The Local has reported that an investigator appointed by the Swedish government is to propose requiring airlines to use carbon neutral biofuels, but only expects a reduction of 1 to 5% by 2025. Former Green Party leader, Maria Wetterstrand was tasked with investigating measures in order to promote biofuels in flights. Wetterstrand states that the report will suggest that... [Read More]

According to Xinhuanet News China Southern Airlines has announced that it has successfully completed its first intercontinental flight with aviation biofuel. The Airbus A320neo single-aisle airplane was delivered from Toulouse, France to Guanazhou in southern China’s Guangdon Province through ferry flight. The flight used aviation fuel with 10% biofuel that was made... [Read More]

US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would ‘very likely’ complete a policy change allowing year-long sales of 15% ethanol blend gasoline (E15) in time for the summertime driving season, Reuters reports. “Today he told me he thought it was very likely that they could get it done and would do so... [Read More]

Colorado-headquartered advanced biofuel producer Gevo announced that it has entered into a long-term renewable isooctane purchase and sale agreement with chemical manufacturing group HCS. Gevo claims that the agreement is an important step forward in its strategy to build out its advanced biofuels production facility in Luverne, Minnesota to increase the production of... [Read More]

German ethanol producer CropEnergies revealed that in a board meeting, the company has decided to resume ethanol production at its UK plant in Wilton at the beginning of March 2019. Biofuels International reported on the initial 'pause' of production at the facility in October 2018 which was due to what the company cited as 'difficult market conditions'. According... [Read More]

Reuters reports that Kern Oil & Refining Co is threatening to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency for failing to respond to its request for a small refinery biofuel waiver within the proscribed 90 days. In a letter addressed to EPA acting administrator Andrew Wheeler on the 7 February, Kern Oil said, “Kern Oil would prefer to resolve this matter and receive... [Read More]

Political party, Australia-first are trialling the use of 100% renewable diesel to fuel a Scania test engine, with support from the Palaszczuk Government’s Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. Southern Oil’s Advanced Biofuels Pilot Plant at Yarwun, near Gladstone, is pioneering the refining of renewable diesel fuel made from waste plastic, old tyres,... [Read More]

Albioma has announced the industrial commissioning of the first peak-load combustion turbine (CT) operating mostly on bioethanol in Saint-Pierre, Réunion Island. The commissioning will begin on the 25 February 2019 and the total cost of the investment is around €60 million ($68 million). The new CT is going to work with two types of fuel, 80% bioethanol... [Read More]

International marketer and distributor of biodiesel fuel Targray has announced the opening of its EU biodiesel trading desk in Geneva, Switzerland. The company states that this is part of a broader investment plan that aims to meet demand for low-carbon fuels in the EU. The Geneva trading desk is being opened in hopes that it will leverage off Targray’s global franchise... [Read More]

In the US, a federal judge has resentenced a 78-year old man for his role in a fraudulent biodiesel scheme after an appeals court dismissed his 2016 sentence, Oregon Live reports. Jack Holden from Eugene, Oregon, and co-defendant Lloyd Benton Sharp defrauded 12 people who invested in a biofuels project to produce biodiesel in Ghana. When the project failed, Holden and... [Read More]

According to The Business Times distributors of environmental equipment, USP Group plans to sell its biofuels unit for $6 million (€5.2 million). USP Group is selling its 93.09% owned waste oil-to-biofuel subsidiary, Biofuel Research for $5.59 million (€4.9 million) to a joint venture between the founders of AJ Jetting and Shanaya Environmental Services, The... [Read More]

A 90-tonne bung of congealed fat is to be dug out by hand from a Liverpool sewer, according to UK water provider United Utilities, who’s sewer engineers will be digging out the fatberg with pickaxes and shovels. 80 metres long, the blockage of congealed fats, oils and other substances was found underneath Birchall Street and couldn’t be moved with conventional... [Read More]

The Minnesota Biofuels Association (MNBiofuels) revealed an ABF Economics study that has shown the ethanol industry’s $2.31 billion (€2.03 billion) contribution to Minnesota’s economy. According to the study, Minnesotan ethanol producers generated 1.27 billion gallons of ethanol, 3.8 million tons of dried distiller’s grains with solubles (a high-protein... [Read More]

Eni has announced that it has signed a deal with RenOils to collaborate on promoting the recovery of used vegetable oils. The new deal also includes information and environmental education campaigns in order to outline the benefits of reusing oil to produce fuel as an alternative to fossil fuels. Already using approximately 50% of the used cooking oil available in Italy,... [Read More]

Five senators of the Republican party have issued a warning to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) acting administrator Andrew Wheeler that their pending support over his nomination to lead the EPA will be contingent on his biofuels policy, Reuters reports. The five senators are listed as: Ted Cruz, Texas; Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania; Michael Lee, Utah; John... [Read More]

A biorefinery pilot plant in Gladstone, Queensland has been given the go-ahead after a funding injection from the Palaszczuk Government. The biorefinery will be the trail site for jet fuel and diesel production from agricultural and forestry waste. Construction is due to begin this month and will be carried out by US company, Mercurius. Governor Annastacia Palaszczuk states... [Read More]