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11.27.07
China Expanding Strategic Oil Reserve
China plans to build a strategic oil reserve near the southwestern industrial ci...
11.21.07
China Will Move To Ease Fuel Shortages
China will increase fuel supplies to ease shortages, particularly for diesel, an...
11.20.07
Japan Seeks $1.37 Per Gallon Ethanol by 2015
Sixteen major Japanese firms including automaker Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's lar...
11.19.07
US & China To Sign Energy Pact
An agreement between the US and China to promote the use of ethanol and other bi...
11.14.07
Indonesia May Return To 5% Biodiesel Mandate
Indonesia plans to return to a 5% biodiesel blend in diesel within the next thre...
11.14.07
Aramco Sees Oil For Decades To Come
The president of Saudi Aramco said there are enough conventional and non-convent...
11.13.07
Fortum Värme has been granted an environmental permit for a new biofuel-fired co...
11.13.07
Tyson To Make Biodiesel From Poultry
Tyson Foods Inc. announced plans to buy a Brazilian poultry business and establi...
11.06.07
US At Top for Biofuel Investment
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11.01.07
China Faces Fuel Supply Crisis
China raised domestic gasoline and diesel prices on Thursday, the first increase...
US DOE Forms Biofuel Research Partnership
04.01.08
ConocoPhillips said it would work with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Iowa State University on research to identify promising cellulosic biomass conversion technologies for biofuel.
The group plans to develop conversion technologies using corn stalks, stems, leaves and other non-food agricultural residues, as well as hardy grasses and fast-growing trees as feedstocks for future transportation fuels.
The processes to be examined by the research group will include gasification, pyrolysis, and fermentation. The collaboration could lead to projects that provide publicly available, peer-reviewed papers and models, according to ConocoPhillips.
The company said each party is providing its own time and resources and the collaboration is expected to produce an initial report by January 2009.
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