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The US military, in the largest ever government purchase of biofuel, bought a batch of fuel made from chicken fat and algae that will be burned by the Navy in [...]

Valero Energy said it has signed a joint development agreement with Algenol Biofuels for an undisclosed amount. Under the agreement, the companies will share technology and infrastructure for production and [...]

Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, said on Monday it is in talks with Brenco, a Brazilian ethanol producer backed by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and AOL founder Steve Case, to [...]

Canada's Lignol Energy said its US subsidiary, Lignol Innovations, has signed a $30 million agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The deal formalizes the DOE's previously announced financial [...]

Japan Biofuels Supply has signed a contract to buy 200,000 kiloliters (3,400 b/d) of bioethanol from Brazilian producer Copersucar. The company, formed by a group of Japanese refiners, was set [...]

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a solicitation on Monday seeking to purchase heating oil for the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR) using $3 million in appropriated funds. [...]

Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Syntroleum, Tuesday said it signed a deal with Chinese refiner Sinopec to advance its synthetic fuel technology in that country, while also reporting a loss for the fourth [...]

With crude oil prices soaring to record levels, two private development companies based in Arizona agreed Tuesday to accelerate the development of a coal-to-liquids gasification technology. Diversified Energy will invest [...]

Without disclosing financial terms, Parker Drilling said Monday that three of its drilling rigs--two land units and one barge rig--have been awarded contracts for operations in Bangladesh, Texas and the [...]

Home heating oil distributor Star Gas Partners on Thursday said it had received a third offer to recapitalize the company from a group led by financier George Soros. Star Gas [...]

Home heating oil distributor Star Gas Partners on Monday said it has entered into an amendment to its recapitalization agreement with Kestrel Energy Partners, but it said two of its [...]

Oklahoma-based Syntroleum said Monday that it has reached an agreement with Bluewater Energy Services to develop an air-based gas-to-liquids (GTL) floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. According to a [...]

Despite last week's falling crude oil prices, some small oil and gas companies managed to post impressive share price gains, according to data compiled by energy consultancy John S. Herold. [...]

Heating oil distributor Star Gas Partners said on Tuesday its quarterly loss narrowed as it suffered fewer customer defections than it had a year earlier. But the company also said [...]

Tulsa-based Syntroleum has signed an agreement with Nigerian firm Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum (YFP) to consider development of an offshore oil and gas discovery that would employ Syntroleum's natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) [...]

Tulsa-based Syntroleum has signed two agreements with Marathon Oil to license its natural-gas-to-liquids technology to Marathon for use in a proposed venture in Qatar. The first agreement calls for Marathon [...]

Gas-to-liquids (GTL) developer Syntroleum has found two partners with whom it intends to form a company to construct and operate its barge-mounted GTL plant. The partners are Spain's Dragados Industrial [...]

WASHINGTON -- Caught in the middle of a raging controversy over Iraqi fuel overpricing, Halliburton in its response to Pentagon auditors on Thursday fingered the US Army Corps of Engineers [...]

Polish fuels firm Lotos said Thursday it signed a $540 million deal with a unit of Halliburton to construct a plant to convert residual oils into lighter fuels. Construction of [...]

The Department of Energy on Thursday released two solicitations for research and development in hydrogen production, delivery, and storage technologies. The solicitations will provide funding of up to $200 million [...]

Exxon Mobil's fuels marketing unit has been awarded a $389.9 million contract to supply fuel to the US military as it prepares for war with Iraq, the Defense Logistics Agency [...]

Williams Reworks Calif. Deal Energy merchant Williams said on Monday it has reached an agreement with the state of California to renegotiate the long-term energy contracts it struck with the [...]

Exxon Gets Defense Supply Deal Exxon Mobil won a $47.8 million contract to supply gasoline, diesel fuel, and motor oil to US and Nato forces in Italy and unspecified islands, [...]

DOD Seeks Jet Fuel, Gasoline The US Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking an extra 565,000 bbl of jet fuel and 4,600 bbl of gasoline for its military bases in [...]

