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Strategic Biofuels announced that its Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Test Well Program was successfully completed at the company’s Louisiana Green Fuels Project (LGF) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. LGF is the first renewable diesel fuel project to achieve this milestone.
announced the formation of Beaver Lake Renewable Energy, LLC (BLRE), which will construct a new green methanol production facility in Central Louisiana. SunGas Renewables Inc. Moller – Maersk’s fleet of methanol-powered container vessels and will utilize wood fiber from local, sustainably-managed forests.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol (SLM) CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 The South Louisiana Methanol site will be the largest of its kind in North America. James Parish. ZEEP) and New Zealand-based Todd Corp.
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Grön Fuels, LLC’s renewable diesel and jet fuel option facility at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge is based on Topsoe’s proprietary HydroFlex hydrotreating and H2bridge hydrogen technologies, including an option to capture ~1 million tons per year of bio-CO 2 for carbon sequestration in suitable deep saline aquifers located below the project site.
Following its recent acquisition of the US-based biotechnology company Virdia (formerly HCL CleanTech) ( earlier post ), Stora Enso is investing €32 million (US$ 43 million) in a demonstration and market development plant to be built at Raceland, Louisiana, USA. The Raceland demonstration plant is scheduled to start production early 2017.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Juniper GTL LLC President Vianney Valès announced the company will invest $100 million to renovate a dormant steam methane reformer in the Westlake, Louisiana area and convert it to a natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility, producing waxes, drilling fluids, diesel and naphtha.
gigawatt hours (GWh) of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels across multiple projects, with the first project slated for 500 megawatt hours (MWh) in Louisiana. DG Fuels expects to complete its Louisiana SAF project by mid-2022. The Louisiana facility is the company’s first major project. barrel per ton of feedstock.
an independent producer of specialty hydrocarbon and fuel products, will invest $25 million as a joint venture partner in the construction of the Juniper GTL commercial gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Louisiana ( earlier post ). The Juniper GTL process starts with the reforming of natural gas into a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
DG Fuels (DGF), a provider of cellulosic drop-in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), signed a multi-year SAF offtake agreement with Air France KLM for up to 60,408 metric tons (21 million gallons) per year from DGF’s initial plant to be located in Louisiana.
Ascension Clean Energy (ACE), a joint venture led by Clean Hydrogen Works (CHW), selected Topsoe to provide licensing, engineering, proprietary hardware, and catalyst for its planned world-scale clean energy production and export facility in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The projected $7.5-billion billion project is expected to produce 7.2
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Gabriel, Louisiana will produce 15 tons per day (tpd) of green hydrogen. This JV activity will expand Plug Power’s existing work to build a first-of-a-kind green hydrogen generation network in North America to help customers achieve their sustainability goals of net-zero carbon emissions. The first production plant in St.
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Monarch Energy, an energy company focused on decarbonizing the hydrogen production process, is exploring building a $426- million facility in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project would result in an additional 105 new indirect jobs, for a total of 149 potential new jobs in the Capital Region.
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. This simplifies implementation and further reduces new carbon emissions created in the process.
Research at this new hydrotreater pilot plant will support REG’s Geismar, Louisiana renewable diesel plant by helping to evaluate new low-carbon feedstocks and optimize production of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Nutrien, the world’s largest provider of crop inputs and services, and EXMAR, a provider of floating solutions for the operation, transportation and transformation of gas, will jointly develop and build a low-carbon, ammonia-fueled vessel. Use Nutrien’s existing low-carbon ammonia supply from Geismar, LA as a fuel.
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The US Department of Energy announced $33 million in funding for 17 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) and Range Extenders for Electric Aviation with Low Carbon and High Efficiency (REEACH) programs.
billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use. Secretary Chu on Carbon Capture. Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. The first phase of these projects will include $21.6
Cool Planet Energy Systems, a technology company producing green fuels and biochar products, broke ground on the company’s first commercial facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, dubbed Project Genesis. The facility will be located at the Port of Alexandria, on the Red River Waterway in Central Louisiana. Earlier post.).
thyssenkrupp has signed a contract with Illinois-based CF Industries to supply a 20 megawatt alkaline water electrolysis plant to produce green hydrogen at their Donaldsonville, Louisiana, manufacturing complex. The company’s first green ammonia project will be implemented at its Donaldsonville, Louisiana, manufacturing complex.
