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EPA issues pollution permitting guidance to US states
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available guidance and tools to help state and local air permitting authorities identify cost-effective pollution reduction options for greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act. As of this writing, Texas is the only state not participating, refusing to revise its permitting rules.
Aon launches global energy risk engineering unit
Aon Risk Solutions has consolidated its energy risk engineering assets around the world to form a new unit, known as Aon Energy Risk Engineering.
Chevron buys Atlas with an eye towards natural gas
Chevron will acquire Atlas Energy for cash of $3.2 billion and assumed pro forma net debt of approximately $1.1 billion.
Petrobras selects UOP for two new Brazilian refineries
Petrobras has selected UOP to provide all of the process technologies for two new maximum diesel refineries to be built in Brazil.
Dynamic Fuels opens biofuels plant in Louisiana
Operations are underway at the new Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting animal fats and greases into renewable fuels. Production began in early October and the volume being produced is 2,500 bpd and growing.
AltaGas to construct natural gas processing facility in Alberta
AltaGas Ltd. will be constructing a gas processing facility and an associated gas gathering system in the Gordondale area of the Montney resource play, approximately 100 km northwest of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.
Ivanhoe Energy’s Tamarack project marks major advance
Ivanhoe Energy has completed a major milestone towards commercial production at its Tamarack project with the submission of its regulatory application to the government of Alberta, Canada.
Copano Energy lends GeoSouthern a hand in the Eagle Ford Shale
Copano Energy has signed a long-term, fee-based agreement to provide GeoSouthern Energy with gathering, compression, processing and fractionation services for its Eagle Ford Shale production from a substantial acreage position in DeWitt County, Texas.
Cobalt Technologies and US Navy to develop military jet fuel
Cobalt Technologies has an agreement with the US Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels.
NPRA statement on defeat of Proposition 23 in California
Proposition 23 was defeated because a sophisticated multimillion-dollar misinformation campaign falsely led Californians to believe they were voting to clean their air of pollutants that posed a danger to their health.
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