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AUGUST 20, 2019

The financing was co-led by The Engine and by The GOOSE Society of Texas. Syzygy is advancing a new photocatalytic chemical reactor that could significantly reduce the cost and carbon emissions in the production process for a wide range of major chemicals such as fuel, fertilizer, and plastic.

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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Rice University President David Leebron and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Edmonton, Alberta outlining a research collaboration between nanoAlberta , part of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, and Rice’s Richard E. Adams noted America is the biggest market for Canadian oil. Wade Adams.

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JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

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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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APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Light crude oil trapped in rock, such as shale, is called tight oil. for diesel, and 5.1

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APRIL 28, 2015

Universal LNG Solutions ( ULNG ) has introduced the first four trucks in a fleet of 95 of liquefied natural gas (LNG) big rigs at the campus of Sancus Energy, an LNG processing technology company. —Jeffrey Liu, CEO of Universal LNG Solutions.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of environmentally friendly lubricants. violaceus plant’s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln noticed the February orchid seed oils were unusual.

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MAY 23, 2013

VG Energy, an agricultural biotech company, entered a strategic alliance with DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials using LipidMax to increase corn oil yield. DAK is providing twelve 2,000 ft 2 plots in South Dakota to measure the effect of LipidMax in corn oil production and test the robustness of LipidMax in field conditions.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee.

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MAY 30, 2019

ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins. billion barrels of discovered recoverable resource. —Darren Woods.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). lipolytica by both removing and overexpressing specific genes that influence lipid production. —Blazeck et al.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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MARCH 2, 2010

Carbon dioxide injection—an important part of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology—is underway as part of a pilot study of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the Citronelle Field of Mobile County, Alabama. A project team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham is conducting the injection. and 2 billion tons of CO 2.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Shell and The University of Texas at Austin signed a five-year agreement to invest $7.5 million to address short- and long-term challenges facing the growing worldwide unconventional oil and gas industry. Shale gas is abundant, widely used, and a growing source of energy in the United States.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Rice University researchers are taking advantage of graphene’s outstanding strength, light weight and solubility to enhance fluids used to drill oil wells. When the drill bit is removed and drilling fluid displaced, the formation oil forces remnants of the filter cake out of the pores as the well begins to produce.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% The corresponding range of CO 2 offsets is 0.55–2.0

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

ExxonMobil announced an enhanced program to reduce methane emissions from its production and midstream facilities across the United States. Investing in cutting-edge technologies to detect, quantify and reduce emissions at production sites. That work will unfold over the next three years.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Separations play a critical role in biofuel production and that fundamental research in the are, including the identification of transformative approaches, is needed to generate separation technologies that will enable larger-scale production, according to a report on a workshop convened earlier this year by the National Science Foundation.

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JULY 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. Global Algae Innovations. Global Algae Innovations Inc., Global Algae Innovations Inc., Algenol Biotech LLC. MicroBio Engineering, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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MARCH 17, 2017

BIOX Corporation, a renewable energy company that owns and operates biodiesel production facilities, is working with Forge Hydrocarbons ( earlier post ) to explore the co-location of a renewable diesel production facility using Forge technology on the existing BIOX site in Sombra, Ontario. BIOX acquired a 50-million-liter (13.2-million-gallon)

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. The relative contributions of different production components differ, however. The way in which wells are drilled and brought into production has been evolving. Source: UT Austin. Click to enlarge.

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The machine, which can run autonomously or at the direction of a remote operator, goes around collecting the junk and gunk (like plastic bottles, oil spills, and algae) that float on the water, as well as detritus located up to 10 meters below the surface. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu.

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JUNE 2, 2013

and EARTH University in Costa Rica. Other components of this system include an Ad Astra-designed solar and wind-based hydrogen production and storage system. Ad Astra is developing this system in collaboration with Costa Rica’s state-owned oil refinery, RECOPE.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

VG researchers say that the MDT approach increases the yields of oils stored and/or secreted by algal cells by 300%. The technology also has the ability to increase oil storage in seeds for increased production of edible oils. The end result is more oil is available for processing into a biofuel.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Houston Advanced Research Center ( HARC ) and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University are establishing a collaborative research program to promote advanced technology for low-impact oil and gas drilling. University of Colorado. Utah State University.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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. Faculty members from across The University of Texas at Austin campus participated in the research, which the Energy Institute funded.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected nine new projects targeting environmental tools and technology for shale gas and coalbed methane (CBM) production. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. million (DOE share: $6.9

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JUNE 19, 2010

The project team aims to demonstrate that post-combustion carbon capture can be economically applied to existing power plants—particularly those having the opportunity to sequester CO 2 in nearby oil fields—and the viability of sequestration in such formations. Parish Generating Station located in Thompsons, Texas.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. million tons of CO 2 per year and increase domestic production of oil by more than 10 million barrels per year by the end of the demonstration period in September 2015.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

This represents the second highest increase in geothermal power capacity over a calendar year since the production tax credit (PTC) was extended to geothermal in 2005, and a 5% percent increase over 2011 year-end data. In 2012, seven new geothermal projects and additions came online in three different states.

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JULY 25, 2012

Michalek, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and his colleagues Mikhail Chester, an assistant professor at Arizona State University; and Constantine Samaras, an engineer at the RAND Corporation. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Current federal policy is weighted toward plug-in with larger battery packs.

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JULY 26, 2012

The US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) will award $41 million investment to 13 projects to drive more efficient biofuels production and feedstock improvements through genomics. This project enables creation of diverse product streams from this facility, opening new markets for the cooperative and contributing to the U.S.

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JULY 17, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have selected 10 projects that will receive funding aimed at accelerating genetic breeding programs to improve plant feedstocks for the production of biofuels, biopower, and bio-based products. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Prior programs in Alaska have explored gas hydrate reservoir potential and alternative production strategies, and additional testing programs are in development.

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