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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

BP Products North America Inc. has started shipping crude oil bound for the US West Coast through Petroterminal de Panama ( PTP )’s trans-Panama pipeline, marking the start of a seven-year transportation and storage agreement between BP and PTP. Under the terms of the agreement, BP has leased a total of 5.4

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JANUARY 7, 2010

BioJet Corporation and Great Plains Oil & Exploration have executed a Teaming Agreement for the purpose of producing renewable jet fuels. The companies plan to jointly develop integrated camelina cultivation and associated refinery projects in the US Europe, South America, and Asia.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

Under a project to deliver a new generation of green transport fuel, researchers the Islamic Azad University in Iran have produced biodiesel from flixweed seed oil. The invasive plant now occurs in 48 states, excluding Alabama and Florida; it has also been introduced in South America, Asia, southern Africa, and New Zealand.).

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MARCH 10, 2023

The engines, which are capable of operation on green methanol and conventional fuel-oil, represent the first order for the G80 bore size; they will also feature MAN Energy Solutions’ proprietary EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) systems.

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JULY 6, 2021

This drove up demand for cheap crop-based biodiesel, such as palm and soy oil, which is mainly sourced from Asia and South America. Palm oil reached its highest level, capping a decade of growth that has seen palm oil consumption treble. The updated REDII, adopted in 2018, plots a path away from palm oil.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

ExxonMobil Corporation announced positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels. Wood Mackenzie currently expects around 350,000-400,000 b/d of oil production (just oil, not factoring in natural gas) by 2026 from there.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

as a source for oleaginous microorganisms or enzymes supporting the digestion of raw sugars for the production of oil to be used as feedstock for biodiesel. In a paper in the journal Fuel , they note that the yield of ant oil is 16% dry weight and contains most of the fatty acids also found in other biomass resources.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Category 1 Hurricane Isaac will have a minimal impact on Gulf manufacturing, according to GlobalData’s managing analyst for the downstream oil & gas sector, Jeffrey C. Refined product prices soared as refiners experienced major flooding and wind damage. In a precautionary move, US Gulf Coast refiners shut in more than 1.3

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JUNE 8, 2020

Experts from the development team joined Nuseed and, by working closely with Nuseed’s South America and European teams, have accelerated commercialization, by building the Nuseed Value Chain with R&D, contract growers, industry partners, and RSB certified delivery to the end-use customer in just five months.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Earlier this year, Elevance entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Wilmar International Limited (Wilmar), one of the largest global agribusiness groups, to construct a biorefinery based on olefin metathesis technology for the production of high-value performance chemicals, advanced biofuels and oleochemicals from renewable oils.

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APRIL 22, 2011

The skid includes microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and steam methane reforming (SMR) reactors developed by Velocys, as well as all the auxiliary equipment required to convert methane to FT products. The GTL process involves two operations: steam methane reforming (SMR), followed by Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 17, 2015

Tension leg platforms (TLPs) are buoyant production facilities vertically moored to the seafloor by tendons. Moored in waters 1,200 m (3,937 feet) deep, the P-61 completes the production system for the Papa Terra field, operating alongside the P-63 FPSO (floating production storage and offloading), commissioned on 11 November 2013.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Toyota Tsusho said the company had a strategy to invest in the Olaroz Lithium-Potash Project in order to secure access to competitive, low-cost lithium carbonate production in a timeframe closely aligned with worldwide lithium requirements for hybrid and electric vehicles. Exploration sampling at Salar de Olaroz. Source: Orocobre.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nuseed and BP Products North America Inc., have entered into a long-term strategic offtake and market development agreement that will see bp, or its affiliates, purchase Nuseed Carinata oil to process or sell into growing markets for the production of sustainable biofuels. million barrels a year in 2022.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

gigawatts of solar and wind projects installed in South America, Europe and Asia, the Baden-Württemberg-based company has extensive experience in developing financeable turnkey renewable energy projects, from concept to implementation, including investor sourcing. With more than 4.2 With more than 4.2

