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Sep 21, 2022
Holland American Line ship successfully trials biofuels
Bioethanol News
Sep 21, 2022
Cathay Pacific has signed an offtake agreement with Aemetis for the supply of 38 million US gallons of blended Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
This is to be delivered over seven years beginning in 2025 from San Francisco International Airport.
The SAF purchased can reduce more than 80,000 tonnes of lifecycle carbon emissions, equivalent to the amount of carbon sequestered... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 21, 2022
Quadrise has announced a joint development agreement with lignin biofuel specialist Vertoro.
Vertoro is a supplier of sustainable biomass-based biofuels extracted from agricultural and forestry residues using their proprietary Goldilocks® technology.
GEM® is a crude lignin oil that is a potential alternative to methanol and is being developed in conjunction with... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 20, 2022
Neste has launched a strategic study on transitioning its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, to non-crude oil refining and into a renewable and circular solutions site.
Neste is targeting to significantly grow its renewables and circular production in Porvoo in the long term.
The transformation under study would start with the co-processing of both renewable and circular... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 20, 2022
CropEnergies has been assessing the capacity utilisation of all its renewable ethanol production plants due to declining prices.
The company based in Mannheim, Germany, said continuously increasing costs could be offset by higher ethanol sales prices.
However, ethanol sales prices have decreased significantly as an increasing volume of imports particularly from Brazil... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 20, 2022
Topsoe has announced its commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 - setting near-and long-term company-wide emission reduction targets.
Through investment in renewable energy technology and changes to production processes, Topsoe aims to reduce operational emissions by 30% in 2024 and at least 95% in 2030, with a transition to 80% renewable power within all the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 16, 2022
World Energy plans to convert its existing biodiesel and terminal assets in Houston into a new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) hub.
This new facility will enable the company to produce another 250 million gallons of SAF annually by 2025.
In April, the company announced plans to produce 250 million gallons of SAF annually by 2024 at its Paramount, California site.
This... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 16, 2022
Shell has announced that Ben van Beurden will step down as CEO at the end of the year, and that his successor will be Wael Sawan. Wael’s appointment is effective on New Year’s Day when he will also join Shell’s board of directors.
Van Beurden will continue working as adviser to the Board until June 30, 2023, after which he will leave the group.
Shell’s chair... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 16, 2022
A senior executive of one of the world's biggest producers of biofuels, Raizen, said greater electrification in the transport sector will not spell the death-knell for bioethanol or biodiesel.
Paula Kovarsky, the firm’s chief strategy officer said in countries like Brazil and India where EV adoption will be much slower, biofuels will have a role in reducing emissions.
She... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2022
Air New Zealand is to welcome the first shipment of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation FuelTM (SAF) ready to power the airline's fleet.
The shipment of SAF is imported into New Zealand in partnership with Z Energy.
The 1.2 million litre (937 tons) import of neat SAF is equivalent to fuelling around 400 return flights between Auckland and Wellington.
The first shipment... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 15, 2022
EWABA, the EU association representing the European waste-based and advanced biodiesel industry, has welcomed the European Parliament’s plenary vote on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) legislative proposal.
The organisation said the industry welcomed the Parliament’s provision to increase the existing proposed limit to Annex IX Part B feedstocks... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2022
OMV and Ryanair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Ryanair airports across Austria, Germany and Romania.
This MoU agreement gives Ryanair access to purchase up to 160,000 tons of SAF from OMV over the next eight years, starting in 2023.
This landmark MoU demonstrates Ryanair’s continued progress towards its... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 14, 2022
The European Parliament stressed the need for renewable energy to be increasingly used and energy consumption to be drastically slashed by 2030 during an historic vote.
MEPs voted on September 14 to raise the share of renewables in the EU’s final energy consumption to 45% by 2030, under the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) -a target also backed by the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 14, 2022
As oil prices spike amid supply disruptions, several operational and idle refineries across North America are, or, will be converted to biorefineries for processing waste and vegetable oils into renewable diesel.
This is also occurring in Europe and other countries.
Well before sanctions were applied on Russia, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 14, 2022
Sulzer Chemtech is helping Energy Absolute (EA) expand its manufacturing plant in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand, and enhance the quality of HVO.
EA, one of the biggest companies in Thailand for renewable energy supply, has signed a license agreement with Sulzer Chemtech.
The new technology provided by Sulzer will enhance the quality of the renewable diesel, or hydrotreated... [Read More]
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