In China, Bloomberg reports the tropical island of Hainan has become the center of the controversy surrounding a significant increase in used cooking oil-based biodiesel exports to Europe from China, with UCO originating on the island despite not having biodiesel processing facilities. Nearly half a million metric tons of UCO biodiesel has been exported to […]
In Canada, Obeo Biogas announced the successful completion of its seed investment round led by Diagram Ventures, a venture studio and investment group. The C$3 million investment will be used to accelerate the growth of Obeo Biogas and enhance its ability to provide sustainable and cost-effective biogas solutions to dairy farms across North America. Obeo […]
In North Carolina, Honeywell announced its innovative, new, UOP eFining technology, a ready-now solution for producing low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). HIF Global, the world’s leading eFuels company, intends to deploy the new technology to produce eSAF at its second U.S. eFuels facility. Honeywell’s UOP eFining is a methanol to jet fuel (MTJ) processing technology […]
In Japan, Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Toyotsu Energy Corporation together launched Japan’s first continuous supply of biodiesel blended fuel on a commercial basis to ships operated by Toyofuji Shipping Co., Ltd. at the Port of Nagoya in April. This launch follows repeated biofuel supply trials for ships that Toyota Tsusho conducted at the Port of […]
In Illinois, LanzaTech Global and ADNOC have entered a partnership to explore innovative technology solutions to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint while producing sustainable fuels and chemicals. LanzaTech’s CCT technology uses proprietary bacteria that consume carbon-rich waste streams from oil, gas, and manufacturing facilities, and convert it into CarbonSmart™ chemical intermediates for the production of […]
In Sweden, Perstorp has launched new grades for two base polyols that are now available with 100% renewable, mass-balanced carbon content. When including the biogenic CO2uptake1 from the renewable raw materials, the products will have a negative carbon footprint at the Perstorp gate. Based on a traceable mass-balance concept, Neeture N100 (neopentyl glycol) and Evyron […]
It may be that over the next few decades the most important feedstock for SAF will not be ethanol, or plant oils, but methanol. So it was big news last year when ExxonMobil announced a methanol-to-SAF technology, and even bigger news just now as Honeywell UOP announces a rival technology and a big customer with […]
In Texas, Kinder Morgan announced the commercial in-service of its renewable feedstock storage and logistics hub project with Neste. Neste will store a variety of raw materials like used cooking oil, which it collects from more than 80,000 restaurants across the United States, at Kinder Morgan’s Harvey Terminal in Harvey, Louisiana to be used as […]
In the UK, Zero Petroleum will launch the world’s first fully-featured synthetic fuel plant in June, leading the way to providing the technical and commercial blueprint for global deployment of synthetic fuels at scale. Plant Zero.1 will manufacture engineering-grade fuels from Q3 2023 to be used for market evaluations and approvals including ASTM certifications for […]
In Ireland, GAC Ireland and Green Biofuels Limited UK (GBF) have celebrated the debut lifting of biofuels from Ireland’s first clean fuels terminal. The company has been appointed to operate and maintain GBF’s Cork Terminal from March 2023. The first 39,000-liter lifting of Gd⁺ fuel, which is made from renewable feedstocks and dramatically reduces harmful […]
