has entered into strategic marketing alliance, commercial off-take and supply chain management agreements with Mansfield Oil Company to distribute renewable diesel to the commercial fleet vehicle market. Mansfield markets and distributes more than 2.5

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

According to an analysis by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), planned additions over the next two years to the US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve the bottleneck at Cushing, Oklahoma which has been caused by the oversupply of oil resulting from the growth of crude oil production in the US mid-continent and Canada.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. We reuse and recycle material by-products at our 76 landfill-free facilities every day. Click to launch.

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MARCH 12, 2014

This workshop will discuss, reassess, and prioritize demonstration and deployment efforts needed for the production of affordable, scalable, and sustainable drop-in hydrocarbons. The Bio-Oil Co-Processing: Expanding the Refinery Supply System Workshop will be held on 3 April in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell plc will not move forward with the proposed 140,000 barrels per day Gulf Coast gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Louisiana and will suspend any further work on the project, which was estimated to cost some $12.5 Earlier post.) Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Total March deliveries of all products, including gasoline, distillate, kerosine-jet fuel, and residual fuel, rose 3.5% The record gasoline production in March makes it abundantly clear that supply is not an issue with the higher gasoline prices we’ve seen. US distillate production in March was up 5.3% from a year ago.

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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. million tons per annum) at its Shell Geismar Chemicals facility in Geismar, Louisiana, in the United States. LNG-powered Offshore Supply Vessels. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The team will also evaluate a co-product—bio-char—as a soil amendment to increase carbon sequestration.

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JULY 10, 2014

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its green fuels process technology has been selected by Petrixo Oil & Gas to produce renewable jet fuel and renewable diesel at a new refinery to be built in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

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JUNE 1, 2011

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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AUGUST 7, 2015

Lower crude oil prices and strong demand for petroleum products, primarily gasoline, both in the United States and globally, have led to favorable margins that encourage refinery investment and high refinery runs. Total US motor gasoline product supplied is up 2.9%

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Category 1 Hurricane Isaac will have a minimal impact on Gulf manufacturing, according to GlobalData’s managing analyst for the downstream oil & gas sector, Jeffrey C. Refined product prices soared as refiners experienced major flooding and wind damage. A shutdown of less than half of Louisiana’s 2.8

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JULY 2, 2015

The Appomattox project is located 80 miles offshore (129 kilometers) from the nearest shoreline in Louisiana, in approximately 7,200 feet (2,195 meters) of water. Last year in the Gulf of Mexico, Shell started production from the Mars B development, through the new Olympus TLP, and from the Cardamom subsea tie-back to the Auger platform.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

US Geothermal Power Production and Development Update, September 2009 identifies 144 new geothermal projects under development in fourteen states that could represent as much as 7,100 MW of new baseload power capacity. State # of projects Potential MW. California. Mississippi. New Mexico. Washington. unspecified. and 7,109.9 million people.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These projects are to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of non-conventional geothermal energy technologies in three research areas: low temperature fluids, geothermal fluids recovered from oil and gas wells, and highly pressurized geothermal fluids. Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana. The partners expect that the proposed facility would principally convert waste grease—primarily animal fats and used cooking oil supplied by Darling—and potentially other feedstocks that become economically and commercially viable into renewable diesel. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

Alon, which refines and markets transportation fuels and other petroleum products, is believed to be the first independent refiner of its size issuing a mandate to reduce corporate fuel use and environmental impact through a clean fleet program. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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JANUARY 20, 2011

earlier post ), for a $241-million loan guarantee to support the construction of a 137-million gallon per year renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana, about 20 miles west of New Orleans. 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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

million tons per year (roughly 28,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day). The GTL project is intended to reduce Uzbekistan’s dependence on imported crude oil and transportation fuels and to diversify the utilization of its domestic gas resources. The GTL plant would produce high-quality diesel, kerosene and naphtha.

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JUNE 21, 2016

People collaborating with robots has the potential to change a broad swath of manufacturing sectors, from defense and space to automotive and health, enabling the reliable and efficient production of high-quality, customized products. LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.;

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. About 85% of the CO 2 from the process stream will be captured and over 5 million tons sequestered into a depleted oil or gas field. Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc. DOE Share: $3,014,666). C6 Resources. Praxair Inc.

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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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MARCH 22, 2010

If cap-and-trade in the United States were to become reality along the lines of proposals now before Congress, up to 2 billion of the new credits would be drawn from carbon offsets, potentially increasing the worldwide supply of such credits by a factor of seven. THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it’s unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. Global lithium demand is expected to outpace supply by 500,000 metric tons annually by 2030. The path is even murkier for water that is extracted alongside crude oil.

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JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. That’s a big sum. Hydroprocessing.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Fracking fluid is largely composed of water and sand, but oil and gas companies also add a variety of other chemicals, including anti-bacterial agents, corrosion inhibitors and surfactants. Surfactants reduce the surface tension between water and oil, allowing for more oil to be extracted from porous rock underground.

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APRIL 3, 2024

The Biden administration has decided against purchasing oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after promising to refill the nation’s emergency energy supply after it reached a 40-year low. Much of this hovers around the fact that oil companies were following suit and that a significant portion of the supply was sold to China.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

a renewable oil and bioproducts company, will help Dynamic Fuels fulfill the contract, which the Navy and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report is the single largest purchase of biofuel in US government history. and Syntroleum Corporation. Solazyme, Inc., The fuel will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in May 2012.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and one-third of all U.S. Pricing GHGs will increase the prices consumers pay for greenhouse-gas-intensive products. Participating U.S.

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