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]

Today’s aviation industry finds itself in a paradoxical position. On the one hand, it is a force for good, connecting people, places, economies, and cultures. It also plays a key role in shipping goods around the world (including vaccines during the recent global pandemic) and delivering humanitarian aid where and when it is needed most. On the other hand, aviation... [Read More]

Velocys, the sustainable fuels technology company, has secured an agreement with Bechtel, one of the world’s most respected engineering companies. The agreement sets out a route map for the parties to collaborate with each other with the objective of developing an EPC execution model for the company’s sustainable fuels projects. This collaboration will initially... [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]

Brazil’s Foreign Trade Chamber has reinstated the 18% import tariff on ethanol resulting in US imports becoming less price competitive in the country. The recent zero percent import tariff wasput in place last year by Brazil’s former president to help fight rising inflation. The current administration let the zero percent tariff expire on February 1. The government... [Read More]

Nippon Paper Industries, Sumitomo Corporation and Green Earth Institute have agreed to begin trilateral trials for the commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol. Bioethanol is currently attracting attention in countries worldwide striving for carbon-neutral societies as a renewable energy source and as feedstock for biofuels such as SAF and chemicals with low environmental... [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]

UPM has appointed Christian Librera as senior vice president biofuels to lead the company’s biofuels business platform. “While electric vehicles take an increasing share of passenger transport, advanced biofuels will continue to play a key role in reducing transport emissions in modes such as trucking, large scale passenger transport, maritime and notably aviation.... [Read More]

India will start a phased roll-out of 20% bioethanol-blended fuel by 1 April. The proposed roll-out will give further impetus to the government’s plans of achieving 20% ethanol blending across the country by 2025-2026. “We have increased ethanol blending in petrol from 1.53% in 2013-14 to 10.17% in June 2022, which was well ahead of the November 2022 deadline,”... [Read More]

Indian Oil Corp is set to sign an agreement with LanzaJet to produce cleaner aviation fuel at its Panipat refinery in northern India, Reuters reported. US-based LanzaJet helps companies produce aviation fuel from ethanol manufactured from agricultural or industrial waste. By 2030, 2% of aviation fuel produced by Indian Oil will be sustainable aviation fuel. Indian Oil... [Read More]

Axens and Praj have signed a memorandum of understanding to work jointly on projects in India for production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from low carbon alcohols through Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) pathway. India is among top five aviation markets globally, and robust growth is expected over the next two decades. In its pursuit of net-zero target, Government of India... [Read More]

Argent Energy, a leading European manufacturer of biofuels in the UK and the Netherlands, has commenced groundworks for construction of a glycerine refinery in the Port of Amsterdam. The facility is expected produce 50,000 tons of refined glycerine per year. With this construction, the company is expanding its portfolio of sustainable products and will be entering the... [Read More]

Ronald Backers, who has worked at the Port of Rotterdam for 30 years in various capacities, outlines the developments in the biofuels industry at the port in The Netherlands. 2022 saw a continuation of biofuels activities that began in the years before that. The current biofuel production capacity of 2.4 million tons is expected to double in the coming years. Construction... [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]

VARO Energy and Lufthansa Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the production and supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The MoU will deepen existing partnership through potential agreement for VARO to sell SAF volumes to Lufthansa Group from as early as 2026. In July 2022 VARO announced its new strategy centred on two engines. Engine... [Read More]

Darling Ingredients Inc. and Valero Energy Corporation have announced that the companies have made a final investment decision on a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project. The project at the Diamond Green Diesel (DGD) Port Arthur plant, which is owned and operated by Diamond Green Diesel Holdings, is a 50/50 joint venture between Valero and Darling. Upon completion... [Read More]