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DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

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million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK).

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VG Energy and DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials of LipidMax to boost corn oil yield

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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 Renewable Research, headquartered in Brandon, South Dakota, brings agricultural innovations together with investors.

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BIOX working with Forge Hydrocarbons to co-locate renewable diesel facility at Sombra site

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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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Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

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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. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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ExxonMobil seeking to boost growth, continue work on lower-emissions technologies including biofuels and carbon capture

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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.

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U Texas at Austin researchers rewire yeast for high lipid generation; 60x improvement over parent strains

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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). Ingram, director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida.

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DOE awarding $15M to 3 algae-based biofuel and bioproducts projects

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This funding will advance the research and development of advanced biofuel technologies to speed the commercialization of renewable, domestically produced, and affordable fossil-fuel replacements. Global Algae Innovations Inc., Algenol Biotech LLC. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. MicroBio Engineering, Inc.,

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