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In addition to coal mining, other major sources of methane emissions globally include wetlands, agriculture, and oil and gas facilities. The authors point out that less coal production doesn’t translate to less methane. But Nazar notes that there is uncertainty about future coal production. —Nazar Kholod.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Intelligent ancillaries such as a variable air-conditioning compressor and oil pump also reduce demand on the engine, thereby improving economy and emissions while special coatings for engine components and intricate development of engine geometry result in minimal frictional losses. It will eventually be sold in nearly 100 markets worldwide.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

a contract to supply hydrogen for the production of second-generation renewable diesel from tallow (animal fat) at its biorefinery in Carlsbad, N.M. MM from the City of Carlsbad, New Mexico to commercialize algae oil to renewable diesel. Cetane Energy , LLC, has awarded Praxair, Inc. Founded in 2006, Cetane Energy received $1.1

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AUGUST 17, 2015

The MANN+HUMMEL Group, based in Ludwigsburg, Germany, has entered into a definitive agreement under which MANN+HUMMEL will acquire the global filtration operations (excluding its Affinia South America (ASA) operations) of Affinia Group, the manufacturer of the Wix and Filtron brand of filters.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Shell Oil Company has awarded Praxair , Inc. a contract to supply high-purity pipeline hydrogen to Shell’s Deer Park, Texas, refinery for the production of ultra-low sulfur motor fuels. The Deer Park refinery is a 50-50 joint venture partnership between Shell Oil Company and PMI Norteamerica S.A.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

The transportation sector is set to experience significant growth, increased dependence on oil and risk of an escalation in greenhouse gasses. The transport industry now accounts for 13% of global emissions and is one of the fastest energy-demand sectors, responsible for 60% of oil consumption in high-income countries (OECD countries).

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APRIL 13, 2011

A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Sulfur is found naturally in crude oil. Maximum gasoline sulfur limits.

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JULY 21, 2015

It is the first time that isobutene, a key hydrocarbon used in fuels and materials and traditional extracted from fossil oil, is produced from sugar beet-derived sucrose by fermentation. Global Bioenergies has now successfully engineered its isobutene production strain through a synthetic biology approach to utilize sucrose as feedstock.

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APRIL 16, 2017

Agrisoma Biosciences, an agricultural company that has commercialized carinata, a non-food oilseed crop designed for sustainable production of biofuels, has closed a $15.4-million Like other oilseed crops, such as canola, soybean and corn, carinata oil is extracted when the harvested seed is crushed.

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MAY 24, 2016

The joint venture will build a network of hydrogen refueling stations with hydrogen production, allowing fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) to operate in and between all the major cities in Norway. Our joint venture will identify and develop the production infrastructure necessary to support a Norwegian network of refuelling stations.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

GeoFrame Energy has additional opportunities to expand production in the Eastern Caribbean and in North and South America. Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

Amy Myers Jaffe, one of the report authors The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) mandates production targets for renewable fuels, mainly biodiesel and ethanol. The bill mandated ambitious production targets of 9 billion gallons of biofuels a year in 2008, rising to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The new C-car family from Ford will advance the ONE Ford strategy by offering a global product with a high degrees of commonality across all regions. Ford says that customer research from The Americas to China has validated its move to transform product development operations from a regional basis to a truly global basis.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Under development since 2011 at Mahle’s thermal spray development labs in Michigan, the new process initially was designed for high-output GTDI engines currently in production by two US domestic automakers. Conventional plasma methods are used for ring production at Mahle’s St. Typically high-output engines under 3.5

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Two new reports—one on technology, the other on policy— released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) outline pathways to improve the fuel efficiency of combustion-engined road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the century, saving as much as four-fifths of current annual global oil consumption.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

China is the global leader in methanol use and has recently expanded its methanol production capacity. These changes were driven by an analysis of methanol use in China and the incorporation of more detailed information on the refined product markets in China and other non-OECD countries.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

However, by August both Asian and European spot LNG prices climbed well above their oil price equivalent and remained above it for the rest of the year. Given strong demand in Asia and South America, less LNG supply was available to Europe and European LNG deliveries fell by 9% (7 MMt) in 2021 to 77.2

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

The changeover to the new engines is taking place at Scania’s production units in South America during the second half of 2011. The new Euro 3 and Euro 4 engines as well as the additional Euro 5 and EEV SCR engines will be introduced in European production during 2012.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Average expected production was to be 174 MW.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Oil, the second greatest contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide, is already substantially depleted, and it is impractical to capture carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles. You see, you start out with a little bit of oil. Yes, it is a great challenge, but one with enormous side benefits. Then you fry some garlic.

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