Biofuels
HP Industry Perspectives: Is it too early to be optimistic for 2014?
The increased availability of natural gas supplies are redefining energy conditions. New natural gas reserves are shifting the order for producing nations. Shale gas reserves, once difficult to extrac..
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LNG terminal to be built in Uruguay GDF Suez has signed a 15-year contract with Gas Sayago for LNG storage and regasification services in Uruguay. Commercial operation of the new terminal is expected ..
REG starts up newly-acquired Iowa biorefinery, plans $20 million upgrade
REG completed the acquisition of the former Soy Energy refinery on July 31. REG immediately began efforts to repair and restart the plant, which began producing biodiesel on October 1. REG also announced that it has begun a $20 million project to upgrade the plant to a multi-feedstock facility.
LanzaTech, SK to develop bio-butadiene process
SK has pioneered new refining and petrochemical technology development for many years. SK will work with LanzaTech to develop and integrate this new technology with LanzaTech's gas fermentation process, which converts industrial waste gases into low carbon fuels and chemicals.
Pacific Ethanol to make corn oil at California plant
Pacific Ethanol CEO Neil Koehler said his company was pleased to begin production, noting that corn oil is a "high value co-product" with multiple markets including animal feed and biodiesel. "Corn oil production at our ethanol plants is an important strategy to further diversify plant revenue," he said.
Use APC in energy systems―Total’s Leuna refinery case study
Advanced Process Control (APC) has been used extensively to assist in operating refinery and petrochemical processes safely and profitably. However, with the constantly increasing fuel and environment..
HP Impact: Lukoil projects energy trends out to 2025
Lukoil recently offered an outlook on the long-term prospects for the global hydrocarbon processing industry. The outlook’s objective is to analyze trends that will (in Lukoil’s view) determ..
China unveils subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles
The program is to "speed development of the new-energy automobile industry, reduce emissions and help control pollution," the ministry said in a statement published on its website.
Neste Oil, Raisioagro research straw feedstock to produce renewable diesel
Microbial oil technology enables straw to be used as a feedstock for producing NExBTL renewable diesel. Neste Oil has tested processing of straw for some years, and pilot-scale microbial oil production trials were started last year when Europe's first microbial oil pilot plant was commissioned at Porvoo.
US to bypass Russia in liquid fuels production
The US is set to bypass Russia in the production of liquid fuels such as crude and ethanol this quarter, the IEA said, as global demand for oil is rising faster than expected.
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- Gauging the likely Trump effect on U.S. energy and power sectors 11/22
- Russia's Lukoil restoring cracker at NORSI refinery, gasoline output rising 11/22
- Nigeria's local currency crude sales fall short of target, Dangote refinery says 11/22
- U.S. October gasoline imports hit post-pandemic low on slump in European shipments 11/22
- Clean Hydrogen Works awards McDermott FEED contract for Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) project 11/21
