Jan 5, 2015
REG closes acquisition of Petrotec
Biodiesel News
Dec 18, 2014
Amyris, a global renewable products company, has received approval for its renewable jet fuel by Brazil's fuels regulator, ANP.
This enables it to approach commercialisation in Brazil of the Amyris renewable jet fuel in blends of up to 10%.
'Building on the revised ASTM International standard for aviation turbine fuel approved in June 2014, Brazil's ANP has now removed... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 16, 2014
Renewable Energy Group (REG) has completed upgrades to its 30 million gallon biorefinery in Newton, Iowa, US.
The plant can now produce an even higher purity biomass-based diesel from a variety of raw materials.
REG started work on the $13.2 million (€11 million) project in February and completed it in November, four months ahead of schedule and on budget.
A further... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 16, 2014
Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, and Tadweer, the Center of Waste Management, have signed a two-year research agreement.
This research will focus on improving the production process of converting waste cooking oil (WCO) to biodiesel through further experimentation and sensitivity... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 11, 2014
The Department for Transport has launched a £25 million (€31.5 million) competition to build advanced biofuel plants that will convert waste into biofuels.The government department funding is supported by considerable private sector investment and will encourage the construction of up to three demonstration biofuel plants, the first of their kind in the UK.The... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 9, 2014
Airbus Group, a global aeronautics and space company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT), a technology company focused on the development and implementation of methods for producing synthetic fuels and specialty products from a variety of carbonaceous feedstock, to promote the commercialisation of technologies to produce... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 8, 2014
Boeing has completed the world's first flight using 'green diesel', a sustainable biofuel that is widely available and used in ground transportation.The airline powered its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test airplane in December with a blend of 15% green diesel and 85% petroleum jet fuel in the left engine.'Green diesel offers a tremendous opportunity to make sustainable... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 2, 2014
Hawaii's plans to use an abandoned pipe to transport biofuel from ships docked at Hilo Harbour to a nearby storage facility has passed an environmental assessment and is expected to now be approved.
The pipe, which used to be used by Shell Oil, travels under state land.
Hoku Kai Biofuels owns the former Shell Oil property and intends to use its nine existing tanks to store... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 1, 2014
New Zealand Kadis, a private investment bank, will invest $3 billion (€2.4 billion) through Credit Enhancement for Initial Public Offering (CEIPO) to back a biodiesel project.
The project, which will be built in Sabah, Malaysia, is to be carried out by Konsortium Jaringan Usahawan (Sabah) Sdn Bhd and its strategic partner Chinagate Capital.
The funding programme will... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 28, 2014
Ergil will provide 16 pontoon type internal floating roofs for Gulf Petrochem's Pipavav Terminal project in Pipavav, Gujarat, India.
The company, which engineers, constructs and manufactures storage tanks for the petroleum and chemical industries, will supply the oil and energy specialists with pontoon type internal floating roofs, which are fully compliant with API 650... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 26, 2014
China imported 51,507 tonnes of biodiesel in October, down 58.32% from September, data released by the General Administration of Customs shows.
The country's main source of palm methyl ester is exported from Indonesia. These figures fell 56% month on month to 46,500 tonnes in October, while UCO methyl ester exports from Hong Kong fell 28.17% to 4,972 tonnes.
PME shipments... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 20, 2014
State-owned Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) is weighing up the possibility of replacing imported oil with biofuels from local crops.
PCJ has made agreements with Bodles Agricultural Research Station and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute to cultivate select crops for biofuel production.
'We are also procuring an oil press, which will press... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 19, 2014
Avinor's Oslo Gardermoen, Norway, is the first airport in the world to supply biofuels on a regular basis.
Through an agreement with Avinor, Statoil Aviation will deliver 2.5 million gallons of biofuels to tanks at Oslo Airport between March 2015 to March 2016. These 2.5 million gallons will be used to produce a 50% biofuel mix, which will fuel approximately 3,000 flights... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 17, 2014
India's government aims to include aviation turbine fuel (ATF) in the list of products within the proposed goods and services tax (GST).
Its inclusion will ensure a uniform tax on the aviation fuel across all states, which at present is particularly high, reaching the 30% mark.
The country's jet fuel is nearly 60% higher than others and represents 40-50% of an airline's... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 13, 2014
Scandinavian airline Norwegian has operated its initial biofuel-powered flight.
On Tuesday 11 November, the aircraft flew from Bergen to Oslo with close to 50% biofuel.
The airline hopes to contribute towards making aviation carbon neutral by 2050 through developing new technologies and frameworks.
Bjørn Kjos, CEO, Norwegian, says: 'We have a clear goal to reduce... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 13, 2014
Finland-based biorefining technology Chempolis, has signed a partnership agreement with Numaligarh Refinery (A Government of India Enterprise).
The duo will build a bioethanol biorefinery in Northeast India.
Using Chempolis' formicobio technology, the plant will also produce furfural and acetic acid from locally available cellulosic biomass including biomass.
The project... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 13, 2014
Waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer Enerkem recently has signed an agreement with chemicals producer AkzoNobel to initiate a project partnership that will develop waste-to-chemicals facilities in Europe.
Vincent Chornet, president and CEO of Enerkem, says: 'With our lower-cost alternative to incineration and landfilling, we help chemical producers offer more sustainable... [Read More]
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