The complete details on BP’s exit and the considerable physical and intellectual assets available for acquisition, in part or in whole. As BP continues to reel from its oil leak capital calls and the impact of crashing oil prices, they dropped a bombshell in recent weeks: “The current challenging external business environment is resulting in […]
The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]
The press has been buzzing, the microbe’s real, and the results have been near-to-stunning. All true. But, with the news circulating about regarding the remarkable abilities of an enzyme found inside a thermophile, there’s less than meets the eye. There’s been a tremendous buzz in the neo-scientific press in recent days over reports of an […]
As the specter of falling oil prices spooks the sector, here’s good news from the Land of ILUC — a shocker study pointing a way towards mitigating or eliminating that infamous scourge of carbon-scoring for biofuels. There are two types of stories in the world of biofuels. There are the fascinating stories we can’t wait […]
EPA certifies its fuels reduce GHG’s by 69% In Florida, Algenol announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved fuels made from Algenol’s process as an advanced biofuel, meeting the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction requirements under the Renewable Fuels Standard. Fuels produced from Algenol are now eligible for a Renewable Identification Number under the […]
Will oil prices ever stop falling, and who’ll be left standing when they do? How long can the war of attrition gone on between North American shale producers and OPEC? Oil prices are falling — fast. Nothing seems to stop the slide. Increasingly, it can be seen as a battle over market share as a […]
Next week, a new Digest chapter begins with the debut of “Faces”, our first original series, one of three we expect to debut this year as part of the all-new BioChannel.TV. Faces Faces is just as it sounds – short, to the point, face-to-face, one-on-one interviews with policy leaders, project developers, financiers, analysts, scientists, and […]
Oil prices continue to show incredible volatility. $106 in June, $50 today. Which biofuels ventures have the pro-formas to make money in a tough market? The Digest investigates. We have written it elsewhere that “good companies make money in good markets, but great companies make money in tough markets,” and by most accounts, the $50 oil […]
Food vs Fuel, emissions, cost competitiveness, and RINsanity. Some of the most unfair bricks hurled at corn starch-based ethanol — and here’s why. If you were, like me, employed in the late 1980s in the eight-block radius around New York’s Washington Square Park, you knew to keep a sharp eye out for bicycle-mounted messengers that hurtled […]
The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]
