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JULY 8, 2020

Chevron is partnering with California natural gas retailer Clean Energy Fuels Corp. For its part, Chevron will provide funding for Adopt-a-Port and supply RNG to Clean Energy stations near the ports. —Mike Vomund, Chevron vice president of Americas Products – West.

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JULY 11, 2011

a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals, announced it will carry out a second phase of research with Chevron Technology Ventures, a division of Chevron USA, Inc. We are appreciative of Chevron’s continued support of LS9 and this specific technology program.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

A team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Chevron Corporation has examined the chemical composition and properties of several diesel fuels and blendstocks derived from Fischer?Tropsch Why hydrotreating fatty acids and triglycerides produces good diesel blendstock. —Smagala et al.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Japan-based biotechnology company euglena ( earlier post ) has completed the construction of its demonstration-scale biorefinery in Yokohama for the production of renewable jet and diesel fuels from algae and waste oil. euglena has also been partnering with Isuzu Motors to test the renewable diesel for on-road use.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

that Chevron Corp. Chevron supplied gasoline in violation of state regulations at its Montebello and Richmond terminals. Chevron fully cooperated with ARB in this matter and took steps to correct the violations. The project is designed to retrofit or replace old, dirty diesel school buses operating in California.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, and Bunge North America, a subsidiary of Bunge Limited, announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) of a proposed 50/50 joint venture to help meet the demand for renewable fuels and to develop lower carbon intensity feedstocks.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company, BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), and Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance the demonstration of a locomotive powered by hydrogen fuel cells. —Joe Creed, Caterpillar group president of Energy and Transportation.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Chevron Products Company, a Chevron USA Inc. Delo 400 SD SAE 15W-30 is an API CJ-4 heavy duty diesel engine oil formulated using a new Chevron patent pending technology to provide key benefits for engines with “severe duty” cycles in on- and off-highway applications.

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MAY 14, 2012

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), a 50-50 joint venture between Chevron Products Company and Lummus Technology, has joined ARA’s ReadiJet Alternative Fuel Initiative to develop drop-in biofuels. ARA has developed a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) are partnering with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. Overview of the ReadiJet process. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). —Chuck Red, ARA’s Alternative Fuels Program lead.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Participating investors included CTTV Investments LLC, the venture capital arm of Chevron Technology Ventures LLC; Flagship Ventures; Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. LS9 is currently producing UltraClean Diesel at its pilot facility. LS9 will have demonstration scale production of UltraClean Diesel in 2010.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Ltd—an essential step for building the state’s first facility producing ultra-low carbon renewable diesel. The company will produce its XRD renewable diesel from vegetable oil, fats and waste cooking oils through a proprietary process. It can also yield a prime sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). UrbanX process flow.

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JANUARY 20, 2013

announced a partnership for the design, construction, and operation of a Biofuels ISOCONVERSION Process (BIC) demonstration system using the ARA and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) process for the production of certification quantities of 100% drop-in renewable jet, diesel, and gasoline. (ARA) and Blue Sun Energy, Inc. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 28, 2014

and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) achieved a key development milestone with their 100 barrel/per day (4,200 gallon/per day) demonstration-scale Biofuels ISOCONVERSION (BIC) facility in St. Blue Sun Energy, ARA Inc. Joseph, Missouri. Earlier post.) — Rob Sues, CEO of ARA.

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MAY 12, 2011

Under the agreement, KiOR may supply renewable diesel blendstocks for purchase by affiliates of FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass ( earlier post ), has signed a ground fuel supply agreement with FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 14, 2023

The Series A was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) and joined by Chevron USA. Globally, diesel and jet fuel account for more than one-third of the liquid fossil fuel used. Viridos (founded as Synthetic Genomics (SGI) in 2005) ( earlier post ) has raised a $25-million Series A equity investment. and United Airlines Ventures.

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JULY 8, 2011

a synthetic biology company producing renewable fuels and chemicals directly by microbes, has begun a collaboration with MAN Latin America, a leading Brazilian engineering and vehicles manufacturing company, to test LS9’s renewable diesel in both stationary engines and operational fleet vehicles in Brazil. LS9, Inc., Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a $32.7 Included in the 2012 program are $3 billion of planned expenditures by affiliates, which do not require cash outlays by Chevron. The program also supports continued exploration and appraisal activity in Chevron's focus areas of Western Australia, the Gulf of Mexico and western Africa.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

plans to produce and supply biojet and renewable diesel in Japan at commercial scale in the 2020s with support from the City of Yokohama, Chiyoda Corporation, Itochu Enex Co., drop-in hydrocarbon) renewable diesel production from Euglena since June 2014. Isuzu will evaluate the renewable diesel, and ANA will evaluate the biojet.

