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Europe’s main biofuel production port, and a key player in bulk liquid fuel storage, Ghent has 600 hectares of land available for investment following 14 years of infrastructural work. The new space has already attracted 13 companies and at the end of November Brazil-based Companhia Brasileira de Logistica announced it would invest €70 million in the construction of a liquid bulk terminal,…
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In the US, 13.95 billion gallons of biofuels must be blended with conventional fossil-based transport fuels by next year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) requirements for 2011. Of this renewable fuel, 0.78% (1.35 billion gallons) of it will be made up of advanced biofuel, 0.69% (800 million gallons) of biomass-based diesel and 0.003%…
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Illinois is traditionally known for mass ethanol production owing to its position in the US corn belt, but now biodiesel availability is on the up thanks to fuel terminal operator Kinder Morgan. From mid-December Renewable Energy Group’s REG 9000/1 biodiesel will be available for splash blending at Kinder Morgan’s Argo, Illinois, terminal. REG expects biodiesel from its Illinois facilities,…
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Liquid fuels stored in above ground storage tanks (ASTs) are strictly regulated. With limited land space and terminals with high occupancy rates, underground storage of biofuels is becoming a viable option with a little EPA guidance. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released draft guidance for underground storage tank (UST) owners and operators who want to store biofuels such…
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From April 2011 Europe’s largest airline Lufthansa is to trial biofuel in an Airbus A321 engine. The six-month trial will see the airline use a 50:50 blend of biofuel and kerosene on its local commercial flights from Hamburg to Frankfurt and back again. The project will allow Lufthansa to test the effect of biofuels on plane engines, looking at engine maintenance and the effect of biofuel…
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A recent surge in Brazilian sugarcane processing is to be crushed by a gradual reduction owing to the conclusion of milling operations. The volume of sugarcane processed in the South-Central region of Brazil until 1 November reached 500.88 million tonnes, a 12.64% increase compared with the same period in the 2009-10 harvest. In the second half of October, crushing reached 30.12 million…
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Switzerland-headquartered biodiesel producer BioPetrol Industries is to acquire the entire issued share capital of Dutch Biodiesel BV, a manufacturer of biodiesel, after signing an agreement. The deal is subject to shareholder approval and customary closing conditions being satisfied by BioPetrol and Dutch Biodiesel shareholders. Following the satisfaction of these conditions, the deal is…
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South America has long been home to an ethanol boom. Now two countries in the continent are joining forces on the biodiesel front. Colombia's agricultural research institute CORPOICA and Mexico's southern Chiapas state will launch a $3.6 million (€2.7 million) biodiesel plant in Chiapas in January 2011. The plant will be able to produce 38,000 litres of biodiesel a day from…
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Mexico’s first biodiesel plant has begun operations. The nation’s president Felipe Calderon opened the production facility on 26 November 2010 in the south eastern state of Chiapas. The plant will convert jatropha, palm oil and recycled oil into 20,000 litres per day of biodiesel for use as transport fuel in local vehicles.
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Denmark-based second generation ethanol producer Inbicon has begun providing fuel supplier Statoil with green fuel to meet the oil major’s roll out of a 5% ethanol blend at 100 selected petrol stations across Denmark. Inbicon’s second generation bioethanol is made from wheat straw. In 2009, the two companies signed an agreement for Inbicon to supply Statoil with the first five million…
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As refining and marketing company Neste Oil’s renewable fuels business enters a new phase following two major investment projects, the company has decided to merge its Oil Products and Renewable Fuels business areas. Neste Oil’s financial reporting will remain unchanged and Oil Products and Renewable Fuels will continue to form separate reporting segments. Currently the executive VP of Oil…
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A special Eurobarometer report released by the European Commission has revealed that 72% of the public support biofuels across the EU27, with 83% public approval for sustainable biofuels. The report, commissioned to test public opinion on biotechnology, concludes that Europeans believe that the use of biofuels should be widely encouraged. ‘This strong public support for biofuels is a very…
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October this year saw the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) increase the blending limit of ethanol to E15 for vehicles made after 2006. Now the EPA’s decision on whether the same E15 blend can be used in cars and light trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006 is to be delayed until January next year. The EPA was expected to give its decision in December. However, according to the…
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