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South African energy and chemicals group Sasol today announced that it has chosen the southwestern region of the State of Louisiana as the site for a planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. Sasol will embark on a feasibility study to evaluate the viability of a GTL venture in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, over the next 18 months.

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

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.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

billion clean energy complex in Louisiana. Air Products will build, own and operate the megaproject, which will produce more than 750 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of blue hydrogen in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Haldor Topsoe will deliver its blue ammonia technology for Air Products’ recently announced $4.5-billion

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

REG converts waste and byproduct fats and oils into biodiesel and renewable diesel. Renewable diesel is produced through a catalytic process utilizing heat, pressure and hydrogen—hydrotreating—to convert feedstocks into a hydrocarbon fuel that is chemically similar to traditional diesel.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Phillips 66 plans to convert its Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, La., The Alliance Refinery, located on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 25 miles south of New Orleans, employs approximately 500 employees and 400 contractors. to a terminal facility. The conversion is expected to take place in 2022.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and PBF Chalmette Refinery Manager Steven Krynski announced that the company is studying the possible conversion of an idled refinery unit into a renewable diesel production complex. With the project, Chalmette Refining would create 20 new direct jobs at an average annual salary of $70,000, plus benefits.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

has launched a new initiative to convert its 170-vehicle fleet to hybrid and clean diesel vehicles. Alon owns four crude oil refineries in Texas, California, Louisiana and Oregon, with an aggregate crude oil throughput capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels per day. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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JUNE 28, 2012

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. water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). Sundrop Fuels, Inc., Earlier post.). The MTG reaction path. Source: EMRE.

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JULY 21, 2021

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

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MAY 3, 2010

to convert these structures for use in deep waters. The system is being fabricated in Louisiana and will be transported to the Deepwater Enterprise. The state of Louisiana has already closed vulnerable fisheries in state waters within 3 miles of the coast. BP engineers have worked closely with the firm Wild Well Controls, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

University partners from the states of Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Iowa will lead the projects, which focus in part on developing aviation biofuels from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources. A team of researchers led by Louisiana State University received $17.2

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APRIL 25, 2011

a $241-million loan guarantee to support the construction of the 137-million gallon per year renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana, about 20 miles west of New Orleans. The project will use the UOP/Eni Ecofining process to convert recycled animal fats, recycled cooking oils and other feedstocks into renewable diesel fuel.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small-scale biorefineries which convert non-food biomass into gasoline, jet fuel, and soil-enhancing biochar, has completed a joint vehicle road test with Ventura County, CA. Officials there ran a 5% blend of Cool Planet’s renewable, low-carbon gasoline for six weeks during their normal operations.

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JUNE 1, 2011

A subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation will provide financing to Diamond Green Diesel LLC, a previously announced joint venture project between Darling International and Valero Energy Corporation ( earlier post ), for the construction of its renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The MTG process first dehydrates methanol to dimethylether (DME); an equilibrium mixture of methanol, DME and water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). billion natural gas-to-gasoline facility at The Port of Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana. gasoline range. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge. G2X plans to build a $1.3-billion

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MAY 3, 2012

Amyris is presenting a summary of the results at the 34 th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals in New Orleans, Louisiana. The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres’ sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 10, 2013

CenterPoint Energy, a US energy delivery company, is adding 35 natural gas vehicles to its fleet across Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. Additionally, the company expects to provide natural gas service to at least 17 new compressed natural gas fueling stations built in the company’s service territory.

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JUNE 24, 2011

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.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

and Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) announced that MHTL intends to partner with G2X Energy to construct the world-scale methanol-to-gasoline (MTG)-ready, methanol production facility being developed by G2X Energy in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The plant received its air and construction permit from the state of Louisiana on 25 May.

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MAY 10, 2021

@julia_bergeron and I have been tracking the location of barge 'Marmac 302', set to be converted into A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship. Drone ships Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) and Just Read The Instructions (JRTI) are both converted barges based on virtually identical Marmac 303 and 304 vessels. Stay tuned for updates!

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MARCH 31, 2014

The fleet consists of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas tractors serving more than 40 customer operations in California, New York, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Georgia, and Louisiana. Since deploying its natural gas vehicle program in 2011, Ryder has replaced approximately 3.1

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., 320-390 °C, 200-420 bar) aqueous phase process which converts biomass containing cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin into a high-octane gasoline fraction. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. Heritage Environmental managed the collection of boom material along the Louisiana coast. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

With the transition from a diesel-fueled fleet to trucks powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), Lowe’s expects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nearly 20% and control fuel costs as it transports up to 68 truckloads each day to stores in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana. The partners expect that the proposed facility would principally convert waste grease—primarily animal fats and used cooking oil supplied by Darling—and potentially other feedstocks that become economically and commercially viable into renewable diesel. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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.

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MAY 23, 2012

a gasification-based drop-in advanced biofuels company ( earlier post ), is partnering with ThyssenKrupp Uhde for its inaugural biogasoline production facility near Alexandria, Louisiana ( earlier post ). The HTW process can convert a broad range of feedstocks—including biomasses or municipal waste—into syngas.

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MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies utilizes a chemical reaction process to convert fatty acid into a new molecule structure called an estolide. Biosynthetic Technologies has been manufacturing limited quantities of the high oleic soybean-based synthetic oils at their plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. The host site for the pilot project is Cedar Lane Farms in Wooster, Ohio. DOE Share: $6,239,542). (DOE

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Refiners use hydrogen to convert heavy crude oil into diesel, jet fuel and gasoline and to further remove sulphur from these products. The 142,000 Nm 3 /h (120 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd)) steam methane reformer (SMR) is one of the largest hydrogen units in operation in the United States.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

The fuel for the Navy will be manufactured at Dynamic Fuel’s Geismar, Louisiana, renewable fuels plant using US-sourced yellow grease (used cooking oil) as well as Solazyme’s tailored algal oil as feedstocks. The fuel will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in May 2012.

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Gabriel, Louisiana, partially funded by a $100-million US Department of Energy award. Koura is working with industry partners and researchers to convert the material into a wide range of advanced battery materials, including electrolyte salts, binders and high-performance electrolyte additives for lithium-ion batteries.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

earlier post ), for a $241-million loan guarantee to support the construction of a 137-million gallon per year renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana, about 20 miles west of New Orleans. The project will produce renewable diesel fuel primarily from animal fats, used cooking oil and other waste grease streams.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Catalytic Conversion: Cool Planet has developed a number of proprietary catalytic conversion processes to convert these useful hydrocarbon components into different types of fuels. The company broke ground on its first biofuel production facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 26 February 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Arbor Gas is pursing decarbonization solutions using waste woody biomass which will be converted into renewable gasoline and hydrogen. The net reaction may be formulated as: Oxygenates (MeOH/DME) ? C 1-2 + C 3-4 (LPG) + C 5+ (Gasoline) + H 2 0 + Heat.

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MAY 9, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at a facility in Louisiana. International Alliance Group (IAG) will provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the project.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Operations are underway at the Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting non-food grade animal fats and greases into high quality renewable fuels. Dynamic Fuels is a 50:50 joint venture between Syntroleum and Tyson Foods. Earlier post.)

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