Biodiesel News

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 woody biomass —…
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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 between Oslo and…
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Colorado State University (CSU) has been awarded nearly $1.5 million (€1.1 million) from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a new oilseed feedstock crop for biofuels. John McKay, a bio-agricultural sciences associate professor, is the direct recipient of the award, and it will be his team that will focus on the plant species Camelina sativa, an oilseed feedstock crop that can be…
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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) from Indian Oil's…
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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 the last regulatory hurdle…
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ASTM International standard D7566, Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesised Hydrocarbons now includes renewable synthesised iso-paraffinic fuel. This recently approved revision adds the synthesised iso-paraffinic fuel to the ASTM D7566 annex, which will facilitate the use of the fuels in all international airlines. This standard ensures biobased fuel quality that is on par,…
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State-owned company Alcoholes de Uruguay (Alur) has launched a pilot project to recycle used cooking oil (UCO) and convert it into biodiesel. The project, which uses a 'smart' glass container that receives UCO containers and provides clean ones in return, is modelled on recycling systems implemented by the company Ekogras in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian. A 'smart' container has been…
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Stena Bulk will perform a test running an MR tanker on 100% biofuel during the coming weeks. The fuel is the MR1-100 biofuel oil, produced from used cooking oil and supplied by GoodFuels in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It has been bunkered onto the Stena Immortal and will be used to power the main engine in normal operations to test and prove the technical and operational feasibility. “By…
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