Sunoco Buys El Paso Supply Deals Sunoco said Friday it signed an agreement with El Paso Merchant Energy-Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of El Paso Corp., to supply fuel for 460 [...]

DOD Orders Fuel for Military The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Friday it is seeking an extra 1.4 million bbl of marine diesel fuel for bases in the Middle [...]

DOD Awards Jet Fuel Contracts Royal Dutch/Shell subsidiary Equilon been awarded a $408 million contract to provide jet fuel and marine gas oil for the US Department of Defense (DOD), [...]

Polish Firm Signs Contracts Poland's PKN Orlen, central Europe's largest downstream oil group, said Wednesday it had signed three annual contracts for the sale of gasoline and diesel at a [...]

US Seeking Extra Jet Fuel The US Defense Department confirmed Wednesday that it is seeking roughly 2.4 million bbl of jet fuel above and beyond its routine contracts for its [...]

US Military Inks Biodiesel Deal The fuel supplying arm of the US military said Monday it was entering its first contract to buy diesel made from vegetable oils, a move [...]

Williams, Dynegy Unveil New Electronic Marketplace for Gas, Power A powerful group of US gas and electricity traders led by Williams and Dynegy has unveiled plans for a new electronic [...]

Texaco and Norway's Statoil said Friday that they had launched a European jet fuel services alliance that could eventually involve a third party, the RWE unit DEA of Germany. The [...]

Exxon Mobil Marine Fuels (EMMF) said Thursday that it will begin trading marine fuels on the Internet and has signed the first of several agreements with an e-commerce portal. EMMF, [...]

BP South Africa has signed a deal to supply Zimbabwe, mired in an economic and climatic crisis, with vehicle fuels, a company spokesman said Friday. The deal, under which BP [...]

Largo Vista and United Arab Petroleum have reached an agreement to deliver 20,000 tons of diesel oil this December to Mekong Petroleum Joint Venture of Vietnam. Largo Vista is the [...]

Tour of Asia At the outset of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's two-week tour of Asia, officials of Chinese and Venezuelan state oil companies signed an agreement that revives and potentially [...]

President Clinton said Friday that his administration should look at whether to sell oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to ease heating oil prices this winter, but added that [...]

To the dismay of European and U.S. lifters, Saudi Aramco has struck a deal to supply the mammoth new privately owned Reliance refinery in India with anywhere from 100,000 to [...]

After a brief delay, the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) awarded the second part of a supplemental jet fuel tender to two firms. Refinery Associates of Texas was awarded a [...]

The Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) has added another 42 million gallons of JP-8 jet fuel to a supplemental tender for 37.5 million gallons of JP-8, delaying the award of [...]

The Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) has awarded the first part of a recent large supplemental jet fuel tender to the joint Amerada Hess Corp.-Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. Hovensa refinery [...]

Pennsylvania-based AmeriGas Partners L.P., already the nation's largest retail propane marketer, has become just that much bigger. On Tuesday, it announced that it has bought propane marketing operations in North [...]

After a controversial five-year battle, Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) is finally dropping its bid to use Orimulsion at its 1,600 Mw Manatee power plant. On Thursday, it said [...]

The Defense Department's Defense Logistics Agency announced Monday that it has awarded a $203 million contract to Chevron USA for JP8 aviation turbine [...]

Clark Refining & Marketing Inc. said Friday it signed a sales contract to supply UAL Corp.'s United Airlines with 100 million gallons of jet fuel to be used by the [...]

###Katherine Culbertson Just as the Venezuelan Congress begins to consider a proposal for the construction of a $320 million Orimulsion plant, partners in the deal may see themselves robbed of [...]

HOUSTON -- Pipeline subsidiaries of Coastal Corp. -- a unit of Occidental Petroleum Corp. -- Tenneco Inc. and Transco Energy Co. said they signed settlement agreements with Dakota Gasification Co. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Adding fuel to congressional criticism, the Reagan administration has come out against recent moves by the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corp. to hasten financial awards for projects and urged [...]