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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

While demand for all major refined products declined, the overall dip was driven in significant part by a nearly 27% reduction in deliveries of high-sulfur distillate fuel, which is used in home heating. The slide in heating fuel demand reflects January’s relatively warm temperatures. Crude oil production rose 3.8%

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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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MAY 24, 2021

During the crush process, soybeans are cracked to remove the hull and then rolled into flakes, which are then soaked in a solvent and put through a distilling process to produce pure crude soybean oil. —North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. The processed soybean flakes are dried, toasted and ground into soybean meal.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Accelergy Corporation has begun production of a synthetic fuel from coal and biomass, to be evaluated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the industry benchmark for 100% synthetic jet fuel. Fuel deliveries to the Air Force Research Labs will commence in late 2010. Camelina oil. Groenewold, Director of the EERC.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. In early August, the Renewable Fuels Association launched a “They Said What?” Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

North Dakota-based Red Trail Energy (RTE), which since 2007 has operated an ethanol production facility with annual production of about 60 million gallons per year, is proposing sequestration of CO 2 produced from starch fermentation to lower the overall carbon intensity of the fuel for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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JANUARY 29, 2009

The EERC has already demonstrated the production of 100% renewable jet fuel via a thermocatalytic cracking and separation process that can directly replace petroleum derived jet fuel through a project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Product-specific activities of the EERC-Tesoro project include: Jet Fuel.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Jet fuel demand rose in May. Fuel demand is still not strong. Gradually improving vehicle fuel efficiency may also be a factor. US refinery production of all four major products—gasoline, distillate, jet fuel and residual fuels—outpaced domestic demand. Imports of crude oil declined in May by 1.3%

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MARCH 16, 2012

this February compared with February 2011, pulled down by a decline in residual fuel oil (40.2%) and other oil (liquid petrochemical feedstocks, naphtha and gasoil) deliveries, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API). The steep decline in residual fuel demand related to users switching to natural gas.

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MAY 21, 2014

Bakken crude is similar to other North American light, sweet crudes and does not pose a greater risk to transport by rail than other transportation fuels, according to a study recently completed by Turner, Mason & Company for the North Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC). —Kari Cutting, vice president of the NDPC.

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JULY 29, 2009

The Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota has been awarded a subcontract by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to help produce renewable jet fuel from algae. Isomerization and cracking to achieve a jet fuel specification-compliant mix of branched hydrocarbons.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows. But the bust is leaving towns like Williston, North Dakota stretched extremely thin as it tries to deal with the aftermath. By Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

A diathermic oil loop acts as heat carrier between turbine exhaust and the working fluid cyclopentane; the working fluid vaporizes and expands in the turbo expander which, coupled with the power generator, produces electricity. The fluid vapor then condenses, closing the loop. The Alliance Pipeline transports approximately 1.6

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MARCH 13, 2012

The states of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opposing enforcement of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). This regulation directly threatens $1.3

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AUGUST 18, 2009

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) fuels team will flight test a 50:50 blend of hydrotreated renewable JP-5 (HRJ5) and petroleum-based JP-5 in an F/A-18 Super Hornet at Patuxent River, Md., The static tests will probably take place in the December-January time frame, according to Rick Kamin, Navy fuels lead. Rick Kamin. (To

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MARCH 25, 2015

Much of the US’ new abundant domestic oil and gas supply is being produced from unconventional resources—particularly light sweet crude oil from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, as well as the Eagle Ford and Permian Basins in Texas. This rapid growth has also created challenges in moving crude oil to market.

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APRIL 20, 2012

Distillate fuel production at 4.4 Imports of crude oil and refined products fell in March by 6.6% Higher domestic crude oil production in March offset lower crude import levels. Crude oil production rose by 4.7% Crude oil production rose by 4.7% —API chief economist John Felmy. US gasoline production of 9.3

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JULY 22, 2009

Renewable jet propellant-8 (JP-8) fuel developed and produced by the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota powered a rocket built by Flometrics, Inc., The fuel burn was so successful that the rocket approached Mach 1 and reached an altitude of about 20,000 feet.

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

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Interior-Bureau of Indian Affairs have completed the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation’ Proposed “Clean Fuels Refinery” on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation near Makoti in North Dakota.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Total March deliveries of all products, including gasoline, distillate, kerosine-jet fuel, and residual fuel, rose 3.5% Sharply higher crude oil prices are driving that, and they continue to put upward pressure on the price at the pump. Domestic crude oil production in March 2010 hit 5.5 from a year ago.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The microrefinery will have a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day and will process local crudes and condensates into fuel oil, diesel and jet fuel. A small refinery in North Dakota, announced earlier this year, is under construction. —Kim Green, a spokeswoman for Rock River Resources.

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JULY 2, 2012

The refinery, the oldest continuously operating one on the east coast, processes 330,000 barrels of oil per day into various refined products and was scheduled for shut down in August of 2012. Global asset manager The Carlyle Group L.P. and Sunoco, Inc. Earlier post.). This transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The reactor will then be transported to the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks, North Dakota for integration with upstream and downstream processing equipment, before proceeding into testing next summer. Earlier post.) The 24-month, $5.2M Earlier post.).

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass.

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MAY 4, 2011

US Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota) introduced a bill—the Domestic Energy Promotion Act of 2011— that would extend, through 2016, at descending levels, the volumetric ethanol excise tax credit, or VEETC, which is also known as the blenders’ credit.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Marathon Petroleum Corporation selected Topsoe as the technology provider for renewable fuels production at the Martinez Renewable Fuels Facility in California. As we continue to challenge ourselves to lead in sustainable energy, our renewable fuels production facilities in Dickinson and Martinez have been important contributors.

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JULY 22, 2011

In the Permian Basin, approximately one additional barrel of oil can be recovered for each 6,000 cubic feet (6 Mcf) of compressed CO 2 injected into the oil field. In oil fields such as Whiting’s, the injected CO 2 mixes with the oil that is left behind in the primary oil-well production and the secondary water-injection stage.

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AUGUST 14, 2015

The new NGL process will be able to produce a premium quality natural gas capable of being used for both stationary and vehicular APG dual fuel applications. When oil is extracted from shale, a mixture of hydrocarbon gases (methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane and other heavy gases) reach the surface at each well site.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Crude oil production decreased 1.4% However, North Dakota year over year production continued to decline for the fifth consecutive month from record high levels. However, North Dakota year over year production continued to decline for the fifth consecutive month from record high levels. At nearly 3.6

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JULY 2, 2009

The two projects selected—an existing power plant in North Dakota and a new facility in California—will incorporate advanced technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The selection of the two projects is part of the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI).

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of North Dakota. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Synergistic Thermo-Microbial-Electrochemical (T-MEC) Approach for Drop-In Fuel Production from Wet Waste.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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JULY 19, 2016

The settlement, a consent decree lodged in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, includes provisions that resolves ongoing Clean Air Act violations at refineries in Kenai, Alaska; Martinez, California; Kapolei, Hawaii; Mandan, North Dakota; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Anacortes, Washington. Of the $10.45-million

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Airlines , public transit , and regular commuters are feeling the strain of rising fuel costs, which have increased dramatically since August 2021. In fact, EV sales have doubled in the past year , while, correlational or not, average fuel prices have jumped from an average of $2.94/gallon gallon in April 2021 to $4.21/gallon

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328.

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