ExxonMobil’s majority-owned affiliate Imperial Oil will invest about $560 million (€524 million) in the construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in Canada. The project at Imperial’s Strathcona refinery is expected to produce 20,000 barrels of renewable diesel per day primarily from locally sourced feedstocks and could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions... [Read More]

PRIO has announced a new partnership in which it supplied B30 marine biofuel to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in collaboration with World Fuel Services. This new fuel, ECO Bunkers B30, is a 30% blend of advanced biofuel from waste feedstocks, produced at PRIO's biodiesel plant and blended at PRIO's tank terminal in Aveiro. With the support of World Fuel Services,... [Read More]

Stolthaven Dagenham has allocated land to Olleco to build a new facility that processes used cooking oil (UCO) collected from restaurants and food production sites. The UCO will then be transferred to Stolthaven Dagenham's storage tanks before it is converted into renewable, low-carbon biodiesel fuel. Stolthaven Dagenham is the closest storage terminal to central London... [Read More]

TotalEnergies Marine Fuels has completed its first refuelling of a Hapag-Lloyd container vessel in Singapore with used cooking oil methyl ester-based marine biofuel (UCOME). This inaugural bunker operation marks the start of a term supply agreement between the two companies, which commits TotalEnergies to provide very low sulphur fuel oil blended with 24% second-generation,... [Read More]

Indonesia's chief economic minister has reassured the public that there would be no disruption in domestic cooking availability after a higher blend of palm oil-based fuel in biodiesel was launched in February. He was seeking to allay concerns over supply and prices, Reuters reported. The world's top palm oil producer last year imposed various measures to control stubbornly... [Read More]

To reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and work towards sustainability, the European Commission has introduced the Fit-for-55 package. This is a set of European policies implemented to help the transition of Europe to climate neutrality by 2050. These policies aim to reduce Europe’s greenhouse emissions by at least 55%, as well as strengthen European partnership and... [Read More]

Angel Alvarez Alberdi, the secretary general of the European Waste-based and Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), outlines what he feels are the critical issues affecting the industry this year. This year will be yet another year of heavy regulatory activity for the EU biofuels industry, with many different key laws being passed as the year progresses. We briefly discuss... [Read More]

Topsoe has signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution to boost sustainable aviation fuel production (SAF). The agreement with Steeper Energy, a pioneer within biomass conversion technologies, combines Topsoe's technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production. With the agreement, Topsoe will be able to provide a complete waste-to-fuel... [Read More]

Diesel engine and equipment manufacturers Caterpillar, John Deere and Cummins joined PepsiCo and Florida Power & Light to discuss the important role that low-carbon liquid fuels like biodiesel and renewable diesel play in helping them achieve corporate sustainability goals. Joining the panel of experts at the Clean Fuels Conference in Tampa included Joel Feucht,... [Read More]

Imperial will help Canada achieve its net-zero goals by investing about $560 million (€514 million) to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in the country. The project at Imperial’s Strathcona refinery near Edmonton is expected to produce more than 1 billion litres of renewable diesel annually primarily from locally sourced feedstocks. This... [Read More]

Alfa Laval is first in the market to launch biofuel-optimised separators and separator upgrades. Biofuels like HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) and FAME (fatty acid methyl ester) can be used by diesel engines without major engine modifications. They can be a carbon-neutral alternative if produced from the right biomass, but they must still be cleaned effectively to prevent... [Read More]

Casterra Ag has announced it has entered into an agreement with one of the world’s leading energy companies to provide its castor varieties and cultivation techniques at a commercial scale for biofuel production. Under the framework of the agreement, the initial focus is the purchase agreement of castor seed varieties from Casterra for growing castor in specific African... [Read More]

Cargill has confirmed it has completed the acquisition of Owensboro Grain Company - a fifth-generation family-owned soybean processing facility and refinery located in Kentucky. The addition of Owensboro Grain Company will enhance Cargill’s efforts to increase capacity across its North American oilseeds network to support growing demand for oilseeds driven by food,... [Read More]

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]

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]

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]