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The Defense Energy Support Center of the US Department of Defense has signed a contract with World Energy Alternatives LLC to procure about 1.5 million gallons of B20 biodiesel to [...]

Shell has won a five-year hydrocarbon management contract for the Jean Gobele project in Guinea. Shell reports that providing a full hydrocarbon management solution, its $650,000 investment promises a 20% [...]

The U.S. Defense Department has awarded Valero Energy Corp. two contracts valued at $142.3 million to produce jet fuel for the U.S. military, the San Antonio oil refiner and marketer [...]

Diesel desulfurization technology promoter SulphCo just lost the second of its two initial research & development partners as Sinclair this month formally terminated its relationship, months after Bechtel also cancelled [...]

Chile's new move to require ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) and exhaust catalyst retrofits for metro Santiago in 2004 (see Diesel Fuel News 7/23/2001, p4) opens up a logical market opportunity for [...]

Sasol Synthetic Fuels, a subsidiary of Sasol Group, Johannesburg, South Africa, has awarded a contract worth $12 million to Honeywell Industrial Control for an integrated production solution. Assistance will be [...]

A joint effort between World Energy Alternatives and BP Amoco will help make Ohio the nation's largest user of biodiesel. World Energy is contracted to provide Envirodiesel B20, a blend [...]

Farmland Industries, Kansas City, Missouri, and SynFuel Technologies, LLC have signed a letter of intent for SynFuel to develop a coal gasification plant adjacent to Farmland's Enid, Oklahoma, ammonia fertilizer [...]

Foster Wheeler South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler Ltd., Clinton, New Jersey, has received an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Mossgas (Pty.) Ltd. for a [...]

Project partners, Border Biofuels Ltd, DynaMotive Europe Ltd, Bruks-Glockner and Orenda Aerospace Corporation have received one of largest ever Government grants for a renewable energy project -- 1.16m £ towards [...]

Lurgi Life Science has been awarded a contract by Natural Energy West (NEW; Neuss, Germany) to build a plant at Marl, Germany to convert canola oil to biodiesel. NEW is [...]

Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) board authorized managers to put a 15 million gallon/year ULSD contract up for bid this summer. Particulate matter (PM) filters also will be installed [...]

Friday: The state Department of Water Resources has signed a 10-year, $7 billion agreement with Sempra Energy Resources to supply 250 megawatts to California starting June [...]

Syntroleum Corp., Tulsa, Oklahoma, has contracted with Cough-PGS Joint Venture to provide operating and maintenance services for its 10-Mbpd gas-to-liquids Sweetwater project, currently under development in Australia. Clough-PGS is a [...]

ARCH CHEMICALS says it has received a three-year contract worth $102 million to supply hydrazine to the U.S. Air Force (USAF). It will be used to power USAF and NASA [...]

Air Liquide America says it will build two cogeneration units to provide steam and electricity to Shell Chemicals' Geismar, LA facility The units, due to startup in mid-2002, will produce [...]

++ Manufacturing software solution provider Tecnomatrix Technologies has been awarded a $3.5 million follow-on order from EADS Airbus for its eMPower e-Manufacturing software. The software tools, including solutions for assembly [...]

AmeriGas Partners of Valley Forge, Pa., and the Cavagna Group of Brescia, Italy, have signed a multi-year supply agreement in which Cavagna North America will provide all OPD and standard [...]

* The North West Shelf ING partners signed a letter of intent with Osaka Gas for the sale and purchase of 1 m t/y of LNG last month. The agreement [...]

* The finance ministry last month signed a $138m syndicated, state-guaranteed loan for winter fuel imports with a consortium of 14 banks, headed by Citibank Romania. The country's winter fuel [...]

Syntroleum Corp., Tulsa, Oklahoma, and FuelCell Energy, Inc., have entered into a fuel-marketing and offtake-option agreement to enable FuelCell Energy to buy and resell Syntroleum synthetic fuel directly from Syntroleum [...]

BNFL subsidiary Westinghouse Atom has won a US$9 million order for the supply of two annual batches of uranium fuel to the Philippsburg 1 nuclear power plant operated by EnBW [...]

Tosco, the U.S.'s biggest independent refiner, this month inked a 40 million gallon/year deal to supply New York City Metro Transit Authority (MTA) with [less than]30 ppm ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD). [...]

MarkWest Hydrocarbon Inc. will exclusively supply propane for Star Gas Partners's 17 retail bulk plants in Ohio and Kentucky under a two-year marketing agreement announced May 31. The agreement will [...]

Holborn Europa Raffinerie (Hamburg) has awarded Kvaerner Process Netherlands (Zoertermeer, the Netherlands) a lump sum turnkey contract worth $70 million. The contract covers the upgrading of Holborn's 78,000-bbl/day refinery at [...]

OMV Deutschland GMBH let contract to Kellogg Brown & Root to use its MAKFining Premium Distillates technology (MPDT) for the production of premium diesel at its Burghausen, Germany, refinery. The [...]

Kaiser Marquardt is to provide 110lb-thrust (490N) bipropellant engines for the attitude control system of the International Space Station (ISS) and 200lb-thrust engines for the ISS Propulsion Module. The contract [...]

Canar/Technip bids low for distilling plant works A local/French joint venture of Canar Trading & Contracting Company and Technip is low bidder at KD 9.1 million ($29.3 million) for the [...]

* Evaluation of bids for the development of a one-kilometre stretch of seafront at Fahaheel is now expected to begin in md-September. Six consortia Bid for the Kuwait Municipality project [...]

THE LUBRIZOL Corporation and Caterpillar Inc. are developing a low-emission diesel fuel for use in commercial service diesel engines. The new fuel will be sold by marketers and distributors and [...]

Southern States Power Co., Shreveport, La., reached a production agreement with Nopec Corp. that will make available immediately up to 4 million gal of biodiesel fuel for distribution in California [...]

Bechtel picked for Bapco FEED contract Refinery operator Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has appointed International Bechtel of the US to carry out the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract [...]

Carnesville, GA -- The Ultimate Super Late Model Series (USLMS) announced VP Racing Fuels has signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement to become the official fuel of the USLMS beginning in [...]

GOD technology awarded to Haldor Topsoe Denmark's Haldor Topsoe has been awarded a contract to provide technology for the planned gas oil desulphurisation (GOD) plant at the Mina al-Ahmadi refinery. [...]