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Rentech Set to Build a CTL Plant in Miss.

Jan 01, 2006; Peckham, Jack ... U. S.-based technology developer Rentech Inc. announced this month that it has entered into a six-month agreement with the Adams County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors to negotiate a contract for purchase or lease of the site for a proposed 10,000-plus barrels/day Fischer-Tropsch (FT) CTL ...

Indonesia To Buy Output From $6 Billion CTL Project

Jan 01, 2006; Peckham, Jack ... Pertamina President Widya Purnama announced that British Columbia-based Accelon Energy System signed a "memo of understanding" for a $6 billion "Solar Synthetic Mining" coal-to-liquids (CTL) diesel project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The operation is scheduled to begin in 2008 and ...

Sasol Touts Africa's First ULSD Retail Fuel

Jan 01, 2006; Peckham, Jack ... Sasol's been producing FT ULSD fuels for decades (from its CTL plants), but often had to sell it blended with higher-sulfur diesel in the retail market. Now that's changing, as the company announced late last month: "Sasol is reaching new frontiers with its cleaner Sasol 'turbo' fuels, ...

U.S. CTL Capacity to Jump 20 Fold Between 2012 and 2030 - EIA

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... U.S. CTL fuels output quantity may jump nearly 20 times from about 40,000 barrels/day projected for 2012, to more than 760,000 b/d by 2030, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its latest Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2006 report. In order to get CTE production to ...

DOE May Fund Pa. Waste Coal to Liquids Plant

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) says it will probably decide by May or June to move ahead with a co-funded demonstration plant in eastern Pennsylvania that uses waste coal in the FT process. Pennsylvania-based Waste Management Processors seeks federal funding for the first CTE plant in the U.S ....

Great River Energy Plans $3 Billion JV CTL Plant

Jan 01, 2006; McElligott, Suzanne ... Minnesota-based Great River Energy, a coal-based power generator, plans to build a $3 billion coal-to-diesel plant with its partners Headwater Inc., North American Coal Co. and Falkirk Mining Co. in North Dakota. While the specific location of the future plant was undecided, Al ...

Underground Coal Gasification Schemes Are Revisited

Jan 01, 2006; Peckham, Jack ... Nearly twenty years after U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) pulled the plug on the last underground coal gasification (UCG) test scheme in Wyoming, the idea is getting fresh wind thanks to soaring oil and gas prices and abundant un-mineable coal resources. UCG is the in-situ gasification ...

Paper Producer Mulls Black-Liquor Gasification/IGCC Project

Jan 01, 2006; Peckham, Jack ... PotlachCorp., one of the U.S.'s biggest pulp/paper producers, announced recently that it would seek to build a pulp-based "black liquor gasification" (BLG) plant to produce ultra-clean FT diesel as well as integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power. The project would seek ...

Pataki to Promote Clean Coal in NY

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... New York's Gov. George Pataki (R) is advancing a multi-faceted plan aimed at reducing the state's dependence on imported energy. Part of the plan includes a $50 million grant to one or more private sector power generators that agrees to ...

Lima Energy Boosts IGCC Power to 600 MW

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Lima Energy Co., a unit of Cincinnati-based Global Energy, upgraded its IGCC power generation facility to 600MW, from ...

Medicine Bow Project to Use Rentech CTL Technology

Jan 01, 2006; McElligott, Suzanne ... Denver-based Rentech, Inc. signed a master license agreement allowing Houston's DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC to use Rentech's patented FT CTL technology at its proposed 10,000 b/d, 200MW Medicine Bow Fuel & Power plant to be built in Medicine Bow, Wyo. "Ultimately, MBF&P intends to ...

Pakistan Considers Gasification For Fuels, Electric Power

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Pakistan is moving more towards gasification through a host of new projects that recently got the green-light from various agencies. Those projects include: * A 1,200MW gasification-based power project in the Thar region, with an Australian developer of underground coal gasification ...

Idaho Lawmaker Seeks Moratorium On Coal-Fired Power

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... State Sen. Glint Stennett (D) and Idaho Senate Minority Leader is seeking a moratorium on all coal-fired power plants until at least April of next year, AP reported. We're not set up in this new world of deregulation," Stennett was quoted as saying of plants that produce more than 250MW ....

AEP Picks Ohio IGCC Site

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... American Electric Power (AEP) announced that it plans to go ahead and locate a new $1.3 billion IGCC plant in the Great Bend area in Ohio, The News and Sentinel, a local online newspaper reported. It also plans to meet with the public on Jan. 24 to talk about the project. "This ...

Illinois to Kick In $5 Million Toward Taylorville IGCC Project

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) said the state would contribute $5 million in public-private support for the $1.1 billion Taylorville Energy Center IGCC project. The ERORA Group, the project's developer, is to receive $2.5 million for the front-end engineering and design work from the ...

Excelsior Files Petition with Minn. PUC for Mesaba Power Purchase Agreement

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Minnetonka, Minn.-based Excelsior Energy filed its petition with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission seeking approval for a 603MW power purchase agreement with Exel Energy's Northern States Power unit. The agreement states that Northern States Power will buy electricity generated ...

Appalachian Power Seeks Permit for W.V. IGCC Unit

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Appalachian Power, a American Electric Power (AEP) company, filed an application with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia seeking permission to build a 600MW IGCC plant in New Haven, W.V., next to the company's Mountaineer Plant. Appalachian Power said it has not made a firm ...

Algeria to Invest in GTL Over Next 5 Years

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Algeria plans to spend part of its $33 billion in energy project investments over the next five years in a GTL plant, oil Minister Chakib Khelil reportedly told the government owned daily El Moudjahid newspaper in early ...

Shell, Audi Enter GTL Car in Le Mans

Jan 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Energy major Shell and car manufacturer Audi Sport entered a GTL diesel-powered car into the Le Mans car race, widely regarded as the toughest motor race in the world. Shell V-Power Diesel with GTL ...

CEC 'Energy Policy Report' Endorses 5% 'Non-petroleum' Diesel Cars

Jan 01, 2006; Peckham, Jack ... In a new report, the California Energy Commission (CEC) recommends that all future diesel fuels in the state should have at least 5% of "non-petroleum" components such as GTE FT diesel, biodiesel or ethanol, in order to meet the state's goals for reducing "petroleum dependence." The ...