Solazyme lands monster capacity expansion agreements with ADM and Bunge – what’s the sector’s hottest company up to now? Yesterday, Solazyme announced two landmark capacity expansion agreements with Bunge and ADM, respectively. The Bunge agreement will expand joint venture-owned oil production capacity at Solazyme Bunge Renewable Oils from the current 100,000 metric tons under construction […]
Canada’s $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund, five years after formation, gets close to making its first investments just as Canada’s leaders consider pulling the plug It was the most amazing sovereign commitment to biofuels of its time, the $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund that Canada established in 2007. As a percentage of GDP, it was […]
By: Robert Rapier, Energy Trends Insider A recent news story proclaimed the benefits of gas-to-liquids technology: A Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) backed company and Oxford Catalysts Group (OCG:London) are planning U.S. factories to make diesel, gasoline and jet fuel from gas, which fell to a decade-low price this year. Their goal is to make motor fuels […]
$27 per gallon? $15 per gallon? Fooey! Try algae-based fuels at “the same cost as regular diesel.” Month-long pilot program kicks off in the San Francisco Bay Area. In California, Propel Fuels and Solazyme are bringing algae-derived fuel to retail pumps for what we believe to be the first time in history. The two leading […]
UOP, Eni update on the complete conversion of Eni’s Venice refinery to renewable diesel. Why is renewable diesel getting traction – and where, and when? Most of the action and controversy on biofuels, advanced or otherwise, occurs on the gasoline side of the equation. Food vs fuel, blend walls, the “where are the gallons?” problems […]
Brent Crude trades this past week at a transorbital $109 per barrel (West Texas Intermediate at a suborbital, if high, $85). It puts the conventional wisdom that biofuels are too infrastructure incompatible and too costly to the test. Are they? Let’s look today at progress in developing infrastructure-compatible, drop-in advanced biofuels that cost less than […]
500 ton per day wood biomass to biocrude plant commences oil production – the long wait for cellulosic biofuels at scale is over. “With a roar like a hundred express trains racing across the countryside, the well blew out, spewing oil in all directions.” Well, the startup of biocrude production at KiOR’s Columbus plant arrived […]
“Pack Up Your (renewable fuel) Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag”, say Berkeley researchers, who transform an old WWI-era process into a route to renewable diesel. If the Digest possessed a magic wand and could change just one thing about the production of biofuels in the United States – it would be to give the […]
In Washington, voters handed President Barack Obama a second term as President, and gave control of the US Senate to Democrats, while maintaining Republican control of the US House of Representatives. What does it mean for bioenergy? The Digest will have a round-up of opinion in tomorrow’s edition, and coverage will continue throughout the month […]
Where’s the future? Well, as John D. Rockefeller discovered, it’s in waste. As elections loom, who’s got vision, who’s got game? You might have noticed that the weather has been changing. Or, rather, that the usual weather is happening in unusual places. Frankenstorms, droughts — the water hasn’t been arriving where it is supposed to […]
