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Mar 3, 2009
PetroVietnam plans ethanol plants
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Mar 6, 2009
Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras has announced a business plan for investments of $2.4 billion (€1.89 billion) into biodiesel and ethanol production for the 2009-2013 period, 91% of which will be in Brazil.
This amount is part of the total of $2.8 billion Petrobras has earmarked for the biofuels business, which also foresees expenditures of $400 million in infrastructure,... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2009
The Netherlands-based private equity firm Waterland has reached a final agreement with sustainable energy company Econcern for participation in BioMCN’s biomethanol projects.
The additional capital enables producer BioMCN to continue further investments in the construction of processing units for the production of biomethanol, on the world’s largest second generation... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2009
Brazil’s BNDES state development bank will lend 2.5 billion reais (€834 million) to ethanol producers to boost production.
The funding will be used to stockpile 3.3 billion litres of ethanol, the Agriculture Ministry says.
Producers will be required to commit some of their own funds to store ethanol, boosting total inventories under the programme to 5 billion litres,... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2009
Brazilian company Uniduto Logistica will begin building the first phase of a major Brazilian ethanol pipeline in April 2010, with operations due for 2011-2012.
The pipeline will run from Brazil's main sugarcane-producing region in Sao Paulo state to the port of Santos.
The first phase has a budget of 1.8 billion reais (€603 million) to build 600km of pipeline.... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2009
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), India’s second-largest state-owned oil refining and marketing company, is increasing activities in the ethanol sector.
An investment of Rs 600 crore (€91.3 million) has been lined up by the company to re-start the two sugar mills it has acquired in Bihar.
Apart from sugar, the mills will produce ethanol and generate around 100MW of power... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2009
Finland-based natural gas importer and retailer Gasum and bioenergy company Biovakka have agreed to partner on biogas projects.
The collaboration will bring about the production of biogas for transmission via the natural gas network for use as transport fuel.
The first biogas facility in an area within the natural gas network is planned for Nastola at an investment... [Read More]
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Mar 11, 2009
Finland-based refiner Neste Oil has announced its S$1.2 billion (€615 million) renewable diesel plant in Singapore is set to be complete by June 2010.
Production on the 800,000 tonnes per year plant is anticipated for Q3 2010.
The NExBTL plant will use feedstock such as animal fat, palm oil and other types of vegetable oils.
The firm plans to hire up to 60 people... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2009
Indonesia and South Korea have agreed to develop a seaweed-based biofuel in an attempt to encourage green energy in the two countries.
The use of seaweed is gaining support from environmentalists who have criticised the use of land-based raw materials such as palm oil, maize and sugarcane as causing deforestation across Indonesia's tropical forests.
Indonesia's... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2009
The US could produce enough ethanol to displace nearly a third of all petrol use by 2030, a study by New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors concludes.
The researchers found that annual ethanol production from plant waste and energy crops could reach 90 billion gallons by that date, with 75 billion gallons coming from cellulosic feedstocks such... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Sudan's first ethanol plant, state-owned Kenana Sugar Co.'s (KSC), is due to begin operations at the end of March.
Situated within the KSC complex, 250km south of Khartoum, the plant is expected to produce about 61 million litres a year of alcohol from molasses made in the country.
The plant was built by Brazil's Dedini Industrias de Base.
KSC is contracted... [Read More]
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Feb 12, 2009
Wales’ Environment Minister Jane Davidson announced £26 million (€29.3 million) of new funding for innovative technology which turns waste into biogas.
The sum will go to local authorities across Wales to help them develop anaerobic digestion plants as an alternative to landfill.
Anaerobic digestion speeds up the natural breakdown of waste from years to days by... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Texas-based Earth Biofuels has finalised funds for upgrades to its 10 mgy Oklahoma biodiesel production facility.
The transaction includes the acquisition of more than 350 storage tanks, with capacities ranging from 8,000 to 39,000 gallons.
Approximately 30 of the tanks will be installed at the company’s Durant facility with a total storage capacity of more than 1... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Swedish power utility Vattenfall plans to convert its power plant facilities in Denmark to use large quantities of biomass fuel instead of coal.
Project MaxBio will replace up to 724,000 tonnes of coal a year, beginning in 2018. As a result, it will prevent at least 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
According to the company,... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
A palm oil processing facility will be built in the Mersey docklands, UK
London-based New Britain Palm Oils will build the plant on a six-acre site near Regent Road, Bootle.
A key factor at Merseyside was an agreement with Tate & Lyle to use existing nearby tanker storage capacity, the company says.
‘There is the deep water facility ideal for our tankers and... [Read More]
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