
Sep 27, 2022
Plock plant will supply SAF from 2025
Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2022
Bell’s next generation five-seater helicopter, the Bell 505, fuelled with Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ (SAF) took off in Singapore for a demonstration flight.
This is the first helicopter flight fuelled with SAF in Southeast Asia.
This milestone at Seletar airport was achieved by cooperation between Bell, Safran Helicopter Engines and Neste, with Jet Aviation... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2022
SWISS International and watchmaker Breitling have entered into an agreement where the luxury watchmaker will purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for all its business-related flights.
Breitling aims to reduce its flight-related CO2 emissions by 80%.
“For us, sustainability is not a project, it’s a journey we’re on to transform our business,” said Georges... [Read More]
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Sep 23, 2022
Atlantic Aviation and Avfuel Corporation have partnered to ensure plentiful supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation FuelTM for air operations surrounding the United Nations’ Mountain Partnership Global Meeting in Aspen.
Avfuel and Atlantic Aviation will supplement their continuous supply of SAF with two renewable diesel-powered truckloads of the fuel to Atlantic’s... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 23, 2022
An underutilised natural resource could be just what the airline industry needs to curb carbon emissions, researchers have found.
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Washington State University have reported success in using lignin as a path toward a drop-in 100%... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 23, 2022
Neste Corporation and Marathon Petroleum Corporation have completed their 50/50 joint venture that was announced earlier in the year.
The agreement is to establish a 50/50 joint venture to produce renewable diesel following a conversion project of Marathon's refinery in Martinez, California, known as the Martinez Renewable Fuels project.
All required closing conditions... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 21, 2022
Quadrise has announced a joint development agreement with lignin biofuel specialist Vertoro.
Vertoro is a supplier of sustainable biomass-based biofuels extracted from agricultural and forestry residues using their proprietary Goldilocks® technology.
GEM® is a crude lignin oil that is a potential alternative to methanol and is being developed in conjunction with... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 21, 2022
Cathay Pacific has signed an offtake agreement with Aemetis for the supply of 38 million US gallons of blended Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
This is to be delivered over seven years beginning in 2025 from San Francisco International Airport.
The SAF purchased can reduce more than 80,000 tonnes of lifecycle carbon emissions, equivalent to the amount of carbon sequestered... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 20, 2022
CropEnergies has been assessing the capacity utilisation of all its renewable ethanol production plants due to declining prices.
The company based in Mannheim, Germany, said continuously increasing costs could be offset by higher ethanol sales prices.
However, ethanol sales prices have decreased significantly as an increasing volume of imports particularly from Brazil... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 20, 2022
Neste has launched a strategic study on transitioning its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, to non-crude oil refining and into a renewable and circular solutions site.
Neste is targeting to significantly grow its renewables and circular production in Porvoo in the long term.
The transformation under study would start with the co-processing of both renewable and circular... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 16, 2022
A senior executive of one of the world's biggest producers of biofuels, Raizen, said greater electrification in the transport sector will not spell the death-knell for bioethanol or biodiesel.
Paula Kovarsky, the firm’s chief strategy officer said in countries like Brazil and India where EV adoption will be much slower, biofuels will have a role in reducing emissions.
She... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 16, 2022
World Energy plans to convert its existing biodiesel and terminal assets in Houston into a new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) hub.
This new facility will enable the company to produce another 250 million gallons of SAF annually by 2025.
In April, the company announced plans to produce 250 million gallons of SAF annually by 2024 at its Paramount, California site.
This... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2022
OMV and Ryanair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Ryanair airports across Austria, Germany and Romania.
This MoU agreement gives Ryanair access to purchase up to 160,000 tons of SAF from OMV over the next eight years, starting in 2023.
This landmark MoU demonstrates Ryanair’s continued progress towards its... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2022
Air New Zealand is to welcome the first shipment of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation FuelTM (SAF) ready to power the airline's fleet.
The shipment of SAF is imported into New Zealand in partnership with Z Energy.
The 1.2 million litre (937 tons) import of neat SAF is equivalent to fuelling around 400 return flights between Auckland and Wellington.
The first shipment... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 14, 2022
OMV and Lufthansa Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the supply of more than 800,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel from next year to 2030.
The companies intend to expand their existing partnership and extend it to include new locations for SAF production and delivery as well as new SAF production technologies.
OMV, the integrated oil, gas and... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 8, 2022
Aemetis announced that $7 billion (€7 billion) of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) supply agreements have been signed with 10 airlines.
This is for a total of 916 million gallons of blended SAF, including a contract with Cathay Pacific.
Previously, Aemetis announced a contract with a major travel stop chain for 450 million gallons of renewable... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 7, 2022
The Airport City Sustainability Campus will be a launch point and demonstration hub for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) under a new agreement with an Alberta-based energy company.
Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and SixRing, a subsidiary of Calgary-based Fluid Energy Group, have signed an agreement to utilise the SixRing process to produce one of the world’s cleanest... [Read More]