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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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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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MARCH 12, 2014

This workshop will focus on research and developments needed to achieve renewable algae-based biofuels. 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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

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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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.

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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 project aims to develop a regional source of renewable aviation fuel for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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MARCH 5, 2013

million tons per annum) at its Shell Geismar Chemicals facility in Geismar, Louisiana, in the United States. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Additional payments of up to $550 million could be payable by Total in case of an improvement in the oil markets in the coming years. In addition, in parallel with this transaction, Total and Engie agreed to cooperate to promote the use of biogas and renewable hydrogen, with Engie becoming Total’s priority supplier in this field.

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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. Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass.

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

At the high end, that would be enough baseload power to supply about 20% of California's total electric power in 2008—or enough generating capacity to supply the power needs of about 7.2 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. Geothermal Fluids Produced from Oil and Gas Wells. ElectraTherm, Inc.

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JUNE 21, 2016

We expect collaborations across multiple disciplines; from 3D bio-printing, cell science, and process design, automated pharmaceutical screening methods to the supply chain expertise needed to rapidly produce and transport these live-saving materials. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Louisiana State U.; Missouri U. Purdue U.

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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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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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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. Solazyme, Inc., The fuel will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in May 2012. Navy in May 2012.

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The Truth About Cars

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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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2010

I’m not the least bit intimated or scared by any of the people now arguing against saving ourselves – whether they’re with the oil, coal or gas industries or in the highest reaches of the Republican Party or atop the US Chamber of Commerce. And I’m just the guy to tell that truth whether you want to hear it or not.

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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. Over the long term, capital adjustments can occur in the electricity supply technology and other production activities. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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