GENERAL
CORPORATIONS
Fossil Fuel Liquefaction Consortium Will Switch to C1 Chemistry ....1
GOVERNMENT
DOE Outlines 15-Year Research Plan in Vision 21 ....1
Mining Technology Roadmap Released, DOE to Fund Projects Soon ....2
ENERGY POLICY & FORECASTS
Suncor Energy Sees Room for Both Fossil and Alternative Fuels ....6
World Oil Supply--Is the Barrel Half Full or Half Empty? ....11
TECHNOLOGY
New High Energy-Density Fuels Created From Diamondoid Compounds ....13
Multipurpose Gasification Lowers Cost of Hydrogen Production ....17
ENVIRONMENT
National Research Council Says Ethanol and MTBE Do Little to Reduce Smog ....21
European Union Votes to Restrict Use of Flexibility Mechanisms for Kyoto Protocol ....21
COMING EVENTS ....23
OIL SHALE
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
SPP/CPM and Suncor Announce Completion of Stuart Stage I ....25
SPP/CPM Chairman’s Address Notes Benefits of Stuart Project ....25
CORPORATIONS
SPP Annual Report Highlights Stuart Project ....26
TECHNOLOGY
Copyrolysis of Oil Shale and Waste Polymers Tested ....27
Viscosity of Estonian Shale Oil Blends Found Non-Linear ....30
INTERNATIONAL
Impact of Proposed Jordanian Oil Shale Project Deemed Acceptable ....31
Chinese Oil Shale Extracted By Supercritical Water ....35
Pakistani Oil Shales Deliver Maximum Oil Yield at 500ºC ....38
Turkish Oil Shale Hydroliquefied In Supercritical Toluene at 400ºC ....41
OIL SANDS
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Second Train at Syncrude’s North Mine Commissioned in April ....45
Suncor Oil Sands Sets First Quarter Production Rate Record ....45
Suncor Forms Alliance for Project Millennium, Runs Into Environmental Opposition ....46
UTS Energy and Koch Canada On-Track With Fort Hills Oil Sands Project ....47
Mobil Delays Start of Kearl Lake Project ....48
CORPORATIONS
Canadian Oil Sands Industry Presses Onward Despite Last Year’s Oil Price Drop ....48
Companies Selling Conventional Canadian Assets But Holding Heavy Oil Properties ....51
Suncor Will Move More Oil Sands Operations Into Third-Party Contracts ....51
Shell Canada Expects to Spend $3.8 Billion On Oil Sands Development ....52
CanArgo Energy Absorbs Fountain Oil and Uentech Heavy Oil Recovery Technology ....53
Enbridge Starts Up New Pipeline to Handle Growing Athabasca Oil Sands Production ....54
Conrad Restructures to Improve Oil Sands Technology ....55
PanCanadian and Gulf Canada Combine Heavy Oil Operations ....55
ENERGY POLICY & FORECASTS
Purvin & Gertz Sees Rebound In Canadian Heavy Oil Production ....55
TECHNOLOGY
Conrad In Situ TPG Launches New Projects ....57
NCUT to Commercialize (HC)3 Upgrading Process ....59
Aquaconversion Process Offers New Route to Heavy Oil Upgrading ....59
INTERNATIONAL
Construction Resumes at Petrozuata Plant ....63
China Resumes Orimulsion Purchases ....63
COAL
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Dakota Gasification Company Marks 10 Years of Operating Great Plains Synfuels Plant ....65
Liquid Phase Methanol Plant Finishes Second Year of Operation ....66
Clean Energy Project Needs a New Plant Site ....68
Compressor Failure Shuts Down Wabash Power Project ....69
Rosebud SynCoal Operations Extended to 2001 ....69
Gasifier Damaged at Piñon Pine Project ....69
SGI Sells LFC Plant Production to Illinois Power ....69
KFx Secures Agreement to Cancel Thermo Ecotek Control Warrants ....71
Puertollano IGCC Project Now Ready for Business ....71
Field Construction Begins On Weyburn Project to Use Carbon Dioxide From Great Plains ....72
CORPORATIONS
Covol Announces Marketing Agreement, Explains Tax Credit ....72
GOVERNMENT
DOE Funds 20th Year of University Coal Research Grants ....74
TECHNOLOGY
IGT Gasification Technology Progressing In China ....75
Carbontec Offers Two Synthetic Coal Processes ....76
Conceptual Plant Produces Decarbonized Fuel From Coal ....78
Lithium Carbonate Found Most Effective Eutectic Salt for Catalytic Gasification ....81
Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Brazilian Coal With Alcohols Looks Promising ....82
INTERNATIONAL
New UK Cleaner Coal Technology Program to Focus On UCG ....84
NATURAL GAS
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Shell/Abu Dhabi GTL Project Placed On Hold ....88
CORPORATIONS
Chevron, Sasol Plan Global GTL Joint Venture ....88
University of Alaska-Fairbanks to Lead GTL Research Consortium ....88
Rentech and Phoenix Gas Systems to Develop Modular GTL Technology ....89
Texaco and Rentech Sign R&D Agreement ....90
GOVERNMENT
FETC Outlines Gas-To-Liquids Research Program ....90
ECONOMICS
Rentech Sees Opportunity to Retrofit Methanol Plants for F-T Production ....92
TECHNOLOGY
Induction Coupled Plasma Provides New Route to Syngas ....94
DME Emissions of NO and CO Better Than Propane/Butane ....96
New Foster Wheeler Methanol Process Can Make Low-Cost Fuel for Power Generation ....97
F-T Conversion Makes High-Value Specialty Products From Natural Gas ....98
New Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst From Synergy ....100
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