Bioethanol News

PETRONAS, Enilive and Euglena have made a final investment decision to develop a biorefinery at PETRONAS’ Pengerang Integrated Complex in Johor, Malaysia. Set to be operational by the second half of 2028, the biorefinery will produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other biofuels. The facility will process about 650,000 tonnes of raw materials annually, leveraging advanced Ecofining™…
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Trafigura Group has completed the acquisition of Greenergy’s European and Canadian supply businesses from Brookfield Asset Management and its listed affiliate Brookfield Business Partners. Founded in 1992 to supply diesel with lower emissions, Greenergy is today one of Europe’s largest suppliers of biofuels with manufacturing plants in the UK and the Netherlands and a leading distributor of…
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Neste has commissioned terminal capacity at ONEOK’s terminal in Houston, Texas for blending and storing Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™. This is a major step in further expanding the availability of Neste’s SAF to airlines also operating from airports east of the Rocky Mountains all the way to the East Coast. The new capacity at ONEOK’s terminal in Houston provides Neste with…
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Holland America Line announced the start of a biofuel test on its flagship, Rotterdam, leveraging 100% low carbon intensity biofuel while sailing within the Norwegian World Heritage Fjords. The ship bunkered the biofuel before leaving the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on April 27 and will operate one of its four engines using low carbon intensity oil derived from organic waste or residues…
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For Mazda’s 35th anniversary of the MX-5 Celtic Renewables welcomed the team and four car models to its biorefinery in Grangemouth. The cars had embarked on a 1,000-mile journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats using 100% biofuel from SUSTAIN Fuel  - derived from agricultural waste. Mazda and SUSTAIN Fuel chose Celtic Renewables as one of their stops to refuel on their…
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Neste reported its first net loss since 2014 in the second quarter of this year, as the Finnish refiner grappled with a downturn in the global biofuels market and prolonged outages at its Porvoo refinery. In a July 25 earnings statement, Neste announced a net loss of €144 million for Q2, marking its first negative profit since Q4 2014 and the largest loss in over a decade. This result was a…
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Air New Zealand has dropped a 2030 emissions reduction target - blaming delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and high sustainable aviation fuel prices. However, the carrier said it was committed to an industry-wide target of net-zero emissions by 2050. Aviation is deemed responsible for about 2% of the world's emissions but is considered one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise, Reuters…
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LanzaJet has announced a strategic investment from Airbus, which enables it to continue to build its capability and capacity to scale its proprietary ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) process technology. “LanzaJet intentionally developed a diverse portfolio of strategic investors comprised of leading, global companies to ensure we have the ecosystem to scale the SAF industry,” said…
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Airbus, the Air France-KLM Group, Associated Energy Group, LLC, BNP Paribas, Burnham Sterling, Mitsubishi HC Capital and Qantas Airways have co-invested in a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) financing fund to accelerate the production of SAF. The corporate partners worked with investment manager Burnham Sterling Asset Management to establish the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Financing Alliance…
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Malaysia is committed to supplying China with Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified palm oil and palm oil products. Datuk Chan Foong Hin, Deputy Minister of Plantation and Commodities, said that Malaysia seeks to cooperate with China in establishing a shared consensus during engagements with the European Union, particularly regarding the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).…
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Production capacity of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United States could increase from around 2,000 barrels per day (b/d) to nearly 30,000 b/d in 2024 if all announced capacity additions come on line, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Developers expect Phillips 66’s Rodeo Renewed project to produce up to about 10,000 b/d of SAF beginning this summer, and they…
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Vale and Komatsu have signed an agreement to develop and test, in partnership with Cummins, dual fuel haul trucks powered by a mixture of ethanol and diesel. They will be the world's first trucks of their size, with payloads of 230 to 290 tons, to run on ethanol, in a joint investment in research and development that demonstrates the commitment of all three companies to advancing sustainability…
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