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Petrotec looks to boost finances
Biodiesel manufacturer Petrotec has reported sales are up 28%, but financial performance has suffered due to the current economic contraction.
While its used cooking oil-based biodiesel has sold in higher quantities, interest and tax losses have increased due to depreciation of the euro.
Petrotec reported sales in 2008 at €77.7 million, up from €60.8 million…
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Over 60 new biogas plants will be opened in Tanzania, in the Tanga region, by June this year.
The plants are coming online with the help of the Tanzania Domestic Biogas Program in Kilindi, Handeni and Korogwe, as well as the districts of Pangani and Muheza.
Tanga District Commissioner Ibrahim Msengi says five plants are already in use in the region.
Biogas serves as a cheap raw material for…
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The international airline association IATA is aiming to approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 or 2011.
Recent tests by Continental Airlines, Japan's JAL, Air New Zealand and Virgin had shown that next generation sustainable clean burning biofuels were successful, IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani says.
Biofuels would still need to be produced in commercially viable…
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US-based Nova Biosource Fuels has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a need to restructure its biodiesel refining business.
The company has up to $50 million (€37.8 million) of both liabilities and assets.
Nova Biosource produces diesel from animal-derived fats, greases and vegetable-based oils, operating in five refineries.
Nova Biosource, which reported a Q1 net loss of $11 million,…
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The implementation of a 10% ethanol blend in unleaded petrol in stations in France has hit delays.
The higher blend, currently 5%, should be sold in 75% of the nation’s stations by the end of the year, Jean-Louis Schilansky, president of the oil trade group UFIP, says.
Ethanol must be moved by truck rather than by pipeline; existing oil depots and service station tanks must be adapted to the…
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Ghana has attracted the interest of several nations around the world for biofuels projects, the latest being India.
Indian alternative energy companies have entered Ghana and have begun processes to cultivate crops for biofuels in the country.
Currently, Brazilian, Norwegian, Israeli, Chinese, German, Dutch, Italian and Belgian businesses are investing in Ghana to cultivate jatropha and other…
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South Africa’s Eastern Cape has been selected as the site for a pilot project for which marine algae will be used to convert carbon dioxide into biofuels and other products.
Jacobs University in Germany has partnered with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to expand the research with the intention of establishing pilot sites at various Eastern Cape…
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Quebec, Canada-headquartered Enerkem, an advanced biofuels and green chemicals technology company, has announced plans to build and operate a second-generation biofuels production facility located in Pontotoc, Mississippi, US.
Plans call for the plant to be built, owned and operated by Enerkem Mississippi Biofuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enerkem.
It is expected to produce 20 million…
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Magellan Midstream Partners is collaborating with US ethanol producer Poet to progress a feasibility assessment of constructing a dedicated ethanol pipeline from the Midwest to distribution terminals in the north-eastern US.
Since February 2008, Magellan has been exploring the feasibility of constructing a 1,700-mile dedicated renewable fuels pipeline from northwest Iowa to New York harbour. It…
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Japan-based Cosmo Oil is set to invest US$800 million (€587 million) in the development of a starchy crop as raw material for biofuel production in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Pre-feasibility studies for a period of six months will begin soon. The studies will obtain data on appropriate crops, raw material and appropriate soil type.
Following this, a three and half year long full-scale analysis…
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Connecticut, US-based biofuels developer Greenleaf Biofuels has received a $1.3 million (€952,000) grant from the state of Connecticut to help finance the construction of a 6.7mgy biodiesel plant in New Haven Harbor, Connecticut.
Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has backed the project, and it has been administered through the Connecticut Center for…
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In the US, The Biofuels Center of North Carolina has awarded a total of more than $580,000 (€425,000) to three biomass-to-liquid fuel-related projects within the state.
The Biofuels Center has been tasked to implement North Carolina’s renewable fuels standard, which mandates that by 2017, 10% of the liquid fuels sold in North Carolina should come from locally grown and produced…
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StocExpo Europe 2009 opened in style today with a pre-show tour of the Port of Rotterdam, the home of the storage industry.
To mark the beginning of the fifth European event dedicated to bulk liquid storage, the Port of Rotterdam Authority showed guests key sights including building work on the new Gate LNG terminal, construction of Spanish biofuel producer Abengoa's ethanol plant, and…
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South Africa signed a contract to export between 70 and 90% of output from a planned 400,000 tonnes a year biodiesel plant to Germany. An environmental impact assessment is under way and production from the plant, located in the Elidz area, will start next year.
This is part of an initiative by the South African government to encourage export-oriented growth in the country through the attraction…
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US ethanol lobby groups have combined to officially file a petition with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting the amount of ethanol that is blended into petrol be raised from 10% to 15%.
The March 6 filing was accompanied by hundreds of pages of research supporting the groups’ claims that no significant damage would be incurred by the nation’s vehicles if the increase were…
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