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Energy company Jatenergy has sold the first of its high-yielding jatropha seeds from its specialist oil seed plant breeding program in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The seeds have been sold to companies in Europe, Japan and Mexico for use in trialing the development of crude oil plantations based on the second generation renewable oil crop, jatropha curcas, with an additional 1.2 tonnes of seed sold for…
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Energy crop company Ceres has announced its improved sweet sorghum hybrids have been successfully processed into renewable diesel by Amyris. The pilot-scale project evaluated both sugars and biomass from Ceres' sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. The sorghum juice was first extracted from the stems of the plants and concentrated into sugar syrup by…
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BioJet has announced the formation of a strategic business and project relationship with Lao Asia Pacific Agriculture Promotion Import-Export Sole Company (LAP). The partnership will involve the production of biofuels for land and air transportation, as well as other bioenergy products. The project will also include 100,000 hectares of feedstock production as well as refining/conversion…
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US Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has submitted a statement to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures for a hearing on 'Certain Expiring Tax Provisions': 'Sustained supportive tax policy is very important to emerging technologies that have not yet achieved commercial scale, and should be targeted at those technologies with the greatest potential to create the…
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TEPSA has expanded its storage capacity in Valencia. The extension consists of two new plants for petroleum products and biofuels, with the capacities of 53.000m³ and 61.000m³. The facility for biofuels and non-flammable products became operational mid 2011, with the second facility, designed for petroleum products, coming into action in November. After passing all technical and safety…
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China New Energy (CNE) and Chinese state-Owned ethanol producer, Jilin Tianshun Biochemical Development, a subsidiary of JEIC, have signed an agreement of intent. The contract will see an existing, Jilin-located, JEIC production facility upgraded into a commercial-scale, integrated plant with an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes of biofuel. The redeveloped facility, which is costing an estimated…
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted motions to allow the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA), the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), the Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC), the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), Growth Energy, the National Biodiesel Board and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) to intervene and address the issues that will be raised…
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Dyadic International is a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzyme and protein products for the bioenergy, biochemical, biopharmaceutical and industrial enzyme industries. The company has announced that Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies (Abengoa), has agreed to pay them $5.5 million for an expansion of its rights under the non-exclusive…
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Michigan State University (MSU) is to begin installing an anaerobic digester system which will use waste from the university’s farms and dining halls, generating power for some of the buildings on the campus. The MSU’s board of trustees has granted permission for work to begin on the project, which is expected to cost $5 million (€3.8 million), although should pay for itself…
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Lukoil has commissioned a new petroleum terminal at the port of Barcelona, Spain. The project was made possible due to a joint venture between Spanish company, Meroil, and international oil company Litasco (a Lukoil subsidiary) that was reportedly established in July 2010. The new terminal, which is connected to the Hydrocarbonates Logistics Company pipeline system, includes 8 petroleum-product…
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The local Department of Corrections has signed a deal with Biodiesel New Zealand so that it can supply the biofuels company with used cooking oil (UCO) from 18 of its prison kitchens across the country. Rather than being thrown into landfill, the New Zealand corrections department will supply about 5,000 litres a month of UCO to the biodiesel company so that it can continue to produce its Biogold…
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Royal Dutch Shell and Iogen have cancelled plans to construct a commercial-scale biofuel plant in Manitoba, Canada. This about-turn has resulted in the loss of 150 jobs. The joint venture was set to construct a plant that produced ethanol from straw and other plant waste rather than food crops. Shell first invested in Iogen in 2002 and the two companies have jointly operated a demonstration plant…
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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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