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Construction on American Jianye Greentech Holdings’ second biofuels plant in China is underway. The facility, located at the Xiangzhou Shilong Industry Zone, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China, will produce approximately 50,000 tonnes of biodiesel, 50,000 tonnes of civil use clean fuel, and 100,000 tonnes of ethanol fuel with a maximum annual operating capacity of 200,000…
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Oil producer Petrobras, construction firm Camargo Corrêa and Mitsui & Co. have secured a preliminary environmental license to construct an ethanol pipeline in Brazil. Expected to cost $1.1 billion (€900 million) to build, the pipeline will be 337 miles (542km) long. The pipeline will be ready for use by Q3 2011 and will connect mills located in the states of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo…
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A joint venture between Illinois, US-based Elevance Renewable Sciences and agribusiness group Wilmar International will construct a biorefinery in south-east Asia. The Indonesian facility will use Elevance's proprietary biorefinery technology to produce high-value performance chemicals, advanced biofuels and oleochemicals. This commercial-scale manufacturing facility will begin with a…
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A petroleum products terminal in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, US, has changed hands with the new owners considering future biodiesel production. El Maniel Energy, a subsidiary of El Maniel International (EMLL), acquired the 24 million gallon terminal in eastern Pennsylvania, which includes five acres of land, buildings and equipment valued at over $2 million (€1.59 million). The company…
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UK-based renewable energy company Green Oil Plantations has launched a new biofuel investment programme in Australia. The company’s biofuel plantations project is located in Cairns Hinterland, Queensland, and managed by its wholly owned subsidiary Green Oil Plantations Holdings (Pty) Ltd. UK investors can now benefit from a safe biofuel producing plantation investment opportunity, with…
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The construction of biomethanol producer BioMCN’s second generation biofuel plant has been completed and began operations on Friday 25 June. Located in the city of Delfzijl, the Netherlands, BioMCN’s plant has the capacity to produce 250 million litres of biomethanol annually and is thought to be the largest in the world. Rob Voncken, director at BioMCN, said: ‘There is a lot of demand,…
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An ethanol plant proposed for Zimbabwe has been given the go-ahead as country leaders believe it will bring some much-needed development to the area. The $600 million (€492 million) Chisumbanje ethanol project is a venture between the government, MacDon and Rating Investments and, according to Chief Tobias Hiliziyo Garawa, the area is already seeing some changes. ‘We had some of the…
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Australia’s first sorghum-fed ethanol plant located in Dalby, Darling Downs, Australia, has gone into voluntary administration 18 months after opening. Now the refinery located in Dalby, Darling Downs, Australia, has gone into voluntary administration. Ernst and Young have been brought in to review the business, which owes creditors over $80 million (€65.4 million). Selling the facility…
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Ethanol producer Poet has purchased its most recent facility – a 90mgy ethanol plant in the town of Cloverdale, Indiana, US. Poet’s CEO Jeff Broin said: ‘In total, POET will have the capacity to produce 1.7 billion gallons of ethanol and more than 4.5 million tons of dried distillers grains. We will continue to look for opportunities to expand that capacity.’ The Cloverdale plant, which…
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In Saint John, New Brunswick province, Canada, energy company Irving Oil has withdrawn its application that would have seen the construction of a biodiesel production facility adjacent to the company’s oil refinery. On the 31 March this year Irving Oil applied for environmental impact assessment for a biodiesel plant that would manufacture biofuel from food waste. The facility, which was…
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Dedicated to the production of sustainable energy, UK-based Vepower has entered into an exclusivity agreement with biofuel feedstock company Jatropha Africa, with the goal of financing the company’s 50,000 hectare plantation in Ghana, West Africa. In five years the plantation in Ghana will have matured and yield as much as 1400kg of crude jatropha oil per harvest. The jatropha plantation can…
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Despite a number of attempts to pass a tax extenders package, the US Senate was unable to get the 60 votes needed in order to continue. The bill included extending the $1 (€0.8) -a-gallon tax credit for biodiesel and the future of the tax credit for biodiesel production now appears uncertain. According to the head of the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), the industry for biodiesel will…
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In Massachusetts, US, the mandate that would have seen 2% of biofuels blended with conventional heating oil and diesel has been put on hold. Due to come into effect last week (30 June 2010) the Clean Energy Biofuels Act would have begun at 2% before being increased to 5% in 2013. The legislation was signed in 2008 in order to reward second generation biofuels and other non-corn-based…
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