In Washington, D.C., the Renewable Fuels Association reports that according to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 1.052 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.18 million gallons daily. That is down 7,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to 1.031 million b/d for an annualized rate of 15.81 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that despite adverse weather conditions in parts of the EU-28, the USDA raised its harvest estimate for the Community. Accordingly, the European Union is set to remain the world’s top rapeseed producer in 2017/18. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) changed its forecast of the 2017/18 global supply and demand balance for […]
In India, the government’s oil ministry issued an order further extending the deadline of the 12-member working group that was supposed to prepare a roadmap for expanding refining capacity last year. What was going to be a three-month project has now been over a year in the making as India prepare plans for increasing their […]
In South Carolina, Clemson University received a $147,744, two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to analyze how switchgrass fields and loblolly pine forests affect local temperatures through the exchange of water, energy, radiation and carbon with the atmosphere. The purpose of the project and grant is […]
In Hawaii, pongamia trees are being farmed for the first time in experimental plots in Oahu to help meet Hawaii’s biofuel needs, specifically for biodiesel and jet fuel. TerViva is heading up the plantings and is talking with Pacific Biodiesel to possibly use their processing plant, though TerViva could make biodiesel with their current equipment. […]
In Denmark, Novozymes announced the launch of Spirizyme 2.0 T and Spirizyme Ultra T for the European ethanol market. The two products are part of the Spirizyme T Portfolio, glucoamylase enzymes with trehalase that deliver yield enhancing activities documented to provide the highest total sugar conversion in the industry. The products have a low risk […]
In Washington, D.C., the Surface Transportation Board is looking for two candidates for vacancies on its Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee, one of which would represent the biofuels industry. Specifically, they are looking for a biofuel feedstock grower or provider and biofuel refiner, processor and distributor to fill the biofuel vacancy. The other vacancy is […]
In Nebraska, construction is starting on the Flint Hills Resources ethanol plant in Fairmont to install a new, bolt-on technology, called Maximized Stillage Co-Products. The $50 million project is one of the largest investments in co-product upgrading technologies ever made by a dry mill ethanol manufacturer. Once operational, the MSC technology will allow the plant […]
In Washington, D.C., the Renewable Fuels Association reports that according to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 1.059 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.48 million gallons daily. That is up 46,000 b/d—a 4.6% jump from the week before and the highest volume in 28 weeks. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to 1.021 million b/d […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that vegetable oil prices on the European cash market diverged. While rapeseed oil firmed, palm oil declined sharply. Trends for the coming weeks are mixed. Prices for rapeseed oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil continued to diverge. Whereas palm oil was on a continued downward trend due to abundant supply of […]
