In Brazil, Petrobras acquired a 50 percent stake in the BSBIOS Indústria e Comércio de Biodiesel Sul Brasil biodiesel plant, located in Rio Grande do Sul, for $128 million. The plant has a capacity of 42 million gallons. Last week, the Digest reported that Petrobras is currently re-thinking its five-year investment strategy to take into […]
In the UK, Thomson Airways announced that it will fly its Birmingham to Palma on 28th July 2011 using sustainable aviation biofuels supplied by the KLM fuel consortium, SkyNRG. This will be the first commercial flight from the UK flown using aviation biofuels. Thomson also said that it would use sustainable aviation biofuels for weekly […]
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In Connecticut, a team from Arbor Fuel, reported in Bioresource Technology, the first example of ethanol fermentation from lignocellulosic biomass via simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) without addition of exogenously produced cellulases. In the research, the team used an engineered derivative of s. cerevisiae yeast to convert corn stover to ethanol. The team writes that, […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Agency is reporting that ethanol production remains unsteady, slipping last week after climbing during the previous two weeks. Last week’s production reached 893,000 bpd while stocks fell again to 19.48 million barrels, just 15,000 barrels down from the same week last year.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.85 percent to 88.48 as renewables advanced broadly, in line with the general surge in equities. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) jumped 2.26 percent to $30.83, while Solazyme (SZYM) soared 3.22 percent to $23.71. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) advanced 2.08 […]
As the Defense Department looks at its options to directly jump-start drop-in biofuels production at scale, we look at the Defense Production Act – the rationale, the process, the funding, and energy’s role In Washington, a report from WSJ states that the DOD is investigating the use of the 1950 Defense Production Act to fund […]
In Georgia, Greenshift has been issued a second notice of allowance for patent application number 12/559,136, titled “Method of Recovering Oil From Thin Stillage”. GreenShift made this request to strengthen their legal position vis-à-vis their current patent infringement litigation, including ICM, Flottwegg, and Westfalia in support of their invalidity arguments. The USPTO issued the new […]
In California, Solazyme has signed agreements with Sephora Canada and The Shopping Channel to launch their anti-aging skincare line, Algenist, throughout Canada. In case you’re not familiar, Algenist is a product line of advanced anti-aging skincare products formulated with Solazyme’s breakthrough ingredient, alguronic acid. The initial Algenist product portfolio was launched in March 2011 in […]
In Washington, the USDA released its latest Acreage Report – some surprises there. The USDA is reporting that, despite widely-reported flood conditions in the north, 92.28 million acres of corn were planted this spring, up 5 percent from last year. Projected corn yields are at 158.7 bushels/acre from projected 84.9 million harvested acres, and a […]