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MAY 3, 2011

Re-Crude is refined into gasoline and diesel blendstocks that are compatible with existing fuel infrastructure. KiOR combines a proprietary catalyst system with a biomass-to-renewable crude conversion technology to produce a high-quality oil called Re-Crude using a process similar to Fluid Catalytic Cracking used in the oil industry.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

The ReadiJet biofuel used for this flight was transformed by Applied Research Associates and Chevron Lummus Global, using oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma Bioscience Inc.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

A Navy ship has, for the first time, operated on a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) completed final-phase testing of a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel as part of the Navy’s MILSPEC qualification program. Earlier post.). The ex- Paul F.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

crop oils and animal fats) to non-ester biofuels or intermediates—with Chevron Lummus Global’s ISOCONVERSION process technology to create drop-in biofuels that will be ready to use at 100% levels in jet and diesel engines, eliminating the need for blending with petroleum-derived fuels. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., ​ Optimus Technologies recently announced a $17.8-million million Series A funding round led by Mitsui & Co. out of Tokyo, Japan.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently granted Ensyn Corporation ( earlier post ) Part 79 registration for its renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. FCC units are found in most refineries worldwide and are used to produce gasoline and diesel from vacuum gas oil (VGO).

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JUNE 8, 2011

developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, and Catchlight Energy LLC (CLE), a 50-50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Chevron Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company focused on providing liquid transportation fuels from sustainable forest-based resources, have signed a feedstock supply agreement.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

We hope the project will advance CTL and CBTL processes by demonstrating a cost-effective, novel FT catalyst that selectively converts syngas derived from the gasification of coal and coal-biomass mixtures predominantly to gasoline and diesel range hydrocarbons, thereby eliminating expensive upgrading operations.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Among the multiple applications for different processing pathways of corn or sorghum ethanol are four pathways from LytEn for hydrogen produced from biomethane; four pathways for renewable gasoline and diesel produced from tree residue from Ensyn; and one application for cellulosic ethanol using corn stover feedstock from POET. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A 12-month test of a B20 (20% biodiesel and 80% diesel) biodiesel fuel blend to power the daily Amtrak Heartland Flyer train has made TIME magazine’s list of “The 50 Best Inventions of 2010.” The trial has received support on fuel and engine component evaluation from Chevron Oronite. ( A hat-tip to R.M.! ).

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MARCH 15, 2022

In 2021, Raven SR attracted funds totalling $20 million from global oil and gas major Chevron, Japanese trading house ITOCHU, hydrogen mobility leader and innovator Hyzon Motors, and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR’s technology is designed to produce more green hydrogen per ton of waste than competing processes.

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JUNE 21, 2010

LS9 modifies the ACP pathway in bacteria to produce renewable hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals with optimized properties, including UltraClean Diesel and surfactants, which LS9 is commercializing with one of its strategic partners, Procter and Gamble. The company has also entered into a strategic partnership with Procter and Gamble.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Ensyn’s Renewable Fuel Oil (RFO) is a multi-purpose petroleum replacement fuel with uses in many applications, including heating, upgrading to transportation fuels and power generation in diesel engines. Ensyn’s current shareholders include Credit Suisse, Impax Asset Management plc, CTTV Investments LLC, a division of Chevron U.S.A.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Aemetis is the first global licensee of the Chevron Lummus Global Biofuels ISOCONVERSION Process to produce 100% replacement jet and diesel fuel from plant and algal oil feedstock.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

GTL transportation fuel is cleaner burning than conventional diesel with a roughly comparable, and potentially lower, greenhouse gas profile, Sasol says. Emissions performance of GTL diesel. Sasol has used its proprietary technology for more than 60 years to produce more than 1.6 Source: Sasol. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

In December 2013, REG entered into an asset purchase agreement under which it would acquire substantially all of the assets of Syntroleum Corporation, and assume substantially all of the material liabilities of Syntroleum, a Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids and renewable diesel fuel technology company. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 6, 2016

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is a novel form of combustion capable of attaining diesel-like efficiency with low emissions of nitric oxides and soot. Chevron and the General Motors Corporation have provided the technical and financial contributions toward this project.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

“Betting on Science – Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels” selected 12 innovations in electrification and genetically modified biofuels, as well as existing fuel sources that will have the most immediate impact on emissions and on the gasoline and diesel markets. These include: Synthetic biology: sugarcane-to-diesel.

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