BP to demonstrate biofuels advances during Olympics

British Petroleum (BP) is set to use its position as event partner of the London 2012 Olympic Games to springboard its latest advance in biofuels technology.

BP will provide biofuels and lubricants to a fleet of over 5,000 BMW-supplied vehicles throughout July and August, including one based on a 24% biobutanol-blended gasoline.

And, if all goes well, BP executives are hopeful to offer consumers all over the global the chance to use such advanced blends within the next three years.

‘We feel we’ve created breakthrough technologies and, by incorporating them in the fuels for London 2012, we take what we feel is the next generation of biofuels from the laboratory to the road,’ says BP Biofuels CEO Philip New.

As well as biobutanol, BP will use biofuels made from cellulosic ethanol and sugar-to-diesel routes. It has taken six years of research to get to this point, but New believes successful completion of this project will ‘redefine biofuels’.

Nor more detail on this story see the August edition of Biofuels International.