Remove Louisiana Remove Oil Remove Study Remove Water
article thumbnail

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

Green Car Congress

billion, 180 million gallon per year SAF facility in Louisiana to occur in early 2024. The Louisiana SAF facility will be the template for multiple other such facilities to be built across North America, Europe and Asia. The relatively modest balance of the maximum $30-million capital raise is expected to fund in the next few months.

Companies 370
article thumbnail

NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

Green Car Congress

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

Water 150
article thumbnail

$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Rabalais, Ph.D.

Mexico 225
article thumbnail

DOE selects 6 projects for $30M in funding to boost unconventional oil and natural gas recovery

Green Car Congress

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. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Selected UOG projects. Lead organization. Description. C-Crete Technologies LLC.

Oil 150
article thumbnail

UT Austin study finds no direct connection of hydraulic fracturing to reports of groundwater contamination

Green Car Congress

The study found that many problems ascribed to hydraulic fracturing are related to processes common to all oil and gas drilling operations, such as casing failures or poor cement jobs. The Environmental Defense Fund also assisted in developing the scope of work and methodology for the study. Earlier post.).

Austin 199
article thumbnail

Chevron announces successful test well at deepwater St. Malo in Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

Oil flow rates, though limited by testing equipment constraints, exceeded 13,000 barrels of oil per day. Malo development is located approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 7,000 feet (2,134 m) of water. Malo PS003 well in the prolific Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Chevron 256
article thumbnail

BP Pledges $500M for Independent Research into Impact of Deepwater Horizon Spill on Marine Environment

Green Car Congress

BP pledged up to $500 million to an open research program studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon incident, and its associated response, on the marine and shoreline environment of the Gulf of Mexico. How do oil, the dispersed oil and the dispersant behave on the seabed, in the water column, on the surface, and on the shoreline?

Mariner 225