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Magellan Midstream Partners LP has announced that it will offer ethanol storage, blending and distribution at its facility in Mount Pleasant, Texas, next month. At a cost of $2 million (€1.51 million), Magellan plans to convert a 17,000-barrel tank and add a new sequential blending system. Jeff Selvidge, senior vice president of transportation and terminals says, "We now offer ethanol…
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Boeing, Airbus and Embraer have agreed to work together on the development of drop-in, affordable aviation biofuels. The agreement was signed by all respective CEOs and Presidents, at the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva. It will see the airframe manufactures speak in unity to government, biofuel producers and other key stakeholders to support, promote…
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Boeing and All Nippon Airways have flown a 787 Dreamliner aircraft on biofuels from the Boeing Delivery Center in Everett, Washington, to Tokyo Haneda Airport. In the first ever biofuel flight crossing the Pacific ocean the plane flew on a mixture of biofuel derived from used cooking oil and conventional fuel, cutting about 30% of the CO₂ emissions usually produced. However, the companies say…
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Algae into biofuels company Algae Tec has announced commissioning for a showcase biofuels facility in Nowra, Australia. The facility, named Shoalhaven One, already has the bioreactor technology and associated racks, piping and separation tanks in place, with full testing and final validation now underway. ‘This commissioning process is on track for production of algae biomass in early June,…
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Canadian biofuels producer Enerkem is to consider licensing its trash-to-ethanol technology following production at a demonstration plant. In a statement Enerkem has claimed it expects the plant to validate its manufacturing process which will be used at three commercial-scale plants that are currently under construction in the US and Canada. VP of government affairs and communications…
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Public-listed Greenergy Holdings has confirmed a planned PHP25 million (€476,550) investment in a local Philippines biofuel company Isabela Alcogas. Greenergy’s board of directors disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange that the company had the ‘green light’ to subscribe the PHP25 million worth of Isabela Alcogas shares, with authority to even go up as high as PHP50…
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Up to 125 advanced biofuel producers will be receiving payments from the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Bioenergy Programme for Advanced Biofuels. Producers become eligible for payments from the programme based upon the amount of biofuels that are produced from renewable biomass other than corn starch. Some biofuels eligible for the program include those produced from cellulose,…
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Two German researchers have re-ignited the debate that European-produced biodiesel does not meet the required sustainability targets claimed by Brussels. Gernot Pehnet and Christoph Vietze of the Friedruch Schiller University claim eight of the ten tests on locally-produced rapeseed biodiesel failed to meet the promised 35% of greenhouse gas savings promised. In many cases the results recorded…
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Odec Tankstorage is increasing its storage capacity in a bid to handle more biofuels. Last month the company acquired a 9,130m3 terminal area in Södertälje oil harbour, Sweden. The terminal is now under development and, upon completion, will feature four new tanks for biofuels storage. Phase 1 of this project is slated to begin at the end of this year and includes a 6,000m3 insulated…
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Buckeye Partners is to offer crude oil services at its storage terminal in Albany, New York after forming a long-term agreement with an Irving Oil subsidiary. Under the agreement, Buckeye will provide around 1.8 million barrels of oil storage, off-loading unit trains and throughput when the terminal opens at the beginning of November. Buckeye president and CEO Clark Smith says the offering of…
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Renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris has recorded declining financial results for the third quarter ending September 2012. Aggregate revenues for the quarter were posted at $19.1 million (€15 million) versus $36.3 million in the same quarter 2011. The company puts the decline in revenue down to the planned transition out of the ethanol and ethanol-blended gasoline business, which is…
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A new ethanol plant has been mooted for construction in Barbados according to the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC). The plant would use sweet potatoes as feedstock and convert them into ethanol. Speaking at the Barbados Manufacturers’ Association’s quarterly networking meeting, BIDC CEO Leroy McClean said: ‘I have a Chinese company awaiting a response from…
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The head of Iran’s Fuel Conservation Company (IFC) has stated that it will start a specialised work group to produce biodiesel in conjunction with the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad. ‘Upon the request of cabinet, a fuel basket was defined recently in which the share of fuel used by diesel cars rose by 17% to hit 24%,’ Abbas Kazzemi, the head of the IFC, was quoted as saying.…
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Lufthansa says it has finished its six month trial with biosynthetic fuel, during which time more than 1,000 biofuel flights were successfully flown between Hamburg and Frankfurt. However, the airline is ending its trials because it is unable to find reliable suppliers for its aviation biofuels. ‘As a next step, we will focus on the suitability, availability, sustainability and…
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