Johnson Matthey (JM) has announced that DG Fuels has selected its award-winning Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS™ technology – co-developed with bp – for DG Fuels’ first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in St James Parish, Louisiana. The plant will be the largest deployment of FT CANS to date, seven times larger than any previously announced project using this... [Read More]

The aviation industry has been working on bio-aviation fuels since the late 2000s. The first flight using bio-aviation fuel took off in 2008 - it was flown by Virgin Atlantic from London to Amsterdam. Since then, many more airlines have carried out flights using bio-aviation fuels. In 2009, the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) which sets a cap on how much CO2 can... [Read More]

Much of the industry conversation on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is focused on production. Making more molecules available is important, but we also need to unlock the ability to deliver them to the aircraft. Perhaps the supply chain logistics are not as attention grabbing as production itself, but the industry has to focus on all aspects of the supply chain if... [Read More]

Repsol has marked a milestone in the decarbonisation of transport in the Iberian Peninsula with the start of large-scale production of renewable fuels at its industrial complex in Cartagena, Spain. This plant will be the first on the Iberian Peninsula dedicated exclusively to the production of 100% renewable fuels. The company has invested €250 million in the construction... [Read More]

Solarig has reached an agreement with SOMACYL to acquire 116,000 square metres for its NUMANTIA SAF project. The plant will be built in Parque Empresarial del Medio Ambiente (PEMA) in Soria, Spain. Additionally, Solarig will have its new regional corporate headquarters in one of the dedicated dome buildings currently under construction. The SAF plant will have an estimated... [Read More]

ABB has signed an agreement with Cap Clean Energy to collaborate on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production sites in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), ABB will explore how its automation, electrification and digital technology – including the ABB Ability™ System 800xA® distributed control... [Read More]

ePURE’s Craig Winneker will be speaking on the second day of the Biofuels International Conference and Expo to be held in Brussels on June 18-19, and he shares his thoughts on the challenges the industry faces Can you outline what you will be addressing at the conference? Regulatory challenges remain, even after the sustainability of crop-based biofuels has been confirmed... [Read More]

The slightly smaller German rapeseed harvest has led to an increase in demand for imports especially from Ukraine, Poland and Romania. According to information published by the German Federal Statistical Office, Germany imported around 3.5 million tonnes of rapeseed in the first half of the 2023/2024 crop year (2.6 million tonnes; 2022/2023), with around 2.2 million... [Read More]

Southwest Airlines Co. has announced the acquisition of SAFFiRE Renewables (SAFFiRE) as part of the investment portfolio of its wholly owned subsidiary Southwest Airlines Renewable Ventures (SARV). SARV is dedicated to creating more opportunities for Southwest® to obtain scalable sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). SAFFiRE is part of a project supported by the Department... [Read More]

Phillips 66 has announced a major milestone in its conversion of the San Francisco refinery into the Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex - expanding commercial scale production of renewable diesel. The Rodeo Renewed project has progressed, with the facility now processing only renewable feedstocks and producing approximately 30,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel. The... [Read More]

Ryanair has announced that it has purchased 1,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Shell, which will be supplied to the airline at its Stansted Airport base. This purchase follows the MoU agreement made between the companies in 2022, providing Ryanair with unique access to purchase up to 360,000 tonnes of SAF from Shell between 2025 and 2030. The announcement,... [Read More]

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) and the Global Transport Solutions (GTS) Group, encompassing Marinetrans and Best Global Logistics (BGL), are to extend their collaboration on AFKLMP's Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) programme. This collaboration underscores a mutual commitment to sustainability and supports GTS’s Going Green initiative. The continuation of... [Read More]

The Renewable Fuels Association has filed a petition to intervene in support of a legal challenge brought by European ethanol producers against the European Union’s FuelEU Maritime Regulation. By arbitrarily assuming crop-based biofuels like ethanol have the same lifecycle carbon emissions as the dirtiest fossil-based marine fuels, the EU regulation effectively bans... [Read More]

Simply Blue Group is developing onshore renewable energy parks to power facilities capable of producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The projects, in Canada, Ireland and Australia will process more than 1.5 million tonnes of sustainable biomass annually to produce over 300,000 tonnes of SAF each year. Simply Blue Group’s sustainable fuels will be produced in... [Read More]