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Nov 19, 2012
BP agree settlement two years after Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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Nov 20, 2012
The only advanced biofuel in the US, normally only available as a seasonal blend, is now to be offered all year round in certain states.
The South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council, Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council, Harms Oil Company, National Biodiesel Foundation and Clean Cities have partnered to expand the availability of biodiesel in southwestern... [Read More]
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Nov 21, 2012
Shell Australia has opened up a new biodiesel terminal in western Sydney.
Shell says the facility, which resides at its Parramatta terminal, comes in response to customer demand to reduce diesel excise liabilities and reduce environmental impacts of fossil fuel use.
B20 fuel will be available for the first time to the New South Wales market and Shell VP downstream Andrew... [Read More]
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Nov 21, 2012
Researchers in Taiwan believe they are a step closer to creating algae-based alternative fuels.
A project has been conducted by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Fisheries Research Institute and the results, which have been seen by the ROC Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), confirm that Taiwan is getting closer to creating a cost-effective,... [Read More]
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Nov 22, 2012
UK-based Whitefox Technologies has secured a bioethanol contract with the government of Guyana as it aims to move itself away from imported oil dependence.
Together with Brazilian business Green, Whitefox will install the units for a bioethanol demonstration plant at the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s Albion sugar factory, with a turnkey unit set for delivery in... [Read More]
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Nov 23, 2012
The UK government has revealed the details of its revised Energy Bill this November but a decision on carbon emission targets will be delayed.
Energy companies will be allowed to charge households an extra £7.6 billion ($12.1 billion) to go towards low-carbon electricity infrastructure by 2020.
Chancellor George Osborne, who is in favour of gas-powered generation,... [Read More]
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Nov 23, 2012
Australian biodiesel provider Australian Renewable Fuels (ARF) will be injected with AU$14 million (€11.2 million) in capital after a proposed merger agreement with Wentworth Holdings.
ARF will make an offer for all outstanding Wentworth shares, a recommendation allegedly backed unanimously by Wentworth directors.
‘The cash injection will strengthen our balance... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
Canadian-based Woodland Biofuels says its new demonstration plant is up and could be producing ethanol by the end of this year.
The new facility will use wood waste as feedstock and is based at the Western University Research Park’s Bioindustrial Innovation Centre in Sarnia. It will create 10 operational jobs while it employed 25 people during construction.
‘It’s... [Read More]
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Oct 24, 2012
The Filipino Department of Energy (DoE) is to collaborate on a new bioethanol research project with Xavier University.
The DoE will commit to fund the university’s study into looking at potential bioethanol production via varieties of cassava taken from the Northern Mindanao region. The exact amount of the funding has not been disclosed.
Cassava is one of the most... [Read More]
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Oct 25, 2012
Israeli scientists involved in the research of biofuels and solar energy are set to benefit from a multi-million pound grant.
Part of a $15 million (€11.5 million) gift given to the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will be dispersed over the next three years and used to fund the research projects.
The money has come from... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
Bioinnovation company Novozymes and agricultural business Syngenta have signed an exclusive agreement to market and distribute a crop protecting product.
The product is Novozymes’ Taegro, a natural solution microbial-based biofungicide used to combat fungal diseases that attack various crops.
‘Using our technology, Syngenta will provide farmers all over... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
The US state of Nebraska has had its first sales of E15 blended fuel this October.
A service station in Lexington had blender pumps installed on 16 October and confirmed sales by the end of that weekend. The station owner, Neal Hoff, utilised a blender pump grant from the Nebraska Corn Board to get started.
Hoff was quoted as saying that E15 ‘was the fuel of... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
Fuel giant British Petroleum (BP) has backed out of plans to construct a $300 million (€232 million) ethanol plant which would have been based in Florida, US.
BP is confident in the effectiveness of its technology to convert energy crops into advanced cellulosic ethanol, but that it could earn better returns pursuing other avenues.
The news has caused many to call... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
Canada-based waste to biofuels company Enerkem is hiring new employees as construction on its new plant gathers pace.
The facility, situated in Edmonton, Alberta, is among the first small-scale advanced biofuels plants being built in North America. It will utilise the City of Edmonton’s landfill-based waste to create renewable fuels and other chemicals.
‘Construction... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
Industrial enzymes producer Novozymes believes it has a new product that could improve the profitability and efficiency of biofuel production.
The product, named Avantec, is said to allow corn ethanol producers the ability to get a further 2.5% ethanol out of the feedstock.
‘Corn is the single biggest input cost for an ethanol producer and, as prices have gone... [Read More]
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