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In the US Energy Information Administration's August issue of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, ethanol production has averaged approximately 940,000 barrels per day over the past three months.
This level is amongst the highest monthly levels ever recorded. The highest weekly level ever recorded was 972,000 barrels per day during the week ending June 13. Ethanol production averaged approximately…
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A senior official at the Ministry of Petroleum reports that Egypt is currently evaluating the proposal of three petrochemical projects to the UAE, two of which focus on bioethanol production totalling $490 million (€362 million).
One project involves the construction of a factory to produce bioethanol from molasses, with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year and an investment totalling $250…
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Genscape's LandViewer website offers an insight into current corn crop condition and price correlation.
The data, which covers over 1,400 counties, provides information of pricing at a national, state and county level.
Genscape's new LandViewer platform offers dual-level, real-time images of developing variables, which allows growers, traders, and grain buyers to correlate crop conditions with…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected ten projects to receive funding aimed at furthering genetic breeding programmes.
The programmes will improve plant feedstocks for the production of biofuels and bio-based products.
'Biofuels and bio-based products offer the potential of home-grown US resources that can reduce our dependence on imported oil and…
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Following the launch of its new business unit Leaf Technologies, Lesaffre has announced the acquisition of start-up company Butalco.
Research company Butalco focuses on yeast technology and the development of yeast strains for second generation biofuels.
The move follows the establishment of Leaf Technologies, which concentrates on the development and sale of fermentation solutions in…
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Cellana, a biofuels company based in Kailua-Kona, will receive a $3.5 million (€2.6 million) grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to pursue an integrated, high-yield algae biofuel feedstock production system at their Kailua-Kona, Hawaii demonstration facility.
Cellana's research efforts have led it to use algae to produce various products including a new form of renewable…
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed rules that create a programme to control fraud and adopt new technologies.
The programme will tackle fraud in biodiesel credits and will also add new technologies to its list of approved renewable fuels.
As the fraud rule aims to prevent biofuel refiners from becoming the victims of fraud, an auditing system has been set up to ensure the…
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Aemetis has received a $3 million (€2.2 million) matching grant award from the California Energy Commission (CEC) Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programme.
Industrial biotech company Aemetis received this award following the company's 'low-carbon sorghum ethanol project application to the 'pilot-scale and commercial-scale advanced biofuels production facilities' grant…
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Tank Storage Asia, taking place on 24-25 September at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, boasts its strongest ever conference line up. Over 20 leading authorities in the bulk liquid storage sector will discuss the region's critical issues - everything from changing trade flows and the shale boom to the storage market in China and the growth of the Asian biofuels market.
In a major show coup, Jack…
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The US Grains Council (USGC) reveals that China's Import Inspection Authority, AQSIQ, now requires US distiller's dried grains (DDG) imports to be officially certified free of the MIR 162 GMO trait.
All DDG shipments now departing that do not adhere to the certification requirement will be rejected, the North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA) said in a note to members.
The USGC will need…
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Agri-Energy plans to integrate renewable diesel production at its ethanol plant in Garnett, Kansas, US.
The plant will use its corn distillers oil (CDO) along with other feedstocks to produce renewable diesel.
Construction on the US facility, which will produce 3 million gallons of hydrocarbon fuel per year, will start shortly and will be complete in approximately a year's time. In the future,…
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $43.6 million (€32.4 million) to 11 biofuel projects that include petrol substitutes, diesel substitutes and biomethane plans.
These awards have been provided as a result of a grant solicitation released in January aimed at developing new or modifying existing California-based biofuel production facilities that can sustainably deliver low…
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The US' NASCAR race has now seen 6 million miles of competitive racing completed using an ethanol blend.
For more than three years, NASCAR has run its races on a fuel blended with 15% American Ethanol, Sunoco Green E15 and on 27 July at the Brickyard in Indianapolis, the race reached the 6 million mile mark.
'For nearly six million miles, NASCAR has highlighted the incredible performance and…
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Ethiopia is expanding its Jatropha plantation to produce 500 million litres of biodiesel from the plant, which can yield 600 litres of biodiesel from a single tonne of seeds.
'The country has designed a five-year Jatropha development project aimed at transplanting 700 million Jatropha seedlings and produce 500 million litres biodiesel,' says Bizuneh Tolcha, spokesperson for the Ministry of Water,…
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Colorado State University (CSU) has been awarded nearly $1.5 million (€1.1 million) from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a new oilseed feedstock crop for biofuels.
John McKay, a bio-agricultural sciences associate professor, is the direct recipient of the award, and it will be his team that will focus on the plant species Camelina sativa, an oilseed feedstock crop that can be…
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M&G Chemicals' subsidiary M&G International has entered into a joint venture with Anhui Guozhen to build the world's largest cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Fuyang City, Anhui, China.
The company, Anhui M&G Guozhen Green Refinery, will use Proesa technology licensed by Beta Renewables to convert between 970,000-1,300,000 metric tonnes per year of agricultural residues into…
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