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Mar 18, 2009
VeraSun sale could shake ethanol asset price
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Mar 18, 2009
US ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings has warned it has defaulted on some debt payments and could be seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Shares for the company fell to $0.12 (€0.09) on the news.
The company is seeking equity financing or a buyer for all or part of the company, but will choose bankruptcy if those efforts fail.
Aventine operates... [Read More]
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Mar 20, 2009
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... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2009
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... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2009
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... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2009
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... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2009
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... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2009
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... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2009
Craton Equity Partners, a Southern California, US-based clean technology fund, has made a commitment of $10 million (€7.9 million) to Principle Energy Limited (PEL), a sustainable biofuel development company with projects that target sub-Saharan Africa.
PEL is developing a sugarcane ethanol operation in Mozambique. The project is expected to manufacture around 60 million... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2009
Biofuel Industries Group’s NextDiesel Adrian, Michigan-based biofuel plant may shut down operations when its current stock of material is gone, the company’s CEO says.
The rising cost of production and falling price of oil have contributed to a decrease in the demand for alternative fuels.
‘The current cost of inputs to make the company’s product and the market... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2009
The Glenturret distillery in Perthshire, Scotland, producer of Famous Grouse whisky, is partaking in a demonstration project to convert boiler exhaust gas into oil that can be used as a biodiesel.
Scottish Bioenergy Ventures, which is leading the project, is embarking on an expanded algae reactor system to consume the carbon dioxide.
The next phase of the project starting... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2009
Boston, US-based Mascoma’s demonstration facility in Rome, New York, started producing ethanol from non-food cellulosic biomass on 25 February.
The plant has a production capacity of 200,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year.
Construction on the plant began in early 2008 and was completed by December.
The demonstration facility can run on different biomass feedstocks,... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2009
Biodiesel start-up company SarTec has announced it expects its production facility in Minnesota, US, to begin operations in Q2 this year.
The capacity of the plant will reach approximately 3 million gallons a year operating with the name Ever Cat Fuels.
In 2008 Augsburg College and SarTec announced the discovery of a chemical process that could help develop a new type... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2009
Texas-based Global Alternative Fuels will expand its El Paso biodiesel plant from 5 mgy to 15 mgy.
The company is finalising the engineering for the $12 million (€9.5 million) expansion.
The producer plans to break ground in Q2.
‘Our current infrastructure allows for a fast implementation schedule,’ Carlos Guzmán, president and CEO of Global Alternative Fuels,... [Read More]
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Mar 4, 2009
Lionel Clarke, Global strategic programme manager for Innovation at Shell Global Solutions,
joins the list of 40 high level speakers at Biofuels International expo & conference 2009.
Shell is a world leader in R&D into next generation biofuels. Its technology division Shell Global Solutions has a dedicated bio-team working at several centres around the world... [Read More]
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