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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Operating profit up 32% to R34 billion - Headline earnings per share up 50% to R38,09 - Final dividend up 58% to R9,35 per share - Continued production volume growth - Operational efficiency improvements at existing businesses - Delivering on growth projects - Improved safety performance - R24 billion Sasol Inzalo BEE transaction implemented - Oryx GTL production in Qatar ramps up Overview "Our...
By CHRIS KAHN Getting the right mix to keep the engines running properly is tricky. PHOENIX -- With the price of oil still above $100 a barrel, everything from wood chips to chicken fat is being scrutinized as an alternative to traditional fuel. But when it comes to airplanes, finding the right mix poses a special challenge. "When you're in an airplane, you don't want your fuel to start solidifying," said Robert Dunn, a Department of Agriculture chemical engineer who is studying biodiesel...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 4, 2008) - G4G Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GXG) ("G4G") announced the incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary; Alternative Fuels Corporation ("AFC"). AFC will work towards producing synthetic fuels from municipal waste and stranded natural gas using the new generation Fischer Tropsch technology developed by the Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (COMPS) situated at The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg ("Wits"). The COMPS...
Rentech, Inc. (AMEX:RTK) today announced its conference schedule for September 2008. Where applicable, the power point presentations for the conferences will be available at www.rentechinc.com within the News and Events portion of the site under the Webcasts and Presentations section. September 9, 2008 Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) FT/Syngas Production and Distribution - XTL Technology Needs and Opportunities Washington, DC Speaker: Dr. Robert Freerks, Director of...
By Williams, Walt CHARLESTON - The same day two energy companies announced plans to build West Virginia's first coal-to-gasoline plant, a spokeswoman for one of the state's largest environmental groups was trying to convince state lawmakers that coal-to-liquids technology would be a step in the wrong direction. Vickie Wolfe of the West Virginia Environmental Council said coal- to-liquid technology was less efficient than conventional fuels, resulted in more greenhouse gas emissions and...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sasol and Shenhua today announced that they have agreed to focus their full attention on the 80 000 barrels per day CTL feasibility study in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The joint Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group and Sasol Project in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is one of only two CTL projects which will continue with further study and development in China. This strategy aligns with a recent notice issued by the National...
If environmentalists are looking for a place to launch the equivalent of an Apollo Project to develop alternative fuels, the airline industry might be a good place to start. The airlines already have a significant motivation for finding alternatives to petroleum-based fuels: a $61 billion industry-wide fuel bill this year. The airlines already are working hard to find a fuel that would be interchangeable with the kerosene now used to power jet engines. That search has led them to a...
DALLAS, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 5, 2008, the United States Patent Office issued patent number 7,408,091, Process for Liquid Phase Hydrogenation, to Dallas-based Synfuels International. The revolutionary Synfuels technology, discovered at Texas A&M University and commercialized by Synfuels International, allows the natural gas industry to take a giant leap forward in process efficiency. Synfuels GTL & GTE processes are also designed to be located upstream, in the field where gas...
Dynamic Fuels has selected L-Con Constructors, a Houston-based engineering and construction company, as the lead contractor for the company's first renewable synthetic fuels facility in Geismar, Louisiana. L-Con will provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services to the project. Dynamic Fuels is a 50-50 venture between Syntroleum and Tyson Foods to convert low grade, inedible fats and greases into renewable synthetic diesel, jet and military fuel. Construction of the...
Carbon-offset forestry company Carbon Jungle's wholly owned subsidiary waste-to-fuel company, Cobal-USA Alternative Fuels, has received a general statement of intent from a US-based coal sector company to process waste material into synthetic diesel fuel. Possible feedstocks to be used for processing include waste coal, scrap tires, biomass, dried sludge and municipal solid waste. Petr Lisa, president and CEO of Cobal-USA Alternative Fuels, said: "We are pleased to now have prominent people...
