President Obama today announced it will form a U.S. Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to develop a “comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of clean coal technologies.” ...
Novozymes (Copenhagen), an enzymes technology firm, says its operating profit for fourth quarter 2009 increased 16% to DKr 431 million ($81 million), compared to the year-ago period, with corresponding sales up 7% to DKr 2.2 billion. Operating profit margin...
Bioamber (Pomacle, France), a three year old joint venture between DNP Green Technology (Princeton, NJ) and (Agro-industrie Recherches et Développements (ARD; Pomacle), an agricultural technology group, says it has successfully begun operating the...
Axens (Paris), a petrochemicals technology provider, and Headwaters (South Jordan, UT), a materials technology firm, say they have created a joint venture company Alliance DCL, to provide solutions for producing clean transport fuels via direct coal...
The process can be used in coal-to-chemical plants....
Novozymes, an enzymes technology firm, says it has received an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit of $28.4 million from the U.S. government to fund a new biofuel enzymes facility that it is building at Blair, NE. The facility is set to manufacture...
Never before has there been so much uncertainty over the future supply and demand for hydrocarbons, particularly in transport, which accounts for 50% of primary oil consumption. Some argue that biofuels and electric vehicles will not have much short or medium...
U.S. agribusiness firm Bunge (White Plains, NY) says it has agreed to purchase Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Unisa Moema Participações (Moema; São Paulo). The deal gives Bunge one wholly owned sugarcane mill and ownership interest...
Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) says its biofuels subsidiary has signed a six-month memorandum of understanding with PetroChina to study possible collaboration on developing ethanol projects in Brazil. The two companies will also...
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