Long-duration hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for the transition to a net zero carbon energy future. The nation’s largest brine producer, Texas Brine, and its affiliates have salt positions in New York, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana that will enable access to major load centers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the Gulf Coast.
Myriant Technologies, a biotech developer and manufacturer of renewable biochemicals, has entered into formal agreements with the Department of Energy (DOE) and has begun to draw funds under grant for its biobased Succinic Acid facility in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Earlier post.).
It has developed process technology and experience in producing lower carbon intensity, high performance, synthetic graphite targeting the electric vehicle and energy storage sectors. Syrah Technologies , Phase 3 Expansion of Syrah’s Commercial-Scale Natural Graphite Active Anode Material Facility in Vidalia, Louisiana, $219,820,610.
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The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. The project selections are aimed at testing large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage, an important step in moving CCS technology toward eventual commercial deployment.
Officials there ran a 5% blend of Cool Planet’s renewable, low-carbon gasoline for six weeks during their normal operations. The Cool Planet low-carbon fuel was derived from plant sources, and converted into fuel at their demonstration facility in Camarillo, CA.
Data source: US Energy Information Administration, State Energy Data System California’s renewable diesel consumption grew substantially after its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) went into effect in 2011. The California LCFS requires transportation fuels used in the state to be mixed with biofuels to lower their carbon intensities.
plans to undertake a capacity expansion of its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery by 250 million gallons annually to 340 million gallons per year. REG Geismar has proven to be a tremendous asset for our company and is a natural site for increasing production of our lower carbon renewable diesel. Renewable Energy Group, Inc.
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Upon completion of the project, Kinder Morgan’s Harvey, Louisiana facility will serve as the primary hub where Neste will store a variety of raw materials including, for example, the used cooking oil it collects from more than 40,000 restaurants across the United States. million cars zero emission according to the US EPA’s GHG calculator.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight projects in five states—California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah—to receive up to $11.3 Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), up to $997,000. million to support the research and development of pioneering geothermal technologies.
The ethanol produced there will meet California’s low carbon fuel standard. There will be strong demand for ethanol from the refinery because the ethanol produced will meet stringent low carbon fuel mandates imposed anywhere in the US. —Scott Brittenham, CEO of Clean Energy Capital.
Located near Alexandria, Louisiana, Sundrop Fuels plans to break ground late this year on its inaugural commercial plant, which will produce up to 50 million gallons of renewable gasoline annually. The shape-selective catalyst limits the synthesis reactions to 10 carbons. Sundrop Fuels, Inc., Earlier post.).
Blue ammonia generally relates to the production of ammonia (NH 3 ) with its byproduct carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) removed through carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). CF Industries has also established goals for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a 25% reduction in emissions intensity by 2030.
Williston Basin (Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota): University of North Dakota plans to lead a coalition to drive the expansion and transformation of coal and coal-based resource usage within the Williston Basin to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals and produce non-fuel carbon-based products. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.
Under the terms of the MoU, LGES and Syrah will test and verify the natural graphite from Syrah’s Vidalia production facility in Vidalia, Louisiana, which is scheduled to start production in 2023. LGES has also signed binding term sheets with Sigma Lithium (battery-grade lithium) and Electra Battery Materials Corporation (cobalt sulfate).
The shape-selective catalyst limits hydrocarbon synthesis to 10 carbons—i.e., The shape-selective catalyst limits the synthesis reactions to 10 carbons—the result is sulfur free gasoline with a typical 92 Research Octane Number. billion natural gas-to-gasoline facility at The Port of Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana.
LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.
an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCS) solutions and enhanced oil recovery. Acquiring Denbury reflects our determination to profitably grow our Low Carbon Solutions business by serving a range of hard-to-decarbonize industries with a comprehensive carbon capture and sequestration offering.
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