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Date: April 16, 2008
Vol.:XI, No.8
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TOP STORIES

U.S. Air Force to Lead Fuels Lifecycle Emission Study

Lake Charles Cogeneration Gets $1 Billion in Financing

U.S. Senator Introduces Legislation Repealing CTL Fuel Ban

GTC's Childress Suggests Plan to Push Gasification

South Heart Gasification to Use Coal Beneficiation Technology

Advanced Gasification Seen Playing Crucial New Role in Oil Sands, Refining

Briefs

INTEGRATED GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE NEWS

AEP to Appeal Virginia's Rejection of IGCC Plan

Summit Power Plans IGCC Plants for Texas

GAS TO LIQUIDS NEWS

CEO: South Africa's Sasol Set for More Expansion

COAL TO LIQUIDS NEWS

China's NDRC Finalizes Coal-to-Chemical Plan

New Zealand's Solid Energy Considers CTL Plant

CARBON STORAGE

DOE May Lower Minimum Capture Rate for CCS Project Funds

Australia Launches CCS Project

Alstom, TransAlta to Develop Alberta CCS Project

ConocoPhillips Calls for Federal ‘Carbon-Price Insurance’

NMA, UMWA Support CCS Fee on Electric Generation

CO2 Injection Gives New Life to EnCana’s Weyburn Field

IN OTHER SECTORS

World Food Riots Blamed on Biofuels

Hart Energy Presents the European Refining & Fuels Conference on Low-Carbon Fuels Implementation

 

 

U.S. Air Force to Lead Fuels Lifecycle Emission Study

The U.S. Air Force is set to take the lead in an effort to get a comprehensive lifecycle emissions study done on transportation fuels, but this study should be done on an "Apollo project" scale, William (Bill) Anderson, deputy secretary of the Air Force told Gasification News in an interview.

 

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Lake Charles Cogeneration Gets $1 Billion in Financing

The Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District in Louisiana raised $1 billion in a bond sale to support the development of its planned $1.6 billion substitute natural gas production facility.

        Proceeds from the sale of the GO Zone Bonds are to be used by Lake Charles Cogeneration (LCC) to build the plant, LCC’s Project Director Doug Barba said in a statement.

 

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U.S. Senator Introduces Legislation Repealing CTL Fuel Ban

U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced legislation repealing Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which prohibits federal agencies from contracting for non-conventional or alternative fuels that emit higher levels of greenhouse gases than do traditional supplies.

 

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GTC's Childress Suggests Plan to Push Gasification

James (Jim) Childress, executive director of the Gasification Technologies Council (GTC) gave the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Innovation on April 9 three suggestions that he said would help develop the U.S. gasification industry.

 

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South Heart Gasification to Use Coal Beneficiation Technology

The developers of the proposed $1.4 billion South Heart gasification project in southwest North Dakota plan to process the coal prior to gasification, using GTL Energy's coal upgrading beneficiation technology.

 

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Advanced Gasification Seen Playing Crucial New Role in Oil Sands, Refining

San Diego, Calif. – Gasification of oil-sands coke and refinery resids will play key roles in cutting dependence on pricey natural gas, enabling greater use of heavy crudes and boosting the practicality of CO2 capture & storage.

        So explained several speakers in presentations to the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) annual meeting here.

 

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Briefs

Rigdon Leaves GE for SES

Reliance to Invest $2.5 Bln in Gasification

BASF Cancels Gasification Plans

ICE to Launch Two New Coal Futures

18 States Sue Bush Administration

Volvo to Test DME in Trucks

Georgia Power to Buy MSW Electricity

Velocys Microchannel FT Gets Grant

FREC Gets New Distributor

Supreme Court to take Clean Water Case

 

 

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AEP to Appeal Virginia's Rejection of IGCC Plan

Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power (AEP) said it plans to appeal the state of Virginia’s rejection of a rate recovery plan tied to the construction of a $2.23 billion, 629-MW integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in West Virginia that is to serve customers in both states.

 

 

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Summit Power Plans IGCC Plants for Texas

 

 

CEO: South Africa's Sasol Set for More Expansion

South Africa's synthetic fuel producer, Sasol, is set to continue expanding its interests around the world, company chief executive Pat Davies said earlier this month, according to a Dow Jones report.

 

 

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China's NDRC Finalizes Coal-to-Chemical Plan

China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) finalized a coal-to-chemicals industry development plan to be released sometime in the near future, a senior government official reportedly said at an industry conference.

 

 

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New Zealand's Solid Energy Considers CTL Plant

DOE May Lower Minimum Capture Rate for CCS Project Funds

The U.S. Department of Energy may lower the minimum capture rate on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects it will consider funding, Joseph Strakey, chief technology officer at DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory told a Senate Committee earlier this month.

 

 

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Australia Launches CCS Project

Alstom, TransAlta to Develop Alberta CCS Project

ConocoPhillips Calls for Federal ‘Carbon-Price Insurance’

NMA, UMWA Support CCS Fee on Electric Generation

CO2 Injection Gives New Life to EnCana’s Weyburn Field

World Food Riots Blamed on Biofuels

Biofuels are getting the lion's share of the blame for the recent food riots seen in many third world countries. In Haiti, the issue is so hot the rioting over the rising price of food caused the prime minister to step down earlier this month.

 

 

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Hart Energy Presents the European Refining & Fuels Conference on Low-Carbon Fuels Implementation

 

 

 

 

 

   








 

 

 

 


 

 
 
 

 

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