New large UK biorefinery project put back until fourth quarter

Vivergo Fuels has confirmed that the start-up its proposed new biorefinery in eastern England will be delayed until towards the end of 2012.

The biorefinery, claimed to be one of the biggest in Europe upon its completion and based near Hull, is set to use over one million tonnes of feed wheat to produce 420 million litres of bioethanol a year. An approximate by product of 500,000 tonnes of mid-protein animal feed is also set to be generated.

 ‘Delivering a project of the scale and size of this plant is a complex and challenging process,’ the company said in a statement. ‘While some aspects of the construction and commissioning programme have run very smoothly others have encountered more difficulties, and therefore timescales have been revised accordingly.’

Vivergo Fuels is part-owned between British Petroleum, Associated British Foods and DuPont.