In Oklahoma, Syntroleum reported a $9.6 million loss for fiscal 2010 in its 10K SEC form, with revenues having declined $19 million compared to 2009. In a teleconference to discuss Syntroleum’s report, Gary Roth, Syntroleum’s President and CEO stated that at the Dynamic Fuels plant in Geismar, Louisiana, mechanical reliability issues developed with a seals […]
In Switzerland, Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Cynar Plc to provide basic process engineering design services for a 6,000 tonnes per year plant to convert non-recyclable waste plastics into liquid fuels, primarily diesel. The plant will utilize Cynar’s pyrolysis technology, supplemented with Foster Wheeler’s refining knowledge […]
In England, Viridas is in danger of going into administration. In a statement released by the company, negotiations for £1.4m that started in November of 2009 have ended. The funds being negotiated were destined to be used as part of a plan to establish and planting out a base farm in Brazil. Quoting the company […]
In Canada, Lignol announced that it has recently completed the first phase of an enzyme and substrate optimization project with Novozymes. Lignol and Novozymes had previously announced a joint research and development agreement to make biofuel from wood chips and forestry waste with the aim of producing biofuel (cellulosic ethanol) at production costs competitive with […]
ActionAidEU: Why should #biofuel for #Europe take priority over food for my family? Kenyan village elder emcconne_reads: Algae biofuels for less than $40 a gallon?: That green stuff in your koi pond could power the world for le… infinity_source: Maverick Biofuels secures US federal grant angel__network: AE Biofuels secures additional $3.5 million funding for start-up […]
In California, Stanford University has published an article about work done by David Lobell, assistant professor of environmental Earth system science and a center fellow at Stanford’s Program on Food Security and the Environment, Matei Georgescu of the Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics at Arizona State University and Chris Field, professor of environmental Earth system […]
In Canada, unused funds from the 2007 EcoEnergy program are likely to be redistributed after the federal budget is announced on March 22. The funds were never used because the facilities they were awarded too never got off the ground. Two biodiesel projects in Vegreville and Lloydminster that together could supply half of the country’s […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 1.35 percent to 89.02 as advanced biofuels and large caps rallied. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) advanced 0.90 percent to $34.75, while BP regained 3.31 percent to $44.68. Among other equities, Gevo jumped 4.19 percent to $19.39. Overall, advances led declines […]
DOE’s Biomass Program Lead Engineer warns that, when it comes to biofuels, “it’s the economy, stupid”. In Georgia, DOE Biomass Program Lead Engineer Brian Duff, keynoting the BioPro Expo in Atlanta, said that “dependence on oil is a throttle on the [US] economic engine, with the impact of oil reverberating throughout the economy, raising the […]
In Washington, the USDA has called the heads of nearly every major biofuels association into a “friendly, open” discussion, but on an urgent timetable, to discuss opportunities to find common ground and synchronize biofuels industry policy. The March 21 meeting, which will be led by USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager and senior […]
