Jan 23, 2023
Cargill confirms takeover of Owensboro
Biodiesel News
Jan 20, 2023
Rapeseed growing areas in the EU-27 and Ukraine are set to increase while areas in India, China and Australia are expected to decline.
In its first estimate of the global rapeseed area for the 2023/24 marketing season, the International Grains Council (IGC) projected an area of 40.2 million hectares.
The estimate is 1.5% below the current season's record area and would... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 19, 2023
Malaysia has thrown its weight behind Indonesia’s rebuke of the EU’s Deforestation Regulation.
Indonesia’s President Jokowi and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim declared their position during the first meeting of the two leaders on January 9, stating that they “agreed to strengthen cooperation to boost markets and combat discrimination against palm oil”.
Last week,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 18, 2023
All diesel-powered ground handling vehicles and machinery at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands will be using Neste MY Renewable Diesel.
There are around 1,900 ground handling vehicles with a diesel engine at Schiphol airport, varying from standard cars, vans, pushback tractors and trucks to more specialised ground support like conveyor belt loaders, pallet... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 17, 2023
CNC Petroleum, a subsidiary of PS Energy Group, now distributes MGO B20 - a sustainable bunker fuel option to coastal and marine customers.
A blend of standard MGO and biodiesel, MGO B20 is distributed at the company’s floating kiosk, which is located off the buoy the West Coast Pier.
It is currently the only kiosk station, out of the four kiosks operated by CNC Petroleum,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 16, 2023
Neste announced that it would acquire the used cooking oil (UCO) collection and aggregation business and related assets on the US West Coast from Crimson Renewable Energy Holdings last year.
The acquisition has just been approved by regulatory authorities and the transaction has been closed.
The acquisition includes shares in SeQuential Environmental Services and Pure... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 16, 2023
The European Biodiesel Board has welcomed the European General Court decision to dismiss the actions for annulment initiated by three Indonesian biodiesel producers in March 2020, following the EU imposition of definitive countervailing duties on biodiesel imports from Indonesia.
After a two-year litigation, the EU General Court rejected all arguments brought forward... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 13, 2023
The Royal Air Force has used sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blended with regular jet fuel to achieve the first sustainable aviation fuel blend air-to-air refuelling of a Typhoon and C-130 Hercules aircraft.
A RAF Voyager delivered the fuel to the Typhoon and Hercules. The Voyager was previously used in successful initial trials in November 2022 where it flew on 100%... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 12, 2023
Airbus has introduced renewable fuel on one of the vessels it uses for transportation by sea.
A test campaign was launched on the route Saint-Nazaire-Tunis-Naples in December, which will run for 18 months.
Airbus is continously introducing alternative energy solutions across the different transportation methods it uses - air, road and maritime.
In 2019, Airbus introduced Sustainable... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 10, 2023
A pub in south Lincolnshire in the UK has celebrated one year of net-zero emissions by using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).
The Five Horseshoes Inn in Barholm village first adopted the renewable liquid fuel in summer 2021. The 300 year old pub has since become what is believed to be the first rural establishment in the country to achieve carbon neutral status.
HVO... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 10, 2023
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) expects global soybean production in 2022/23 to reach around 391.2 million tonnes in its latest report.
This is up 0.6 million tonnes on the November 2022 estimate. The figure translates to an expected increase of 35.6 per cent on the previous marketing year.
According to Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft, the upward revision... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 5, 2023
Deutsche Bahn is using double the amount of biofuel in its diesel locomotives than it had predicted for this time – 17 million litres of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).
The German state rail operator has surpassed its 2025 biofuel volume target so early thanks to its successful conversion of diesel filling stations to HVO.
The biofuel produces 90% less CO₂ emissions... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 5, 2023
A UK MP visited the first-ever fossil free village, which is run using HVO.
The Camborne and Redruth MP visited the Cornish village of Kehelland, where properties, including the local church, school, businesses and homes, have been converted to run on the biofuel.
The MP met with village residents and industry leaders to find out more about the trial, which is being... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 3, 2023
Chevron has partnered with Singapore-based shipping giant Ocean Network Express (ONE) to complete inaugural biofuel bunkering on a 4,800 TEU containership.
The operation was witnessed by Singapore Trade Data Exchange (SGTraDex), a digital infrastructure that facilitates the sharing of data between supply chain ecosystem partners.
The transaction saw the transfer of 992.2MT... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 3, 2023
Palm oil was the most important vegetable oil raw material for the production of biodiesel and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) in the quota year 2021 for offsetting against the GHG quota obligation.
According to the evaluation report 2021 published in December 2022 by the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE), 1.318 million tonnes of the raw materials certified... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 22, 2022
Neste is helping the data centre specialist LCL make a switch to renewable energy sources for its emergency power generators by providing the company with Neste MY Renewable Diesel.
LCL becomes the first in its sector in Belgium to start using the renewable diesel for its emergency power generators. The fuel will initially be used in LCL facilities in LCL Brussels-West... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 21, 2022
Soybean is the most important oilseed crop imported to the European Union, ahead of rapeseed, according to the latest import figures.
EU-27 imports in the first four-and-a-half months of the running marketing year amounted to just under 4.9 million tonnes.
In the same period of the 2021/22 season, imports were around 900,000 tonnes larger. There were significant shifts... [Read More]
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