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Nov 8, 2013
Nordic aviation sector joining forces for sustainable fuel
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Nov 8, 2013
GE Aviation (GE) has announced it has signed an agreement to buy cellulosic biofuel to broaden its fuel sources for jet engine testing.
As of 2016, the Washington DC-based D'Arcinoff Group will supply at least 500,000 gallons of the fuel annually for GE's main testing facility in Ohio.
The 10-year agreement contains options for GE to order up to 10 million... [Read More]
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Nov 11, 2013
Mewah International, a palm oil refining business in Malaysia, is set to acquire a biodiesel plant from alternative fuel processing company Gomedic.
The deal is reported to be in the region of $13 million (£9.7 million) and includes over 25,000 m3 of land. The purchase will be completed in the first quarter of 2014.
Mewah believes the plant is ‘strategically... [Read More]
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Nov 11, 2013
Brazil-based construction business Odebrecht is believed to be planning to separate the cogeneration from its sugar and ethanol operations to create a new bioelectricity company.Odebrecht currently produces 816MW of electricity by burning the sugarcane bagasse left over from its production of sugar, but it is believed the 2013/14 harvest will be able to generate about... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2013
Deinove, a technological company which designs, develops and markets industrial processes based on Deinococci bacteria, has revealed its plant chemistry development programme has been chosen by the French Enivronment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) and the General Investment Commission.
The programme, called Deinochem, will aim to produce a new generation of chemical... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2013
Petrotec, a European producer of waste-based biodiesel predominantly from used cooking oil, announced revenues at group level of €144.6 million for the first nine months of 2013.
This new total is up €21 million for the same time last year. The company also generated an operating profit (EBIT) of €6.2 million in the first nine months of 2013 (up €3.1... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2013
Neste Oil, a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission traffic fuels, is to promote the deployment of sustainable aviation biofuels in the Netherlands after committing to a Dutch initiative for the sector.
Neste is to explore the production opportunities for aviation biofuel and scaling up production. Its renewable fuel refinery... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2013
It has been reported biodiesel entering the US from Argentina could double reach double the amount recorded a year ago.
Figures released by Bloomberg Businessweek state 450,000 tonnes of the renewable fuel will appear on the US market through December, way up from the 221,000 tonnes recorded in 2012.
Despite this news, Argentina’s annual export figure is expected... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2013
The Tampa Port Authority has revealed the Tampa Gateway Rail has moved almost 4 million barrels of ethanol during its first year in operation.
The project, which cost $11 million (€8.1 million) and stretches two miles, moves product from ships to railroad tank cars while serving both the port’s cargo container facility and a Kinder Morgan Energy storage tank... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2013
US-based Adkins Energy has been awarded a $500,000 (€371,945) Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP) grant to begin construction on a $4.5 million biodiesel plant on the east side of its Illinois campus.
The 2 million gallon facility is expected to begin production in spring 2014. The company’s ethanol arm currently produces 1.5 million gallons of distillers... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2013
Ecopetrol reports it has been awarded a patent from the Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Trade for a technology which makes it possible generate biofuels by refining vegetable oils and heavy oil fractions (such as gas oils) in a single process. The development, called Process for hydrotreating vegetable oil mixed with heavy oil fractions is the third patent related... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2013
Boeing and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes are to work together to speed the research, development and approval of new sources of sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil.
Their collaboration will support GOL's plans to use this lower-carbon jet fuel on more flights during upcoming major sporting events, including the 2014 football World Cup, and also will benefit long-term... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2013
A report from a technical committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is, according to non-governmental organisations, under-estimating the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by palm oil grown on tropical peatlands by nearly 50%.
The low emissions estimate stems from a technical committee on wetlands of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories... [Read More]
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Nov 18, 2013
Sugar producer Roxas has sold 31% of its 66% share in Roxas Holdings to Hong Kong-based First Pacific PHP2.23 billion (€37.8 million).
Pedro Roxas, executive chairman of Roxas, says the move ‘ends the group’s long search for a strategic partner and will accelerate our plan to be the dominant sugar company in the Philippines’.
The move reportedly... [Read More]
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Nov 18, 2013
Imperium Renewables will move ahead with plans to expand its business at the US Port of Grays Harbour despite the Shoreline Hearings Board’s decision to require additional permitting work.
Imperium Terminal Services submitted permit applications for the construction of new storage tanks, rail infrastructure and office space over 10 acres within the port and adjacent... [Read More]
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Emerging Fuel Technology (#EFT) licensee Highbury Energy and #WBCEC are advancing a CAD $210 million (€129 million) indigenous-led biomass-to-fuels project in Fort Frances, #Ontario, after successfully completing a FEED study.
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#US #imports of #biodiesel and renewable diesel slumped to a decade low in the first half of 2025 after a change in tax credits for the fuels came into effect, the US Energy Information Administration (@EIA) said.
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