Oct 23, 2014
Duo open aviation biofuel demo plant
Biodiesel News
Oct 22, 2014
Agricultural research institute The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and Evofuel, the wholly owned subsidiary of plant genomics company Evogene, which specialises in enhancing crop productivity for the biofuels industry, have signed a joint research agreement to advance castor cultivation in Brazil.
The cooperation will primarily focus on technologies... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 22, 2014
Air France-KLM plans to fly weekly flights from Toulouse to Paris using a blend of kerosene.
The airline will fly planes with a 10% blend of biofuel until September next year.
Airlines are moving toward using clean fuel following assurance from the International Air Transport Association to cut emissions by 50% by 2050 from 2005 levels.... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 16, 2014
In the US, Simple Fuels is to acquire the assets of California-based Yokayo Biofuels.
The transaction includes the sale of Yokayo's biodiesel operations, as well as its oil collection activities and deep fryer oil collected from local restaurants.
It has been reported that Simple Fuels will continue producing and supplying biodiesel at the same price of $4.70 (€3.70)... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 16, 2014
Sagay Central, a sugar milling and sugar growing company and partner of energy crop cultivator Viaspace, has shipped and planted Giant King Grass in Negros Occidental, the Philippines.
Sagay Central crushes 4,000 tonnes of sugarcane daily and produces 150,000 tonnes of sugar per year.
The Giant King Grass was harvested from Viaspace's nursery in California, US and inspected... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 15, 2014
State-owned oil and gas corporation Indian Oil and technology company Celanese have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the potential of a joint investment in an ethanol plant to be built in India.
The project, which is expected to be located in Paradip in the state of Odisha, will be based on TCX technology from Celanese. It will utilise petroleum coke (petcoke)... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 13, 2014
Neste Oil has announced that its Neste Pro Diesel containing NEXBTL renewable diesel is now available in Lithuania.
The fuel will be distributed through the company's local retail network and its 51 stations. Up until now, Neste Pro Diesel was only available in Finland.
'The Baltic region, and the Baltic countries in particular, is a key market area for us,' says Panu... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 9, 2014
Recyclers Baker Commodities has acquired a controlling interest in San Diego, California-based New Leaf Biofuel.
The acquisition of New Leaf enables Baker to expand into other markets that vertically integrate with its rendering operations, and adds value for produced fats and oils.
For eight years, New Leaf Biofuel has been converting used cooking oil (UCO) into ultra-low... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 7, 2014
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will give a $91 million (€72 million) loan guarantee to help Cool Planet Energy Systems build a new biofuel plant in Louisiana.
The facility will be built at the Port of Alexandria, Louisiana, and will produce renewable fuels and biochar, a bioenergy by-product. Pine chips will be converted into high octane petrol and aromatic... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 3, 2014
EU authorities has given the go ahead for Airbus' new long-haul A350 plane to start flying.
Deliveries of the next-generation aircraft will be sent to its first client Qatar Airways shortly.
The new A350 plane has been manufactured to help the European airline catch up with Boeing's efforts to create long-haul, fuel-efficient planes.
Using light composite materials, the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is expected to spend up to $25 million (€19.8 million) on improving algae production and development.
The Department is working on reducing the costs of algae biofuel down below $5-per-gallon equivalent in petrol by 2019 by improving current technologies. If that doesn't seem very ambitious compare that to the state of play without... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
Crop company Agrisoma Biosciences has finished the first closing of its Series A financing round, expected to total $8 million through 2014.
Cycle Capital Management led the financing round, which included participation of BDC Venture Capital, one of Agrisoma's current equity investors.
Certified sustainable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Carinata... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
International aviation group Lufthansa and sustainable energy specialists JatroSolutions have signed an MoU to make the production of jatropha commercially viable.
Lufthansa will help the start-up company set up a raw materials supply chain to ensure the provision of biosynthetic fuel derived from the jatropha plant.
Joachim Buse, VP, Aviation Biofuel at Lufthansa, says:... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has filed comments with the European Commission (EC) challenging blocked US biodiesel exports to Europe.
Since 2009, the EC has prevented biodiesel exports trading from US to Europe, a move that the NBB calls 'unfair'.
NBB urges the EC to allow duties on US biodiesel imports to expire this year planned, arguing that global trade for biodiesel... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 30, 2014
KazMunayGas Trading has lost its court case against Austrian oil company OMV Petrom.
The product and supplies company will have to pay over $70 million (€56 million) to Romanian tax administration agency ANAF, for contentious biodiesel imports from Canada originating in the US.
This sum was awarded for recovering losses generated by the OLAF investigation and the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Elevance Renewable Sciences, a specialty chemicals company based in Illinois, the US, will partner with Malaysia's Genting Plantations, through its subsidiary Genting Integrated Biorefinery, to build a 240,000-tonne factory at POIC Lahad Datu.
The factory, which will be the first in Malaysia, is thought to lead to new technologies in the area and a cluster of biorefineries... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels will supply biofuel to Southwest Airlines and to the military starting in 2016.
The airline has agreed to buy three million gallons of low-carbon jet fuel per year from advanced renewable provider Red Rock Biofuels. The fuel will be manufactured at a plant, soon to be constructed, in Lakeview, Oregon, US.
The $200 million plant will convert... [Read More]
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