Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) is a large-scale geographically-diversified and highly -integrated refining, marketing and midstream company. MPC is the nation’s largest refiner, with a crude oil refining capacity of more than 3 million barrels per calendar day in its 16-refinery system. In the past year, Marathon acquired Andeavor and between Marathon and Andeavor assets […]
The BP Energy Outlook explores the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition. It shows how rising prosperity drives an increase in global energy demand and how that demand will be met over the coming decades through a diverse range of supplies including oil, gas, coal […]
The Biofuture Platform aims to be an action-oriented, country-led, multi-stakeholder mechanism for policy dialogue and collaboration among leading countries, organizations, academia and the private sector conscious of the need to accelerate development and scale up deployment of modern sustainable low carbon alternatives to fossil based solutions in transport, chemicals, plastics and other sectors. At a […]
Darling Ingredients today provides a global growth platform for the development and production of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. With a variety of processing operations in over 200 locations on five continents, they create a wide range of products and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, […]
In Kansas, ICM Inc. has announced that it reached an agreement with Redfield Energy LLC to implement ICM’s patent-pending, proprietary Thin Stillage Solids Separation System (TS4) at Redfield’s plant in Redfield, South Dakota. The Redfield plant has been using ICM’s Selective Milling Technology and Fiber Separation Technology systems, two value-added platforms that offer important operational benefits to ethanol […]
In Finland, the whole of Europe is feverishly looking for new ways to use farm, forest and fishery resources more responsibly and sustainably and to promote the production of the best possible raw materials in order to increase the availability of food, energy and biomaterials. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, the Finnish Forest […]
In Texas, Reuters reports that Valero expects to pay between 40% and 50% of what it did last year for its RIN obligations, somewhere between $450 million and $550 million compared to its 2017 RIN spend of $975 million. RIN prices have collapsed this year in response to expectations that the Renewable Fuels Standard would […]
In Hawaii, local media reports that Pacific Biodiesel benefited from Hawai‘i Technology Development Corporation grant funds to improve processes at its 5.5 million gallon per year biodiesel plant including upgrading its wastewater treatment plant and investments in a centrifuge system that allows for improved yellow and brown grease recovery from trap waste. The grant provided […]
In Costa Rica, a recent seminar planted seeds for further regional cooperation and biofuels policy development throughout Central America. The US Grains Council organized the one-day seminar, Cultivando Energia (Cultivating Energy), in San Jose, Costa Rica, in late September to increase awareness among key government officials and industry about the economic, environmental and technical benefits […]
In Washington, more than 93 percent of 2019 model year (MY) vehicles are explicitly approved by the manufacturer to use 15 percent ethanol blends (E15), according to the results of an annual analysis of warranty statements and owner’s manuals conducted by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). That is up from last year, when approximately 89 […]
