Dec 3, 2020
Argentinian firm to produce biodiesel from sewage waste
Biodiesel News
Dec 2, 2020
Palm oil prices will continue to rise in the first half of 2021 as global supply is squeezed, the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) said.
Disruptions from persistent heavy rainfall in South-east Asia meant global supply would remain tight until the first quarter of next year, CPOPC said in an outlook it published.
“Towards the second half of 2021, adequate... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 1, 2020
The rally in rapeseed prices in Paris has also reached the German spot market and drove producer prices.
For this reason, many farmers have marketed their remaining stocks over the past two weeks.
Considering the difficult overall environment, the Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen (UFOP) sees the development of prices as a glimmer of light for arable... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 27, 2020
Cielo Waste Solutions Corp has received pre-payment in full for 60,000 litres of renewable diesel, which is being produced at its Aldersyde waste to renewable fuel facility.
The renewable diesel will be shipped to a third party of the purchaser's choice once Cielo reduces the sulphur content of its renewable fuel down to less than 15 PPM sulphur.
The British Columbia-based... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 27, 2020
GoodFuels and car manufacturer Volkswagen Group have successfully started their partnership in supplying advanced biofuel oil.
A leading marine biofuels supplier for the global maritime industry is supplying MR1-100 or BFO at Vlissingen, in the Netherlands, heralding another major step for sustainable shipping in the car carrier segment.
The Depth RoRo carrier Patara... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 26, 2020
Olam Palm is setting up a new plant producing biofuel from palm oil in Gabon.
The Singapore-based multinational firm will construct the plant in the southern part of Libreville, on an area of five ha not far from the port, after obtaining all the regulatory authorisations for the production of biofuel in the African country.
The site was picked because it offers easy... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 24, 2020
The EU-27 plus the UK imported around 2.1 million tonnes of rapeseed in the first four months of the 2020/21 season.
This was a 24% decline compared to the same period last year, but approximately 34% more than in 2018/19.
The fluctuations were due to the rapeseed harvest volumes. In the crop year 2019/20, rapeseed production in the EU-27 plus UK was just under 15%... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 24, 2020
Uniper Energy DMCC (UED) and Neutral Fuels have announced they will collaborate to provide maritime biofuel.
UED supplies very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and Neutral Fuels has been one of the pioneers behind the commercial viability of net zero biofuels to replace fossil fuels.
The two companies will blend UED’s VLSFO and Neutral Fuels biofuel, in Fujairah, UAE,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 23, 2020
HVO provider Green Biofuels has been selected as the sole provider of fuel for the construction of a new leisure development.
PEAK is a phased development of an all-year leisure, education, wellness, and entertainment destination based on 300 acres of reclaimed parkland at the edge of the Peak District National Park and Chesterfield in the UK.
The multi-million-pound... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 20, 2020
Neutral Fuels has created a mobile app to enable tighter control of the collection and delivery of used cooking oil (UCO).
The biofuel maker collects thousands of litres of UCO from McDonald’s restaurants in Dubai every day and delivers them to its refinery.
Here the waste oil is processed into Net Zero biofuel for its customers, creating a self-sufficient closed... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 12, 2020
PRIO has launched a new green fuel for ships with 15% biodiesel content.
Eco Bunkers, developed from raw waste material recycling processes, is produced at PRIO's biodiesel plant in Aveiro in Portugal.
Accoring to PRIO, Eco Bunkers allows for a reduction of up to 18% in CO2 emissions.
This new sustainable base product is the result of more than 10 years of research... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 11, 2020
Repsol has selected Axens Vegan technology for its first production plant for advanced biofuels in Spain.
The new plant, at its Cartagena refinery, will be capable of producing 250,000 TPA of biodiesel, biojet, bionaphtha and biopropane.
Axens’s expertise lies in hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO) and its commitment to power sustainability in transport.
Its technology... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 10, 2020
The biofuels industry has been strongly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Global transport biofuel production for this year was expected to be 144 billion litres, or 2,480 thousand barrels per day (kb/d) – an 11.6% drop from 2019’s record output.
The IEA said this was the first reduction in annual... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 10, 2020
Demand for soy diesel could quadruple in Europe because of the EU’s biofuels policy, a new independent study has found.
According to the Transport & Environment (T&E) campaign group, soy cultivation was a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon and other ecosystems in Latin America and biofuel made from soy was twice as harmful to the climate as fossil diesel.
The... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 9, 2020
Green Fuels has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aris Bioenergy committing the two companies to a biodiesel refining joint venture in India.
Under the agreement, the world’s leading distributed-scale biodiesel and advanced biofuels company and Aris have formed a company that will leverage Aris’s experience in used cooking oil collection in the Mumbai metropolitan... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 5, 2020
Honeywell UOP has revealed that the Diamond Green Diesel facility will more than double its annual production of renewable diesel.
The company said that the facility in Norco, Louisiana, will see the completion of a second Ecofining process unit with a capacity of 30,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp and Darling Ingredients... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 4, 2020
Annual US biodiesel production capacity decreased by 2%, or 49 million gallons, between January last year and the start of this year, according to the latest figures.
At the start of this year, biodiesel production capacity in the US totalled 2.5 billion gallons per year, or 164,000 barrels per day, according to the US. Energy Information Administration’s annual US... [Read More]