BACK in 1999, when she was the head of refining at Chevron, Patricia A. Woertz told a group of energy officials that it was time to stop mixing agricultural policy with fuels policy.
In that same speech, at a fuels conference in Washington, Ms. Woertz also publicly expressed worry about the unintended consequences of a federal [...]

You are going to hear a lot about gas/coal to liquids technology in Australia in coming years and it could very well end up supplanting the likes of ethanol and biodiesel as a source of energy in competition with oil.
South Africa has used it for years (Sasol), the Germans used similar technology during World War [...]

As lawmakers on Capitol Hill prepare for negotiations on competing proposals to expand domestic offshore oil and gas drilling, most Democrats running to replace Rep. Ed Case in the U.S. House say they would not support the lower chamber’s version of the bill.
“Clearly, H.R. 4761 is a knee-jerk solution that endangers the environment, namely coastal [...]

In a global first, American fuel-cell development company Intel-ligent Energy has announced the development of a new hydrogen-generation system, which is the product of a collaborative effort between itself and local fuel giant Sasol.
The ‘Hestia’ system converts Sasol’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuels into hydrogen. The high-purity hydrogen is then transformed into electricity and heat for practical [...]