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NASHVILLE -- Fleet One LLC forged an agreement with Kroger recently, which will allow the retailer to accept the Fleet One Local fuel card at all 720 Kroger-owned grocery stores [...]

ALAMY/GARETH JJ BURGES GM BACKS SECOND-GENERATION BIOFUELS Global automotive giant General Motors is getting into biofuels by backing biology-based renewable energy company Coskata, to produce a combined pyrolysis and fermentation [...]

Biogas commonly produced by anaerobic bacterial digestion of manure is a useful fuel, but because of its high-carbon dioxide content it cannot be introduced into pipelines with natural gas, which [...]

St. Louis, Missouri -- VP Racing signed a multiyear agreement to acquire the title partnership for the Gateway Dirt Nationals. VP Racing Fuels will also be the Official Fuel of [...]

[TABLE OMITTED] HNNG Development LLC has commissioned a nitrogen rejection unit (NRU) for Oso Oil & Gas Properties LLC to treat gas vented from an underground coal mine in Carbon [...]

DALLAS -- Titan Global Holdings Inc., a diversified holding company, was expecting to close upon its acquisition of petroleum-product distributor and retailer Appalachian Oil Co. Inc. (APPCO) within 72 hours [...]

Syntroleum will be the first to provide both fat-based aviation fuele_SFlband Fischer-Tropsch aviation fuel to the US Department of Defense Syntroleum to supply US with jet biofuel Syntroleum has signed [...]

Solazyme Inc., which has been applying specialized techniques to improve algae for producing oil, nutritional supplements, and other products (IB 7/7/06), has now made an agreement to supply algal oil [...]

Oiltanking Singapore has secured a long term agreement with Nexsol (Singapore) for the storage of biodiesel and related products. Eight new tanks with a total capacity of 29,400m3 are being [...]

Uhde on a high note Uhde's contract to build a $1.2bn ([euro]891m) turnkey fertilizer complex for Egyptian Agrium Nitrogen Products (EAgrium) is the largest in the German company's history. 'This [...]

The contract, for Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), includes two 12-month options. 'Proposals were Web-solicited and six responded,' DLA said. 'Contract funds will not expire at the end of the [...]

Pacific Ethanol, the largest West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol, will soon begin construction on a 50 million gallon per year ethanol facility at the Port of Stockton, Calif., [...]

Volatile grain markets and falling oil prices mean farmers who sign conditional bioethanol contracts now could be hit by poorer wheat prices, some grain traders have warned. "Farmers who sign […]

Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 17 (SPX) -- Mascoma has announced that it has received a $14.8 million award from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets [...]

US Sustainable Energy Corp. (USSE) holds patent applications on technology for a new biofuel and carbon-based fertilizer made from agricultural biomass. It has demonstrated the core technology at its Port [...]

Pittsburgh -- At the recent International Pittsburgh Coal Conference here, Siemens revealed that customers of its FutureEnergy gasification technology are interested in coal-to-liquids (CTL) Fischer-Tropsch fuels projects in China, not [...]

Broin Companies, which focus on engineering, process development, and operation of ethanol plants, recently made an agreement to use technology from DuPont Co. (Wilmington, DE) to manufacture ethanol from corn [...]

Syntroleum announced yesterday it has signed an agreement to provide 100,000 gallons of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel to the U.S. Department of Defense. The fuel will be provided as part of [...]

Russian business aviation holding company Moscow Sky has appointed TAT Industries to convert three Fokker 100s into VIP configuration as demand for large-cabin business aircraft transport explodes within Russia. The [...]

CAL-BAY DISMISSES ARGY & CO.: Tustin, Calif.-based Cal-Bay International Inc. said that it dismissed its auditor, Argy & Co., and has named Lawrence Scharfman & Co. as its new independent […]

Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras announced last week it signed agreements with four companies to purchase 65.3 million liters (17.3 million gallons) per year of biodiesel at a cost of [...]

Harris establishes Texas tech center Harris Waste Management Group Inc., of Peachtree City, Ga., has established an engineering and technology center in San Antonio to support its shredder division. The [...]

Manufacturer receives five-year, $2.1 million cost-shared contract to develop polymer exchange membrane technology The Department of Energy recently awarded Danbury, Conn.-based FuelCell Energy, Inc. a five-year, $2.1-million cost-shared competitively bid [...]

World Energy has completed a retail electric power procurement for the commonwealth of Massachusetts through which the commonwealth is expected to save $6.2 million in electricity costs over the next [...]

Karrington Holdings Corp. announced this week it has signed a contract with PetroAzerbaijan for a 50% interest in the latter's bid to supply gasoline and diesel fuel to the Czech [...]

The Renewable Fuel Association has congratulated General Motors Corporation (GM; Detroit, MI), Chevron Technology Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (San Ramon, CA), Pacific Ethanol Inc. (Fresno, CA), and [...]

Total, the French oil company, has reappointed BBDO to handle its #40m pan-European advertising account. Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy (MCBD), the UK incumbent, has also been retained. MCBD handles the […]

Westgate Design has created an identity for Kyoto Fuel Technologies, a UK company distributing fuel and lubricant additive products of US group International Fuel Technology to the UK and Ireland. [...]

Pertamina President Widya Purnama announced that North America-based Accelon Energy System signed a 'memo of understanding' for a U.S.$6 billion 'Solar Synthetic Mining' coal-to-liquids (CTL) diesel project in East Kalimantan, [...]

Syntroleum GTL Plants Possible in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Egypt Syntroleum announced last week it has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) to study the possibilities of gas-to-liquid (GTL) plants in [...]

Tesoro to Expand Coker at Anacortes Refinery San Antonio-based Tesoro Corp. will expand the coker at its 108,000 b/d Anacortes, Wash., refinery, the company reportedly said during a conference call [...]

Even though gas prices are declining a bit, concern about energy costs long-term are fueling new advertising campaigns by Detroit agencies. A series of new ad campaigns and promotions launched [...]

Syntroleum Corp. recently hired Credit Suisse First Boston to act as its financial advisor when examining potential investments in coal-to-liquids (CTL) in the U.S. Pursuit of CTL projects is now [...]

GreenFuel Technologies Corp. has delivered its first demonstration unit to a large electrical generating customer. The unit uses algae in a photobioreactor to remove up to 80% nitrogen oxide (NOx) [...]

Fuel blend aids Chicago bus emissions A new fuel blend for school buses serving the Chicago metropolitan area will cut hazardous exhaust emissions by 15 percent to 20 percent. The [...]

What connects 40,000 gallons of vegetable oil, an entrepreneurial bioenergy firm, and the world's largest chemical producer? The search for viable sources of alternative energy. World Energy, producer and distributor [...]

Intermec Technologies Corp and Agentek Inc have completed the deployment of an integrated, realtime wireless handheld mobile computing system for Ferrellgas of Liberty MO. The system is designed to capture [...]

A European Commission-appointed 'alternative fuels contact group' report on ways to substitute 20% of gasoline and diesel with alternates by 2020 finds that biomass-to-liquids (BTL) and gas- to-liquids (GTL) could [...]

Everett Osgood & Associates has been hired as a territory representative for Fueling Technologies. The firm will cover Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado for [...]

Inergy has agreed to start marketing Sunoco's propane at its refinery in Toledo, Ohio, with production expected at 4,000 barrels each day. Bill Gautreaux, vice president of supply for Inergy, [...]