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Verenium: BP responds

I've just had this email from the press office at BP about its joint venture with Verenium which was mentioned in an earlier post today . We remain focused on commercializing the technology that we are developing jointly with Verenium and continue...

Published 17 Mar 2009 15:48 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuel, biofuels, technology, BP, Companies, cellulosic, Bioethanol, Verenium, venture, joint
Verenium and Aventine in difficulties: Reuters

Verenium could have difficulty continuing as a company, its auditors say in a report from Reuters yesterday and carried in the UK's Guardian Business Feed .The same report says Aventine may need to take Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Key points...

Published 17 Mar 2009 15:16 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Agriculture, biofuels, technology, Science, BP, Companies, cellulosic, Verenium, Aventine
BP pays $180m for clean air violations

The US Department of Justice has fined BP Products North America almost $180 million for violating EPA's Clean Air Act regulations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. BP agreed to the settlement and will spend more than $161m on pollution controls...

Published 24 Feb 2009 16:09 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Environment, BP, Regulation, Government, Health and safety, fine, petroleum refinery, Clean Air Act
More on BP Vereneum

Last night the press office at BP emailed me with more details on the agreement with Verenium . I like the way they talk about "energy cane" and "energy grasses" presumably energy cane is the stuff left behind after sugar processing...

Published 24 Feb 2009 11:10 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuels, BP, Companies, Verenium, venture, revolution, joint
BP ups Verenium investment

BP is upping its investment in Verenium by to $122.5m , according to Gas 2.0 blog, which has more details. Key point for me is that this is a non-food route to biofuel, though the source, the Wall St Journal, hides more details behind the subscription...

Published 23 Feb 2009 10:27 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: America, USA, US, biofuels, Florida, BP, cellulosic, Verenium
Top Chemical Adverts No. 6 - BP at Heathrow

I've just seen these BP billboard ads all over London's Heathrow airport. Click here to view the campaign. It seems that the campaign has also won Greenpeace's Emerald Paintbrush Award , and that Greenpeace has created its own spoof advert...

Published 27 Jan 2009 7:02 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: biofuels, Oil, London, BP, gossip, Greenpeace, gas, solar, Heathrow, wind, energy, media life
Business week spots butanol

Business Week has an article on biobutanol. As a run down of where we are with butanol its worth having, but there's no real peg for the story. Read More...

Published 12 Nov 2008 9:48 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuels, BP, Business, DuPont, butanol, Week
Decision time in Europe, N America

Many Asian companies have been cutting back petchem production in recent weeks. Now TOTAL have become the first to follow suit in Europe, with the announcement that they will shutdown the Carling No 2 cracker for a month from mid-November. These decisions...

Published 24 Oct 2008 16:52 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: BP, Economic growth, Oil markets, Financial Events, M & A, Leverage, Andrew Liveris, TOTAL, Nova, Dow, Steven Welch, Jeffrey Lipton
Gustav points to a much bigger problem

The good news on the radio as I came into work this morning was that Hurricane Gustav had weakened in intensity with forecasts that it might make landfall in the US with wind speeds of less than had been earlier feared. But this is not the point. The...

Published 1 Sep 2008 3:46 by Asian Chemical Connections

Filed under: US, Economics, mexico, technology, BP, Business, Oil & Gas, Naphtha & other feedstocks, sustainability, Company Strategy, US Gulf, demand relocation, Hana, CIBC World Markets, Jeffrey Rubin, demand destrruction, Gustav
BP investst in Verenium

There's a Wall Street Journal article about BP investing $90 m in Verenium a US cellulosic ethanol technology company. Both firms hope to start a jointly making biofuel in a few years. The WSJ says this is BP's first venture into cellulosic biofuel...

Published 18 Aug 2008 12:29 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: US, ethanol, BP, cellulose, Bioethanol, Verenium, investmetn, 90m
The river doesn't just run black

China and the environment might not be only about rivers changing colour several times a day and factories belching out air pollution that kills hundreds of thousands of people prematurely every year. Elizabeth Economy outlined the extent of China's...

Published 17 Aug 2008 16:01 by Asian Chemical Connections

Filed under: US, Economics, China, Environment, Europe, BP, Dow Chemical, Billy Connolly, harmonious society, The Climate Group, leftover venison, Den Xiaoping
Oil chief gets Russian visa

Visa problems don't come much bigger than those facing Anglo-Russian oil giant TNK-BP's chief executive, Robert Dudley. I've had a few anxious visa moments myself, the last one being when my China visa application was turned down twice on...

Published 20 Jul 2008 18:56 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, BP, corporate life, AAR, TNK-BP, visa, Len Blavatnik
Interesting quotes (5)

Every now and then , a few interesting quotes come along, which seem to recent summarise developments, and set the tone for the next few months. The last few days is a good example of this process at work: 'The era of cheap energy is over, as oil...

Published 9 Jun 2008 14:14 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: China, BP, Economic growth, Oil markets, Currencies, Financial Events, M & A, Leverage, Bank for International Setlements, G8
Praj wins big biofuel contract to supply Vivergo

Praj has won a big biofuels contract to supply key equipment to Vivergo Fuels , UK through its subsidiary, BioCnergy Europa B. V, a Joint Venture with Aker Solutions, Netherlands , according to myiris.com,. The plant is designed to produce 400m litre...

Published 22 May 2008 10:32 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: ethanol, UK, BP, DuPont, British, Vivergo, Sugar
Russian crude supply 'peaking'

Russia is the world’s 2nd largest oil producer. And it has been the main source of increased crude production in recent years. Its output rose 58% between 1999-2006, from 6.2mbd to 9.8mbd. Now Lukoil’s VP, Leonid Fedun, has told the Financial Times that...

Published 16 Apr 2008 11:46 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: China, BP, Economic growth, Oil markets, Currencies, crude oil prices, economic downturn, Russia, Lukoil, CGES

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